Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Andrew Carnegie |
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Birthdate | November 25, 1835 |
Birth Place | Dunfermline, Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 188 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Andrew Carnegie is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. Currently, Andrew Carnegie is 188 years, 11 months and 28 days old. Andrew Carnegie will celebrate 189th birthday on Monday, 25th of November 2024. Below the countdown to Andrew Carnegie upcoming birthday.
Steel industry mogul and philanthropist who turned the American steel industry into an international force.
He worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory and as a telegraph messenger boy.
He was ruthless, but also incredibly philanthropic, writing an article, The Gospel of Wealth, in 1889 that urged his fellow businessmen to use their wealth to advance and improve society.
He married Louise Whitfield and together they had a child in 1897.
He was often regarded as the second richest man next to John D. Rockefeller.
Andrew Carnegie is 188 years old today.
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Andrew Carnegie zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Andrew Carnegie was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Andrew Carnegie's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Andrew Carnegie's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
1973 | Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. |
1975 | Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. |
1977 | Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983. |
1980 | Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo. |
1981 | Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. |
1984 | Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. |
1986 | Iran-Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
1986 | The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf. |
1987 | Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265Â km/h (165Â mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm. |
1992 | The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993. |
1999 | A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast. |
2000 | The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years. |
2008 | Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades. |
2009 | Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing. |
1981 | The birth of Jared Jeffries, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Chevon Troutman, American basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Mitchell Claydon, Australian-English cricketer |
1983 | The birth of Jhulan Goswami, Indian cricketer |
1984 | The birth of Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (d. 2022) |
1984 | The birth of Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer |
1985 | The birth of Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete |
1988 | The birth of Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010) |
1988 | The birth of Jay Spearing, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Everton Heleno dos Santos, Brazilian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Philipp Grubauer, German ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer |
2000 | The birth of Kaja Juvan, Slovenian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Al Plastino, American author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Sitara Devi, Indian dancer, and choreographer (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Petr Hapka, Czech composer and conductor (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Denham Harman, American biogerontologist and academic (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of O'Neil Bell, Jamaican boxer (b. 1974) |
2015 | The death of Jeremy Black, English admiral (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer and composer (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Lennart Hellsing, Swedish author and translator (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Elmo Williams, American director, producer, and editor (b. 1913) |
2016 | The death of Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of Diego Maradona, Argentinian football player (b. 1960) |
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