Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Johnny Olson |
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Birthdate | May 22, 1910 |
Birth Place | Minnesota |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | TV Show Host |
Johnny Olson is best known as TV Show Host who has born on May 22, 1910 in Minnesota. Currently, Johnny Olson is 114 years, 5 months and 30 days old. Johnny Olson will celebrate 115th birthday on Thursday, 22nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Johnny Olson upcoming birthday.
Remembered for hosting the radio program Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room and the television show Doorway to Fame, he is perhaps even better known for his TV announcing work on The Jackie Gleason Show; To Tell the Truth; What's My Line?; The Price is Right; and Match Game.
After working for several Madison, Wisconsin radio stations and briefly attending the University of Minnesota, he relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became a star radio personality with the city's WTMJ station.
In the mid 1940s, he was the announcer for a New York musical quiz show called Ladies Be Seated.
He spent his youth in Windom, Minnesota, and later lived in Wisconsin, New York, West Virginia, and California. He died in his mid seventies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
In the late 1950s, he was the announcer for the Merv Griffin game show Play Your Hunch.
Johnny Olson is 114 years old today.
Johnny Olson was born on May 22, 1910 in Minnesota.
Johnny Olson zodiac sign is Gemini.
Johnny Olson was best known as TV Show Host.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Johnny Olson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1998 | A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. |
2000 | In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. |
2002 | Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. |
2010 | Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. |
2010 | Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). |
2011 | An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. |
2012 | Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). |
2012 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. |
2014 | General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. |
2014 | An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. |
2015 | The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. |
2017 | Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. |
2017 | United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. |
2020 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people. |
2021 | Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China. |
1987 | The birth of Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer |
1988 | The birth of Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress |
1989 | The birth of Corey Dickerson, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Wyatt Roy, Australian politician |
1991 | The birth of Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Suho, South Korean singer and actor |
1992 | The birth of Anna Baryshnikov, American actress |
1994 | The birth of Florian Luger, Austrian male model |
1994 | The birth of Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter |
1998 | The birth of Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model |
1999 | The birth of Femke Huijzer, Dutch model |
1999 | The birth of Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler |
2001 | The birth of Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality |
2004 | The birth of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress |
2006 | The death of Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) |
2007 | The death of Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) |
2008 | The death of Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946) |
2010 | The death of Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) |
2012 | The death of Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970) |
2012 | The death of Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981) |
2019 | The death of Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (b. 1938) |
2022 | The death of Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931) |
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