Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gustave Courbet |
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Birthdate | June 10, 1819 |
Birth Place | Ornans, France |
Age (in 2024) | 205 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Painter |
Gustave Courbet is best known as Painter who has born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France. Currently, Gustave Courbet is 205 years, 6 months and 4 days old. Gustave Courbet will celebrate 206th birthday on Tuesday, 10th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Gustave Courbet upcoming birthday.
French painter and leader of the 19th century realist movement whose best known works included "Seaside" and "Sleep." He used his art to challenge the established social and moral structures of his day.
His early painting, "Odalisque," was inspired by his love of Victor Hugo's writing, and "Lélia" was based on George Sand. He eventually strayed from literary influences.
He produced several works that his contemporaries considered scandalous: "Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer)" depicted prostitutes, and "Sleep," which showed two women in bed together, provoked a police report when it was exhibited in 1872.
His sisters, Zoé, Zélie, and Juliette, served as live models for his early works. His well-known work, "A Burial at Ornans" from 1850, depicted the funeral of his great uncle.
His lifetime overlapped with that of fellow French painter Edgar Degas.
Gustave Courbet is 205 years old today.
Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France.
Gustave Courbet zodiac sign is Gemini.
Gustave Courbet was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gustave Courbet's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1980 | The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. |
1982 | Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. |
1990 | British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities. |
1991 | Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009. |
1994 | China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report. |
1996 | Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin. |
1997 | Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members. |
1999 | Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. |
2001 | Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa. |
2002 | The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. |
2003 | The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. |
2008 | Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people. |
2009 | Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended. |
2018 | Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019. |
2019 | An Agusta A109E Power crashes onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, sparking a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter is killed. |
1985 | The birth of Andy Schleck, Luxembourger cyclist |
1985 | The birth of Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer |
1986 | The birth of Al Alburquerque, Dominican baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Marco Andreolli, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player |
1988 | The birth of Jeff Teague, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of David Miller, South African cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model |
1991 | The birth of Alexa Scimeca Knierim, American figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Kate Upton, American model and actress |
1996 | The birth of Wen Junhui, Chinese singer |
1997 | The birth of Cheung Ka-long, Hong Kong foil fencer, 2020 Olympic champion |
1998 | The birth of Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player |
2012 | The death of Gordon West, English footballer (b. 1943) |
2013 | The death of Doug Bailey, American political consultant (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Jack Lee, American radio host and politician (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1994) |
2016 | The death of Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (b. 1980) |
2018 | The death of Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent (b. 1975) |
2020 | The death of Claudell Washington, American baseball player (b. 1954) |
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