Christopher Small Age, Birthday, Bio, Zodiac, Family & Fun Facts

Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team

Christopher Small Age, Birthday, Birthplace, Bio, Zodiac & Family

Christopher Small Facts

Full Name	Christopher Small
Birthdate	March 17, 1927
Birth Place	New Zealand
Age (in 2024)	97 Years Old
Zodiac	Pisces
Occupation	Novelist

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Christopher Small Age & Birthday

Christopher Small is best known as Novelist who has born on March 17, 1927 in New Zealand. Currently, Christopher Small is 97 years, 8 months and 27 days old. Christopher Small will celebrate 98th birthday on Monday, 17th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Christopher Small upcoming birthday.

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Christopher Small Biography

About

Remembered for his work in the fields of ethnomusicology and sociomusicology, Small is perhaps most famous for inventing the term "musicking" to express his idea that music is an active process rather than a static object. He outlined this idea in his 1998 work Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening.

Before Fame

After studying at both Otago University and the Victoria University of Wellington, he taught music in both New Zealand and England.

Trivia

A composer as well as an author, he wrote choral and orchestral pieces as well as film scores. His best known works include Actions for Chorus – Some Maori Place Names and The Story of Soil.

Family Life

He and his sister Rosemary grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. In the mid 1980s, he settled in Spain with his longtime partner, Jamaican dancer and vocalist Neville Braithwaite; he and Braithwaite married in 2006.

Associated With

He and Pietro Spada were both prominent 20th-century musicologists.

Top Asked Questions about Christopher Small

How old is Christopher Small in 2024?

Christopher Small is 97 years old today.

When was Christopher Small born?

Christopher Small was born on March 17, 1927 in New Zealand.

What is Christopher Small zodiac sign?

Christopher Small zodiac sign is Pisces.

What was Christopher Small best known for?

Christopher Small was best known as Novelist.

Fun Facts about Christopher Small's Birthday

Here's quick list of some fun facts about Christopher Small's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.

Christopher Small was born on Thursday, 76^th day / 11^th week of 1927
Christopher Small has Pisces zodiac sign and Water element based on western astrology
Roman numeral of Christopher Small birthday is XVII.III.MCMXXVII
Christopher Small's birthstone is Aquamarine
Christopher Small's birth flower is Daffodil that symbolize spring, rebirth, domestic happiness & love
Christopher Small age in year is 97 years old
Christopher Small age in month is 1172 months old
Christopher Small age in day is 35701 days old
Christopher Small age in hour is 856824 hours old
Christopher Small age in minute is 51409440 minutes old
Christopher Small age in second is 3084566400 seconds old
Next Christopher Small birthday is on Monday, March 17th 2025
Christopher Small age in next birthday (2025) is 98 years old
Learn more interesting facts about March 17, 1927 birthday

Historical Events on Christopher Small Birthday (March 17)

Below are historical events that coincided with Christopher Small's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.

Year	Event
1963	Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
1966	Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1968	As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1969	Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1973	The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
1979	The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985	Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
1988	A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988	Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992	Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992	A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000	Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
2003	Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004	Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
2016	Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
1987	The birth of Emmanuel Sanders, American football player
1988	The birth of Rasmus Elm, Swedish footballer
1988	The birth of Fraser Forster, English footballer
1988	The birth of Grimes, Canadian artist, musician and music video director
1988	The birth of Ryan White, Canadian ice hockey player
1989	The birth of Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer
1990	The birth of Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
1990	The birth of Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player
1991	The birth of Jack De Belin, Australian rugby league player
1992	The birth of Patrick Cantlay, American golfer
1992	The birth of John Boyega, English actor
1993	The birth of Matteo Bianchetti, Italian footballer
1994	The birth of Dean Britt, Australian rugby league player
1995	The birth of Ashley Taylor, Australian rugby league player
1997	The birth of Katie Ledecky, American swimmer
2011	The death of Ferlin Husky, American country music singer (b. 1925)
2012	The death of Shenouda III, pope of Alexandria (b. 1923)
2012	The death of Margaret Whitlam, Australian swimmer and author (b. 1919)
2013	The death of William B. Caldwell III, American general (b. 1925)
2013	The death of Lawrence Fuchs, American scholar and academic (b. 1927)
2013	The death of A.B.C. Whipple, American journalist and historian (b. 1918)
2014	The death of Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (b. 1974)
2014	The death of Joseph Kerman, American musicologist and critic (b. 1924)
2014	The death of Rachel Lambert Mellon, American gardener, philanthropist, art collector and political patron (b. 1910)
2015	The death of Frank Perris, Canadian motorcycle racer (b. 1931)
2016	The death of Meir Dagan, Israeli general (b. 1945)
2016	The death of Zoltán Kamondi, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1960)
2018	The death of Mike MacDonald, Canadian comedian (b. 1954)
2018	The death of Phan Văn Khải, the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1933)
2021	The death of John Magufuli, the fifth President of Tanzania (b. 1959)

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