Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Richard Wagner |
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Birthdate | May 22, 1813 |
Birth Place | Leipzig, Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 211 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Composer |
Richard Wagner is best known as Composer who has born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany. Currently, Richard Wagner is 211 years, 7 months and 0 days old. Richard Wagner will celebrate 212th birthday on Thursday, 22nd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Richard Wagner upcoming birthday.
Theatre director, polemicist, and conductor known for his operas and music dramas. His "Tristan und Isolde" presaged modern music.
He attended an 1829 performance by famed dramatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, and he would credit her with inspiring his sense of music and drama and how they could be most effectively used in opera.
He constructed the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, his own opera house where many of his stage works, such as "The Ring Cycle" and "Parsifal," premiered.
He was married to Christine Wilhelmine Minna Planer on November 24, 1836, and later to Cosima Liszt on August 25, 1870.
He was Adolf Hitler's favorite composer and was often cited by Hitler as being an inspiration on his vision for Germany.
Richard Wagner is 211 years old today.
Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany.
Richard Wagner zodiac sign is Gemini.
Richard Wagner was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Richard Wagner's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1998 | A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. |
2000 | In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. |
2002 | Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. |
2010 | Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. |
2010 | Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). |
2011 | An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. |
2012 | Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). |
2012 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. |
2014 | General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. |
2014 | An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. |
2015 | The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum. |
2017 | Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. |
2017 | United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. |
2020 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people. |
2021 | Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China. |
1987 | The birth of Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player |
1987 | The birth of Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer |
1988 | The birth of Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress |
1989 | The birth of Corey Dickerson, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Wyatt Roy, Australian politician |
1991 | The birth of Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Suho, South Korean singer and actor |
1992 | The birth of Anna Baryshnikov, American actress |
1994 | The birth of Florian Luger, Austrian male model |
1994 | The birth of Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter |
1998 | The birth of Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model |
1999 | The birth of Femke Huijzer, Dutch model |
1999 | The birth of Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler |
2001 | The birth of Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality |
2004 | The birth of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress |
2006 | The death of Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945) |
2007 | The death of Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) |
2008 | The death of Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (b. 1946) |
2010 | The death of Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) |
2012 | The death of Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1970) |
2012 | The death of Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921) |
2016 | The death of Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981) |
2019 | The death of Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (b. 1938) |
2022 | The death of Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931) |
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