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Currently, Betsy Jolas is 98 years, 4 months and 17 days old. Betsy Jolas will celebrate 99rd birthday on a Tuesday 5th of August 2025. Below we countdown to Betsy Jolas upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Betsy Jolas |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Age | 98 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 5, 1926 (France) |
| Birthday | August 5 |
| Town/City | France |
| Nationality | France |
Betsy Jolas’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Betsy Jolas was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Internationally beloved French Composer known for pieces that were often heavy on lyricism and based in poetry and emotion. Her works included "Plupart du temps II" from 1989, "Come follow for viola" from 2001, and "Jean Sébastien Bach-Contrapunctus IV for orchestra" from 2001.
She moved from Paris to New York in 1940. She was a student at Lycée Français and Bennington College.
She won the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin in 2000.
She had three children with Gabriel Illouz.
Her father was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and she remembered his visits while she was a child.
