Updated at December 24, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Tito Puente |
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Birthdate | April 20, 1923 |
Birth Place | New York City, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Composer |
Tito Puente is best known as Composer who has born on April 20, 1923 in New York City, NY. Currently, Tito Puente is 101 years, 8 months and 4 days old. Tito Puente will celebrate 102nd birthday on Sunday, 20th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Tito Puente upcoming birthday.
Pioneering Latin salsa composer who created numerous hits and won five Grammy Awards for his distinctive music sound.
He studied at the Julliard School of Music under the GI Bill and started his popular orchestra in the 1950s.
He made over 100 albums in all and wrote close to 200 original compositions, earning the title El Rey de los Timbales or The King of the Timbales.
He was married to Margaret Asencio from 1963 to 2000. He had three children named Tito Jr., Audrey and Richard. His father was a factory foreman, and his mother first enrolled him in piano lessons.
He appeared in the movie "The Mambo Kings," starring Antonio Banderas.
Tito Puente is 101 years old today.
Tito Puente was born on April 20, 1923 in New York City, NY.
Tito Puente zodiac sign is Taurus.
Tito Puente was best known as Composer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Tito Puente's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Tito Puente'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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