Updated at December 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Viswanathan Anand |
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Birthdate | December 11, 1969 |
Birth Place | Mayiladuthurai, India |
Age (in 2024) | 55 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Chess Player |
Viswanathan Anand is best known as Chess Player who has born on December 11, 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, India. Currently, Viswanathan Anand is 55 years, 0 months and 6 days old. Viswanathan Anand will celebrate 56th birthday on Thursday, 11th of December 2025. Below the countdown to Viswanathan Anand upcoming birthday.
Indian Chess Grandmaster who notably won five World Chess Championships between 2000 and 2012.
He started playing chess at age 6, after being taught by his mother.
He has won many of India's highest civilian and sports honors, including the Padma Vibhushan and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
He has two older siblings, his sister, Anuradha, and a brother, Shivakumar. He married Aruna Anand in 1996. He and Aruna have a son named Akhil.
He attended a presidential dinner hosted by Manmohan Singh in 2010.
Viswanathan Anand is 55 years old today.
Viswanathan Anand was born on December 11, 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, India.
Viswanathan Anand zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Viswanathan Anand was best known as Chess Player.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Viswanathan Anand's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Viswanathan Anand's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1997 | The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature. |
1998 | Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation. |
1999 | SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35. |
2001 | China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
2005 | The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. |
2005 | Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla. |
2006 | The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern. |
2006 | Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War. |
2007 | Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations. |
2008 | Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. |
2009 | Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS. |
2012 | At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria. |
2017 | New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square-42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. |
2019 | The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence. |
2020 | The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. |
1984 | The birth of James Ellsworth, American wrestler |
1985 | The birth of Karla Souza, Mexican actress |
1986 | The birth of Roy Hibbert, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Clifton Geathers, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Alex Russell, Australian actor |
1987 | The birth of Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress |
1988 | The birth of Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer |
1990 | The birth of Derrick Nix, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Dalton Pompey, Canadian baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress |
1995 | The birth of Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Emily Whitehead, artistic gymnast |
2012 | The death of Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933) |
2012 | The death of Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Javier Jáuregui (boxer), Mexican boxer (b. 1973) |
2013 | The death of Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Hans Wallat, German conductor and director (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972) |
2015 | The death of John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (b. 1962) |
2015 | The death of Ken Woolley, Australian architect (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (b. 1957) |
2020 | The death of James Flynn, New Zealand intelligence researcher. (b. 1934) |
2021 | The death of Anne Rice, American author (b. 1941) |
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