Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Marvin Gaye |
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Birthdate | April 02, 1939 |
Birth Place | Washington, DC |
Age (in 2024) | 85 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Soul Singer |
Marvin Gaye is best known as Soul Singer who has born on April 02, 1939 in Washington, DC. Currently, Marvin Gaye is 85 years, 7 months and 15 days old. Marvin Gaye will celebrate 86th birthday on Wednesday, 2nd of April 2025. Below the countdown to Marvin Gaye upcoming birthday.
Soulful Motown icon who gained fame for the 1966 song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." He released the influential concept album What's Going On in 1971.
He dealt with brutal abuse at the hands of his father while growing up in "Simple City" with his two sisters and three brothers.
He released the hit song "Sexual Healing," which won a Grammy Award, and was posthumously given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
He was born to Alberta Gay and Marvin Gay Sr. He added the "E" to the end of his last name early in his recording career. He married Anna Gordy Gaye on January 8, 1964 and, after their divorce on March 1977, he married Jane Gaye in October 1977. He had three children.
He worked on concept albums such as Let's Get It On with Stevie Wonder.
Marvin Gaye is 85 years old today.
Marvin Gaye was born on April 02, 1939 in Washington, DC.
Marvin Gaye zodiac sign is Aries.
Marvin Gaye was best known as Soul Singer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Marvin Gaye's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Marvin Gaye's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1986 | Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. |
1989 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. |
1991 | Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. |
1992 | In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. |
1992 | Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
2002 | Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated. |
2004 | Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted. |
2006 | Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed. |
2012 | A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured. |
2014 | A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured. |
2015 | Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. |
2015 | Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million. |
2021 | At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track. |
2021 | A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol. |
1984 | The birth of Nóra Barta, Hungarian diver |
1984 | The birth of Jérémy Morel, French footballer |
1985 | The birth of Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player |
1985 | The birth of Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater |
1986 | The birth of Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer |
1986 | The birth of Andris Biedriņš, Latvian basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Pablo Aguilar, Paraguayan footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jesse Plemons, American actor |
1990 | The birth of Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast |
1990 | The birth of Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower |
1997 | The birth of Dillon Bassett, American race car driver |
1997 | The birth of Abdelhak Nouri, Dutch footballer |
2004 | The birth of Diana Shnaider, Russian tennis player |
2007 | The birth of Brenda Fruhvirtová, Czech tennis player |
2012 | The death of Jesús Aguilarte, Venezuelan captain and politician (b. 1959) |
2012 | The death of Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican sculptor and illustrator (b. 1915) |
2012 | The death of Mauricio Lasansky, American graphic designer and academic (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Fred, French author and illustrator (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
2015 | The death of Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Steve Stevaert, Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg (b. 1954) |
2016 | The death of Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist and illustrator (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Robert Abajyan, Armenian sergeant (b. 1996) |
2017 | The death of Alma Delia Fuentes, Mexican actress (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Simon Bainbridge, British composer (b. 1952) |
2022 | The death of Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (b. 1928) |
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