Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Erik Olson |
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Birthdate | May 09, 1901 |
Birth Place | Sweden |
Age (in 2024) | 123 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Painter |
Erik Olson is best known as Painter who has born on May 09, 1901 in Sweden. Currently, Erik Olson is 123 years, 5 months and 26 days old. Erik Olson will celebrate 124th birthday on Friday, 9th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Erik Olson upcoming birthday.
Swedish surrealist painter, sculptor, graphic artist, theatrical and stained-glass window designer, and illustrator. He was a student of the notable Fernand Léger's Academie Moderne.
He participated in his first art show in 1919, the same year he met famed artist Gosta Adrian-Nilsson.
He and his artist brother Axel Olson both belonged to the Halmstadgruppen, a group of six Swedish artists who worked in the styles of cubism and surrealism in the early 20th century.
He grew up in Halmstad, Sweden. He married Solvig Sven-Nilsson in 1929.
He was born in the same year as the renowned Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti.
Erik Olson is 123 years old today.
Erik Olson was born on May 09, 1901 in Sweden.
Erik Olson zodiac sign is Taurus.
Erik Olson was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Erik Olson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill. |
1969 | Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks. |
1974 | Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. |
1979 | Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran. |
1980 | In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. |
1980 | In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase. |
1987 | LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board. |
1988 | New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens. |
1992 | Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. |
1992 | Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada. |
2001 | In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee. |
2002 | The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries. |
2018 | The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election. |
2020 | The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. |
1983 | The birth of Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Prince Fielder, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Chase Headley, American baseball player |
1985 | The birth of Jake Long, American football player |
1985 | The birth of Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player |
1987 | The birth of Kevin Gameiro, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian race car driver |
1988 | The birth of J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver |
1989 | The birth of Ellen White, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka |
1992 | The birth of Dan Burn, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Tommy Edman, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Grace Reid, Scottish diver |
2013 | The death of Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935) |
2014 | The death of Mary Stewart, British author and poet (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Edward W. Estlow, American football player and journalist (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Robert Miles, a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (b. 1938) |
2019 | The death of Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (1943) |
2020 | The death of Little Richard, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1932) |
2022 | The death of John Leo, American a writer and journalist (b. 1935) |
2022 | The death of Rieko Kodama, Japanese game developer (b. 1963) |
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