Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Vic Wertz |
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Birthdate | February 09, 1926 |
Birth Place | York, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 98 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Baseball Player |
Vic Wertz is best known as Baseball Player who has born on February 09, 1926 in York, PA. Currently, Vic Wertz is 98 years, 10 months and 2 days old. Vic Wertz will celebrate 99th birthday on Sunday, 9th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Vic Wertz upcoming birthday.
Four-time MLB All-Star who played on six teams during his 17-year career.
He served in World War II before beginning his baseball career in 1947.
He was stricken with polio in 1955, but was able to continue his baseball career the following season.
He married his wife Lucille, and together they ran a Detroit-area charity golf tournament to support the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan.
He hit the ball that led to the famous catch made by Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series.
Vic Wertz is 98 years old today.
Vic Wertz was born on February 09, 1926 in York, PA.
Vic Wertz zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Vic Wertz was best known as Baseball Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Vic Wertz's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Vic Wertz's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame. |
1971 | Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. |
1975 | The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. |
1976 | Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24. |
1978 | The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1982 | Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board. |
1986 | Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. |
1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union. |
1996 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people. |
1996 | Copernicium is discovered by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al. |
2001 | The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor. |
2016 | Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured. |
2018 | Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea. |
2020 | Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis. |
2021 | Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins. |
1987 | The birth of Michael B. Jordan, American actor |
1987 | The birth of Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete |
1989 | The birth of Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier |
1990 | The birth of Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Kyle Feldt, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Avan Jogia, Canadian actor |
1993 | The birth of Despina Papamichail, Greek tennis player |
1995 | The birth of André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Chungha, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Saquon Barkley, American football player |
1997 | The birth of Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Cem Bölükbaşı, Turkish racing driver and former sim racer |
1999 | The birth of Shonte Seale, Barbadian netball player |
2013 | The death of Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (b. 1913) |
2013 | The death of Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Gabriel Axel, Danish actor, director, and producer (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Hal Herring, American football player and coach (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1965) |
2015 | The death of Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1916) |
2016 | The death of Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian Serb military commander (b. 1948) |
2017 | The death of André Salvat, French Army colonel (b. 1920) |
2018 | The death of Reg E. Cathey, American actor of stage, film, and television (b. 1958) |
2018 | The death of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic composer (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of John Gavin, American actor and United States ambassador to Mexico (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Chick Corea, American jazz composer (b. 1941) |
2022 | The death of Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1939) |
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