Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lon Kruger |
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Birthdate | August 19, 1952 |
Birth Place | Silver Lake, KS |
Age (in 2024) | 72 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Basketball Coach |
Lon Kruger is best known as Basketball Coach who has born on August 19, 1952 in Silver Lake, KS. Currently, Lon Kruger is 72 years, 2 months and 14 days old. Lon Kruger will celebrate 73rd birthday on Tuesday, 19th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Lon Kruger upcoming birthday.
Journeyman head coach in both college and professional basketball who reached his second Final Four with the Oklahoma Sooners in 2016. He has been a head coach at Texas-Pan American, Kansas State, Florida, Illinois and UNLV with his sole NBA head coaching tenure being with the Atlanta Hawks.
He played point guard for Kansas State, leading them to Big Eight championships in 1972 and 1973. He earned the Big Eight Player of the Year honor in 1973 and 1974. He also played baseball for the school in the shortstop position.
He earned career victory number 500 as a head coach in November 2012. In 2013, he became the first head coach in the history of Division I basketball to lead five different schools to the NCAA tournament. In 2015, he became the first head coach to win an NCAA tournament game with five different schools.
He has a son named Kevin and daughter Angie with his wife Barbara.
Star player Buddy Hield helped Kruger lead the Sooners to their second Final Four under his tenure.
Lon Kruger is 72 years old today.
Lon Kruger was born on August 19, 1952 in Silver Lake, KS.
Lon Kruger zodiac sign is Leo.
Lon Kruger was best known as Basketball Coach.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lon Kruger's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. |
1989 | Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. |
1989 | Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. |
1991 | Crown Heights riot begins. |
1999 | In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. |
2002 | Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
2003 | A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. |
2003 | Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children. |
2004 | Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq. |
2005 | The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. |
2009 | A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. |
2010 | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
2013 | The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. |
2017 | Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. |
1986 | The birth of Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer |
1986 | The birth of Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player |
1986 | The birth of Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter |
1987 | The birth of Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver |
1988 | The birth of Veronica Roth, American author |
1989 | The birth of Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor |
1990 | The birth of Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete |
1994 | The birth of Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist |
1996 | The birth of Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player |
1999 | The birth of Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player |
2001 | The birth of Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player |
2012 | The death of Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1973) |
2014 | The death of Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of George Houser, American minister and activist (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Jack Riley, American actor and voice artist (b. 1935) |
2017 | The death of Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948) |
2021 | The death of Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (b. 1939) |
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