Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Alison Lester |
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Birthdate | November 17, 1952 |
Birth Place | Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 72 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Alison Lester is best known as Children's Author who has born on November 17, 1952 in Australia. Currently, Alison Lester is 72 years, 0 months and 16 days old. Alison Lester will celebrate 73rd birthday on Monday, 17th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Alison Lester upcoming birthday.
Known for both her picture books for children and her fiction works for young adults, this Australian author and artist earned a Children's Book Council of Australia Award (CBCA) for her work Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia.
After attending a boarding school in Victoria, Australia, she enrolled at The Melbourne Teachers' College. She began her career as an illustrator in the late 1970s, and her first children's book, Clive Eats Alligators, was published in 1985.
Her popular and critically-acclaimed works for children and young adults include such titles as Ernie Dances To The Didgeridoo, The Journey Home, and The Snow Pony.
She was raised on a Victoria, Australia seaside farm, and she grew up riding horses and reading novels.
She and her Australian contemporary, Mem Fox, both had successful careers as children's book authors.
Alison Lester is 72 years old today.
Alison Lester was born on November 17, 1952 in Australia.
Alison Lester zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Alison Lester was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Alison Lester's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. |
1983 | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. |
1986 | The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. |
1989 | Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). |
1990 | Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. |
1993 | United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. |
1993 | In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. |
1997 | In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. |
2000 | A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. |
2000 | Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
2003 | Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. |
2012 | At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. |
2013 | Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. |
2013 | A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. |
2019 | The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. |
1986 | The birth of Greg Rutherford, English long jumper |
1987 | The birth of Craig Noone, English footballer |
1987 | The birth of Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Justine Michelle Cain, English actress |
1988 | The birth of Durratun Nashihin Rosli, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast |
1989 | The birth of Ryan Griffin, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker |
1992 | The birth of Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer |
1992 | The birth of Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Taylor Gold, American snowboarder |
1995 | The birth of Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player |
2000 | The birth of Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player |
2004 | The birth of Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player |
2012 | The death of Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Zeke Bella, American baseball player (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (b. 1915) |
2013 | The death of Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1935) |
2013 | The death of Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (b. 1993) |
2013 | The death of Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1982) |
2021 | The death of Young Dolph, American rapper (b. 1985) |
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