Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Althea Gibson |
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Birthdate | August 25, 1927 |
Birth Place | South Carolina |
Age (in 2024) | 97 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Tennis Player |
Althea Gibson is best known as Tennis Player who has born on August 25, 1927 in South Carolina. Currently, Althea Gibson is 97 years, 3 months and 19 days old. Althea Gibson will celebrate 98th birthday on Monday, 25th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Althea Gibson upcoming birthday.
Late tennis star who became the first African American woman to win Wimbledon in 1957.
She graduated from Floria A&M University in 1953.
She won seven total Grand Slam Titles, including four Doubles championships.
She got married to Sydney Llewellyn in 1983, after ending an 11-year marriage with William Darben in 1976.
She paved the way for future African American tennis stars like Venus Williams.
Althea Gibson is 97 years old today.
Althea Gibson was born on August 25, 1927 in South Carolina.
Althea Gibson zodiac sign is Virgo.
Althea Gibson was best known as Tennis Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Althea Gibson's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Althea Gibson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1985 | Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith. |
1989 | Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999. |
1989 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after take off from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found. |
1991 | Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union. |
1991 | The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence). |
1991 | Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. |
1997 | Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall. |
2001 | American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas. |
2003 | NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space. |
2005 | Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida. |
2006 | Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion. |
2011 | Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas. |
2012 | Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so. |
2017 | Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage. |
2017 | Conflict in Rakhine State (2016-present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation. |
1986 | The birth of Rodney Ferguson, American footballer |
1987 | The birth of Stacey Farber, Canadian actress |
1987 | The birth of Velimir Jovanović, Serbian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Blake Lively, American model and actress |
1987 | The birth of Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1987 | The birth of Justin Upton, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Adam Warren, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of James Wesolowski, Australian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer |
1988 | The birth of Giga Chikadze, Georgian mixed martial artist and kickboxer |
1989 | The birth of Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer |
1992 | The birth of Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress |
1992 | The birth of Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer |
1994 | The birth of Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player |
1998 | The birth of China Anne McClain, American actress and singer |
2013 | The death of Liu Fuzhi, Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Raghunath Panigrahi, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of William Greaves, American director and producer (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Nico M. M. Nibbering, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer and producer (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Enrique Zileri, Peruvian journalist and publisher (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of José María Benegas, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Francis Sejersted, Norwegian historian and academic (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927) |
2017 | The death of Rich Piana, American bodybuilder (b. 1971) |
2018 | The death of John McCain, American politician (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business magnate and engineer (b. 1937) |
2022 | The death of Mable John, American blues vocalist (b. 1930) |
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