Updated at December 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Choy Weng Yang |
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Birthdate | July 12, 1930 |
Birth Place | Singapore |
Age (in 2024) | 94 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Painter |
Choy Weng Yang is best known as Painter who has born on July 12, 1930 in Singapore. Currently, Choy Weng Yang is 94 years, 5 months and 5 days old. Choy Weng Yang will celebrate 95th birthday on Saturday, 12th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Choy Weng Yang upcoming birthday.
Influential painter and writer who served as Curator of Art at the National Museum of Singapore. Pioneer of Singapore's contemporary art scene. His work was published in "Singaporean Artists" from 1982, Singapore's first art directory.
He graduated from England's Hornsey College of Art in 1962 and obtained his Art Teachers' Certificate in 1963 from the University of London Institute of Education. His studies in England exposed him to Western art, which greatly influenced his own work.
He discovered the works of Cézanne and Mondrian in 1985, and this late-career education profoundly impacted his output for the rest of his life.
He was born in Singapore to a family of Chinese heritage.
He was influenced by Claude Monet's use of light and color.
Choy Weng Yang is 94 years old today.
Choy Weng Yang was born on July 12, 1930 in Singapore.
Choy Weng Yang zodiac sign is Cancer.
Choy Weng Yang was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Choy Weng Yang'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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