Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Beverly Cleary |
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Birthdate | April 12, 1916 |
Birth Place | McMinnville, OR |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Beverly Cleary is best known as Children's Author who has born on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, OR. Currently, Beverly Cleary is 108 years, 7 months and 9 days old. Beverly Cleary will celebrate 109th birthday on Saturday, 12th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Beverly Cleary upcoming birthday.
Acclaimed children's writer who created the popular Henry Huggins and Ramona series. Her numerous literary honors include the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
The town where she grew up was too small for a library, so her mother arranged to have books shipped in from a nearby library. A lifelong lover of books, Cleary graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English and later received her library science degree from the University of Washington.
In 2000, she was named a living legend by the Library of Congress.
She was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in Oregon, and she grew up as an only child. She married Clarence Cleary in 1940, and the couple settled in Oakland, California with their two children.
A 2010 film adaptation of Cleary's popular book, Ramona and Beezus, starred Selena Gomez in the role of Beezus.
Beverly Cleary is 108 years old today.
Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, OR.
Beverly Cleary zodiac sign is Aries.
Beverly Cleary was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Beverly Cleary's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Beverly Cleary's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. |
1980 | The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed. |
1980 | Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed. |
1980 | Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF |
1981 | The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. |
1983 | Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago. |
1990 | Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there. |
1992 | The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris. |
1999 | United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred. |
2002 | A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104. |
2007 | A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. |
2009 | Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency. |
2010 | Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28. |
2013 | Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali. |
2014 | The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes. |
1991 | The birth of Oliver Norwood, English born Northern Irish international footballer |
1991 | The birth of Magnus Pääjärvi, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Jazz Richards, Welsh international footballer |
1992 | The birth of Chad le Clos, South African swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Robin Anderson, American tennis player |
1993 | The birth of Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer |
1993 | The birth of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer |
1994 | The birth of Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress |
1994 | The birth of Oh Sehun, South Korean musician |
1994 | The birth of Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer |
1994 | The birth of Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer |
1995 | The birth of Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Matteo Berrettini, Italian tennis player |
1996 | The birth of Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Pierre Autin-Grenier, French author and poet (b. 1947) |
2014 | The death of Pierre-Henri Menthéour, French cyclist (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1990) |
2014 | The death of Hal Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Billy Standridge, American race car driver (b. 1953) |
2015 | The death of Paulo Brossard, Brazilian jurist and politician (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Patrice Dominguez, Algerian-French tennis player and trainer (b. 1950) |
2015 | The death of Alfred Eick, German commander (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of André Mba Obame, Gabonese politician (b. 1957) |
2016 | The death of Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Mohammad Al Gaz, Emirati politician & diplomat (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (b. 1959) |
2020 | The death of Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (b. 1983) |
2021 | The death of Joseph Siravo, American actor and producer (b. 1955) |
2022 | The death of Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1955) |
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