Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Leon Battista Alberti |
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Birthdate | February 14, 1404 |
Birth Place | Genoa, Italy |
Age (in 2024) | 620 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Architect |
Leon Battista Alberti is best known as Architect who has born on February 14, 1404 in Genoa, Italy. Currently, Leon Battista Alberti is 620 years, 9 months and 7 days old. Leon Battista Alberti will celebrate 621st birthday on Friday, 14th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Leon Battista Alberti upcoming birthday.
Best remembered for such architectural masterpieces as the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai (both in Florence, Italy), this fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance figure also wrote poems and artistic treatises and pursued a career in cryptography.
In his early thirties, after having studied law in Bologna and subsequently worked in the papal court in Rome, he began writing his first major work, Della Pittura. He later became an architect for the Vatican.
He penned De Pictura, a treatise on painting that discussed, for the first time, the science of artistic perspective.
He was born in Genoa, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a Florentine nobleman.
His lifetime overlapped with that of fellow Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci.
Leon Battista Alberti is 620 years old today.
Leon Battista Alberti was born on February 14, 1404 in Genoa, Italy.
Leon Battista Alberti zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Leon Battista Alberti was best known as Architect.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Leon Battista Alberti's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1989 | Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. |
1990 | Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India. |
1990 | The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot. |
1998 | An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120. |
2000 | The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
2003 | Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix reports to the United Nations Security Council that disarmament inspectors have found no weapons of mass destruction in Ba'athist Iraq. |
2004 | In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others. |
2005 | In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city. |
2005 | Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines. |
2005 | YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. |
2008 | Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries. |
2011 | As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'. |
2018 | Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa. |
2018 | A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries. |
2019 | Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured. |
1988 | The birth of Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Siim Liivik, Estonian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer |
1989 | The birth of Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Emma Miskew, Canadian curler |
1989 | The birth of Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Jurij Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper |
1989 | The birth of Kristian Thomas, English gymnast |
1990 | The birth of Chris Babb, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Daniela Mona Lambin, Estonian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Christian Eriksen, Danish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Freddie Highmore, English actor |
1996 | The birth of Lucas Hernandez, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor |
2012 | The death of Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer, water polo player, and coach (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Tom Finney, English footballer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Chris Pearson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Yukon (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Mike Stepovich, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Alaska Territory (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Philip Levine, American poet and academic (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1939) |
2018 | The death of Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (b. 1930) |
2021 | The death of William Meninger, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1932) |
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