Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Kofi Annan |
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Birthdate | April 08, 1938 |
Birth Place | Kumasi, Ghana |
Age (in 2024) | 86 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Politician |
Kofi Annan is best known as Politician who has born on April 08, 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana. Currently, Kofi Annan is 86 years, 6 months and 24 days old. Kofi Annan will celebrate 87th birthday on Tuesday, 8th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Kofi Annan upcoming birthday.
Ghanaian politician who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He founded the Global AIDS and Health Fund and co-received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for his work with the United Nations.
After studying economics at Kumasi College of Science and Technology in Ghana, he earned his masters at MIT.
His memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, was published in 2012.
He married Nane Annan in 1984 and he has three children. He is distantly related to Ghanaian footballer Anthony Annan.
He is a Nobel Prize laureate, much like President Barack Obama.
Kofi Annan is 86 years old today.
Kofi Annan was born on April 08, 1938 in Kumasi, Ghana.
Kofi Annan zodiac sign is Aries.
Kofi Annan was best known as Politician.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Kofi Annan's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Kofi Annan's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. |
1970 | Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed. |
1975 | Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. |
1987 | Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline. |
1992 | Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. |
1993 | The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. |
1993 | The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56. |
2004 | War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. |
2005 | A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. |
2006 | Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. |
2008 | The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. |
2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. |
2013 | The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. |
2014 | Windows XP reaches it's standard End Of Life and is no longer supported |
2020 | Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee. |
1986 | The birth of Félix Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer |
1987 | The birth of Jeremy Hellickson, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Elton John, Trinidadian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Sam Rapira, New Zealand rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017) |
1993 | The birth of Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Anna Korakaki, Greek Olympic medalist in shooting |
1997 | The birth of Kim Woo-jin, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player |
2002 | The birth of Skai Jackson, American actress |
2013 | The death of Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Mercep, New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Lashchenko, Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987) |
2015 | The death of David Laventhol, American journalist and publisher (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Rick May, American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940) |
2020 | The death of Abdul Momin Imambari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Mimi Reinhardt, Austrian Jewish secretary (b. 1915) |
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