Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Bruce Hungerford |
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Birthdate | November 24, 1922 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Pianist |
Bruce Hungerford is best known as Pianist who has born on November 24, 1922 in Australia. Currently, Bruce Hungerford is 101 years, 11 months and 27 days old. Bruce Hungerford will celebrate 102nd birthday on Sunday, 24th of November 2024. Below the countdown to Bruce Hungerford upcoming birthday.
Respected musician whose career was ended prematurely at 54 when he was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
He was given a full scholarship to the University of Melbourne Conservatorium at the age of 17. He debuted with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra when he was 20.
He was interested in palaeontology, studying vertebrate palaeontology at Columbia University and at New York's Museum of Natural History.
His parents weren't sure if they should name him Bruce or Leonard. They settled on Leonard when his Scottish grandfather said he was too puny to be named after the Warrior King of Scotland. He later changed it back to Bruce.
He was initially mentored by Roy Shepherd who had been one of Alfred Cortot's students.
Bruce Hungerford is 101 years old today.
Bruce Hungerford was born on November 24, 1922 in Australia.
Bruce Hungerford zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Bruce Hungerford was best known as Pianist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Bruce Hungerford's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Bruce Hungerford's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1969 | Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. |
1971 | During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. |
1973 | A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. |
1974 | Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. |
1976 | The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. |
1989 | After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. |
1992 | China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board. |
2009 | The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania. |
2012 | A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. |
2013 | Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. |
2015 | A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort. |
2015 | A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others. |
2015 | An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. |
2016 | The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war. |
2022 | Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia. |
1983 | The birth of José López, Venezuelan baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer |
1984 | The birth of Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier |
1985 | The birth of Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer |
1985 | The birth of Tony Hunt, American football player |
1986 | The birth of Pedro León, Spanish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Sarah Hyland, American actress |
1990 | The birth of Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Joe Pigott, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer |
2013 | The death of Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (b. 1961) |
2014 | The death of Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Robert Ford, English general (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Quincy Monk, American football player (b. 1979) |
2015 | The death of Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (b. 1955) |
2016 | The death of Paul Futcher, English footballer (b. 1956) |
2016 | The death of Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (b. 1934) |
2019 | The death of Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991) |
2022 | The death of Börje Salming, Swedish hockey player (b. 1951) |
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