Canadian ice hockey player

Brent Burns

Brent Burns is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted as a right wing at the 2003 NHL entry draft by the Minnesota Wild, he was converted into a defenceman upon turning professional. Burns is known as a dynamic offensive player, and though he mostly plays defence, he has been utilized as a forward on several occasions during his career. Burns is also known for his iron man streak; during the 2025–26 season, he became the second player in NHL history to play 1,000 consecutive games.

Born

1985

March 9

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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Key dates

1985 Born

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-141 Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1044 The people of Constantinople riot against emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, whose preference of his mistress Maria Skleraina over empress Zoe Porphyrogenita is seen as an insult.
1226 Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

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The world in 1985

When Brent arrived

april 12 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
april 19 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
april 20 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
april 21 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 9

Bryan Bickell 1986– Canadian ice hockey player Clint Dempsey 1983– American soccer player Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player Jackie Jensen 1927– American baseball player (died 1982) Josef Mysliveček 1737–1781 Czech composer (born 1737) Samuel Barber 1910–1981 American pianist and composer (born 1910) Suga 1993– South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer YG 1990– American rapper Yuri Gagarin 1934–1968 Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1934)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1985

Acie Law 1985– American basketball player Alison Pill 1985– Canadian actress Beth Tweddle 1985– English gymnast Chad Henne 1985– American football player Cristiano Ronaldo 1985– Portuguese footballer David Hart Smith 1985– Canadian wrestler Deborah Ann Woll 1985– American actress Ibragim Todashev 1985– Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013) Inge Dekker 1985– Dutch swimmer

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