Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Babe Ruth |
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Birthdate | February 06, 1895 |
Birth Place | Baltimore, MD |
Age (in 2024) | 129 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Baseball Player |
Babe Ruth is best known as Baseball Player who has born on February 06, 1895 in Baltimore, MD. Currently, Babe Ruth is 129 years, 8 months and 24 days old. Babe Ruth will celebrate 130th birthday on Thursday, 6th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Babe Ruth upcoming birthday.
Revered by many as the greatest baseball player of all time, he set career records for home runs, RBIs, and bases on balls that have since been broken. He won 7 World Series Championships, 12 American League home run titles, 6 AL RBI titles and the 1924 AL batting title. He played for the New York Yankees from 1920 to 1934 after the Boston Red Sox traded him in exchange for cash.
When he was seven, his father sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where he learned shirt-making and carpentry.Â
He was known for his bat, but he also spent part of his career as a pitcher and led the AL in ERA in 1916. His nicknames included "The Great Bambino," "The Sultan of Swat," and "The Babe."
He married Helen Wooodford on October 17, 1914, and they adopted their only child, Dorothy, in 1921. He remarried to Claire Merritt Ruth in 1929 and the couple had a daughter named Julia.
His record for most home runs in a season was surpassed by New York Yankee outfielder Roger Maris in 1961.
Babe Ruth is 129 years old today.
Babe Ruth was born on February 06, 1895 in Baltimore, MD.
Babe Ruth zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Babe Ruth was best known as Baseball Player.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Babe Ruth's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65Â mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. |
1981 | The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. |
1987 | Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia. |
1988 | Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. |
1989 | The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. |
1996 | Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. |
1996 | Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757. |
1998 | Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
2000 | Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. |
2006 | Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada. |
2012 | A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead. |
2016 | An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people. |
2018 | SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight. |
2021 | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries. |
2023 | An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mww struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The earthquake resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of more than 37,000 people. |
1990 | The birth of Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Jermaine Kearse, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer |
1991 | The birth of Aleksandar Katai, Serbian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater |
1991 | The birth of Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Fei Yu, Chinese footballer |
1992 | The birth of VÃctor Mañón, Mexican footballer |
1993 | The birth of Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America 2011 |
1993 | The birth of Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress |
1994 | The birth of Charlie Heaton, British actor and musician |
1995 | The birth of Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver |
1995 | The birth of Leon Goretzka, German footballer |
1995 | The birth of Sam McQueen, English footballer |
2015 | The death of André Brink, South African author and playwright (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (b. 1966) |
2016 | The death of Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) |
2017 | The death of Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (b. 1914) |
2017 | The death of Inge Keller, German actress (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (b. 1971) |
2018 | The death of Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935) |
2019 | The death of Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924) |
2020 | The death of Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (b. 1962) |
2021 | The death of George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (b. 1920) |
2022 | The death of Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (b. 1929) |
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Website | Babe Ruth's Webiste |
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