Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Andrew Wyeth |
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Birthdate | July 12, 1917 |
Birth Place | Chadds Ford, PA |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Painter |
Andrew Wyeth is best known as Painter who has born on July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, PA. Currently, Andrew Wyeth is 107 years, 5 months and 3 days old. Andrew Wyeth will celebrate 108th birthday on Saturday, 12th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Andrew Wyeth upcoming birthday.
American realist painter whose best-known works included "Christina's World" from 1948 and "Braids" from 1979. He mainly used the people in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and around his summer home in Cushing, Maine, as his subjects.
He became a draftsman before he was able to read. However, he became famous for illustrating such books as "Treasure Island" and "The Last of the Mohicans," as well as magazines, posters, and advertisements.
He painted 247 intimate portraits of the German-born musician and caregiver, Helga Testorf.
He was a sickly child whose home education introduced him to the literary work of Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost. He married Betsy James in 1940, and the couple had a son in 1943. His second son, Jamie Wyeth, also became an artist.
His father was the renowned artist, N.C. Wyeth, and his only teacher.
Andrew Wyeth is 107 years old today.
Andrew Wyeth was born on July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, PA.
Andrew Wyeth zodiac sign is Cancer.
Andrew Wyeth was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Andrew Wyeth's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1962 | The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club. |
1963 | Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. |
1967 | Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey. |
1971 | The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time. |
1973 | A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
1975 | São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal. |
1979 | The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
1995 | Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar-China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11. |
1998 | The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers. |
2001 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station. |
2006 | The 2006 Lebanon War begins. |
2007 | U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. |
2012 | Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people. |
2012 | A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria. |
2013 | Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge. |
1989 | The birth of Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Bebé, Portuguese footballer |
1990 | The birth of Rachel Brosnahan, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer |
1991 | The birth of James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Evania Pelite, Australian rugby union player |
1995 | The birth of Luke Shaw, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast |
1996 | The birth of Moussa Dembélé, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Jordan Romero, American mountaineer |
1997 | The birth of Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate |
2000 | The birth of Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer |
2013 | The death of Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Kenneth J. Gray, American soldier and politician (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of D'Army Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and actor (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan monk and activist (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Cheng Siwei, Chinese engineer, economist, and politician (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician (b. 1958) |
2019 | The death of Emily Hartridge, English Youtuber and television presenter (b. 1984) |
2020 | The death of Kelly Preston, American actress and model (b. 1962) |
2020 | The death of Wim Suurbier, a Dutch football player, (b. 1945) |
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