Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Alexander |
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Birthdate | April 02, 1915 |
Birth Place | Germany |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Painter |
William Alexander is best known as Painter who has born on April 02, 1915 in Germany. Currently, William Alexander is 109 years, 8 months and 13 days old. William Alexander will celebrate 110th birthday on Wednesday, 2nd of April 2025. Below the countdown to William Alexander upcoming birthday.
German painter and art instructor best known for launching and hosting the PBS television programs The Art of Bill Alexander and The Magic of Oil Painting.
After being drafted into the German army during the Second World War, Alexander immigrated to the United States with the help of his Allied captors, many of whose wives sat for portraits with him.
He is well known for using the wet-on-wet oil paint technique.
He spent his early years in East Prussia and Berlin, Germany.
He instructed Bob Ross in oil painting and inspired Ross' own television art program, The Joy of Painting.
William Alexander is 109 years old today.
William Alexander was born on April 02, 1915 in Germany.
William Alexander zodiac sign is Aries.
William Alexander was best known as Painter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William Alexander's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1986 | Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. |
1989 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations. |
1991 | Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia. |
1992 | In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. |
1992 | Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
2002 | Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated. |
2004 | Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted. |
2006 | Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed. |
2012 | A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured. |
2014 | A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured. |
2015 | Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others. |
2015 | Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." |
2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million. |
2021 | At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track. |
2021 | A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol. |
1984 | The birth of Nóra Barta, Hungarian diver |
1984 | The birth of Jérémy Morel, French footballer |
1985 | The birth of Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player |
1985 | The birth of Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater |
1986 | The birth of Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer |
1986 | The birth of Andris Biedriņš, Latvian basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Pablo Aguilar, Paraguayan footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jesse Plemons, American actor |
1990 | The birth of Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast |
1990 | The birth of Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower |
1997 | The birth of Dillon Bassett, American race car driver |
1997 | The birth of Abdelhak Nouri, Dutch footballer |
2004 | The birth of Diana Shnaider, Russian tennis player |
2007 | The birth of Brenda Fruhvirtová, Czech tennis player |
2012 | The death of Jesús Aguilarte, Venezuelan captain and politician (b. 1959) |
2012 | The death of Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican sculptor and illustrator (b. 1915) |
2012 | The death of Mauricio Lasansky, American graphic designer and academic (b. 1914) |
2013 | The death of Fred, French author and illustrator (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1938) |
2015 | The death of Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
2015 | The death of Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Steve Stevaert, Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg (b. 1954) |
2016 | The death of Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist and illustrator (b. 1929) |
2016 | The death of Robert Abajyan, Armenian sergeant (b. 1996) |
2017 | The death of Alma Delia Fuentes, Mexican actress (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Simon Bainbridge, British composer (b. 1952) |
2022 | The death of Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (b. 1928) |
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