Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gordon Scott |
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Birthdate | August 03, 1926 |
Birth Place | Portland, OR |
Age (in 2024) | 98 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Movie Actor |
Gordon Scott is best known as Movie Actor who has born on August 03, 1926 in Portland, OR. Currently, Gordon Scott is 98 years, 4 months and 8 days old. Gordon Scott will celebrate 99th birthday on Sunday, 3rd of August 2025. Below the countdown to Gordon Scott upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for his starring role in the Tarzan films of the 1950s and early 1960s, this actor played several other swashbuckling hero roles, including Remus in Duel of the Titans and Hercules in Hercules and the Princess of Troy.
He served in the United States Army from 1944 until 1947 and subsequently worked as a lifeguard in Las Vegas. While on duty at the Sahara Hotel and Casino, he was approached by a talent scout who secured him the role of Tarzan.
After ending his Tarzan contract, he relocated to Europe and appeared in a series of Italian films.
Born Gordon Merrill Werschkul, he grew up in Portland, Oregon, with eight siblings. He was married to Janice Wynkoop and actress
He took over from the previous Tarzan actor, Lex Barker, in the eighteenth installment (Tarzan's Hidden Jungle) of the Tarzan films.
Gordon Scott is 98 years old today.
Gordon Scott was born on August 03, 1926 in Portland, OR.
Gordon Scott zodiac sign is Leo.
Gordon Scott was best known as Movie Actor.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gordon Scott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
1975 | A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. |
1977 | Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. |
1981 | Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front - Suxxali Reew Mi. |
1997 | Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara. |
1997 | The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction. |
2004 | The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. |
2005 | President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. |
2007 | Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police RaĂșl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. |
2010 | Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17Â billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage. |
2014 | A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China. |
2014 | The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins. |
2018 | Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan. |
2019 | Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia. |
2019 | Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. |
1989 | The birth of Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jourdan Dunn, English model |
1990 | The birth of Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner |
1992 | The birth of Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner |
1992 | The birth of DiÄna MarcinkÄviÄa, Latvian tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Karlie Kloss, American fashion model |
1993 | The birth of Ola Abidogun, English sprinter |
1993 | The birth of Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer |
1994 | The birth of Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Esther Earl, American author, vlogger, and online personality. (d. 2010) Celebrated annually as Esther day |
1994 | The birth of Todd Gurley, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (b. 1958) |
2014 | The death of Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jef Murray, American artist and author (b. 1960) |
2020 | The death of John Hume, Northern Irish politician (b. 1937) |
2022 | The death of Jackie Walorski, American politician (b. 1963) |
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