Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | James Galway |
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Birthdate | December 08, 1939 |
Birth Place | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Age (in 2024) | 85 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Flute Player |
James Galway is best known as Flute Player who has born on December 08, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Currently, James Galway is 85 years, 0 months and 7 days old. James Galway will celebrate 86th birthday on Monday, 8th of December 2025. Below the countdown to James Galway upcoming birthday.
Irish flute player of both classical and popular music who has released more than forty albums since 1979.
After he moved to London as a teenager to pursue a career as a flautist, he studied music at the Paris Conservatoire.
He performed on the Academy Award-winning soundtracks of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, composed by Howard Shore.
He married Claire LeBastard, then Annie Renggli on May 2, 1972, and then Jeanne Cinnante Galway on September 9, 1984.
He followed the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal and became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist.
James Galway is 85 years old today.
James Galway was born on December 08, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
James Galway zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
James Galway was best known as Flute Player.
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Below are historical events that coincided with James Galway's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1987 | An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada. |
1988 | A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing five people and injuring 50 others. |
1990 | The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time. |
1991 | The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
1992 | The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the second time. |
1998 | Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. |
2001 | A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore. |
2004 | The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. |
2004 | Columbus nightclub shooting: Nathan Gale opens fire at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, killing former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others before being shot dead by a police officer. |
2009 | Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others. |
2010 | With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. |
2010 | The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800Â km. |
2013 | Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India. |
2013 | Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents. |
2019 | First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China. |
1985 | The birth of Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper |
1986 | The birth of Amir Khan, English boxer |
1986 | The birth of Sam Tagataese, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress |
1989 | The birth of Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Yui Yokoyama, Japanese idol, model, and actress |
1993 | The birth of Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Jordan Obita, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of AnnaSophia Robb, American actress |
1993 | The birth of Cara Mund, Miss America 2018 |
1994 | The birth of Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner |
1994 | The birth of Raheem Sterling, English footballer |
1996 | The birth of Scott McTominay, Scottish footballer |
2013 | The death of Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Tom Gosnell, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano and actress (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of John Trudell, American author, poet, and actor (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (b. 1913) |
2016 | The death of John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (b. 1921) |
2018 | The death of David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (b. 1933) |
2019 | The death of René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940) |
2019 | The death of Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (b. 1998) |
2019 | The death of Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and actor (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer (b. 1953) |
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