Updated at November 7, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ernie Kovacs |
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Birthdate | January 23, 1919 |
Birth Place | Trenton, NJ |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Comedian |
Ernie Kovacs is best known as Comedian who has born on January 23, 1919 in Trenton, NJ. Currently, Ernie Kovacs is 105 years, 9 months and 15 days old. Ernie Kovacs will celebrate 106th birthday on Thursday, 23rd of January 2025. Below the countdown to Ernie Kovacs upcoming birthday.
Innovative TV comedian, writer, and actor whose shows Three to Get Ready and Kovacs on the Corner were known for their experimental style. He was posthumously inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame in 1987, years after his death.
With the help of his teacher Harold Van Kirk, he earned an acting scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937. His first paid entertainment work came in 1941 as a disc jockey on Trenton's WTTM radio.
His experimental and improvisational style has influenced late night TV show hosts like Craig Ferguson.
He married Bette Lee Wilcox on August 13, 1945 and divorced her in 1952. When he was awarded full custody of their two children she kidnapped them and took them to Florida. After regaining custody of his children, he married his second wife, Edie Adams, on September 12, 1954.
David Letterman cited Ernie Kovacs as the comedian who inspired him.
Ernie Kovacs is 105 years old today.
Ernie Kovacs was born on January 23, 1919 in Trenton, NJ.
Ernie Kovacs zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Ernie Kovacs was best known as Comedian.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ernie Kovacs's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. |
1967 | Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. |
1968 | USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean People's Navy. |
1982 | World Airways Flight 30H overshoots the runway at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, and crashes into Boston Harbor. Two people are presumed dead. |
1986 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. |
1987 | Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people. |
1997 | Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. |
1998 | Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. |
2001 | Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. |
2002 | U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. |
2003 | A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. |
2018 | A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities. |
2018 | A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials. |
2018 | The China-United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines. |
2022 | Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba depose and detain President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré amid widespread anti-government protests. |
1986 | The birth of Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner |
1986 | The birth of Marc Laird, Scottish footballer |
1986 | The birth of José Enrique, Spanish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Steven Taylor, English footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sandro Viletta, Swiss skier |
1987 | The birth of Leo Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler |
1991 | The birth of Steve Birnbaum, American footballer |
1992 | The birth of Reina Triendl, Japanese model and actress |
1994 | The birth of Addison Russell, American baseball player |
1995 | The birth of Luke Bateman, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Tuimoala Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league player |
1998 | The birth of XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018) |
2001 | The birth of Olga Danilović, Serbian tennis player |
2015 | The death of Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Prosper Ego, Dutch activist, founded the Oud-Strijders Legioen (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, composer and singer (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914) |
2018 | The death of Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist and pastor (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990) |
2019 | The death of Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean Afro Jazz musician (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Hal Holbrook, American actor and director (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (b. 1994) |
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