American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales is an American internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café.

Born

1966

August 7

Died

Living

Era

1960s

Country

United States

About

Jimmy, in brief

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Life timeline

Key dates

1966 Born

Also on August 7

What else happened on this day, through history

461 Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
768 Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

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The world in 1966

When Jimmy arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 7

David Duchovny 1960– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Elizabeth Báthory 1560–1614 Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (born 1560) Henri Le Sidaner 1862– French painter (died 1939) James Randi 1928–2020 Canadian-American stage magician and author (died 2020) Louis Leakey 1903–1972 Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972) Ralph Bunche 1904–1971 American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) Walid Jumblatt 1949– Lebanese journalist and politician

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1966

Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Charles Hazlewood 1966– English conductor Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Danny Manning 1966– American basketball player and coach

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