Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Rachel Whiteread |
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Birthdate | April 20, 1963 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 61 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Sculptor |
Rachel Whiteread is best known as Sculptor who has born on April 20, 1963 in England. Currently, Rachel Whiteread is 61 years, 7 months and 1 days old. Rachel Whiteread will celebrate 62nd birthday on Sunday, 20th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Rachel Whiteread upcoming birthday.
Sculptor and installation artist whose best-known works included casts. Known for "House," a concrete cast of the interior of a Victorian house, as well as the resin sculpture of the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in London and the holocaust memorial sculpture in Judenplatz Vienna.
Her artist mother encouraged her to study both sculpture and painting.
She was awarded the Turner Prize in 1993 and was the first female recipient of this honor.
She and fellow artist Marcus Taylor had two sons.
She and fellow sculptor Tony Cragg were both born in England.
Rachel Whiteread is 61 years old today.
Rachel Whiteread was born on April 20, 1963 in England.
Rachel Whiteread zodiac sign is Taurus.
Rachel Whiteread was best known as Sculptor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Rachel Whiteread's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Rachel Whiteread's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1946 | The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations. |
1961 | Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. |
1968 | English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
1968 | South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people. |
1972 | Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon. |
1998 | Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board. |
1999 | Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. |
2007 | Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. |
2008 | Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. |
2010 | The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. |
2012 | One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan. |
2013 | A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. |
2015 | Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland. |
2020 | For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero. |
2021 | State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota. |
1961 | The birth of Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor |
1963 | The birth of Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor |
1964 | The birth of John Carney, American football player |
1964 | The birth of Andy Serkis, English actor and director |
1964 | The birth of Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater |
1965 | The birth of Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek politician, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism |
1965 | The birth of Léa Fazer, Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress |
1966 | The birth of David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic |
1966 | The birth of David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo! |
1967 | The birth of Mike Portnoy, American drummer and songwriter |
1968 | The birth of Julia Morris, Australian entertainer |
1969 | The birth of Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania |
1970 | The birth of Shemar Moore, American actor |
1972 | The birth of Carmen Electra, American model and actress |
1973 | The birth of Julie Powell, American food writer and memoirist (d. 2022) |
2003 | The death of Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
2004 | The death of Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956) |
2005 | The death of Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904) |
2007 | The death of Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931) |
2007 | The death of Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931) |
2008 | The death of Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923) |
2010 | The death of Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912) |
2011 | The death of Tim Hetherington, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970) |
2012 | The death of Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (b. 1953) |
2018 | The death of Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (b. 1989) |
2021 | The death of Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Monte Hellman, American film director (b.1929) |
2021 | The death of Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (b. 1955) |
2022 | The death of Gavin Millar, Scottish film director (b. 1938) |
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