Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | George Crumb |
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Birthdate | October 24, 1929 |
Birth Place | Charleston, WV |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Composer |
George Crumb is best known as Composer who has born on October 24, 1929 in Charleston, WV. Currently, George Crumb is 95 years, 0 months and 9 days old. George Crumb will celebrate 96th birthday on Friday, 24th of October 2025. Below the countdown to George Crumb upcoming birthday.
Composer of contemporary classical music who became known for his extended instrumental and vocal techniques. His orchestral work "Echoes of Time and the River" won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1968.
He received his D.M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1959. He primarily taught for a living, and his students included such future notables as Margaret Brouwer, Uri Caine, Christopher Rouse, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, and Cynthia Cozette Lee.
He explored the use of metallic vibrato on the piano and played the contrabass strings with a mallet in several of his pieces.
His family was residing in Charleston, West Virginia, when he was born. His son David also became a successful composer.
He and David Lang both won Pulitzer Prizes for Music.
George Crumb is 95 years old today.
George Crumb was born on October 24, 1929 in Charleston, WV.
George Crumb zodiac sign is Scorpio.
George Crumb was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with George Crumb's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia. |
1975 | In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality. |
1980 | The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union. |
1986 | Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing of an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport. |
1990 | Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion. |
1992 | The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series. |
1998 | Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies. |
2003 | Concorde makes its last commercial flight. |
2004 | Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League. |
2005 | Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage. |
2007 | Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. |
2008 | "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. |
2014 | The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. |
2015 | A driver crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34. |
2016 | A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board. |
1990 | The birth of Elijah Greer, American middle-distance runner |
1990 | The birth of Danilo Petrucci, Italian motorcycle racer |
1990 | The birth of İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer |
1992 | The birth of Ding Liren, Chinese chess grandmaster |
1994 | The birth of Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress |
1994 | The birth of Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Jalen Ramsey, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Vincent Leuluai, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Océane Dodin, French tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Kyla Ross, American gymnast |
1997 | The birth of Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast |
1998 | The birth of Daya, American singer |
2014 | The death of S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960) |
2015 | The death of Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943) |
2016 | The death of Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927) |
2017 | The death of Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927) |
2017 | The death of Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (b. 1943) |
2021 | The death of James Michael Tyler, American actor (b. 1962) |
2022 | The death of Leslie Jordan, American actor, writer, and singer (b. 1955) |
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