Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jacques Rogge |
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Birthdate | May 02, 1942 |
Birth Place | Ghent, Belgium |
Age (in 2024) | 82 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Jacques Rogge is best known as Entrepreneur who has born on May 02, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium. Currently, Jacques Rogge is 82 years, 6 months and 0 days old. Jacques Rogge will celebrate 83rd birthday on Friday, 2nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Jacques Rogge upcoming birthday.
Athlete and former Olympian who became the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee.
He attended the University of Ghent where he was trained as an orthopedic surgeon. He competed in yachting at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Olympics.
He was listed as No. 67 in Forbes Magazine's rankings of the 68 most powerful people in the world in 2011.
He fathered two children with his wife Anne.
His duties as IOC president brought him into contact with many world leaders, including David Cameron.
Jacques Rogge is 82 years old today.
Jacques Rogge was born on May 02, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium.
Jacques Rogge zodiac sign is Taurus.
Jacques Rogge was best known as Entrepreneur.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Jacques Rogge's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Jacques Rogge's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. |
1982 | Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. |
1986 | Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. |
1989 | Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect. |
1995 | During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. |
1998 | The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. |
1999 | Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. |
2000 | President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. |
2004 | The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. |
2008 | Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. |
2008 | Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. |
2011 | Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. |
2011 | An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill. |
2012 | A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. |
2014 | Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing. |
1988 | The birth of Neftalí Feliz, Dominican baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Jeanette Pohlen, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Kay Panabaker, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Paul George, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer |
1992 | The birth of Sunmi, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist |
1993 | The birth of Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer |
1993 | The birth of Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper |
1996 | The birth of Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer |
1996 | The birth of Julian Brandt, German footballer |
1996 | The birth of Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer |
2015 | The birth of Princess Charlotte of Wales, British royal, and third in line to the British throne |
2013 | The death of Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980) |
2013 | The death of Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Žarko Petan, Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (b. 1982) |
2021 | The death of Marcel Stellman, Belgian record producer and lyricist (b. 1925) |
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Wikipedia | Jacques Rogge on Wikipedia |
Website | Jacques Rogge's Webiste |
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