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Odesa History Timeline

Ukraine: Dnipro - Donetsk - Kharkiv - Kyiv - Lviv - Sevastopol

Events in Odesa History

  • 1881-11-19 A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1900-08-05 In Russia, anti-Jewish riots spread from Odessa into other parts of the country
  • 1905-06-27 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa
  • 1905-06-30 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'
  • 1906-07-23 Pogroms against Jews in Odessa, Russia
  • 1920-02-08 Bolshevik troops capture Odessa, bringing an end to foreign involvement in the resistance against Bolshevik rule

Siege of Odessa

1941-10-16 Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia during the siege of Odessa, part of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union

Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko
  • 1941-10-25 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1944-04-10 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from the Axis powers
  • 1953-12-18 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

Famous People from Odesa

  • 1848-07-27 Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1933)
  • 1860-03-15 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1930)
  • 1873-07-20 Witold Maliszewski, Polish composer (founder and first director of Odessa Conservatory), born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1939)
  • 1879-07-07 Jacob Weinberg, Russian-born Jewish composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1956)
  • 1880-10-13 Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
  • 1882-11-08 Lazare Saminsky, Russian-American composer, born in Valegotsulova, near Odessa (d. 1959)
  • 1883-12-10 Andrej J. Vysjinski, Russian lawyer and UN ambassador, born in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1954)
  • 1889-06-23 Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Poem Without a Hero), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1966)
  • 1893-08-15 Alexander Gauk, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1963)
  • 1894-01-16 Irving Mills [Isadore Minsky], American jazz music publisher, manager (Duke Ellington, 1926-48), singer and lyricist, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1985)
  • 1895-11-16 Eduard Bagritsky, Russian-Soviet poet and journalist (South-West), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
  • 1896-01-15 Jacobo Ficher, Argentine composer, born in Odesa, Ukraine (d. 1978)
  • 1897-01-28 Valentin Kataev, novelist/playwright (Embezzled), born in Odessa Ukraine (d. 1986)
  • 1898-12-10 Yuri Nikolayevich Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1959)
  • 1899-04-13 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, Soviet composer, born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
  • 1899-09-18 Ida Kamińska, Polish stage and screen actress, director, and writer (The Shop on Main Street; Mother Courage and Her Children), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1980)
  • 1901-03-06 Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother's Heart) and screenwriter, born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1981)
  • 1902-10-11 Leon Belasco [Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky], Russian actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1988)
  • 1903-11-17 Joseph Kaminski, Russian born Israeli composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1972)
  • 1903-12-13 Yevgeny Petrov [Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev], Soviet writer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1942)
  • 1904-03-04 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and writer (Big Bang Theory, DNA), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
  • 1904-12-31 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American Grammy Award-winning concert violinist, transcriber and composer, born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1992)
  • 1906-09-18 Semjon I. Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1972) [OS=Sept 5]
  • 1907-06-03 Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, Russian composer, born in Odessa (d. 1988)
  • 1908-09-30 David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist considered one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century (Moscow Conservatory), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
  • 1909-10-07 Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist, born in Odesa, Ukraine (d. 1995)
  • 1913-08-03 Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian television comedy writer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2007)
  • 1915-09-24 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1992) [OS]
  • 1915-10-07 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1992) [NS]
  • 1916-10-19 Emil Gilels, Soviet concert pianist (Brussels Competition - 1st prize, 1938), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1985)
  • 1919-01-23 Nina Dumbadze, Soviet discus thrower (Olympic bronze 1952), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1983)
  • 1928-06-01 Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union (d. 1971)
  • 1931-04-27 Igor Oistrakh, Soviet-Russian concert violinist (Wieniawski Competition, 1952), and educator (Moscow Conservatory, Brussels Royal Conservatory), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (d. 2021)
  • 1935-08-03 Georgy Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1997)
  • 1936-07-30 Yuri Falik, Russian cellist, conductor, and composer (Elegiac Music; Buffoons), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2009)
  • 1937-06-12 Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2010)
  • 1940-08-03 Joseph Dorfman, Israeli composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 2006)
  • 1951-01-24 Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American comedian (It's a wonderful country), born in Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1954-03-24 Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident poet (Beyond the Limit), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union (d. 2017)
  • 1970-11-01 Alla Korot, American actress (Jenna Norris-Another World), born in Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1974-01-18 Devon Odessa, American actress (Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost), born in Parkersburg, West Virginia
  • 1976-09-05 Tatiana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast (1992 Olympic Champion), born in Odessa, Soviet Union
  • 1980-01-17 Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer, born in Odessa, Ukraine
  • 1994-09-12 Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player (WTA Finals champion 2018), born in Odessa, Ukraine

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