Updated at January 5, 2025 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Branch Rickey |
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Birthdate | December 20, 1881 |
Birth Place | Portsmouth, OH |
Age (in 2025) | 143 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Baseball Manager |
Branch Rickey is best known as Baseball Manager who has born on December 20, 1881 in Portsmouth, OH. Currently, Branch Rickey is 143 years, 0 months and 16 days old. Branch Rickey will celebrate 144th birthday on Saturday, 20th of December 2025. Below the countdown to Branch Rickey upcoming birthday.
Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and civil rights activist who brought Jackie Robinson to his team, breaking the baseball league's color barrier.
After an unimpressive several years playing in the major leagues, he earned a law degree and signed on with the St. Louis Cardinals, establishing baseball's first farm system.
Before he integrated baseball he found a new separate all-black league, to help him find that one special black player the team and nation could rally around.
He was born in Stockdale, Pike County, Ohio. In 1906, he married Jane Moulton.
Harrison Ford played him in the 2013 film, 42, about Jackie Robinson's debut in the majors.
Branch Rickey is 143 years old today.
Branch Rickey was born on December 20, 1881 in Portsmouth, OH.
Branch Rickey zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Branch Rickey was best known as Baseball Manager.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Branch Rickey's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Branch Rickey's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 249 kilometres per hour (155Â mph) on their New York Division, also present-day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. |
1973 | Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. |
1984 | The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines. |
1984 | Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 24Â km (15Â mi) southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head." |
1985 | Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day. |
1987 | In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). |
1989 | The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega. |
1991 | A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. |
1995 | NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. |
1995 | American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50Â km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board. |
1999 | Macau is handed over to China by Portugal. |
2004 | A gang of thieves steal ÂŁ26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history. |
2007 | Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days. |
2007 | The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cùndido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later. |
2019 | The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947. |
1982 | The birth of Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer |
1982 | The birth of David Wright, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Malcolm Jenkins, American football player |
1990 | The birth of JoJo, American singer and actress |
1991 | The birth of Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jillian Rose Reed, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Fabian SchÀr, Swiss footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jorginho, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Robeisy RamĂrez, Cuban boxer |
1997 | The birth of De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer |
1998 | The birth of Kylian Mbappé, French footballer |
2001 | The birth of Facundo Pellistri, Uruguayan footballer |
2008 | The death of Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912) |
2009 | The death of Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
2009 | The death of Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918) |
2010 | The death of James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Per-Ingvar BrÄnemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915) |
2020 | The death of Fanny Waterman, British pianist (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Franco Harris, American football player (b. 1950) |
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