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

Updated at May 23, 2025 by BirthdayDBs Team

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

Arpad Elo Facts

Full NameArpad Elo
BirthdateAugust 25, 1903
Birth PlaceHungary
Age (in 2025)121 Years Old
ZodiacVirgo
OccupationChess Player

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, 8 months and 29 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, 237th day / 35th 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 1460 months old
  • Arpad Elo age in day is 44467 days old
  • Arpad Elo age in hour is 1067208 hours old
  • Arpad Elo age in minute is 64032480 minutes old
  • Arpad Elo age in second is 3841948800 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.

YearEvent
1985Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.
1989Voyager 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.
1989Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after take off from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.
1991Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991The 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).
1991Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
1997Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
2001American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
2003NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
2005Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
2006Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
2011Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.
2012Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2017Hurricane 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.
2017Conflict 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.
1986The birth of Rodney Ferguson, American footballer
1987The birth of Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987The birth of Velimir Jovanović, Serbian footballer
1987The birth of Blake Lively, American model and actress
1987The birth of Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987The birth of Justin Upton, American baseball player
1987The birth of Adam Warren, American baseball player
1987The birth of James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1988The birth of Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
1988The birth of Giga Chikadze, Georgian mixed martial artist and kickboxer
1989The birth of Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer
1992The birth of Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress
1992The birth of Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer
1994The birth of Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player
1998The birth of China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
2013The death of Liu Fuzhi, Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (b. 1917)
2013The death of Raghunath Panigrahi, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
2013The death of Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
2014The death of William Greaves, American director and producer (b. 1926)
2014The death of Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936)
2014The death of Nico M. M. Nibbering, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1938)
2014The death of Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer and producer (b. 1936)
2014The death of Enrique Zileri, Peruvian journalist and publisher (b. 1931)
2015The death of José María Benegas, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
2015The death of Francis Sejersted, Norwegian historian and academic (b. 1936)
2016The death of Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
2017The death of Rich Piana, American bodybuilder (b. 1971)
2018The death of John McCain, American politician (b. 1936)
2019The death of Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business magnate and engineer (b. 1937)
2022The death of Mable John, American blues vocalist (b. 1930)

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