Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Williams |
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Birthdate | February 16, 1942 |
Birth Place | Shreveport, LA |
Age (in 2024) | 82 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Tennis Coach |
Richard Williams is best known as Tennis Coach who has born on February 16, 1942 in Shreveport, LA. Currently, Richard Williams is 82 years, 8 months and 14 days old. Richard Williams will celebrate 83rd birthday on Sunday, 16th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Williams upcoming birthday.
Father and coach of the tennis duo Venus and Serena Williams.
He decided to make his daughters into tennis stars after seeing the great Romanian player Virginia Ruzici on TV.
When Serena won her first U.S. open in 1999 he did a victory dance in the NBC broadcast booth.
He was married to Berry Johnson from 1965 to 1973 and they had two daughters and three sons. He then married Oracene Price, the mother of Serena and Venus, in 1980. He and Oracene divorced in 2002.
He often noted the press interviews that tennis is still an overwhelmingly white sport, and his daughter Venus Williams was the first black woman to be ranked #1.
Richard Williams is 82 years old today.
Richard Williams was born on February 16, 1942 in Shreveport, LA.
Richard Williams zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Richard Williams was best known as Tennis Coach.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Richard Williams'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 Williams's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground. |
1978 | The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). |
1983 | The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
1985 | Hezbollah is founded. |
1986 | The Soviet liner MSÂ Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
1986 | China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard. |
1991 | Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. |
1996 | A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. |
1998 | China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. |
2000 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. |
2005 | The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
2005 | The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs. |
2006 | The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
2013 | A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
2021 | Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. |
1988 | The birth of Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Elizabeth Olsen, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer |
1991 | The birth of Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Annika Beck, German tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ava Max, American singer and songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Katy Dunne, English tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Carina Witthöft, German tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer |
2000 | The birth of Koffee, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and rapper |
2001 | The birth of Yuki Naito, Japanese tennis player |
2012 | The death of John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916) |
2012 | The death of Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968) |
2013 | The death of Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991) |
2013 | The death of Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Kralle Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957) |
2015 | The death of Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971) |
2016 | The death of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador |
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