American basketball player

Kevin Durant

Kevin Wayne Durant, also known by his initials KD, is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "the Slim Reaper", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and one of the greatest scorers of all time. Durant has won two NBA championships, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, two NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, two NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Awards, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and is the only male basketball player to win four Olympic gold medals. He has been named to 11 All-NBA teams and selected 16 times as an NBA All-Star.

Born

1988

September 29

Died

Living

Era

1980s

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Kevin, in brief

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Key dates

1988 Born

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-61 Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1011 Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.
1267 The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.

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The world in 1988

When Kevin arrived

april 10 The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
april 14 The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
april 14 In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
april 18 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 29

Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Clarence Ashley 1895– American singer, guitarist, and banjo player (died 1967) Eddie Tolan 1908–1967 American sprinter and educator (born 1908) Enrico Fermi 1901–1954 Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901) Greer Garson 1904–1996 English-American actress (born 1904) Guadalupe Victoria 1786–1843 Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (born 1786) Jim Baxter 1939–2001 Scottish footballer (born 1939) Lizabeth Scott 1922–2015 American actress (born 1922) Ludwig von Mises 1881–1973 Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (born 1881)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1988

Rihanna 1988– Barbados actor Aroldis Chapman 1988– Cuban baseball player Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player Ashleigh Murray 1988– American actress and singer Ashton Eaton 1988– American decathlete Benedikt Höwedes 1988– German footballer Brad Sinopoli 1988– Canadian football player Carl Hagelin 1988– Swedish ice hockey player Chris Ivory 1988– American football player

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