Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | John Harbison |
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Birthdate | December 20, 1938 |
Birth Place | New Jersey |
Age (in 2024) | 85 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Composer |
John Harbison is best known as Composer who has born on December 20, 1938 in New Jersey. Currently, John Harbison is 85 years, 10 months and 13 days old. John Harbison will celebrate 86th birthday on Friday, 20th of December 2024. Below the countdown to John Harbison upcoming birthday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. He worked with Peter Maxwell Davies in 1991 as Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival.
He won the BMI Foundation's Student Composer Award for composition at the age of 16. He wrote a piece for the Papal Concert of Reconciliation and debuted "Abraham" in 2004 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for "The Flight into Egypt" in 1987.
His father was the famed historian Elmore Harris Harbison. His sisters Helen and Margaret both became musicians as well. He married violinist Rose Mary Harbison.
His 1999 opera "The Great Gatsby" was based off the book of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
John Harbison is 85 years old today.
John Harbison was born on December 20, 1938 in New Jersey.
John Harbison zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
John Harbison was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with John Harbison's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 249 kilometres per hour (155Â mph) on their New York Division, also present-day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. |
1973 | Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. |
1984 | The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines. |
1984 | Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 24Â km (15Â mi) southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head." |
1985 | Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day. |
1987 | In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). |
1989 | The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega. |
1991 | A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. |
1995 | NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. |
1995 | American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50Â km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board. |
1999 | Macau is handed over to China by Portugal. |
2004 | A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history. |
2007 | Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days. |
2007 | The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later. |
2019 | The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947. |
1982 | The birth of Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer |
1982 | The birth of David Wright, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Malcolm Jenkins, American football player |
1990 | The birth of JoJo, American singer and actress |
1991 | The birth of Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jillian Rose Reed, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jorginho, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Robeisy RamÃrez, Cuban boxer |
1997 | The birth of De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer |
1998 | The birth of Kylian Mbappé, French footballer |
2001 | The birth of Facundo Pellistri, Uruguayan footballer |
2008 | The death of Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912) |
2009 | The death of Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
2009 | The death of Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918) |
2010 | The death of James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915) |
2020 | The death of Fanny Waterman, British pianist (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Franco Harris, American football player (b. 1950) |
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