Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Heiko Bleher |
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Birthdate | October 18, 1944 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Zoologist |
Heiko Bleher is best known as Zoologist who has born on October 18, 1944 in Germany. Currently, Heiko Bleher is 80 years, 1 months and 3 days old. Heiko Bleher will celebrate 81st birthday on Saturday, 18th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Heiko Bleher upcoming birthday.
Famous for his Guinness World Record-setting discovery of the world's largest freshwater fish, Bleher carried out freshwater and brackish water research in hundreds of countries and established a scientific publication titled Aqua: International Journal of Ichthyology.
He spent his childhood accompanying his mother on aquatic research missions to locales such as Equatorial Guinea and Brazil. He later relocated to the United States and studied at the University of South Florida.
In the late 1970s, he established an organization called Ornamental Fish International.
He was one of four children born to Amanda Flora Hilda Kiel and Ludwig Bleher. His maternal grandfather, Adolf Kiel, was an aquatic plants and animals researcher who, in the early 1900s, founded the largest fish farm in the world.
He is a contemporary of Swedish biologist Svante Paabo.
Heiko Bleher is 80 years old today.
Heiko Bleher was born on October 18, 1944 in Germany.
Heiko Bleher zodiac sign is Libra.
Heiko Bleher was best known as Zoologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Heiko Bleher's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1944 | World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany. |
1945 | The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
1945 | A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. |
1945 | Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte. |
1954 | Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio. |
1963 | Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space. |
1967 | The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. |
1977 | German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. |
1979 | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license. |
1991 | The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. |
1992 | Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31. |
2003 | Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
2007 | Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured. |
2019 | NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller. |
2019 | Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital. |
1985 | The birth of Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1986 | The birth of Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer |
1987 | The birth of Zac Efron, American actor and singer |
1987 | The birth of Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model |
1988 | The birth of Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress |
1989 | The birth of Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist |
1989 | The birth of Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress |
1990 | The birth of Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality |
1990 | The birth of Brittney Griner, American professional basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Drew Crawford, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer |
1992 | The birth of John John Florence, American professional surfer |
1993 | The birth of Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer |
1994 | The birth of Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian Formula One driver |
1994 | The birth of Enhō Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler |
2014 | The death of Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, Dominican author and academic (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Edward Regan, American academic and politician (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Sidney Shapiro, American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Frank Watkins, American bass player (b. 1968) |
2015 | The death of Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Marino Perani, Italian football player and manager (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931) |
2018 | The death of Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952) |
2020 | The death of René Felber, 81st President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Colin Powell, American military leader and statesman, 65th Secretary of State (b. 1937) |
2022 | The death of Harvey Wollman, American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1935) |
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