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Sports Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Age for January 16

Last Updated 01-01-2024

🏆🏁A. J. Foyt -- is 89 in the year 2024 and 90 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1935
Hall of Famer, Auto Racer
Names/Places: b. in Houston; FN:Anthony Joseph
Misc: 7-time USAC/CART national champion (1960-61,63-64,67,75,79); 4-time Indy 500 winner (1961,64,67,77); only driver in history to win Indy 500, Daytona 500 (1972) and 24 Hours of LeMans (1967 with Dan Gurney); retired in 1993 as all-time IndyCar wins leader with 67.

🏆🎾Christine James -- is 83 in the year 2024 and 84 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1941
Tennis Player, English
Names/Places: RN: Christine Truman James, aka Christine Truman

🎭🏆Sharon Cintron -- is 79 in the year 2024 and 80 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1945
Actress, Model, Playmate
Misc: May 1963

🏆🎱Cliff Thorburn -- is 76 in the year 2024 and 77 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1948
Snooker Player, Canadian
Misc: champion snooker player

🎭🎵🏆Caroline Munro -- is 74 in the year 2024 and 75 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1950
Actress, Singer, Model, English
Movie Titles: The Spy Who Loved Me, Maniac, Slaughter High, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

🏆🏈Bo Harris -- is 71 in the year 2024 and 72 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1953
NFL Linebacker
Misc: Super Bowl XVI
Sports Teams: Cincinnati Bengals

🏆🏀Gerald Henderson -- is 68 in the year 2024 and 69 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1956
NBA Player

🏆🏈Kevin Ross -- is 62 in the year 2024 and 63 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1962
NFL Safety, NFL Cornerback
Names/Places: NN:Rock
Misc: 2x Pro Bowl

🏆🏈Mark Collins -- is 60 in the year 2024 and 61 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1964
NFL Cornerback
Misc: 2x Super Bowl champ

🎵🎸🏆⚾Jack Burns McDowell -- is 58 in the year 2024 and 59 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1966
Rock and Roll Guitarist, MLB Pitcher
Misc: 2-time 20-game winner (1992-93) and 1993 AL Cy Young award winner with Chicago White Sox; won championship game for Stanford in 1987 College World Series
Sports Teams: Chicago White Sox
Group Names: Magenta (member of the progressive rock group, formerly V.I.E.W.)

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🏆🏒Stephen Leach -- is 58 in the year 2024 and 59 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1966
NHL Coach, NHL Player

🏆🥊Roy Jones Jr. -- is 55 in the year 2024 and 56 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1969
Hall of Famer, Sports Commentator, Boxer, Olympic Athlete
Misc: Light-MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1988)

🏆🏀Don MacLean -- is 54 in the year 2024 and 55 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1970
NBA Forward

🏆⚾Ron Villone -- is 54 in the year 2024 and 55 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1970
MLB Pitcher

🏆🎾Sergei Bruguera -- is 53 in the year 2024 and 54 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1971
Tennis Player, Spanish
Misc: winner of back-to-back French Opens in 1993 and '94.

🏆🏈Joe Horn -- is 52 in the year 2024 and 53 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1972
NFL Wide Receiver, College Football Player
Misc: 4x Pro Bowl; in the Saints Hall of Fame

🏆🏈Mario Bates -- is 51 in the year 2024 and 52 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1973
NFL Runningback

🏆Kate Moss -- is 50 in the year 2024 and 51 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1974 N.S.
Model, English
Misc: Calvin Klein; she turned sideways and vanished!

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🏆⚾Albert Pujols -- is 44 in the year 2024 and 45 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1980
MLB First Baseman, Dominican Republican
Misc: NL LCS MVP 2004; NL MVP 2005, 2008, 2009; 10x All-Star, 2x World Series champ, 3x NL MVP, 2x NL home run leader, 6x Silver Slugger, 2x Gold Glove, 500 home run club; active as of 2015; news suggest that he might have been born in 1977 or 1978.
Sports Teams: St. Louis Cardinals (2001-2011), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheum (2012-)

🏆🏈Joe Flacco -- is 39 in the year 2024 and 40 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1985 N.S.
NFL Quarterback
Names/Places: NN: Joe Cool
Misc: Super Bowl XLVII MVP
Sports Teams: Baltimore Ravens

🏆⚽Pablo Zabaleta -- is 39 in the year 2024 and 40 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1985 N.S.
Soccer Player, Argentine

🏆⚽Nicklas Bendtner -- is 36 in the year 2024 and 37 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1988 N.S.
Soccer Player, Danish (Denmark)

🏆🏒Matt Duchene -- is 33 in the year 2024 and 34 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1991 N.S.
NHL Center, Canadian

🏆Joy Elizabeth Corrigan -- is 29 in the year 2024 and 30 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1995 N.S.
Model, Playmate, American
Misc: February 2017 Playmate

🏆Anastasia Grishina -- is 28 in the year 2024 and 29 in the year 2025; b.1/16/1996 N.S.
Gymnast, Olympic Athlete, Russian

🏆⚾Jimmy Collins -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1873 N.S. d.3/6/1943 N.S. (70)
Hall of Famer, MLB Manager, MLB First Baseman
Sports Teams: Boston Beaneaters (1895), Louisville Colonels (1895), Boston Beaneaters (1896-1900), Boston Americans (player 1901-1907, manager 1902-1906), Philadelphia Athletics (1907-1908)

