Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alberto Ginastera |
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Birthdate | April 11, 1916 |
Birth Place | Argentina |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Composer |
Alberto Ginastera is best known as Composer who has born on April 11, 1916 in Argentina. Currently, Alberto Ginastera is 108 years, 8 months and 12 days old. Alberto Ginastera will celebrate 109th birthday on Friday, 11th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Alberto Ginastera upcoming birthday.
Considered one of the great South American classical composers of the twentieth century, Ginastera wrote opera, ballet, choral, and chamber music, as well as film music and works for piano and organ. His works include Cantata para America Magica (1960), Beatrix Cenci (1971), and Danzas Argentinas (1937).
In his early twenties, he trained at a music conservatory in his native Argentina and went on to teach music at the Liceo Militar General San Martin.
Members of the English rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer adapted a portion of one of Ginastera's piano concertos into a track on their 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery.
A member of a family of Catalan and Italian heritage, he grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He later lived and worked in both the United States and Europe; he died in Switzerland in his late sixties.
During the mid-1940s, he studied with the renowned American composer Aaron Copland .
Alberto Ginastera is 108 years old today.
Alberto Ginastera was born on April 11, 1916 in Argentina.
Alberto Ginastera zodiac sign is Aries.
Alberto Ginastera was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alberto Ginastera's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1979 | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. |
1981 | A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. |
1986 | FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. |
1987 | The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. |
1990 | Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. |
1993 | Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued 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. |
2001 | The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. |
2002 | The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. |
2002 | Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo ChĂĄvez. Nineteen protesters are killed. |
2006 | Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium. |
2007 | Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. |
2011 | An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. |
2012 | A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias. |
2018 | An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257. |
2021 | Twenty year old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser. |
1984 | The birth of Nikola KarabatiÄ, French handball player |
1985 | The birth of Pablo HernĂĄndez DomĂnguez, Spanish footballer |
1985 | The birth of Will Minson, Australian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Sarodj Bertin, Haitian model and human rights lawyer |
1986 | The birth of Lena Schöneborn, German pentathlete |
1987 | The birth of Joss Stone, English singer-songwriter and actress |
1987 | The birth of Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Torrin Lawrence, American sprinter (d. 2014) |
1990 | The birth of Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer |
1990 | The birth of Thulani Serero, South African footballer |
1991 | The birth of Thiago AlcĂąntara, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Brennan Poole, American racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Dele Alli, English international footballer |
2000 | The birth of Milly Alcock, Australian actress |
2014 | The death of Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor and illustrator (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Lou Hudson, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Myer S. Kripke, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1914) |
2014 | The death of Sergey Nepobedimy, Russian engineer (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Jimmy Gunn, American football player (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of François Maspero, French journalist and author (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Hanut Singh, Indian general (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Tekena Tamuno, Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of J. Geils, American singer and guitarist (b. 1946) |
2017 | The death of Mark Wainberg, Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (b. 1945) |
2020 | The death of John Horton Conway, English mathematician (b. 1937) |
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