Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Peter Wishart |
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Birthdate | June 25, 1921 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 103 Years Old |
Zodiac | Cancer |
Occupation | Composer |
Peter Wishart is best known as Composer who has born on June 25, 1921 in England. Currently, Peter Wishart is 103 years, 4 months and 26 days old. Peter Wishart will celebrate 104th birthday on Wednesday, 25th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Peter Wishart upcoming birthday.
Remembered for his neoclassical chamber, orchestral, and vocal music works, this twentieth-century British composer most famously wrote the song "The Jackdaw" and the operas The Clandestine Marriage and The Captive.
In the late 1940s, he studied in Paris with the famous French composer Nadia Boulanger.
Beginning in the 1970s, he taught music at the University of Reading in England.
His 1974 opera, Clytemnestra, was composed for his mezzo-soprano vocalist wife, Maureen Lehane. His son from an earlier marriage, James Wishart, also had a career as a composer.
He was influenced by the work of the early 20th-century Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Peter Wishart is 103 years old today.
Peter Wishart was born on June 25, 1921 in England.
Peter Wishart zodiac sign is Cancer.
Peter Wishart was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Peter Wishart's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. |
1975 | Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal. |
1975 | Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India. |
1976 | Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
1978 | The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. |
1981 | Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. |
1991 | The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. |
1993 | Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. |
1996 | The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. |
1997 | An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir. |
1997 | The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000). |
1998 | In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. |
2022 | The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the longest bridge of Bangladesh, Padma Bridge. |
2022 | Russo-Ukrainian War: The Battle of Sievierodonetsk ends after weeks of heavy fighting with the Russian capture of the city, leading to the Battle of Lysychansk. |
2022 | Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack. |
1981 | The birth of Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper |
1982 | The birth of Rain, South Korean singer and actor |
1982 | The birth of Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player |
1983 | The birth of Marc Janko, Austrian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer |
1985 | The birth of Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer |
1986 | The birth of Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Miguel Layún, Mexican footballer |
1988 | The birth of Therese Johaug, Norwegian cross-country skier |
1990 | The birth of Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress |
1996 | The birth of Pietro Fittipaldi, Brazilian-American race car driver |
1996 | The birth of Sione Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Lele Pons, Latina-American Internet personality |
1998 | The birth of Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer |
2012 | The death of Edgar Ross, American boxer (b. 1949) |
2013 | The death of George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923) |
2013 | The death of Catherine Gibson, Scottish swimmer (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916) |
2013 | The death of Harry Parker, American rower and coach (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Green Wix Unthank, American soldier and judge (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Nigel Calder, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Ana María Matute, Spanish author and academic (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian agronomist and politician (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1940) |
2016 | The death of Adam Small, South African writer of apartheid-period (b. 1936) |
2018 | The death of Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and reality television personality (b. 1941) |
2018 | The death of David Goldblatt, South African photographer of apartheid-period (b. 1930) |
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