Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Wilbur Wright |
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Birthdate | April 16, 1867 |
Birth Place | Indiana |
Age (in 2024) | 157 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Inventor |
Wilbur Wright is best known as Inventor who has born on April 16, 1867 in Indiana. Currently, Wilbur Wright is 157 years, 7 months and 17 days old. Wilbur Wright will celebrate 158th birthday on Wednesday, 16th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Wilbur Wright upcoming birthday.
Co-inventor and co-pilot of the first successful airplane, which he called a "flying machine." His and his brother Orville's planes were later used in WWI and set the stage for modern aviation.
He was an athletic child and lost his two front teeth in a hockey accident.
His famous flight occurred on December 17, 1903 at a North Carolina beach.
He was the older of the two Wright Brothers. Neither he nor his brother Orville ever married.
He and his brother formed the Curtiss-Wright Corporation with Glenn Curtiss.
Wilbur Wright is 157 years old today.
Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867 in Indiana.
Wilbur Wright zodiac sign is Aries.
Wilbur Wright was best known as Inventor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Wilbur Wright's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Wilbur Wright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
1990 | "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. |
1996 | Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children. |
2001 | India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border. |
2003 | The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union. |
2003 | Michael Jordan plays his final game with the National Basketball Association. |
2007 | Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. |
2008 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. |
2012 | The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway. |
2012 | The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. |
2013 | A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. |
2013 | The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga. |
2014 | The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities. |
2016 | Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274. |
2018 | The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal. |
1986 | The birth of Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast |
1987 | The birth of Cenk Akyol, Turkish basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Aaron Lennon, English international footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kyle Okposo, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Reggie Jackson, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tony McQuay, American sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Nolan Arenado, American baseball player |
1991 | The birth of Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer |
1993 | The birth of Chance the Rapper, American rapper |
1993 | The birth of Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater |
1996 | The birth of Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress |
1996 | The birth of Taylor Townsend, American tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Sadie Sink, American actress |
2013 | The death of Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909) |
2013 | The death of Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Pedro RamÃrez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, fifth Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (b. 1939) |
2021 | The death of Helen McCrory, British actress (b. 1968) |
2021 | The death of Liam Scarlett, British choreographer (b. 1986) |
2021 | The death of John Dawes, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1940) |
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