Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Sadako Sasaki |
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Birthdate | January 07, 1943 |
Birth Place | Hiroshima, Japan |
Age (in 2024) | 81 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Sadako Sasaki was born on January 07, 1943 in Hiroshima, Japan. Currently, Sadako Sasaki is 81 years, 10 months and 7 days old. Sadako Sasaki will celebrate 82nd birthday on Tuesday, 7th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Sadako Sasaki upcoming birthday.
Young leukemia victim who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan at the age of two. She died at age twelve as a result of radiation exposure. She later became an international symbol of the war-time destruction of innocents.
As an infant, she lived less than a mile away from the site of the Hiroshima bombing. She first developed symptoms of leukemia in early 1955.
Before her death, she attempted to fold 1,000 origami cranes. According to Japanese legend, this would allow her dearest wish to be granted. Her story was the basis for the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
She died, surrounded by her family, just three months shy of her thirteenth birthday.
The grandson of Harry S. Truman met with her older brother in 2012 to pay his respects to Hiroshima victims and survivors.
Sadako Sasaki is 81 years old today.
Sadako Sasaki was born on January 07, 1943 in Hiroshima, Japan.
Sadako Sasaki zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Sadako Sasaki's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Sadako Sasaki's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers. |
1979 | Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. |
1980 | U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. |
1984 | Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
1985 | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. |
1991 | Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest. |
1993 | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president. |
1993 | Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. |
1994 | A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board. |
1999 | The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. |
2012 | A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. |
2015 | Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others. |
2015 | A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured. |
2020 | The 6.4Mw  2019-20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico. |
2023 | The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 - February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
1985 | The birth of Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver |
1985 | The birth of Wayne Routledge, English footballer |
1987 | The birth of Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress |
1987 | The birth of Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018) |
1988 | The birth of Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Liam Aiken, American actor |
1990 | The birth of Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper |
1991 | The birth of Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Caster Semenya, South African sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Michael Walters, Australian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player |
1997 | The birth of Lamar Jackson, American football player |
2015 | The death of Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (b. 1934) |
2016 | The death of Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938) |
2016 | The death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1938) |
2018 | The death of France Gall, French singer (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1952) |
2020 | The death of Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974) |
2020 | The death of Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (b. 1967) |
2021 | The death of Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941) |
2021 | The death of Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932) |
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