Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Vincent Matthews |
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Birthdate | December 16, 1947 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 76 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Runner |
Vincent Matthews is best known as Runner who has born on December 16, 1947 in New York. Currently, Vincent Matthews is 76 years, 11 months and 29 days old. Vincent Matthews will celebrate 77th birthday on Monday, 16th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Vincent Matthews upcoming birthday.
Former Olympic sprinter who won gold medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. He also won the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in the 4x400m relay.
He competed in the 1967 AAU Championships, where his rivalry with fellow sprinter Lee Evans was stoked.
He was famously suspended following the medal acceptance ceremony at the 1972 Olympics for talking to Wayne Collett during the U.S. national anthem, an act which was seen by many as a protest.
He has been married.
He and Jeremy Wariner are both Olympic champions in the men's 400m event.
Vincent Matthews is 76 years old today.
Vincent Matthews was born on December 16, 1947 in New York.
Vincent Matthews zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Vincent Matthews was best known as Runner.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Vincent Matthews's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Vincent Matthews's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1883 | Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. |
1905 | In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park. |
1912 | First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. |
1914 | World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. |
1920 | The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. |
1942 | The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. |
1944 | World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. |
1960 | A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground. |
1968 | Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain. |
1971 | Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. |
1971 | The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day. |
1989 | Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés. |
2013 | A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. |
2014 | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren. |
2022 | A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31. |
1986 | The birth of Pärt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer, and conductor. |
1987 | The birth of Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer |
1987 | The birth of Beau Dowler, Australian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Hallee Hirsh, American actress |
1988 | The birth of Mats Hummels, German footballer |
1990 | The birth of Rebecca Marino, Canadian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Craig Goodwin, Australian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ulrikke Eikeri, Norwegian tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Tom Rogic, Australian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Elliot Lee, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nicola Murru, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of José RodrÃguez MartÃnez, Spanish footballer |
1998 | The birth of Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player |
2010 | The death of Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Ayinde Barrister, Nigerian fuji musician (b. 1948) |
2011 | The death of Robert Easton, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
2011 | The death of Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (b. 1938) |
2012 | The death of Elwood V. Jensen, American biologist and academic (b. 1920) |
2012 | The death of Jake Adam York, American poet and academic (b. 1972) |
2013 | The death of James Flint, English commander (b. 1913) |
2013 | The death of Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Marta Russell, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Martin Brasier, English paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (b. 1955) |
2015 | The death of Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of George Earl Ortman, American painter and sculptor (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of Keely Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1928) |
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