An operation prevented his participation in the celebration of his 70th birthday in 1978, but in 1988 tributes for Messiaen's 80th included a complete performance in London's Royal Festival Hall of St. François, which the composer attended, and Erato's publication of a seventeen-CD collection of Messiaen's music including recordings by Loriod and a disc of the composer in conversation with Claude Samuel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Rostropovich to discuss details of a celebration the Kremlin was planning for March 27, 2007, Rostropovich's 80th birthday.

* Grand Ball in celebration of her 80th birthday

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in February 2006, the Budapest Music Centre honoured György Kurtág with the celebration of a festival in his hometown.

At the 80th birthday celebration of Satya Sai Baba at Lautoka's Girmit Center on 23 November 2005, Ganilau called for more religious programs to promote morality in private and public life.

His 80th birthday, in 1994, was commemorated by a weekend-long celebration in New York City ; his 85th culminated in a sold-out party at New York's Roseland Ballroom, where a pair of his dance shoes were placed in a showcase along with those of dancers such as Fred Astaire.

She appeared as The Grand High Witch of all the World at the Children's Party at the Palace in celebration of the Queen's 80th birthday in 2006.

As part of the school's 80th anniversary celebration in 1999, the school's heritage centre was formally opened by Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore from 1993 to 1999, who was also an alumnus of the school.

More than 300 people gathered in celebration of his 80th birthday in Bonn in 2007.

During the international celebration of Tolstoy's 80th birthday in 1908, G. K. Chesterton would criticize this aspect of Tolstoy's thought in an article in the September 19th issue of Illustrated London News, writing: " Tolstoy is not content with pitying humanity for its pains: such as poverty and prisons.

Szabadi was among the musicians invited by HRH Prince Charles to perform at the celebration in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday held at Buckingham Palace in 1992.

On May 17, 2003, he once again displayed his gowns at the 80th anniversary celebration of the Old Academy Players in Philadelphia ( East Falls ), PA.

Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ’ s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year ’ s Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011 ; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall ; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City ; the Governor ’ s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008 ; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia ; two sold-out concerts at Paris ’ legendary L ’ Olympia Theatre in 2011 ; and Paris ' fashion house Lanvin ’ s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012

On August 10, 2012 alongside with the celebration of his 80th birthday, he lost his eligibility to vote on any future conclaves that will occur after August 10, 2012.

Other appearances include two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2007 & 2009 ; the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 & 2011 ; the opening party of the New York Museum of Modern Art ; the Governor ’ s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008 ; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia ; two sold-out concerts at Paris ’ legendary L ’ Olympia Theatre in 2011 ; and Paris ' fashion house Lanvin ’ s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012

* Mim ( 2007, short story )-inspired on De versierde mens by Harry Mulisch on the celebration of his 80th birthday

Several rides that were under the metal building in Panama City Beach, Florida were also brought to Lake Winnie in 2005 for its 80th birthday celebration.

In 2006, at a celebration for his 80th birthday, the University of Pittsburgh renamed one of its newest medical research buildings the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the field.

Simon played the Owl in the Children's Party at the Palace The Queen's Handbag a celebration at Buckingham Palace to mark The Queen's 80th birthday directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.

* 1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

The birthday of Queen Draga was 11 September 1901, and in honour of this occasion preparations were being made to hold a celebration at the palace Kolarac.

During a 1995 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore climbed onto David Letterman's desk and bared her breasts to him, her back to the camera, in celebration of his birthday.

An 85th birthday celebration was held at the Tech Museum of Innovation.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

The public celebration of his 70th birthday was canceled because of the war.

Then Monroe travelled to New York to appear at a birthday celebration for John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, where she famously serenaded the President.

Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.

Mao Zedong | Mao at Stalin's 70th birthday celebration in Moscow, December 1949

* United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour ( Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June )

A birthday party is a celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the person who is being honored.

The town of Princeton, New Jersey hosts numerous events in a combined celebration of Pi Day and Albert Einstein's birthday, which is also March 14.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

The New York City Center birthday celebration and benefit concert on April 26, 2010 featured ( in order of appearance ): Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Joanna Gleason, Maria Friedman, Mark Jacoby, Len Cariou, B. D.

The President also published his biography and held a gala birthday celebration.

Theodore Roosevelt impersonator Joe Wiegand performs October 27, 2008 in the East Room of the White House, during a celebration of Roosevelt's 150th birthday.

Ono appeared with Ringo Starr on July 7, 2010 at New York's Radio City Music Hall in celebration of Starr's 70th birthday, performing " With a Little Help from My Friends " and " Give Peace a Chance ".

** The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

** Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.

Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration — thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen — the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

Margaret's last public appearances were at the 101st birthday celebrations of her mother in August 2001, and the 100th birthday celebration of her aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, that December.