Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Howard Hanson |
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Birthdate | October 28, 1896 |
Birth Place | Nebraska |
Age (in 2024) | 128 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Composer |
Howard Hanson is best known as Composer who has born on October 28, 1896 in Nebraska. Currently, Howard Hanson is 128 years, 0 months and 5 days old. Howard Hanson will celebrate 129th birthday on Tuesday, 28th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Howard Hanson upcoming birthday.
Pulitzer Prize winner for 1944's Symphony No. 4. He directed the Eastman School of Music for 40 years. He was known for such original works as "Symphonic Rhapsody," "Two Yuletide Pieces," and the "Scandinavian Suite," a celebration of his Lutheran and Scandinavian ancestry.
He earned a BA degree in music from Northwestern in 1916, studying with Peter Lutkin, a church music expert, and pianist and composer Arne Oldberg. His first nationally recognized work was "The California Forest Play" from 1920.
His best-known composition was Symphony No. 2, the 'Romantic,' which was premiered by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 28, 1930, as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration.
He was born in Wahoo to Swedish immigrant parents. He married Elizabeth Nelson in 1946.
His 1935 composition "Three Songs from Drum Taps" was based on the poem by Walt Whitman.
Howard Hanson is 128 years old today.
Howard Hanson was born on October 28, 1896 in Nebraska.
Howard Hanson zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Howard Hanson was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Howard Hanson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1958 | John XXIII is elected Pope. |
1962 | The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. |
1965 | Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths. |
1971 | Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. |
1982 | The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. |
1990 | Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule. |
1995 | The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured. |
2006 | A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police. |
2007 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina. |
2009 | The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. |
2009 | NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program. |
2009 | US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. |
2013 | Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China. |
2014 | A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia. |
2018 | Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president. |
1987 | The birth of Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (d. 2012) |
1988 | The birth of Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer |
1989 | The birth of Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015) |
1991 | The birth of Lucy Bronze, English footballer |
1992 | The birth of Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeon Ji-hee, South Korean table tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer |
1996 | The birth of Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress |
1996 | The birth of Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player |
1996 | The birth of Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Taylor Fritz, American tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast |
1998 | The birth of Nolan Gould, American actor |
2001 | The birth of Sonay Kartal, British tennis player |
2010 | The death of James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937) |
2010 | The death of Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) |
2010 | The death of Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934) |
2011 | The death of Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919) |
2012 | The death of Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939) |
2012 | The death of John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936) |
2012 | The death of Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949) |
2013 | The death of Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937) |
2018 | The death of Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (b. 1985) |
2022 | The death of Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1935) |
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