Updated at December 22, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Adrienne Rich |
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Birthdate | May 16, 1929 |
Birth Place | Baltimore, MD |
Age (in 2024) | 95 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Poet |
Adrienne Rich is best known as Poet who has born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, MD. Currently, Adrienne Rich is 95 years, 7 months and 6 days old. Adrienne Rich will celebrate 96th birthday on Friday, 16th of May 2025. Below the countdown to Adrienne Rich upcoming birthday.
Award-winning feminist poet who is remembered for such works as Diving into the Wreck and The Fact of a Doorframe. She received the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Bollingen Prize.
She attended Radcliffe College and Harvard University.
She taught at Rutgers University and Cornell University.
She had three children with her husband Alfred Haskell Conrad. After Conrad's death by suicide, Rich had a long-lasting romantic partnership with Jamaican novelist
Her debut poetry collection, A Change of World, was selected by W.H. Auden as the recipient of the Yale Younger Poets Award.
Adrienne Rich is 95 years old today.
Adrienne Rich was born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, MD.
Adrienne Rich zodiac sign is Taurus.
Adrienne Rich was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Adrienne Rich's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
1959 | The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. |
1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
1961 | Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. |
1966 | The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
1969 | Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. |
1974 | Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. |
1975 | Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
1988 | A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. |
1991 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. |
1997 | Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. |
2003 | In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. |
2005 | Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. |
2011 | STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. |
2014 | Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. |
1990 | The birth of Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor |
1990 | The birth of Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter |
1990 | The birth of Omar Strong, American basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Joey Graceffa, American internet celebrity |
1991 | The birth of Ashley Wagner, American figure skater |
1992 | The birth of Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Kirstin Maldonado, American singer and songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete |
1993 | The birth of Karol Mets, Estonian footballer |
1993 | The birth of IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress |
1994 | The birth of Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtenstein tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Elizabeth Ralston, Australian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Louisa Chirico, American tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Luis Garcia, Dominican-American baseball player |
2013 | The death of Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (b. 1940) |
2013 | The death of Dick Trickle, American race car driver (b. 1941) |
2013 | The death of Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932) |
2014 | The death of Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (b. 1973) |
2015 | The death of Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917) |
2021 | The death of Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (b. 1980) |
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