Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Leopold Stokowski |
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Birthdate | April 18, 1882 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 142 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Composer |
Leopold Stokowski is best known as Composer who has born on April 18, 1882 in England. Currently, Leopold Stokowski is 142 years, 7 months and 3 days old. Leopold Stokowski will celebrate 143rd birthday on Friday, 18th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Leopold Stokowski upcoming birthday.
Classical conductor who appeared in Walt Disney's "Fantasia" from 1940. He conducted the original version of "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgky from 1929 and introduced American audiences to Stravinsky's score for "The Rite of Spring" in 1922.
He was one of the youngest students at the Royal College of Music when he enrolled at 13.
He founded the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, and the famous Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra.
He was married to Olga Samaroff in 1911, then to Evangeline Brewster Johnson in 1926, and then to Gloria Vanderbilt on April 21, 1945.
He and Keith Lockhart both became renowned orchestral conductors.
Leopold Stokowski is 142 years old today.
Leopold Stokowski was born on April 18, 1882 in England.
Leopold Stokowski zodiac sign is Aries.
Leopold Stokowski was best known as Composer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Leopold Stokowski's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Leopold Stokowski's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1942 | Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. |
1943 | World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. |
1945 | Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. |
1945 | Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins. |
1946 | The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. |
1947 | The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany. |
1949 | The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations. |
1954 | Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt. |
1955 | Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. |
1972 | East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43. |
1980 | The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency. |
1988 | The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. |
1988 | In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned. |
2018 | King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini. |
2019 | A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public. |
1959 | The birth of Susan Faludi, American journalist, author and feminist |
1960 | The birth of Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Ukrainian runner |
1961 | The birth of Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer |
1961 | The birth of John Podhoretz, American journalist and author |
1963 | The birth of Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, and podcaster |
1963 | The birth of Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor |
1964 | The birth of Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic |
1969 | The birth of Keith DeCandido, American author |
1970 | The birth of Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon |
1971 | The birth of David Tennant, Scottish actor |
1972 | The birth of Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist |
1972 | The birth of Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
1973 | The birth of Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner |
1981 | The birth of Audrey Tang, Taiwanese computer scientist and academic |
1989 | The birth of Jessica Jung, South Korean-American singer, songwriter, actress, author, fashion designer and businesswoman |
1995 | The death of Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908) |
2002 | The death of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914) |
2004 | The death of Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920) |
2008 | The death of Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1907) |
2012 | The death of Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Robert O. Ragland, American musician (b. 1931) |
2012 | The death of K. D. Wentworth, American author (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Goran Å vob, Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (b. 1959) |
2014 | The death of Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Brian Priestman, English conductor and academic (b. 1927) |
2019 | The death of Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (b. 1990) |
2022 | The death of Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (b. 1934) |
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