Arpad Elo Age, Birthday, Bio, Zodiac, Family & Fun Facts

Updated at January 12, 2025 by BirthdayDBs Team

Arpad Elo Age, Birthday, Birthplace, Bio, Zodiac & Family

Arpad Elo Facts

Full Name	Arpad Elo
Birthdate	August 25, 1903
Birth Place	Hungary
Age (in 2025)	121 Years Old
Zodiac	Virgo
Occupation	Chess Player

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Arpad Elo Age & Birthday

Arpad Elo is best known as Chess Player who has born on August 25, 1903 in Hungary. Currently, Arpad Elo is 121 years, 4 months and 18 days old. Arpad Elo will celebrate 122nd birthday on Monday, 25th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Arpad Elo upcoming birthday.

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Arpad Elo Biography

About

Chess legend and innovator who created the ELO rating system, which calculates the relative skill levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor games.

Before Fame

He was a professor of physics at Marquette University.

Trivia

His rating system was used internationally for most of the 1970s and 80s and he wrote the book The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present in 1978.

Family Life

He and his family moved to the United States from Hungary when he was very young.

Associated With

He was a contemporary of fellow great chess thinker Savielly Tartakower.

Top Asked Questions about Arpad Elo

How old is Arpad Elo in 2025?

Arpad Elo is 121 years old today.

When was Arpad Elo born?

Arpad Elo was born on August 25, 1903 in Hungary.

What is Arpad Elo zodiac sign?

Arpad Elo zodiac sign is Virgo.

What was Arpad Elo best known for?

Arpad Elo was best known as Chess Player.

Fun Facts about Arpad Elo's Birthday

Here's quick list of some fun facts about Arpad Elo's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.

Arpad Elo was born on Tuesday, 237^th day / 35^th week of 1903
Arpad Elo has Virgo zodiac sign and Earth element based on western astrology
Roman numeral of Arpad Elo birthday is XXV.VIII.MCMIII
Arpad Elo's birthstone is Peridot
Arpad Elo's birth flower is Gladiolus that symbolize moral integrity, remembrance, infatuation & honor
Arpad Elo age in year is 121 years old
Arpad Elo age in month is 1456 months old
Arpad Elo age in day is 44336 days old
Arpad Elo age in hour is 1064064 hours old
Arpad Elo age in minute is 63843840 minutes old
Arpad Elo age in second is 3830630400 seconds old
Next Arpad Elo birthday is on Tuesday, August 25th 2026
Arpad Elo age in next birthday (2026) is 122 years old

Historical Events on Arpad Elo Birthday (August 25)

Below are historical events that coincided with Arpad Elo's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.

Year	Event
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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