Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Margaret Olley |
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Birthdate | June 24, 1923 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Painter |
Margaret Olley is best known as Painter who has born on June 24, 1923 in Australia. Currently, Margaret Olley is 101 years, 4 months and 8 days old. Margaret Olley will celebrate 102nd birthday on Tuesday, 24th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Margaret Olley upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her still life oil paintings, Olley was the 1947 recipient of the prestigious Mosman Art Prize. Near the end of her life, she donated more than one hundred of her own and other artists' paintings to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
She trained at the East Sydney Technical College (which later changed its name to the National Art School).
A friend of fellow painters Ben Quilty, Russell Drysdale, and William Dobell, she was the subject of several of these artists' award-winning portraits.
She was raised in Lismore and Brisbane, Australia, and she later settled in Paddington, New South Wales.
She was a contemporary of fellow Australian artist David Boyd.
Margaret Olley is 101 years old today.
Margaret Olley was born on June 24, 1923 in Australia.
Margaret Olley zodiac sign is Cancer.
Margaret Olley was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Margaret Olley's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1963 | The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government. |
1973 | The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. |
1975 | Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft. |
1981 | The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17Â years. |
1982 | "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. |
1989 | Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. |
1995 | Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment. |
2002 | The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. |
2004 | In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. |
2010 | At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history. |
2010 | Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia. |
2012 | Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise. |
2013 | Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison. |
2021 | The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside. |
2022 | In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion is not protected by the U.S. Constitution, overturning the court's prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). |
1986 | The birth of Stuart Broad, English cricketer |
1986 | The birth of Phil Hughes, American baseball player |
1986 | The birth of Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1987 | The birth of Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder |
1988 | The birth of Micah Richards, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner |
1990 | The birth of Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer |
1991 | The birth of Yasmin Paige, English actress |
1991 | The birth of Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of David Alaba, Austrian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Duki, Argentinian rapper |
2004 | The birth of Erika Andreeva, Russian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of William Hathaway, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Alan Myers, American drummer (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of John Clement, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Olga Kotelko, Canadian runner and softball player (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan journalist, lawyer, and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1916) |
2014 | The death of Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1986) |
2015 | The death of Mario Biaggi, American police officer, politician and criminal (b. 1917) |
2015 | The death of Marva Collins, American author and educator (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Susan Ahn Cuddy, American lieutenant (b. 1915) |
2021 | The death of Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines (b. 1960) |
2021 | The death of Trần Thiện Khiêm, 7th Prime Minister of South Vietnam and army officer (b. 1925) |
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