Updated at December 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Wendell Scott |
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Birthdate | August 29, 1921 |
Birth Place | Virginia |
Age (in 2024) | 103 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Race Car Driver |
Wendell Scott is best known as Race Car Driver who has born on August 29, 1921 in Virginia. Currently, Wendell Scott is 103 years, 3 months and 23 days old. Wendell Scott will celebrate 104th birthday on Friday, 29th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Wendell Scott upcoming birthday.
Stock car driver who broke down racial barriers by becoming the first black NASCAR driver. He is also the first black driver to win the Sprint Cup Series and is a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame class of 2015.
He served in the U.S. Army in World War II before running an auto-repair shop.
His life was the inspiration for the 1977 Richard Pryor film Greased Lightning.
He was survived by his wife Mary and children Franklin, Sybil, Wendell Jr., Michael, Willie Ann, Deborah, and Cheryl.
He paved the way for future black NASCAR drivers like Bill Lester.
Wendell Scott is 103 years old today.
Wendell Scott was born on August 29, 1921 in Virginia.
Wendell Scott zodiac sign is Virgo.
Wendell Scott was best known as Race Car Driver.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Wendell Scott's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Wendell Scott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President. |
1982 | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
1987 | Odaeyang mass suicide: 33 individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact. |
1991 | Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
1991 | Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. |
1996 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
1997 | Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service. |
1997 | At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
1998 | Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. |
2001 | Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport. |
2003 | Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
2005 | Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125Â billion in damage. |
2012 | At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. |
2012 | The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson. |
1982 | The birth of Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013) |
1982 | The birth of Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player |
1982 | The birth of Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer |
1983 | The birth of Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator |
1986 | The birth of Lea Michele, American actress and singer |
1987 | The birth of Tony Kane, Irish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer |
1990 | The birth of Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer |
1991 | The birth of Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer |
1991 | The birth of Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter |
1994 | The birth of Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player |
2012 | The death of Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932) |
2012 | The death of Anne McKnight, American soprano (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925) |
2012 | The death of Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969) |
2013 | The death of Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975) |
2014 | The death of Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933) |
2018 | The death of James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Paul Taylor, American choreographer (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of Ed Asner, American actor (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of Jacques Rogge, Olympic sailor and Orthopedic Surgeon who served as the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1942) |
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