Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Joseph Plateau |
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Birthdate | October 14, 1801 |
Birth Place | Belgium |
Age (in 2024) | 223 Years Old |
Zodiac | Libra |
Occupation | Physicist |
Joseph Plateau is best known as Physicist who has born on October 14, 1801 in Belgium. Currently, Joseph Plateau is 223 years, 0 months and 19 days old. Joseph Plateau will celebrate 224th birthday on Tuesday, 14th of October 2025. Below the countdown to Joseph Plateau upcoming birthday.
Belgian physicist who made the first step towards making movies by demonstrating the illusion of the moving image with his device, the phenakistoscope. He was also a Professor of experimental physics at Ghent University.
At six years of age he could already read and write, and was considered a child prodigy.
Understanding that images stay on the retina for a short while even after they change, he fashioned a device that used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other, to demonstrate this.
His father was known locally as a talented painter of flowers.
Thomas Edison employed some of his discoveries in building his moving-picture machine.
Joseph Plateau is 223 years old today.
Joseph Plateau was born on October 14, 1801 in Belgium.
Joseph Plateau zodiac sign is Libra.
Joseph Plateau was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Joseph Plateau's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor. |
1981 | Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. |
1982 | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. |
1991 | Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
1994 | Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government. |
1998 | Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. |
2003 | The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. |
2004 | MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board. |
2004 | Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed. |
2012 | Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. |
2014 | A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. |
2014 | The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win. |
2015 | A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others. |
2017 | A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others. |
2021 | About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike. |
1984 | The birth of LaRon Landry, American football player |
1984 | The birth of Alex Scott, English footballer |
1985 | The birth of Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver |
1985 | The birth of Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer |
1985 | The birth of Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament |
1986 | The birth of Tom Craddock, English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Arca, Venezuelan musician |
1990 | The birth of Jordan Clark, English cricketer |
1992 | The birth of Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer |
1994 | The birth of Joe Burgess, English rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Jared Goff, American football player |
2001 | The birth of Rowan Blanchard, American actress |
2013 | The death of Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959) |
2015 | The death of Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964) |
2019 | The death of Harold Bloom, American literary critic (b. 1930) |
2019 | The death of Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (b. 1994) |
2021 | The death of Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea |
2022 | The death of Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (b. 1950) |
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