Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Angela Johnson |
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Birthdate | June 18, 1961 |
Birth Place | Tuskegee, AL |
Age (in 2024) | 63 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Angela Johnson is best known as Children's Author who has born on June 18, 1961 in Tuskegee, AL. Currently, Angela Johnson is 63 years, 5 months and 25 days old. Angela Johnson will celebrate 64th birthday on Wednesday, 18th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Angela Johnson upcoming birthday.
The author of children's pictures books, young adult novels, and poetry focusing on African-American families, Johnson is particularly well known for her Coretta Scott King Award-winning works The First Part Last (2004); Heaven (1999); and Toning the Sweep (1994).
Her first picture book, Tell Me a Story, Mama (published in 1991) won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award.
While working as a nanny for children's writer Cynthia Rylant, the young Johnson was mentored by the established author.
Many of her works, including her lyrical poetry collection The Other Side: Shorter Poems, paint a vivid picture of the history and character of her home state of Alabama. Though she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, she actually spent most of her youth in Windham, Ohio.
She collaborated with illustrator Dav Pilkey on the 1993 picture book Julius.
Angela Johnson is 63 years old today.
Angela Johnson was born on June 18, 1961 in Tuskegee, AL.
Angela Johnson zodiac sign is Gemini.
Angela Johnson was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Angela Johnson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1958 | Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival. |
1965 | Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam. |
1972 | Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport. |
1979 | SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. |
1981 | The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight. |
1982 | Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. |
1983 | Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. |
1983 | Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs. |
1984 | A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-85 UK miners' strike. |
1994 | The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup. |
1998 | Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal-Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11. |
2006 | The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched. |
2007 | The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters. |
2009 | The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched. |
2018 | An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka. |
1989 | The birth of Chris Harris Jr., American football player |
1990 | The birth of Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast |
1990 | The birth of Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Christian Taylor, American triple jumper |
1993 | The birth of Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist |
1994 | The birth of Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player |
1994 | The birth of Takeoff, American rapper (d. 2022) |
1995 | The birth of Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater |
1996 | The birth of Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater |
1997 | The birth of Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player |
1997 | The birth of Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player |
1999 | The birth of Choi Ye-won, South Korean singer and actress |
1999 | The birth of Trippie Redd, American rapper |
2014 | The death of Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914) |
2014 | The death of Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (b. 1931) |
2018 | The death of XXXTentacion, American rapper (b. 1998) |
2018 | The death of Big Van Vader (also known as Vader) American professional wrestler (b. 1955) |
2018 | The death of Jimmy Wopo, American rapper (b. 1997) |
2020 | The death of Vera Lynn, English singer who was the "Forces' Sweetheart" in World War II (b. 1917) |
2022 | The death of Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Danish politician, minister of foreign affairs (b. 1941) |
2022 | The death of Adibah Noor, Malaysian actress, singer, master of ceremonies (b. 1970) |
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