Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Lou Harrison |
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Birthdate | May 14, 1917 |
Birth Place | Oregon |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Composer |
Lou Harrison is best known as Composer who has born on May 14, 1917 in Oregon. Currently, Lou Harrison is 107 years, 6 months and 7 days old. Lou Harrison will celebrate 108th birthday on Wednesday, 14th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Lou Harrison upcoming birthday.
Incorporated non-Western music into his compositions and wrote for Javanese-style gamelan instruments. He worked as a music critic for the Herald Tribune in the 1940s.
He relocated to San Francisco following high school, where he became acquainted with Cantonese opera, Native American music, Mexican music, classical music, and jazz.
His work was mostly written in just intonation rather than the more popular equal temperament.
His family moved around the San Francisco Bay area quite a bid during his childhood. He lived with his partner Bill Colvig until his death.
His work was heavily influenced by Charles Ives.
Lou Harrison is 107 years old today.
Lou Harrison was born on May 14, 1917 in Oregon.
Lou Harrison zodiac sign is Taurus.
Lou Harrison was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Lou Harrison's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1953 | Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike. |
1955 | Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. |
1961 | Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle. |
1970 | Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction. |
1973 | Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. |
1977 | A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people. |
1980 | Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador. |
1987 | Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'Ă©tat led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. |
1988 | Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire. |
2004 | The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. |
2004 | Rico Linhas AĂ©reas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people. |
2008 | Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police, 39 policemen injured, one police-dog injured and 39 arrested. |
2010 | Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component â Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135. |
2012 | Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. |
2022 | Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. |
1993 | The birth of Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer |
1993 | The birth of Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Bence Rakaczki, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014) |
1994 | The birth of Marcos AoĂĄs CorrĂȘa, Brazilian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Bronte Campbell, Australian swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Dennis Praet, Belgian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Bernardo Fernandes da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer |
1995 | The birth of Rose Lavelle, American soccer player |
1995 | The birth of Jonah Placid, Australian rugby player |
1996 | The birth of Blake Brockington, American trans man and activist (d. 2015) |
1996 | The birth of Pokimane, Canadian online streamer |
1996 | The birth of Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ |
1996 | The birth of TheOdd1sOut, American YouTuber and animator |
2001 | The birth of Jack Hughes, American hockey player |
2013 | The death of Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (b. 1962) |
2013 | The death of Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (b. 1939) |
2013 | The death of Ray Guy, Canadian journalist (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Emanuel Raymond Lewis, American librarian and author (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Morvin Simon, New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of MicheĂĄl O'Brien, Irish footballer and hurler (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962) |
2017 | The death of Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948) |
2018 | The death of Tom Wolfe, American author (b. 1931) |
2019 | The death of Tim Conway, American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1933) |
2019 | The death of Grumpy Cat, American cat and internet meme celebrity (b. 2012) |
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