Updated at November 2, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | York Bowen |
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Birthdate | February 22, 1884 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 140 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Composer |
York Bowen is best known as Composer who has born on February 22, 1884 in England. Currently, York Bowen is 140 years, 8 months and 9 days old. York Bowen will celebrate 141st birthday on Saturday, 22nd of February 2025. Below the countdown to York Bowen upcoming birthday.
Career spanned the first half of the 20th century, even though his work remained mostly unpublished until after his death. Noted primarily for his piano music written in the Romantic tradition.
He was awarded an Erard scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music when he was 14. He studied composition with Frederick Corder and piano with Tobias Matthay.
He was one of the first English composers to add original works to the modern viola repertoire.
His father owned the whiskey distillers Bowen and McKechnie. His mother gave him piano and harmony lessons while he was young. He married Sylvia Dalton in 1912.
He was the first pianist to record Ludwig Van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major.
York Bowen is 140 years old today.
York Bowen was born on February 22, 1884 in England.
York Bowen zodiac sign is Pisces.
York Bowen was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with York Bowen's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1983 | The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. |
1986 | Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
1994 | Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. |
1995 | The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. |
1997 | In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned. |
2002 | Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. |
2005 | The 6.4 Mw  Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured. |
2006 | At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samara, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war. |
2006 | At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. |
2011 | New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people. |
2011 | Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests. |
2012 | A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others. |
2014 | President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion. |
2015 | A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people. |
2018 | A man throws a grenade at the U.S embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt. |
1979 | The birth of Brett Emerton, Australian footballer |
1979 | The birth of Lee Na-young, South Korean actress |
1980 | The birth of Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress |
1983 | The birth of Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer |
1984 | The birth of Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player |
1984 | The birth of Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Hameur Bouazza, Algerian international footballer |
1985 | The birth of Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player |
1986 | The birth of Rajon Rondo, American basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model |
1987 | The birth of Sergio Romero, Argentinian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter |
1989 | The birth of Franco Vázquez, Argentinian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Khalil Mack, American football player |
1994 | The birth of Nam Joo-hyuk, South Korean model and actor |
2012 | The death of Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956) |
2012 | The death of Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (b. 1983) |
2013 | The death of Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-Australian television host (b. 1966) |
2014 | The death of Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of Chris Rainbow, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1946) |
2016 | The death of Yolande Fox, American model and singer, Miss America 1951 (b. 1928) |
2016 | The death of Sonny James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928) |
2018 | The death of Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942) |
2019 | The death of Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970) |
2019 | The death of Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925) |
2021 | The death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, painter (b. 1919) |
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