Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | George Best |
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Birthdate | May 22, 1946 |
Birth Place | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Soccer Player |
George Best is best known as Soccer Player who has born on May 22, 1946 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Currently, George Best is 78 years, 5 months and 30 days old. George Best will celebrate 79th birthday on Thursday, 22nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to George Best upcoming birthday.
1968 European Soccer Player of the year who unexpectedly retired in the prime of his career at the age of 27; scored 137 goals in 361 appearances for Manchester United between 1963 and 1974.
He was a member of the Orange Order, which was important to his whole family.
He was one of the first European soccer players to become a celebrity, however, many felt this ultimately led to his demise.
He married his first wife, Angela MacDonald-Janes, in 1978 and had his first son, Calum, in 1981.
He and Peter McParland both played for the Northern Ireland national team in the 1960s.
George Best is 78 years old today.
George Best was born on May 22, 1946 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
George Best zodiac sign is Gemini.
George Best was best known as Soccer Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about George Best's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with George Best's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1998 | A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. |
2000 | In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. |
2002 | Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. |
2010 | Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. |
2010 | Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). |
2011 | An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. |
2012 | Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). |
2012 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. |
2014 | General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. |
2014 | An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. |
2015 | The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. |
2017 | Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. |
2017 | United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. |
2020 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people. |
2021 | Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China. |
1987 | The birth of Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer |
1988 | The birth of Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress |
1989 | The birth of Corey Dickerson, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Wyatt Roy, Australian politician |
1991 | The birth of Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Suho, South Korean singer and actor |
1992 | The birth of Anna Baryshnikov, American actress |
1994 | The birth of Florian Luger, Austrian male model |
1994 | The birth of Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter |
1998 | The birth of Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model |
1999 | The birth of Femke Huijzer, Dutch model |
1999 | The birth of Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler |
2001 | The birth of Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality |
2004 | The birth of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress |
2006 | The death of Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) |
2007 | The death of Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) |
2008 | The death of Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946) |
2010 | The death of Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) |
2012 | The death of Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970) |
2012 | The death of Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981) |
2019 | The death of Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (b. 1938) |
2022 | The death of Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931) |
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Wikipedia | George Best on Wikipedia |
Website | George Best's Webiste |
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