2014 Event Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka's world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 2013 Event The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes 1993 Death Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34 1973 Birthday Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee 1963 Birthday Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 88, 92 1960 Birthday Sergey Kopylov, U.S.S.R., cyclist, 1980 Olympics gold 1956 Death Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 1955 Birthday Sergey Babinov, U.S.S.R., ice hockey star, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1953 Death Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer, dies at 61 1947 Birthday Sergey Kovalneko, U.S.S.R., basketball 1968 Olympics bronze 1947 Birthday Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut 1944 Birthday Sergey Belov, U.S.S.R., basketball player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1941 Event Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in Philadelphia 1932 Birthday Sergey Mikhaylovich Slonimsky, composer 1924 Death Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64 1920 Birthday Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace 1915 Death Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58 1891 Birthday Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, born in Ukraine, composer, Peter and the Wolf 1872 Birthday Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer 1859 Birthday Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer 1791 Birthday Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist, Chronicles of a Russian Family
