Home / Birthday profiles / Charles Oliveira
Portrait of Charles Oliveira

Birthday profile

Charles Oliveira

Charles Oliveira, Brazilian mixed martial artist

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
October 17, 1989
Age in 2026
37
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1989

About Charles Oliveira

Charles Oliveira da Silva is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and fourth degree black belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner. Oliveira currently competes in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former UFC Lightweight Champion and current symbolic UFC "BMF" titleholder. As of January 27, 2026, he is #3 in the UFC lightweight rankings, and as of March 17, 2026, he is #11 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings. In 2004 Oliveira won the São Paulo championship a second time, the Copa Nação Jiu-Jitsu in 2005 and in 2006 won a total of 16 medals. In 2007, as a blue belt he became two-time CBJJE World Champion, winning silver the following year as a purple belt, and becoming 2008 CBJJE South American Champion. He was awarded his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Ericson Cardoso and Jorge "Macaco" Patino in 2010.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Charles Oliveira timeline

  1. In 2004 Oliveira won the São Paulo championship a second time, the Copa Nação Jiu-Jitsu in 2005 and in 2006 won a total of 16 medals.
  2. In 2007, as a blue belt he became two-time CBJJE World Champion, winning silver the following year as a purple belt, and becoming 2008 CBJJE South American Champion.
  3. He was awarded his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Ericson Cardoso and Jorge "Macaco" Patino in 2010.

The world when Charles Oliveira was born

Charles Oliveira was born in 1989. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1989

  • #1 song"Look Away" – Chicago
  • Top movieDriving Miss Daisy
  • Top TV showRoseanne
  • Best-selling bookThe Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentSan Francisco earthquake interrupts the World Series
  • Top headlineFall of the Berlin Wall signals end of the Cold War
  • Technology milestoneWorld Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
  • Defining fadGame Boy
  • Notable inventionGame Boy
  • World population5.19 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGeorge H.W. Bush
  • Sports championOakland Athletics (World Series)
  • Also wonDetroit Pistons (NBA)
  • U.S. population246.8M

1989 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Charles Oliveira's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19892026
Gas$1.02$3.45/gal
Average home$93,100$435,000
Average income$34,213$67,500
Minimum wage$3.35$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$3.97$11.95
Postage stamp$0.25$0.73
Population246.8M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, UFC. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.