Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Wilma Rudolph |
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Birthdate | June 23, 1940 |
Birth Place | Saint Bethlehem, TN |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Runner |
Wilma Rudolph is best known as Runner who has born on June 23, 1940 in Saint Bethlehem, TN. Currently, Wilma Rudolph is 84 years, 5 months and 0 days old. Wilma Rudolph will celebrate 85th birthday on Monday, 23rd of June 2025. Below the countdown to Wilma Rudolph upcoming birthday.
American athlete who won three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning the 100m, 200m, and 4 x 100m relay, becoming the first American woman to take home three gold medals in track and field at a single Games.
She wore braces on her legs until she was nine due to complications from infantile paralysis. She played basketball in high school and first competed in the Olympics in 1956.
She was named the AP's Woman Athlete of the Year in 1960 and 1961 and is a member of the US Olympic Hall of Fame. She later worked as a teacher.
She had four children with Robert Eldridge.
She competed in the 1960 Olympics with Muhammad Ali.
Wilma Rudolph is 84 years old today.
Wilma Rudolph was born on June 23, 1940 in Saint Bethlehem, TN.
Wilma Rudolph zodiac sign is Cancer.
Wilma Rudolph was best known as Runner.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Wilma Rudolph's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Wilma Rudolph's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
1972 | Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds. |
1973 | A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. |
1985 | A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard. |
1991 | Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise. |
1994 | NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center. |
2001 | The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured. |
2012 | Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials. |
2013 | Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. |
2013 | Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide. |
2014 | The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. |
2016 | The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%. |
2017 | A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. |
2018 | Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation. |
1988 | The birth of Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Lisa Carrington, New Zealand flatwater canoeist |
1989 | The birth of Jordan Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Clevid Dikamona, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Vasek Pospisil, Canadian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Laura RÃ fols, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Katie Armiger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1992 | The birth of Luiza Galiulina, Uzbekistani gymnast |
1992 | The birth of Nampalys Mendy, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Tim Anderson, American baseball player |
1993 | The birth of Marvin Grumann, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Ben Dwarshuis, Australian cricketer |
2000 | The birth of Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player |
2007 | The birth of Elliana Walmsley, American dancer |
2008 | The birth of Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber |
2013 | The death of Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Nancy Garden, American author (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (b. 1942) |
2014 | The death of Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Miguel Facussé Barjum, Honduran businessman (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Nirmala Joshi, Indian nun, lawyer, and social worker (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (b. 1927) |
2021 | The death of John McAfee, British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee (b. 1945) |
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