Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Axel |
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Birthdate | July 02, 1946 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Biologist |
Richard Axel is best known as Biologist who has born on July 02, 1946 in New York. Currently, Richard Axel is 78 years, 5 months and 21 days old. Richard Axel will celebrate 79th birthday on Wednesday, 2nd of July 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Axel upcoming birthday.
Renowned molecular biologist who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the olfactory system. Among his achievements is the discovery that there are around one thousand olfactory receptor genes in the genome of mammals.
He was a basketball player at Stuyvesant High School.
In 2007, he received the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Double Helix Medal for his contributions to the field of genetics.
He was married to social worker Ann Axel before marrying scientist Cornelia Bargmann.
He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his colleague, Linda Buck.
Richard Axel is 78 years old today.
Richard Axel was born on July 02, 1946 in New York.
Richard Axel zodiac sign is Cancer.
Richard Axel was best known as Biologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Axel's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1976 | End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
1986 | Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. |
1986 | Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people. |
1988 | Marcel Lefebvre and the four bishops he consecrated were excommunicated by the Holy See. |
1990 | In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca. |
1994 | USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board. |
1997 | The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis. |
2000 | Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. |
2001 | The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted. |
2002 | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. |
2005 | The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. |
2008 | Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC. |
2010 | The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. |
2013 | The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx. |
2013 | A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others. |
1988 | The birth of Lee Chung-yong, South Korean footballer |
1989 | The birth of Nadezhda Grishaeva, Russian basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Alex Morgan, American soccer player |
1990 | The birth of Kayla Harrison, American judoka |
1990 | The birth of Merritt Mathias, American soccer player |
1990 | The birth of Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer |
1990 | The birth of Danny Rose, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Bill Tupou, New Zealand rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Madison Chock, American ice dancer |
1993 | The birth of Vince Staples, American rapper and actor |
1993 | The birth of Diamonté Harper, American rapper |
1994 | The birth of Henrik Kristoffersen, Norwegian skier |
1995 | The birth of Ryan Murphy, American swimmer |
1996 | The birth of Julia Grabher, Austrian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Louis Zamperini, American runner and World War II US Army Air Forces captain (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Ronald Davison, New Zealand lawyer and judge, 10th Chief Justice of New Zealand (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Jim Weaver, American football player and coach (b. 1945) |
2015 | The death of Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Caroline Aherne, English actress and comedian (b. 1963) |
2016 | The death of Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Patrick Manning, 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Vladislav Rastorotsky, a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Smith Hart, American-born Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948) |
2018 | The death of Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive (b.1924) |
2020 | The death of Ángela Jeria, Chilean archaeologist (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Byron Bernstein, American Twitch streamer (b. 1989) |
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