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Full Name | Gene Stratton-Porter |
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Birthdate | August 17, 1863 |
Birth Place | Largo, IN |
Age (in 2024) | 161 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Novelist |
Gene Stratton-Porter is best known as Novelist who has born on August 17, 1863 in Largo, IN. Currently, Gene Stratton-Porter is 161 years, 3 months and 28 days old. Gene Stratton-Porter will celebrate 162nd birthday on Sunday, 17th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Gene Stratton-Porter upcoming birthday.
Naturalist, photographer, and author whose popular novel, A Girl of the Limberlost, was adapted into a film. Her other novels include The Harvester (1911), Michael O'Halloran (1915), and The Keeper of the Bees (1925).
She grew up in Wabash County, Indiana as the youngest in a family of twelve children. She published her first novel, The Song of the Cardinal, in 1903.
Her best-selling work, A Girl of the Limberlost, was adapted for the screen in 1924 as a silent film, then as a talkie in both 1934 and 1945, and finally as a television movie in 1990.
She had one daughter with her husband, Charles D. Porter, a doctor and pharmacy owner in Geneva, Indiana. Her adulthood home in Indiana's swamplands inspired many of her nature-based literary works.
Mary Pickford's brother, Jack, starred in the silent film adaptation of Stratton-Porter's other well-known work, Freckles.
Gene Stratton-Porter is 161 years old today.
Gene Stratton-Porter was born on August 17, 1863 in Largo, IN.
Gene Stratton-Porter zodiac sign is Leo.
Gene Stratton-Porter was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Gene Stratton-Porter's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1977 | The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. |
1978 | Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. |
1985 | The 1985-86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. |
1988 | President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
1991 | Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself. |
1998 | Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship. |
1999 | The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118-17,127 dead and 43,953-50,000 injured. |
2004 | The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. |
2005 | The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts. |
2005 | Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. |
2008 | American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games. |
2009 | An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area. |
2015 | A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. |
2017 | Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100. |
2019 | A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured. |
1988 | The birth of Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter |
1988 | The birth of Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British member of ISIS (d. 2015) |
1988 | The birth of Erika Toda, Japanese actress |
1989 | The birth of Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer |
1992 | The birth of Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (d. 2013) |
1992 | The birth of Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Paige, English wrestler |
1993 | The birth of Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter |
1995 | The birth of Gracie Gold, American figure skater |
1995 | The birth of Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player |
1996 | The birth of Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player |
2000 | The birth of Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter |
2003 | The birth of Nastasja Schunk, German tennis player |
2012 | The death of John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927) |
2013 | The death of John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Frank MartÃnez, American painter (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923) |
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