Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Carol Ann Duffy |
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Birthdate | December 23, 1955 |
Birth Place | Scotland |
Age (in 2024) | 68 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Poet |
Carol Ann Duffy is best known as Poet who has born on December 23, 1955 in Scotland. Currently, Carol Ann Duffy is 68 years, 10 months and 13 days old. Carol Ann Duffy will celebrate 69th birthday on Monday, 23rd of December 2024. Below the countdown to Carol Ann Duffy upcoming birthday.
One-time British Poet Laureate whose poetry collections include Standing Female Nude, Mean Time, and Rapture. Her poetic works, which address themes of gender roles and violence, received the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, among other honors.
She graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in philosophy. She published her first poetic work, Fleshweathercock and Other Poems, in 1974.
She earned a spot on a 2013 BBC Radio list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the United Kingdom.
Born to a Catholic family in Scotland, she later relocated to England. She had a daughter, Ella, with Peter Benson.
She and Randall Jarrell both held the title of Poet Laureate.
Carol Ann Duffy is 68 years old today.
Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23, 1955 in Scotland.
Carol Ann Duffy zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Carol Ann Duffy was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Carol Ann Duffy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state. |
1972 | The Immaculate Reception is caught by Franco Harris to win the Pittsburgh Steelers their first ever playoff victory, after defeating the Oakland Raiders. |
1972 | A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000. |
1972 | The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism. |
1978 | Alitalia Flight 4128 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on approach to Falcone Borsellino Airport in Palermo, Italy, killing 108. |
1979 | Soviet-Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital. |
1984 | After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board. |
1986 | Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling. |
1990 | History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia. |
2002 | A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft. |
2003 | An explosion at the PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field in Kai County, Chongqing, China, kills at least 234. |
2005 | An Antonov An-140, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan, heading across the Caspian Sea, crashes, killing 23 people. |
2007 | An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state. |
2008 | A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of President Lansana Conté. |
2015 | A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later. |
1984 | The birth of Josh Satin, American baseball player |
1984 | The birth of Sebastian Werle, German rugby player |
1985 | The birth of Harry Judd, English drummer and songwriter |
1986 | The birth of Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer (d. 2013) |
1986 | The birth of Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player |
1986 | The birth of Balázs Dzsudzsák, Hungarian footballer |
1986 | The birth of T. J. Oshie, American ice hockey player |
1987 | The birth of Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player |
1988 | The birth of Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013 |
1989 | The birth of Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet |
1992 | The birth of Jeff Schlupp, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Reed Alexander, American actor |
1996 | The birth of Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer |
2002 | The birth of Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician |
2013 | The death of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Ricky Lawson, American drummer and composer (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of G. S. Shivarudrappa, Indian poet and educator (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Robert W. Wilson, American philanthropist and art collector (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944) |
2014 | The death of Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Don Howe, English footballer and manager (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Jean-Marie Pelt, French biologist, pharmacist, and academic (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923) |
2017 | The death of Maurice Hayes, Irish educator and politician (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Leslie West, American singer and guitarist (b. 1945) |
2021 | The death of Joan Didion, American writer (b. 1934) |
2022 | The death of Brandon Montrell, American TikTok personality and stand-up comedian (b. 1979) |
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