Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Francesca Simon |
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Birthdate | February 23, 1955 |
Birth Place | St. Louis, MO |
Age (in 2024) | 69 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Francesca Simon is best known as Children's Author who has born on February 23, 1955 in St. Louis, MO. Currently, Francesca Simon is 69 years, 9 months and 8 days old. Francesca Simon will celebrate 70th birthday on Sunday, 23rd of February 2025. Below the countdown to Francesca Simon upcoming birthday.
Children's novelist who penned the popular Horrid Henry book series. Her more than twenty Horrid Henry titles include Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy and Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb.
She attended both Yale University and Oxford University, majoring in Old English and Medieval studies. She published her first Horrid Henry book in 1994.
She won The Children's Book of the Year Award in 2008 for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman.
She was born in Missouri and raised in California as the daughter of playwright Mayo Simon. She later settled in London, England with her husband, Martin, and the couple's son, Joshua.
She won the Children's Book of the Year award one year before Stephenie Meyer earned the same honor.
Francesca Simon is 69 years old today.
Francesca Simon was born on February 23, 1955 in St. Louis, MO.
Francesca Simon zodiac sign is Pisces.
Francesca Simon was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Francesca Simon's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Francesca Simon's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1983 | The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. |
1987 | Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. |
1988 | Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq. |
1991 | In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. |
1998 | In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people. |
1999 | Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. |
1999 | An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31. |
2007 | A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. |
2008 | A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2. |
2010 | Unknown criminals pour more than .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster. |
2012 | A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured. |
2017 | The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL. |
2019 | Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board. |
2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia. |
2021 | Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador. |
1987 | The birth of Ab-Soul, American rapper |
1987 | The birth of Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer |
1987 | The birth of Zak Kirkup, Member of the Parliament of Western Australia |
1988 | The birth of Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Evan Bates, American ice dancer |
1989 | The birth of Jérémy Pied, French footballer |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player |
1992 | The birth of Casemiro, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer |
1993 | The birth of Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Dakota Fanning, American actress |
1995 | The birth of Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player |
1996 | The birth of D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player |
2012 | The death of David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924) |
2012 | The death of Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918) |
2013 | The death of Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920) |
2013 | The death of Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903) |
2014 | The death of Roger Hilsman, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of W. E. "Bill" Dykes, American soldier and politician (b. 1925) |
2016 | The death of Peter Lustig, German television host and author (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Jacqueline Mattson, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2019 | The death of Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929) |
2021 | The death of Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1930) |
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Wikipedia | Francesca Simon on Wikipedia |
Website | Francesca Simon's Webiste |
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