Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Murray Perahia |
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Birthdate | April 19, 1947 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 77 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Pianist |
Murray Perahia is best known as Pianist who has born on April 19, 1947 in New York City, NY. Currently, Murray Perahia is 77 years, 7 months and 2 days old. Murray Perahia will celebrate 78th birthday on Saturday, 19th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Murray Perahia upcoming birthday.
Concert musician who suffered major hand injuries in the early 1990s, halting his career while he underwent several operations.
His first teacher demanded that each piece be played to perfection before moving on, something he viewed as restrictive. He didn't become passionate about music until he was 15.
His musicality was greatly admired by Vladimir Horowitz, and he became close to Horowitz during the pianist's final four years, often visiting and playing for him.
His family was of Sephardi Jewish origin, and he first spoke Judeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino.
He studied Johann Sebastian Bach during his time away from performing, returning in the late 1990s with highly acclaimed recordings of Goldberg Variations and other Bach keyboard works.
Murray Perahia is 77 years old today.
Murray Perahia was born on April 19, 1947 in New York City, NY.
Murray Perahia zodiac sign is Aries.
Murray Perahia was best known as Pianist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Murray Perahia's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Murray Perahia's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. |
1975 | South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War. |
1984 | Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. |
1985 | Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. |
1987 | The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". |
1989 | A gun turret explodes on the USSÂ Iowa, killing 47 sailors. |
1993 | The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire. |
1995 | Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six. |
1999 | The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. |
2000 | Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board. |
2005 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. |
2011 | Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. |
2013 | Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. |
2020 | A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history. |
2021 | The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet. |
1957 | The birth of Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries |
1960 | The birth of Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer |
1960 | The birth of Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach |
1964 | The birth of Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic |
1966 | The birth of Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress |
1968 | The birth of Mswati III, king (Ngwenyama) of Eswatini (Swaziland) |
1970 | The birth of Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion |
1972 | The birth of Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, a Brazilian footballer |
1978 | The birth of James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
1978 | The birth of Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator |
1981 | The birth of Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor |
1982 | The birth of Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer |
2002 | The birth of Loren Gray, American singer and internet personality |
2004 | The death of John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920) |
2004 | The death of Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922) |
2006 | The death of Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921) |
2007 | The death of Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932) |
2009 | The death of J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930) |
2011 | The death of Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918) |
2021 | The death of Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928) |
2021 | The death of Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (b. 1947) |
2022 | The death of Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903) |
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