American basketball player and businessman (died 2020)

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association. Bryant won five NBA championships and was an 18-time All-Star, four-time All-Star MVP, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), two-time NBA Finals MVP, and two-time scoring champion. He ranks fourth in league all-time regular season and postseason scoring.

Born

1978

August 23

Died

2020

Era

1970s

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Kobe, in brief

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Key dates

1978 Born
2020 Died

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79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
476 Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic – Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
1244 Siege of Jerusalem: The city surrenders to the Khwarazmiyya, ending Christian control of the Jerusalem for the next 672 years.
1268 The Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Prince Conradin is nearly destroyed by Charles of Anjou, ending Hohenstaufen control over the Kingdom of Sicily and leaving the Angevins in control.

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The world in 1978

When Kobe arrived

april 14 Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
april 17 Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
april 27 John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
april 27 The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 23

Andreas Floer 1956–1991 German mathematician and academic (died 1991) Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Carl Hagelin 1988– Swedish ice hockey player Edgar Lee Masters 1868–1950 American lawyer, author, poet, and playwright (died 1950) Evangelos Zappas 1800–1865 Greek patriot, philanthropist, and businessman (died 1865) Giuseppe Meazza 1910–1979 Italian footballer and manager (born 1910) Jeremy Lin 1988– American basketball player Jimi Jamison 1951– American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2014) Kim Matula 1988– American actress

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1978

Anamaria Marinca 1978– Romanian-English actress Andrew Rannells 1978– American actor and singer Ariel Pink 1978– American singer-songwriter Chad Johnson 1978– American football player Eiður Guðjohnsen 1978– Icelandic footballer Faye White 1978– English footballer Frederic Leclercq 1978– French heavy metal musician Gwendoline Christie 1978– English actress Hayley Wickenheiser 1978– Canadian ice hockey player

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