Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gale Sayers |
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Birthdate | May 30, 1943 |
Birth Place | Wichita, KS |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Football Player |
Gale Sayers is best known as Football Player who has born on May 30, 1943 in Wichita, KS. Currently, Gale Sayers is 81 years, 6 months and 14 days old. Gale Sayers will celebrate 82nd birthday on Friday, 30th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Gale Sayers upcoming birthday.
Running back and return specialist known as "The Kansas Comet." He was a 4-time Pro Bowl selection and retired with 4,956 rushing yards and 56 total touchdowns after playing just seven years in the NFL with the Chicago Bears.
He set a state long jump record by jumping 24' 11.75' as a senior at Omaha Central High School in Nebraska. He played college football at the University of Kansas.
He was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977.
He married his high school sweetheart, Linda Lou McNeil, in June 1962. They divorced in 1973 and that same year, he married Ardythe Bullard.
Both he and Barry Sanders retired from the NFL while they were still elite running backs.
Gale Sayers is 81 years old today.
Gale Sayers was born on May 30, 1943 in Wichita, KS.
Gale Sayers zodiac sign is Gemini.
Gale Sayers was best known as Football Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Gale Sayers's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Gale Sayers's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. |
1974 | The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service. |
1975 | European Space Agency is established. |
1979 | Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17. |
1982 | Cold War: Spain joins NATO. |
1989 | Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. |
1990 | Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia. |
1998 | The 6.5 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000-4,500. |
1998 | Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent. |
2003 | Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards. |
2008 | Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted. |
2008 | TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at ToncontÃn International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people. |
2012 | Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War. |
2013 | Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. |
2020 | The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. |
1985 | The birth of Igor Lewczuk, Polish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian international footballer |
1989 | The birth of Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress |
1990 | The birth of Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Jonathan Fox, English swimmer |
1992 | The birth of Harrison Barnes, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Danielle Harold, English actress |
1994 | The birth of Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player |
1996 | The birth of Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Jung Eun-bi, South Korean singer and actress |
1999 | The birth of Eddie Nketiah, English footballer |
1999 | The birth of Guanyu Zhou, Chinese racing driver |
2013 | The death of Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (b. 1953) |
2013 | The death of Larry Jones, American football player and coach (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Joan Lorring, British actress (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (b. 1969) |
2015 | The death of Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of L. Tom Perry, American religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1950) |
2019 | The death of Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1983) |
2020 | The death of Michael Angelis, British actor (b. 1944) |
2021 | The death of Jason Dupasquier, Swiss motorcycle road racer (b. 2001) |
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