Russian ice hockey player

Nikita Kucherov

Nikita Igorevich Kucherov is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a right winger and alternate captain for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Regarded as one of the best players in the world, Kucherov won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer, and the Ted Lindsay Award as the best player voted by fellow NHL players in 2019. He won his second Art Ross Trophy in 2024 and his third in 2025 while also being a finalist for the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award for the second time in both years, winning the Ted Lindsay Award in 2025, and was the runner-up for the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the league's goal-scoring leader in 2017.

Born

1993

June 17

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Nikita, in brief

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Key dates

1993 Born

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653 Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
1242 Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
1300 Turku Cathedral is consecrated by Bishop Magnus I in the city of Turku (Swedish: Åbo).
1397 The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.

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The world in 1993

When Nikita arrived

april 1 NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
april 11 Four hundred fifty prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and would continue to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
april 11 Guillem Agulló, pro-Catalan independence and anti-fascist Valencian young activist, is assassinated by a group of Spanish nationalists and neo-nazis in Montanejos.
april 19 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alexander Shulgin 1925–2014 American pharmacologist and chemist (died 2014) Bartosz Brożek 1977– Polish philosopher and jurist Burt Rutan 1943– American engineer and pilot François de Montmorency 1530– French nobleman (died 1579) George Howard 1718–1796 English field marshal and politician (born 1718) Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691–1765 Italian painter and architect (died 1765) Harry Patch 1898–2009 English soldier (born 1898) Jason Hanson 1970– American football player Joe McKelvey 1898–1922 executed Irish Republican Army leader (born 1898)

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