Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Claude Debussy |
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Birthdate | August 22, 1862 |
Birth Place | France |
Age (in 2024) | 162 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Composer |
Claude Debussy is best known as Composer who has born on August 22, 1862 in France. Currently, Claude Debussy is 162 years, 2 months and 26 days old. Claude Debussy will celebrate 163rd birthday on Friday, 22nd of August 2025. Below the countdown to Claude Debussy upcoming birthday.
Composer best known for the timeless "Clair de Lune." He was prominent in the evolution of Impressionist music and use of symbolism.
He trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was a troublesome student, fighting against the traditional teachings of the school and experimenting with dissonance and intervals, much to the instructors' consternation.
His birthday was honored by Google on August 22, 2013, with a Google Doodle that played "Claire de Lune's" first half.
He was born to a father who was a salesman and a china-shop owner and a mother who was a seamstress. He carried on an eight-year affair with a Parisian lawyer's wife beginning when he was 18. He had one daughter, Claude-Emma. Â
He was heavily influenced by Richard Wagner's works, although his compositional style was less emotional than Wagner's.
Claude Debussy is 162 years old today.
Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in France.
Claude Debussy zodiac sign is Leo.
Claude Debussy was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Claude Debussy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections. |
1978 | Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages. |
1978 | The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states. |
1981 | Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed. |
1985 | British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation. |
1989 | Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. |
1991 | Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. |
1992 | FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. |
1999 | China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more. |
2003 | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. |
2004 | Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. |
2006 | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. |
2006 | Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. |
2007 | The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. |
2012 | Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. |
1986 | The birth of TokushĆryĆ« Makoto, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1987 | The birth of Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Apollo Crews, American wrestler |
1989 | The birth of Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Randall Cobb, American football player |
1990 | The birth of Drew Hutchison, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Robbie Rochow, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Federico Macheda, Italian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Ema BurgiÄ Bucko, Bosnian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Olli MÀÀttÀ, Finnish ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter |
1996 | The birth of Jessica-Jane Applegate, British Paralympic swimmer |
1996 | The birth of Jeon So-min, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Lautaro MartĂnez, Argentina footballer |
2014 | The death of U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist (b. 1906) |
2014 | The death of Pete Ladygo, American football player and coach (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Noella Leduc, American baseball player (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of John S. Waugh, American chemist and academic (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Ieng Thirith, Cambodian academic and politician (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Eric Thompson, English race car driver and book dealer (b. 1919) |
2016 | The death of S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American jazz musician (b. 1922) |
2017 | The death of Michael J. C. Gordon, British Computer scientist (b. 1948) |
2018 | The death of Ed King, American musician (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Krishna Reddy, Indian printmaker, sculptor and teacher (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1941) |
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