Venezuelan baseball player

Jose Altuve

Jose Carlos Altuve is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). Having played for the Astros since 2011, he is the longest-tenured current member of the team, and the only one to have been with the Astros since they were in the National League. Altuve is widely regarded as one of the greatest Astros in franchise history, and one of the best second basemen of all time. On the international stage, he has represented the Venezuelan national team in the 2017 and 2023 World Baseball Classics (WBC).

Born

1990

May 6

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Key dates

1990 Born

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1541 King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.

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The world in 1990

When Jose arrived

april 11 Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
april 12 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
april 12 Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.
april 23 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bob Seger 1945– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Dimitris Diamantidis 1980– Greek professional basketball player Dora Bakoyannis 1954– Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer Hermann Raster 1827–1891 German-American journalist and politician (born 1827) Karl Christian Friedrich Krause 1781–1832 German philosopher and author (died 1832) Martin Brodeur 1972– Canadian ice hockey player Milton William Cooper 1943–2001 American conspiracy theorist and author (died 2001) Rudolph Valentino 1895–1926 Italian actor (born 1895)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Adam Thielen 1990– American football player Asha Philip 1990– British athlete Brock Osweiler 1990– American football player Choi Woo-shik 1990– South Korean actor Chris Colfer 1990– American actor and singer Geno Smith 1990– American football player Haruma Miura 1990– Japanese actor and singer (died 2020) Im Yoon-ah 1990– South Korean singer and actress Jae Crowder 1990– American basketball player

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