Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Leonora Carrington |
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Birthdate | April 06, 1917 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Painter |
Leonora Carrington is best known as Painter who has born on April 06, 1917 in England. Currently, Leonora Carrington is 107 years, 6 months and 29 days old. Leonora Carrington will celebrate 108th birthday on Sunday, 6th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Leonora Carrington upcoming birthday.
Associated with the surrealist movement of the 1930s, this painter and fiction writer was also one of the forces behind the Mexican Women's Liberation movement of the 1970s. Her most famous works include the paintings Self-Portrait and The Horses of Lord Candlestick and the novel The Hearing Trumpet.
She received her early artistic training at Mrs. Penrose's Academy of Art in Florence, Italy; the Chelsea School of Art in London, England; and the Ozenfant Academy in London. She relocated to Mexico in the 1960s.
During the 1930s, she had a romantic relationship with the renowned German surrealist artist Max Ernst.
Born in Lancashire, England, to an English textile merchant father and an Irish mother, she grew up with brothers named Arthur, Patrick, and Gerald. Her first marriage was to Mexican writer Renato Leduc; her later marriage, to Emericko Weisz, produced sons named Gabriel and Pablo.
She was mentored by Surrealist movement founder Andre Breton.
Leonora Carrington is 107 years old today.
Leonora Carrington was born on April 06, 1917 in England.
Leonora Carrington zodiac sign is Aries.
Leonora Carrington was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Leonora Carrington's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1984 | Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. |
1985 | Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab. |
1992 | The Bosnian War begins. |
1994 | The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. |
1997 | In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur. |
1998 | Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India. |
2004 | Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. |
2005 | Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. |
2008 | The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists. |
2009 | A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307. |
2010 | Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India. |
2011 | In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves. |
2012 | Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali. |
2017 | U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties. |
2018 | A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others. |
1988 | The birth of Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer |
1988 | The birth of Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rican model and television host, Miss World Puerto Rico 2008 |
1990 | The birth of Lachlan Coote, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Charlie McDermott, American actor |
1990 | The birth of Andrei Veis, Estonian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ken, South Korean singer |
1992 | The birth of Julie Ertz, American soccer player |
1994 | The birth of Adrián Alonso, Mexican actor |
1995 | The birth of Darya Lebesheva, Belarusian tennis player |
1998 | The birth of Peyton List, American actress and model |
1998 | The birth of Spencer List, American actor |
2000 | The birth of Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer |
2002 | The birth of Leyre Romero Gormaz, Spanish tennis player |
2009 | The birth of Shaylee Mansfield, deaf American actress and YouTuber |
2009 | The birth of Valentina Tronel, French child singer, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 |
2014 | The death of Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Mickey Rooney, American soldier, actor, and dancer (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Chuck Stone, American soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer, co-founded Bimota (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Giovanni Berlinguer, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Michael O'Donnell, British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster (b. 1928) |
2020 | The death of Al Kaline, American baseball player, broadcaster and executive (b.1934) |
2021 | The death of Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian and Soviet politician (b. 1946) |
2022 | The death of Jill Knight, British politician (b. 1923) |
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