Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Kumar Sangakkara |
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Birthdate | October 27, 1977 |
Birth Place | Matale, Sri Lanka |
Age (in 2024) | 47 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Cricket Player |
Kumar Sangakkara is best known as Cricket Player who has born on October 27, 1977 in Matale, Sri Lanka. Currently, Kumar Sangakkara is 47 years, 1 months and 17 days old. Kumar Sangakkara will celebrate 48th birthday on Monday, 27th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Kumar Sangakkara upcoming birthday.
Sri Lankan wicket-keeper who retired as his country's most prolific Test batsman. He retired as Sri Lanka's all-time leader in Test runs, average, half-centuries, centuries, and double centuries. He was the fastest batsman to 8,000, 9,000 11,000 and 12,000 runs and tied for fastest batsman to 10,000 runs.
He played cricket at Trinity College, Kandy, receiving the school's highest sports award, the The Trinity Lion. He made his Test and ODI debuts in 2000.
He was known for publicly supporting sledging - the cricket version of trash-talk - to throw opponents off their game. He retired with 14,234 ODI runs, second only to Sachin Tendulkar.
He was born in Matale, Sri Lanka. His father, Swarnakumara Sangakkara, was an attorney. He married Yehali Sangakkara in 2003, and they have two kids: Kavith and Swyree.
He won the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award in 2011 and 2015, making him the second player, after Virender Sehwag, to earn the honor twice.
Kumar Sangakkara is 47 years old today.
Kumar Sangakkara was born on October 27, 1977 in Matale, Sri Lanka.
Kumar Sangakkara zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Kumar Sangakkara was best known as Cricket Player.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Kumar Sangakkara's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1979 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
1981 | Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. |
1986 | The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. |
1988 | Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure. |
1991 | Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. |
1992 | United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. |
1994 | Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. |
1995 | Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. |
1997 | The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. |
1999 | Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others. |
2014 | Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days. |
2017 | Catalonia declares independence from Spain. |
2018 | A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers. |
2018 | Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. |
2019 | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria. |
1988 | The birth of Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper |
1988 | The birth of Evan Turner, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Mark Barron, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer |
1990 | The birth of Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer |
1992 | The birth of Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
1992 | The birth of Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer |
1993 | The birth of Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor |
1997 | The birth of Lonzo Ball, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of James TW, English singer-songwriter |
1999 | The birth of Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress |
2013 | The death of Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968) |
2014 | The death of Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915) |
2018 | The death of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, chairman of Leicester City F.C (b. 1958) |
2019 | The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (b. 1971) |
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