Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | David Boyd |
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Birthdate | August 23, 1924 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 100 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Painter |
David Boyd is best known as Painter who has born on August 23, 1924 in Australia. Currently, David Boyd is 100 years, 3 months and 23 days old. David Boyd will celebrate 101st birthday on Saturday, 23rd of August 2025. Below the countdown to David Boyd upcoming birthday.
Painter and sculptor who headed the Museum of Modern Art of Australia beginning in 1960. Part of what became known as the Boyd artistic dynasty, dating back to 1886.
He was a student at the Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, enrolling when he was 17. However, he left after a year to serve in the army. He then used his ex-serviceman's grant to study at the National Gallery School.
His 1957 paintings of Australian explorers were controversial in their focus on the plight of the Aboriginals whose lives were disrupted by exploration.
He grew up in Victoria as the son and grandson of Australian painters. He was married to Hermia Lloyd-Jones. He and his wife had three daughters, all of whom became artists.
He was a contemporary of fellow Australian artist Rolf Harris.
David Boyd is 100 years old today.
David Boyd was born on August 23, 1924 in Australia.
David Boyd zodiac sign is Virgo.
David Boyd was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with David Boyd's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1985 | Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany. |
1989 | Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands. |
1990 | Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. |
1990 | Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
1990 | West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. |
1991 | The World Wide Web is opened to the public. |
1994 | Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. |
2000 | Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. |
2006 | Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity. |
2007 | The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia. |
2010 | The Manila hostage crisis occurred near the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines killing 9 people including the perpetrator while injuring 9 others. |
2011 | A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million-300 million USD. |
2011 | Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War. |
2012 | A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others. |
2013 | A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people. |
1988 | The birth of Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Jeremy Lin, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist |
1989 | The birth of Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer |
1989 | The birth of Heiko Schwarz, German footballer |
1989 | The birth of TeddyLoid, Japanese musician |
1990 | The birth of Seth Curry, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Mike Yastrzemski, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Iván López, Spanish professional footballer |
1994 | The birth of August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress (d. 2017) |
1995 | The birth of Gabriela Lee, Romanian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Cameron Norrie, British tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer |
2013 | The death of Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (b. 1955) |
2013 | The death of William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (b. 1987) |
2013 | The death of Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989) |
2014 | The death of Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (b. 1994) |
2014 | The death of Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist and publisher (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of Augusta Chiwy, Congolese-Belgian nurse (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Guy Ligier, French rugby player and race car driver (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Enrique Reneau, Honduran footballer (b. 1971) |
2015 | The death of Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1914) |
2021 | The death of Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker (b. 1931) |
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