Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Felix Gonzalez-torres |
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Birthdate | November 26, 1957 |
Birth Place | Cuba |
Age (in 2024) | 66 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Sculptor |
Felix Gonzalez-torres is best known as Sculptor who has born on November 26, 1957 in Cuba. Currently, Felix Gonzalez-torres is 66 years, 11 months and 25 days old. Felix Gonzalez-torres will celebrate 67th birthday on Tuesday, 26th of November 2024. Below the countdown to Felix Gonzalez-torres upcoming birthday.
Cuban-American visual artist remembered for his sculptures, minimalist installations, and other works of process art. His most famous pieces include the AIDS-themed billboard "Untitled" and a series of "Dateline" portraits.
He studied art at the University of Puerto Rico and later earned a degree in photography from the Pratt Institute of Art.
More than a decade after his death from AIDS, his 1992 artwork "Untitled (Portrait of Marcel Brient)" sold for more than four million dollars.
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, he began living in New York City in the late 1970s. He had a long-term relationship with Ross Laycock.
He and fellow artist Joan Snyder both produced works of art that dealt with the AIDS epidemic.
Felix Gonzalez-torres is 66 years old today.
Felix Gonzalez-torres was born on November 26, 1957 in Cuba.
Felix Gonzalez-torres zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Felix Gonzalez-torres was best known as Sculptor.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Felix Gonzalez-torres's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1991 | National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names. |
1998 | Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. |
1998 | The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India. |
1999 | The 7.5 Mw  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured. |
2000 | George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote. |
2003 | The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England. |
2004 | Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. |
2004 | The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct. |
2008 | Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation. |
2008 | The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai. |
2011 | NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others. |
2011 | The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover. |
2018 | The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars. |
2019 | A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years. |
2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. |
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1987 | The birth of Georgios Tzavellas, Greek footballer |
1988 | The birth of Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1988 | The birth of Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model and actress |
1989 | The birth of Junior Stanislas, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress |
1990 | The birth of Avery Bradley, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Chip, English rapper |
1990 | The birth of Rita Ora, Kosovan-English singer-songwriter and actress |
1990 | The birth of Danny Welbeck, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Manolo Gabbiadini, Italian footballer |
1995 | The birth of James Guy, English swimmer |
1996 | The birth of Louane Emera, French singer and actress |
1997 | The birth of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, English footballer |
1999 | The birth of Olivia O'Brien, American singer-songwriter |
2012 | The death of Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of M. C. Nambudiripad, Indian author and translator (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Jane Kean, American actress and singer (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Saul Leiter, American photographer and painter (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1932) |
2015 | The death of Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922) |
2016 | The death of Fritz Weaver, American actor (b. 1926) |
2018 | The death of Stephen Hillenburg, American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator (b. 1961) |
2021 | The death of Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Vikram Gokhale, Indian actor and director (b. 1945) |
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