Updated at November 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Dare Wright |
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Birthdate | December 03, 1914 |
Birth Place | Canada |
Age (in 2024) | 109 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Dare Wright is best known as Children's Author who has born on December 03, 1914 in Canada. Currently, Dare Wright is 109 years, 11 months and 10 days old. Dare Wright will celebrate 110th birthday on Tuesday, 3rd of December 2024. Below the countdown to Dare Wright upcoming birthday.
Canadian-American children's author and photographer most widely remembered for her 1957 New York Times Best Seller The Lonely Doll. The book was named by The Guardian as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of All Time in 20110.
She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to New York city in her 20's.
Her only book written for adults, Ocracoke in The Fifties, as well as another children's book, Make Me Real, were released after her death.
She is the daughter of portrait artist Edith Stevenson Wright and theatre critic Ivan Wright. Her brother Blaine passed away in 1985.
She and Paulette Bourgeois are both famous children's authors from Canada.
Dare Wright is 109 years old today.
Dare Wright was born on December 03, 1914 in Canada.
Dare Wright zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Dare Wright was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Dare Wright's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Dare Wright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1982 | A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. |
1984 | Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000-600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. |
1989 | In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact may be coming to an end. |
1992 | The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. |
1992 | A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague. |
1994 | Taiwan holds its first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first directly elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung. |
1995 | Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board. |
1997 | In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however. |
1999 | NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. |
2005 | XCOR Aerospace makes the first crewed rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. |
2007 | Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 32-kilometre (20Â mi) portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods. |
2009 | A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. |
2012 | At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines. |
2014 | The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples. |
2021 | COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand moves into COVID-19 Protection Framework (Traffic Light System), moving Auckland out of lockdown for fully vaccinated people. |
1987 | The birth of Michael Angarano, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Erik Grönwall, Swedish singer-songwriter |
1987 | The birth of Brian Robiskie, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast |
1988 | The birth of Melissa Aldana, Chilean saxophonist |
1989 | The birth of Alex McCarthy, English footballer |
1989 | The birth of Selçuk Alibaz, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Tomasz Narkun, Polish mixed martial artist |
1990 | The birth of Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Ekaterine Gorgodze, Georgian tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Cristian Ceballos, Spanish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Solomone Kata, New Zealand rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Lil Baby, American rapper |
1994 | The birth of Bernarda Pera, American tennis player |
2012 | The death of Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) |
2012 | The death of Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1917) |
2012 | The death of Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1980) |
2012 | The death of Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966) |
2013 | The death of Paul Aussaresses, French general (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, Egyptian air marshal (b. 1952) |
2013 | The death of Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet and educator (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Jacques Barrot, French politician, French European Commissioner (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Nathaniel Branden, Canadian-American psychotherapist and author (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Ian McLagan, English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Gladstone Anderson, Jamaican singer and pianist (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Eevi Huttunen, Finnish speed skater (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967) |
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