Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Astor Piazzolla |
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Birthdate | March 11, 1921 |
Birth Place | Argentina |
Age (in 2024) | 103 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Composer |
Astor Piazzolla is best known as Composer who has born on March 11, 1921 in Argentina. Currently, Astor Piazzolla is 103 years, 8 months and 10 days old. Astor Piazzolla will celebrate 104th birthday on Tuesday, 11th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Astor Piazzolla upcoming birthday.
Remembered best for pioneering the classical and jazz-influenced Argentine nuevo tango music genre, Piazzolla is regarded as one of the world's most significant tango composers and bandoneon players.
He composed his debut tango when he was just eleven years old. Four years later, he made his professional debut with an orchestra in his native Mar del Plata, Argentina.
While living in Buenos Aires during the 1940s, he started a tango music group called the Orquesta Tipica.
Born in Argentina to Italian parents Asunta Manetti and Vicente Piazzolla, he spent the majority of his formative years in New York City, U.S.A. His first marriage, to Dede Wolff, resulted in children named Daniel and Diana.
He and jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan collaborated on a 1974 album titled Summit.
Astor Piazzolla is 103 years old today.
Astor Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Argentina.
Astor Piazzolla zodiac sign is Pisces.
Astor Piazzolla was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Astor Piazzolla's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1978 | Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani. |
1981 | Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement. |
1982 | Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway. |
1983 | Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia. |
1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state. |
1990 | Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union. |
1990 | Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970. |
2004 | Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people. |
2006 | Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile. |
2009 | Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany. |
2010 | Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile. Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquake hit central Chile during the ceremony. |
2011 | An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130Â km (81Â mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. |
2012 | A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. |
2020 | The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic. |
2021 | US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. |
1985 | The birth of Cassandra Fairbanks, American journalist and activist |
1985 | The birth of Stelios Malezas, Greek footballer |
1985 | The birth of Greg Olsen, American football player |
1985 | The birth of Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Dario Cologna, Swiss skier |
1987 | The birth of Marc-André Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Tanel Kangert, Estonian cyclist |
1987 | The birth of Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper |
1988 | The birth of Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer |
1988 | The birth of Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (d. 2015) |
1989 | The birth of Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (d. 2016) |
1990 | The birth of Ayumi Morita, Japanese tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jodie Comer, British actress |
1993 | The birth of Anthony Davis, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer |
2013 | The death of Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Simón Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1967) |
2014 | The death of Joel Brinkley, American journalist and academic (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of Walter Burkert, German philologist and scholar (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Jimmy Greenspoon, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Iolanda BalaÈ™, Romanian high jumper (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Doreen Massey, English geographer and political activist (b. 1944) |
2018 | The death of Ken Dodd, English comedian and singer (b. 1927) |
2018 | The death of Siegfried Rauch, German actor (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Mary Rosenblum, American science fiction and mystery author (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Ray Campi, American singer and musician (b. 1934) |
2021 | The death of Takis Mousafiris, Greek composer and songwriter (b. 1936) |
2022 | The death of Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia (b. 1937) |
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