Person in history
Ignas Brazdeikis
Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player
Life at a glance
- Born
- 1999 · January 8
- Age this year
- 27No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- basketball player. Citizenship: Canada, Lithuania
- Born
- 27th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Ignas "Iggy" Brazdeikis is a Lithuanian-Canadian professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Liga ACB and Basketball Champions League (BCL). He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines. As a freshman, he was a 2019 second-team All-Big Ten selection, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and a Big Ten All-Freshman honoree. Brazdeikis was selected with the 47th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings, and was then traded to the New York Knicks.
Early life
Educated at: University of Michigan and Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School.
Early life Brazdeikis was born in Kaunas , Lithuania, to Diana and Sigitas "Sigis" Brazdeikis. He has an older sister, Ema. His second aunt, Lina Brazdeikytė, is a former professional basketball player who won the EuroBasket Women 1997 with the Lithuania women's national team . [ 1 ] His family emigrated to Chicago before moving to Winnipeg and Etobicoke (where he started to play basketball at the age of six) before settling in Oakville, Ontario . [ 2 ] Nevertheless,
Why this date
Ignas Brazdeikis appears on our January 8 calendar for 1999 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 1999.
- September 9Singapore Portrait Series currency notes
- December 3Worcester, Massachusetts
- January 17Little Saigon, Orange County
- October 22Maurice Papon
- July 91999 Iranian student protests
Born the same day
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- 1999Tom Hartley (cricketer)May 3
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Sources
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“Ignas Brazdeikis”, What's On This Date, https://whatsonthisdate.com/app/people/ignas-brazdeikis, accessed October 26, 2026.
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Questions about Ignas Brazdeikis
When was Ignas Brazdeikis born?
January 8 1999.
How old would Ignas Brazdeikis be today?
27 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on January 8?
Greg Smith (basketball, born 1991), Aaron Cruden, Adrián López and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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