American basketball player

Arike Ogunbowale

Arike Faulina Ogunbowale is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, before being drafted by the Wings with the fifth overall pick of the 2019 WNBA draft. She was the Most Outstanding Player of Notre Dame's 2018 national title run, hitting game-winning baskets in both the semi-final and championship game. Arike Ogunbowale was named WNBA All Star MVP in 2021 and 2024.

Born

1997

March 2

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1997 Born

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537 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
1331 Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege.
1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

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The world in 1997

When Arike arrived

april 1 Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
april 13 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
april 14 Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing, is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
april 29 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

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Bedřich Smetana 1824–1884 Czech pianist and composer (died 1884) Camille Desmoulins 1760–1794 French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760) Carl Schurz 1829–1906 German-American general, lawyer, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1906) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) James Purnell 1970– English politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Lou Reed 1942–2013 American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (died 2013) Marc Blitzstein 1905–1964 American pianist and composer (born 1905) Margaret Sibella Brown 1866– Canadian bryologist (died 1961) Method Man 1971– American rapper, record producer and actor

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1997

Asa Butterfield 1997– English actor Ashleigh Gardner 1997– Australian cricketer Brittany Broski 1997– American comedian and singer Cha Eun-woo 1997– South Korean singer, actor, and model Daniel Sprong 1997– Dutch ice hockey player Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer Greyson Chance 1997– American musician Holly Taylor 1997– Canadian-American actress Keira Walsh 1997– English footballer

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