Updated at December 25, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Wim Hof |
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Birthdate | April 20, 1959 |
Birth Place | Netherlands |
Age (in 2024) | 65 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Daredevil |
Wim Hof is best known as Daredevil who has born on April 20, 1959 in Netherlands. Currently, Wim Hof is 65 years, 8 months and 5 days old. Wim Hof will celebrate 66th birthday on Sunday, 20th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Wim Hof upcoming birthday.
Known for his 2011 book Becoming the Iceman (co-written with Justin Rosales), this Dutch daredevil rose to fame for his unique ability to survive sub-zero conditions through what both he and a 2011 scientific study claimed to be mental regulation of his body's internal temperature.
In 2008, he set a Guinness World Record by covering his body with ice for one hour and nearly fourteen minutes. Three years later, he broke his own record, remaining in a vat of ice for one hour and almost fifty-three minutes.
He completed a marathon in negative four-degree (Fahrenheit) weather and climbed both Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts. An entrepreneur as well as an adventurer, he founded an organization called Innerfire for the purpose of teaching others his mind-over-body physical regulation techniques.
He and his eight siblings grew up in Sittard, Netherlands. His two marriages produced a total of five children.
He was featured on a 2012 episode of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and was determined by the investigation of Lanisha Cole and other cast members to be anything but fake.
Wim Hof is 65 years old today.
Wim Hof was born on April 20, 1959 in Netherlands.
Wim Hof zodiac sign is Taurus.
Wim Hof was best known as Daredevil.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Wim Hof's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1946 | The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations. |
1961 | Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. |
1968 | English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
1968 | South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people. |
1972 | Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon. |
1998 | Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board. |
1999 | Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. |
2007 | Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. |
2008 | Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. |
2010 | The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. |
2012 | One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan. |
2013 | A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. |
2015 | Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland. |
2020 | For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero. |
2021 | State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota. |
1961 | The birth of Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor |
1963 | The birth of Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor |
1964 | The birth of John Carney, American football player |
1964 | The birth of Andy Serkis, English actor and director |
1964 | The birth of Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater |
1965 | The birth of Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek politician, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism |
1965 | The birth of Léa Fazer, Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress |
1966 | The birth of David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic |
1966 | The birth of David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo! |
1967 | The birth of Mike Portnoy, American drummer and songwriter |
1968 | The birth of Julia Morris, Australian entertainer |
1969 | The birth of Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania |
1970 | The birth of Shemar Moore, American actor |
1972 | The birth of Carmen Electra, American model and actress |
1973 | The birth of Julie Powell, American food writer and memoirist (d. 2022) |
2003 | The death of Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
2004 | The death of Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956) |
2005 | The death of Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904) |
2007 | The death of Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931) |
2007 | The death of Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931) |
2008 | The death of Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912) |
2011 | The death of Tim Hetherington, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970) |
2012 | The death of Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (b. 1953) |
2018 | The death of Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (b. 1989) |
2021 | The death of Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Monte Hellman, American film director (b.1929) |
2021 | The death of Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (b. 1955) |
2022 | The death of Gavin Millar, Scottish film director (b. 1938) |
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