Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard E. Byrd |
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Birthdate | October 25, 1888 |
Birth Place | Winchester, VA |
Age (in 2024) | 136 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Explorer |
Richard E. Byrd is best known as Explorer who has born on October 25, 1888 in Winchester, VA. Currently, Richard E. Byrd is 136 years, 1 months and 9 days old. Richard E. Byrd will celebrate 137th birthday on Saturday, 25th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Richard E. Byrd upcoming birthday.
Polar explorer who took part in six of America's twelve expeditions to the Antarctic.
He learned to fly while serving in WWI, and became a skilled pilot.
He was the first to a attempt a flyover of the South Pole, and claimed he carried it out, although later there were some doubts.
A descendant of the American Founders, he could trace his ancestry back to John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
He was a part of the first Americans expedition to reach the South Pole since Charles Wilkes, who landed a century earlier.
Richard E. Byrd is 136 years old today.
Richard E. Byrd was born on October 25, 1888 in Winchester, VA.
Richard E. Byrd zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Richard E. Byrd was best known as Explorer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Richard E. Byrd's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Richard E. Byrd's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1945 | Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. |
1949 | The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. |
1968 | A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. |
1971 | The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. |
1973 | Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. |
1980 | Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. |
1983 | The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. |
1995 | A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. |
1997 | After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. |
1999 | A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart. |
2001 | Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. |
2009 | The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. |
2010 | Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. |
2010 | A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. |
1992 | The birth of Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist |
1992 | The birth of Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier |
1993 | The birth of Isaiah Austin, American basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Iván Garcia, Mexican diver |
1994 | The birth of Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier |
1994 | The birth of Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Matteo Lodo, Italian rower |
1994 | The birth of Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter |
1994 | The birth of Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster |
1995 | The birth of Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress |
1995 | The birth of Patrick McCaw, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer |
1998 | The birth of Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player |
2000 | The birth of Vincent Zhou, American figure skater |
2001 | The birth of Princess Elisabeth, Belgian princess |
2013 | The death of Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940) |
2015 | The death of David Cesarani, English historian and author (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (b. 1988) |
2015 | The death of Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of Thomas Keating, an American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1923) |
2019 | The death of Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (b. 1937) |
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