Belgian sports administrator

Ingmar De Vos

Ingmar De Vos is a Belgian professional sports manager serving as the thirteenth and current President of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and currently serves as President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). Educated in sports management, business administration and international law, he began his career in mainstream politics before working for the Belgian Equestrian Federation and supported that nation's equestrian teams at the Olympics and the FEI World Equestrian Games. He was one of the founders of the European Equestrian Federation and became secretary-general of the FEI in 2011 prior to being elected President of the organisation in 2014.

Born

1963

August 5

Died

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1960s

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1963 Born

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25 Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
70 Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
642 Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
910 The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.

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The world in 1963

When Ingmar arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Antonio Barberini 1607– Italian cardinal (died 1671) Claude Autant-Lara 1901–2000 French director, screenwriter, and politician (died 2000) Deodoro da Fonseca 1827–1892 Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (born 1827) Edmund of Woodstock 1301–1330 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1330) Harold Holt 1908–1967 Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1967) Harry Trott 1866–1917 Australian cricketer (died 1917) Ilya Repin 1844–1930 Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930) Kendo Kashin 1968– Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

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Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer Andrea Leadsom 1963– English politician Anne-Sophie Mutter 1963– German violinist Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Brian Robbins 1963– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Conan O'Brien 1963– American television host, comedian, and writer

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