Canadian ice hockey player

Aaron Ekblad

Aaron Ekblad is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ekblad was selected first overall in the 2011 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft, and he was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2014 NHL entry draft and made his NHL debut that year. In his first NHL season, Ekblad was selected for the 2015 NHL All-Star Game and earned the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie in the 2014–15. Ekblad won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships with the Panthers in 2024 and 2025.

Born

1996

February 7

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Aaron, in brief

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Key dates

1996 Born

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457 Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
987 Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
1285 A synod at Blachernae convened by anti-Unionist Greek clergy condemns the former pro-Unionist patriarch John XI of Constantinople.
1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

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The world in 1996

When Aaron arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alexandre Daigle 1975– Canadian ice hockey player Alfred Adler 1870–1937 Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist (died 1937) Deborah Ann Woll 1985– American actress Empress Anna of Russia (died 1740) 1693– Erkki Melartin 1875–1937 Finnish composer (born 1875) Eubie Blake 1887–1983 American pianist and composer (born 1887) Frank Hyde 1916– Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2007) Juwan Howard 1973– American basketball player and coach Matthew Stafford 1988– American football player

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Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player Napheesa Collier 1996– American basketball player

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