Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marilyn Vos Savant |
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Birthdate | August 11, 1946 |
Birth Place | St. Louis, MO |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Playwright |
Marilyn Vos Savant is best known as Playwright who has born on August 11, 1946 in St. Louis, MO. Currently, Marilyn Vos Savant is 78 years, 4 months and 3 days old. Marilyn Vos Savant will celebrate 79th birthday on Monday, 11th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Marilyn Vos Savant upcoming birthday.
The one-time Guinness Book of World Records holder for the highest recorded IQ, she started a popular "Ask Marilyn" weekly column in Parade magazine in 1986.
She received an astounding IQ score of 228 when she was just ten years old. As a young woman, she dropped out of Washington University in St. Louis to assist with her family's investment business.
In one of her most famous columns, she answered the "Monty Hall" problem, explaining why, when faced with three doors (one with a prize behind it), it pays to switch after one of the non-prize doors is revealed.
She was born Marilyn Mach in St. Louis, Missouri, to German and Italian immigrant parents. She was first married when she was just sixteen years old.
Her third husband, Robert Jarvik, was the inventor of the artificial heart.
Marilyn Vos Savant is 78 years old today.
Marilyn Vos Savant was born on August 11, 1946 in St. Louis, MO.
Marilyn Vos Savant zodiac sign is Leo.
Marilyn Vos Savant was best known as Playwright.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Marilyn Vos Savant's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Marilyn Vos Savant's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. |
1969 | The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon. |
1972 | Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. |
1975 | East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. |
1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. |
1982 | A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. |
1984 | "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. |
1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
1992 | The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. |
2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
2003 | NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. |
2003 | Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. |
2006 | The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. |
2012 | At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. |
2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
1987 | The birth of Drew Storen, American baseball player |
1988 | The birth of Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Patty Mills, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013) |
1989 | The birth of Sebastian Huke, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator |
1994 | The birth of Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Joseph Barbato, French footballer |
1994 | The birth of Song I-han, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer |
2001 | The birth of Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player |
2013 | The death of David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Raymond Gravel, Canadian priest and politician (b. 1952) |
2014 | The death of Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish author and blogger (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903) |
2017 | The death of Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946) |
2018 | The death of V S Naipaul, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
2019 | The death of Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931) |
2020 | The death of Trini Lopez, Mexican American singer and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2020 | The death of Sumner Redstone, American billionaire businessman (b. 1923) |
2022 | The death of Anne Heche, American actress (b. 1969) |
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