Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ronald Harrison |
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Birthdate | March 18, 1940 |
Birth Place | South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Painter |
Ronald Harrison is best known as Painter who has born on March 18, 1940 in South Africa. Currently, Ronald Harrison is 84 years, 7 months and 15 days old. Ronald Harrison will celebrate 85th birthday on Tuesday, 18th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Ronald Harrison upcoming birthday.
Most famous for a 1962 work titled Black Christ, this South African painter was tortured under the apartheid regime for the political content of his artwork. Black Christ was housed in the United Kingdom until 1997, at which point it was returned to a post-apartheid South Africa.
He studied art at the Alexander Sinton Secondary School in Cape Town, South Africa.
His famous painting, Black Christ, showed politicians John Vorster and Hendrik Verwoerd flanking a crucified Albert Luthuli.
He grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, as the son of William and Jeanette Harrison.
A replica of Black Christ was displayed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Ronald Harrison is 84 years old today.
Ronald Harrison was born on March 18, 1940 in South Africa.
Ronald Harrison zodiac sign is Pisces.
Ronald Harrison was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ronald Harrison's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
1966 | United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people. |
1967 | The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. |
1968 | Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. |
1969 | The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. |
1970 | Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. |
1971 | Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. |
1980 | A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. |
1990 | Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. |
1990 | In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. |
1994 | Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1996 | A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. |
1997 | The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. |
2014 | The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. |
2015 | The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. |
1986 | The birth of Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Rebecca Soni, American swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Lily Collins, English-American actress |
1989 | The birth of Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter |
1989 | The birth of Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer |
1989 | The birth of Ming Xi, Chinese model |
1991 | The birth of Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
1991 | The birth of Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Ryan Truex, American race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model |
1995 | The birth of Irina Bara, Romanian tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Ciara Bravo, American actress |
1997 | The birth of Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player |
2013 | The death of Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943) |
2015 | The death of Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) |
2015 | The death of Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
2016 | The death of Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
2016 | The death of Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992) |
2016 | The death of Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961) |
2017 | The death of Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Alfred Worden, American test pilot, engineer and astronaut (b. 1932) |
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