Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alice Adams |
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Birthdate | August 14, 1926 |
Birth Place | Virginia |
Age (in 2024) | 98 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alice Adams is best known as Novelist who has born on August 14, 1926 in Virginia. Currently, Alice Adams is 98 years, 3 months and 9 days old. Alice Adams will celebrate 99th birthday on Thursday, 14th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Alice Adams upcoming birthday.
An American fiction writer and academic, she is best known for short story collections such as Beautiful Girl (1979), After You've Gone (1989), and The Last Lovely City (1999). Her close to a dozen novels include Medicine Men (1997) and the 1984 bestselling work Superior Women.
She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1946. Before publishing her first novel, Careless Love, in 1966, she worked briefly as a secretary.
Her psychiatrist once encouraged her to remain married and to stop writing. She ignored both pieces of advice.
She was born in Virginia, and she grew up in North Carolina. With her husband, Mark Linenthal, she had a son named peter. After her divorce, she raised Peter alone.
She contributed stories to the New Yorker; Brendan Gill worked as a journalist for the same publication.
Alice Adams is 98 years old today.
Alice Adams was born on August 14, 1926 in Virginia.
Alice Adams zodiac sign is Leo.
Alice Adams was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alice Adams's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | Bahrain declares independence from Britain. |
1972 | An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. |
1980 | Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. |
1994 | Ilich RamÃrez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. |
1996 | Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. |
2003 | A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. |
2005 | Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. |
2006 | Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. |
2006 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. |
2007 | The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people. |
2013 | Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. |
2013 | UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board. |
2015 | The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba-United States relations were broken off. |
2021 | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. |
2022 | An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens. |
1984 | The birth of Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player |
1984 | The birth of Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host |
1984 | The birth of Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player |
1984 | The birth of Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player |
1985 | The birth of Christian Gentner, German footballer |
1985 | The birth of Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Braian RodrÃguez, Uruguayan footballer |
1987 | The birth of Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster |
1989 | The birth of Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Richard Freitag, German ski jumper |
1991 | The birth of Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player |
1995 | The birth of Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player |
2007 | The death of Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913) |
2010 | The death of Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923) |
2012 | The death of Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945) |
2012 | The death of Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923) |
2012 | The death of Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of George V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922) |
2018 | The death of Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975) |
2019 | The death of Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1935) |
2020 | The death of Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (b. 1933) |
2020 | The death of Angela Buxton, British tennis player (b. 1934) |
2020 | The death of James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (1977-91) (b. 1936) |
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