Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Wooden |
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Birthdate | October 14, 1910 |
Birth Place | Hall, IN |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Basketball Coach |
John Wooden is best known as Basketball Coach who has born on October 14, 1910 in Hall, IN. Currently, John Wooden is 114 years, 1 months and 29 days old. John Wooden will celebrate 115th birthday on Tuesday, 14th of October 2025. Below the countdown to John Wooden upcoming birthday.
Legendary basketball coach who led UCLA to ten national titles from 1964 to 1975. He was a 6-time NCAA College Basketball Coach of the Year and he was inducted into both the Basketball Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame.
He went to the state championship finals three straight years during his playing days at Martinsville High School. He then went on to play college basketball at Purdue from 1929 to 1932.
He was dubbed the Wizard of Westwood, for his constant ability to combine positive thinking with winning strategy.
He was married to Nellie Riley from 1932 until her death in 1985.
He was loved by many of the players he coached, one of those being Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then known as Lew Alcindor.
John Wooden is 114 years old today.
John Wooden was born on October 14, 1910 in Hall, IN.
John Wooden zodiac sign is Libra.
John Wooden was best known as Basketball Coach.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Wooden's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor. |
1981 | Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. |
1982 | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. |
1991 | Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1994 | Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government. |
1998 | Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. |
2003 | The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. |
2004 | MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board. |
2004 | Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed. |
2012 | Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. |
2014 | A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. |
2014 | The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win. |
2015 | A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others. |
2017 | A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others. |
2021 | About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike. |
1984 | The birth of LaRon Landry, American football player |
1984 | The birth of Alex Scott, English footballer |
1985 | The birth of Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver |
1985 | The birth of Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer |
1985 | The birth of Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament |
1986 | The birth of Tom Craddock, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Arca, Venezuelan musician |
1990 | The birth of Jordan Clark, English cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer |
1994 | The birth of Joe Burgess, English rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Jared Goff, American football player |
2001 | The birth of Rowan Blanchard, American actress |
2013 | The death of Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964) |
2019 | The death of Harold Bloom, American literary critic (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (b. 1994) |
2021 | The death of Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea |
2022 | The death of Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (b. 1950) |
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