Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Felix Mendelssohn |
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Birthdate | February 03, 1809 |
Birth Place | Hamburg, Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 215 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Composer |
Felix Mendelssohn is best known as Composer who has born on February 03, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. Currently, Felix Mendelssohn is 215 years, 9 months and 2 days old. Felix Mendelssohn will celebrate 216th birthday on Monday, 3rd of February 2025. Below the countdown to Felix Mendelssohn upcoming birthday.
Early Romantic German musical prodigy known for his Song Without Words and the overture The Hebrides. He was founder of the Leipzig Conservatoire.
He began composing when he was a child, and his public concert debut came when he was nine. He wrote 12 string symphonies between ages 12 and 14.
He became conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1835. During his tenure, he reintroduced Franz Schubert and debuted St. Paul, his famed oratorio.
His grandfather was the famed philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His family was Jewish, but nonreligious. They did not seek to profit from his talent.
He specialized in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and helped bring about a resurgence of interest in the legendary composer in Germany.
Felix Mendelssohn is 215 years old today.
Felix Mendelssohn was born on February 03, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany.
Felix Mendelssohn zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Felix Mendelssohn was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Felix Mendelssohn's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1960 | British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation. |
1961 | The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. |
1966 | The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. |
1971 | New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. |
1972 | The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. |
1984 | Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. |
1984 | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. |
1989 | After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months. |
1989 | A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. |
1994 | Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle. |
1995 | Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
1998 | Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. |
2005 | One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 crashes in the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan. |
2007 | A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. |
2014 | Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. |
1986 | The birth of Lucas Duda, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater |
1986 | The birth of Kanako Yanagihara, Japanese actress |
1987 | The birth of Elvana Gjata, Albanian singer |
1988 | The birth of Cho Kyu-hyun, South Korean singer |
1989 | The birth of Meng Jia, Chinese singer and actress |
1989 | The birth of Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Martin Taupau, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Corey Norman, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Olli Aitola, Finnish ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress |
1998 | The birth of Tyler Huntley, American football player |
1999 | The birth of Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress |
2003 | The birth of Lozea Vilarino, French rhythmic gymnast |
2013 | The death of Cardiss Collins, American politician (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of James Muri, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Mary Healy, American actress and singer (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Charlie Sifford, American golfer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Nasim Hasan Shah, Pakistani lawyer and judge, 12th Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Joe Alaskey, American actor (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Balram Jakhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of József Kasza, Serbian politician and economist (b. 1945) |
2017 | The death of Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931) |
2019 | The death of Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966) |
2020 | The death of George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1929) |
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