American basketball player and coach

Gregg Popovich

Gregg Charles Popovich is an American professional basketball executive and former coach who is the president for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the head coach of the Spurs for 29 seasons from 1996 to 2025, during which he won five NBA championships, and was the longest-tenured active coach in the NBA as well as all other major sports leagues in the United States. He has been a member of the Spurs organization since 1994, originally as president of basketball operations and general manager, before taking over as coach in 1996. Nicknamed "Coach Pop", Popovich has the most wins of any coach in NBA history, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Born

1949

January 28

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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Gregg, in brief

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Key dates

1949 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

98 On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
814 The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.
1069 Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North.
1077 Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.

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The world in 1949

When Gregg arrived

april 1 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
april 1 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
april 18 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.
april 20 Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on January 28

Charles George Gordon 1833–1885 English general and politician (born 1833) George Hamilton-Gordon 1784–1860 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784) Giovanni Alfonso Borelli 1608–1679 Italian physiologist and physicist (born 1608) Henry VII 1457–1313 Holy Roman Emperor (born 1275) Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 American painter (born 1912) Johan van Hulst 1911–2018 Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (died 2018) José Martí 1853–1895 Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (died 1895) Kathleen Lonsdale 1903–1971 Irish crystallographer and prison reformer (born 1903) Mark Madsen 1976– American basketball player and coach

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1949

Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Anna Wintour 1949– English-American journalist Beth Grant 1949– American actress Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist Carlos the Jackal 1949– Venezuelan terrorist David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949)

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