🏆⚾Marvin Goodwin -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1891 d.10/18/1925 (34)
MLB Pitcher

🏆🏈Guy Chamberlain -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1894 d.4/4/1967 (73)
Hall of Famer, NFL Coach, NFL Tight End, College Football Coach
Misc: 5x NFL champion
Sports Teams: Canton Bulldogs (player 1919, player 1922-1923, coach 1922-1923), Cleveland Bulldogs (player 1924, coach 1924), Frankford Yellow Jackets (player 1925-1926, coach 1925-1926), Chicago Cardinals (player 1927-1928, coach 1927), Decatur Staleys (player 1920), Chicago Staleys (player 1921), Millville Big Blue (player 1925), Haven-Villa of Winter Haven (player 1926)

🏆🎳Joseph Bodis -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1897 d.4/26/1970 (73)
Hall of Famer, Bowler

⚛🏆🏒Frank Zamboni -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1901 d.7/27/1988 (87)
Hall of Famer, Inventor (m), Hockey Figure
Names/Places: RN:Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr.
Misc: Inventor of the modern ice resurfacer with his surname, which is a registered trademark for those resurfacers.

⛪🏆🏁🏃Eric Liddell -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1902 N.S. d.2/21/1945 N.S. (43)
Missionary, Runner, Olympic Athlete, Chinese, English
Misc: 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1924)

🏆⚾"Dizzy" Dean -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1911 d.7/17/1974 (63)
Hall of Famer, Baseball Announcer, MLB Pitcher
Names/Places: b. in Lukas, AR; RFN:Jerome Jan Hannah
Misc: 4x All-Star, 4x MLB strikeout leader, 2x MLB wins leader, NL MVP 1934; St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang" colorful pitcher; Dean won 163 games and lost 101. His lifetime ERA was 3.03. He once struck out 17 batters in a single game, then a record, but since bettered (Roger Clemens fanned 20); mentioned in "Who's On First?"; Cardinals #17 retired and in Cardinals Hall of Fame
Sports Teams: St. Louis Cardinals (1930, 1932-1937), Chicago Cubs (1938-1941), St. Louis Browns (1947)

🏆🏁🏃William "Bill" Ernest Lucas -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1917 N.S. d.3/24/2018 N.S. (101)
Runner, Olympic Athlete, English

🏆Martin Stokken -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1923 d.3/25/1984 (61)
Olympic Athlete, Track and Field, Norweigan
Misc: nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952)

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🏆🏒Lou Angotti -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1938 N.S. d.9/15/2021 N.S. (83)
NHL Right Wing, Canadian

🏆🏈Chuck Crist -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1951 N.S. d.10/28/2020 N.S. (69)
NFL Safety

🏆🏈David Brown -- Birth Anniversary -- b.1/16/1953 d.1/10/2006 N.S. (52)
NFL Coach, NFL Safety
Misc: Super Bowl X
Sports Teams: Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers

🏆🎳Adolph Carlson -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/23/1897 d.1/16/1967 (69)
Hall of Famer, Bowler

🏆🏒Gordon Blanchard Keats -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/21/1895 d.1/16/1972 (76)
Hall of Famer, NHL Center, Canadian
Names/Places: NN:Duke, Iron Duke
Misc: played 1915-1934
Sports Teams: Toronto Blueshirts, Edmonton Eskimos, Boston Bruins, Detroit Cougars, Chicago Black Hawks

📰🏆Ray Barrett -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/1/1907 d.1/16/1973 (65)
Commentator, Sportscaster
TV Shows: Gillette Summer Sports Reel

🏆🎳Alfred "Lindy" Faragalli -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/12/1911 d.1/16/1997 (85)
Hall of Famer, Bowler

🏆⚾By Saam -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/11/1914 N.S. d.1/16/2000 N.S. (85)
Baseball Announcer
Misc: Ford C. Frick Award winner in 1990
Sports Teams: Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics

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🏆🥊Carl "Bobo" Olson -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/11/1928 d.1/16/2002 (73)
Hall of Famer, Boxer

🏆⚽John "Frenchy" Boulos -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/7/1921 N.S. d.1/16/2002 N.S. (80)
Hall of Famer, Soccer Player, Haitian

🏆🏁Benjamin Stewart "Benny" Parsons -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/12/1941 N.S. d.1/16/2007 N.S. (65)
Hall of Famer, Sports Commentator, Auto Racer
Misc: an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) champion; in the NASCAR Hall of Fame

🏆🏈Ted Marchibroda -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/15/1931 N.S. d.1/16/2016 N.S. (84)
NFL Coach

🏆🏀Jo Jo White -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/16/1946 d.1/16/2018 N.S. (71)
Hall of Famer, NBA Guard
Misc: 7x NBA All-Star; Celtics #10 retired
Sports Teams: Boston Celtics (1969-1979), Golden State Warriors (1979-1980), Kansas City Kings (1980-1981)

🏆🏌Jimmy (Golf) Powell -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/17/1935 N.S. d.1/16/2021 N.S. (85)
Golfer

🏆🏈Jon Dwayne "Jaguar Jon" Arnett -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/20/1935 N.S. d.1/16/2021 N.S. (85)
Hall of Famer, NFL Player, College Football Player
Misc: 5x Pro Bowl; in the College Football Hall of Fame
Sports Teams: USC, Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Bears

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