Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Olga Korbut |
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Birthdate | May 16, 1955 |
Birth Place | Grodno, Belarus |
Age (in 2024) | 69 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Gymnast |
Olga Korbut is best known as Gymnast who has born on May 16, 1955 in Grodno, Belarus. Currently, Olga Korbut is 69 years, 6 months and 5 days old. Olga Korbut will celebrate 70th birthday on Friday, 16th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Olga Korbut upcoming birthday.
Soviet gymnast who won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 Munich and the 1976 Montreal Olympic games, for the Team, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise events.
Her first trainer was the Olympic gold medalist Elena Volchetskaya.
She won four gold medals and two silver medals for gymnastics in the Olympics.
Her son, Richard, was born in 1979. She was married to Leonid Bortkevich from 1978 to 2000.
She and Amanda Borden are both gymnasts who went on to win Olympic gold medals.
Olga Korbut is 69 years old today.
Olga Korbut was born on May 16, 1955 in Grodno, Belarus.
Olga Korbut zodiac sign is Taurus.
Olga Korbut was best known as Gymnast.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Olga Korbut's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Olga Korbut's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
1959 | The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. |
1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
1961 | Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. |
1966 | The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
1969 | Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. |
1974 | Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. |
1975 | Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
1988 | A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. |
1991 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. |
1997 | Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. |
2003 | In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. |
2005 | Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. |
2011 | STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. |
2014 | Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. |
1990 | The birth of Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor |
1990 | The birth of Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Omar Strong, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Joey Graceffa, American internet celebrity |
1991 | The birth of Ashley Wagner, American figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Kirstin Maldonado, American singer and songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete |
1993 | The birth of Karol Mets, Estonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress |
1994 | The birth of Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtenstein tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Elizabeth Ralston, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Louisa Chirico, American tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Luis Garcia, Dominican-American baseball player |
2013 | The death of Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Dick Trickle, American race car driver (b. 1941) |
2013 | The death of Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917) |
2021 | The death of Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (b. 1980) |
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