Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gladys Knight |
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Birthdate | May 28, 1944 |
Birth Place | Oglethorpe, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Soul Singer |
Gladys Knight is best known as Soul Singer who has born on May 28, 1944 in Oglethorpe, GA. Currently, Gladys Knight is 80 years, 5 months and 5 days old. Gladys Knight will celebrate 81st birthday on Wednesday, 28th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Gladys Knight upcoming birthday.
Known as Empress of Soul, Knight gained fame with Gladys Knight & the Pips, who released hits like "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia."
She won a small-time TV contest when she was seven, giving her family confidence to start up The Pips.
She won the 1986 Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for 'That's What Friends Are For,' which she sang with Elton John and Stevie Wonder.
She married James Newman in 1960, Barry Hankerson in 1974, Les Brown in 1995, and William McDowell in 2001. She and Newman had a daughter named Kenya and a son named James III and she also had a son named Shanga with Hankerson.
She appeared on the fourteenth cycle of Dancing with the Stars with Jaleel White.
Gladys Knight is 80 years old today.
Gladys Knight was born on May 28, 1944 in Oglethorpe, GA.
Gladys Knight zodiac sign is Gemini.
Gladys Knight was best known as Soul Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Gladys Knight's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Gladys Knight's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1979 | Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. |
1987 | An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. |
1991 | The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. |
1995 | The 7.0 Mw  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1-300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt. |
1996 | U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. |
1998 | Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. |
1999 | In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. |
2002 | The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. |
2003 | Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane. |
2004 | The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. |
2008 | The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. |
2010 | In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers. |
2011 | Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year. |
2016 | Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes. |
2017 | Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event. |
1988 | The birth of NaVorro Bowman, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Percy Harvin, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Craig Kimbrel, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Kyle Walker, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Sharrif Floyd, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer |
1991 | The birth of Danielle Lao, American tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Kail Piho, Estonian skier |
1993 | The birth of Daniel Alvaro, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player |
1994 | The birth of John Stones, English footballer |
1998 | The birth of Kim Dahyun, South Korean rapper and singer |
1999 | The birth of Jodie Burrage, British tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Phil Foden, English footballer |
2000 | The birth of Risi Pouri-Lane, New Zealand rugby sevens player |
2013 | The death of Gerd Schmückle, German general (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Stan Crowther, English footballer (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Oscar Dystel, American publisher (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Malcolm Glazer, American businessman (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Bob Houbregs, Canadian-American basketball player and manager (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Steven Gerber, American pianist and composer (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940) |
2018 | The death of Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1963) |
2018 | The death of Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
2018 | The death of Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Mark Eaton, American basketball player (b. 1957) |
2022 | The death of Patricia Brake, English actress (b. 1942) |
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