English footballer and sportscaster

Gary Lineker

Gary Winston Lineker is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of England's greatest players, Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won 80 caps for England. His media career began with the BBC, where he presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day from 1999 until 2025, the longest tenure of any MOTD presenter.

Born

1960

November 30

Died

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1960s

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Key dates

1960 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

883 Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.
978 Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.
1707 Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.
1718 Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.

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The world in 1960

When Gary arrived

april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 30

Beatrice Kerr 1887– Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971) Bobby Abel 1857–1936 English cricketer (born 1857) Chris Weitz 1969– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Christophe Beck 1972– Canadian television and film score composer and conductor Clyfford Still 1904–1980 American painter and academic (born 1904) David Berkoff 1966– American swimmer Firpo Marberry 1898–1976 American baseball player and umpire (born 1898) Mark Twain 1835–1910 American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835) Paul Nuttall 1976– British politician

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1960

Aaron Allston 1960–2014 American game designer and author (died 2014) Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 1960– second son of Elizabeth II Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bernard Rose 1960–1996 English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Cem Uzan 1960– Turkish businessman and politician Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach

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