Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Hans Wilsdorf |
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Birthdate | March 22, 1881 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 143 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Hans Wilsdorf is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on March 22, 1881 in Germany. Currently, Hans Wilsdorf is 143 years, 7 months and 11 days old. Hans Wilsdorf will celebrate 144th birthday on Saturday, 22nd of March 2025. Below the countdown to Hans Wilsdorf upcoming birthday.
Notable for founding the world-famous Tudor and Rolex watch brands, this German entrepreneur later established an eponymous foundation that guaranteed that a portion of Rolex's profits would be donated to charity in the decades and centuries after his death.
Early in his life, he was employed by a Swiss watchmaking company in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
When he learned that members of the Royal Air Force who owned Rolex watches were being forced to turn over their timepieces to their captors at World war II-era POW camps, Wilsdorf offered to replace the soldiers' watches for free (until the end of the war, when the former POWs would be expected to pay for their Rolexes).
A native of Kulmbach, Bavaria, he later operated his famous watchmaking businesses out of his adopted home city of Geneva, Switzerland. Before settling in Geneva, he co-owned a London-based watch imports company with his wife's brother, Alfred Davis.
He and Frenchman Dominique Loiseau were both successful twentieth-century watchmakers.
Hans Wilsdorf is 143 years old today.
Hans Wilsdorf was born on March 22, 1881 in Germany.
Hans Wilsdorf zodiac sign is Aries.
Hans Wilsdorf was best known as Entrepreneur.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Hans Wilsdorf's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1993 | The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60Â MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
1995 | Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. |
1997 | Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. |
1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU. |
2004 | Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. |
2006 | Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. |
2013 | At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. |
2016 | Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station. |
2017 | A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. |
2017 | Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa. |
2019 | The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General. |
2019 | Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people. |
2020 | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. |
2020 | Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. |
2021 | Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. |
1982 | The birth of Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist |
1982 | The birth of Michael Janyk, Canadian skier |
1984 | The birth of Piotr Trochowski, German footballer |
1985 | The birth of Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist |
1985 | The birth of Justin Masterson, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer |
1986 | The birth of Dexter Fowler, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Ike Davis, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (d. 2013) |
1987 | The birth of Liam Doran, British rallycross driver |
1989 | The birth of Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer |
1989 | The birth of J. J. Watt, American football player |
1994 | The birth of Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer |
2013 | The death of Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Derek Watkins, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Ray Williams, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (b. 1965) |
2015 | The death of Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Phife Dawg, American rapper (b. 1970) |
2016 | The death of Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1969) |
2016 | The death of Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927) |
2018 | The death of Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (b. 1911) |
2019 | The death of Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (b. 1943) |
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