Updated at November 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William Zorach |
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Birthdate | February 28, 1887 |
Birth Place | Lithuania |
Age (in 2024) | 137 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Sculptor |
William Zorach is best known as Sculptor who has born on February 28, 1887 in Lithuania. Currently, William Zorach is 137 years, 8 months and 22 days old. William Zorach will celebrate 138th birthday on Friday, 28th of February 2025. Below the countdown to William Zorach upcoming birthday.
Twentieth-century sculptor, printmaker, and painter who received the prestigious Logan Medal of the Arts.
He was a student at the Cleveland School of Art from 1905 to 1907; afterwards, he moved to Paris, where he studied at La Palette.
He influenced the development of American modernist art by incorporating into his work elements of cubism and fauvism.
He was the eighth child of 10 that were born to a Lithuanian Jewish family residing in Jurbarkas. He married Marguerite Thompson in December of 1912.
He was influenced by Paul Cezanne and other European artists.
William Zorach is 137 years old today.
William Zorach was born on February 28, 1887 in Lithuania.
William Zorach zodiac sign is Pisces.
William Zorach was best known as Sculptor.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about William Zorach's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with William Zorach's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum. |
1983 | The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. |
1985 | The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. |
1986 | Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. |
1991 | The first Gulf War ends. |
1993 | The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. |
1995 | Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election. |
1997 | An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths. |
1997 | GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. |
1997 | A Turkish military memorandum resulted with collapse of the government in Turkey. |
2001 | The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in the southern Puget Sound, damages Seattle metropolitan area. |
2002 | During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre. |
2004 | Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947. |
2005 | A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. |
2013 | Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415. |
1980 | The birth of Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player |
1981 | The birth of Brian Bannister, American baseball player and scout |
1982 | The birth of Natalia Vodianova, Russian-French model and actress |
1984 | The birth of Karolína Kurková, Czech model and actress |
1985 | The birth of Tim Bresnan, English cricketer |
1985 | The birth of Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player |
1985 | The birth of Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player |
1989 | The birth of Carlos Dunlap, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Charles Jenkins, American basketball player |
1989 | The birth of Kevin Proctor, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1994 | The birth of Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer |
1999 | The birth of Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player |
2004 | The death of Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914) |
2005 | The death of Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941) |
2006 | The death of Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
2007 | The death of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917) |
2009 | The death of Paul Harvey, American radio host (b. 1918) |
2011 | The death of Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1923) |
2016 | The death of George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925) |
2017 | The death of Pierre Pascau, Mauritian-Canadian journalist (b. 1938) |
2019 | The death of André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. (b. 1929) |
2020 | The death of Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Freeman Dyson, British-born American physicist and mathematician (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Sir Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (b. 1917) |
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