Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jacqueline Woodson |
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Birthdate | February 12, 1963 |
Birth Place | Ohio |
Age (in 2024) | 61 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aquarius |
Occupation | Young Adult Author |
Jacqueline Woodson is best known as Young Adult Author who has born on February 12, 1963 in Ohio. Currently, Jacqueline Woodson is 61 years, 8 months and 20 days old. Jacqueline Woodson will celebrate 62nd birthday on Wednesday, 12th of February 2025. Below the countdown to Jacqueline Woodson upcoming birthday.
American author whose work is notable for its themes of racial and sexual identity. Among her most acclaimed books is 2014's Brown Girl Dreaming, which received the National Book Award, Newbery Medal and NAACP Image Award.
She studied Drama at Howard University and received her B.A. in English from Adelphi University in 1985.
Her novel Miracle's Boys was adapted into a six-part miniseries directed by Spike Lee, LaVar Burton and others in 2002.
She has a daughter named Toshi Georgianna and a son named Jackson-Lero.
She has cited the work of novelist Toni Morrison as a key influence.
Jacqueline Woodson is 61 years old today.
Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12, 1963 in Ohio.
Jacqueline Woodson zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Jacqueline Woodson was best known as Young Adult Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jacqueline Woodson's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. |
1983 | One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law. |
1988 | Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage. |
1990 | Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia. |
1992 | The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect. |
1993 | Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him. |
1994 | Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. |
1999 | United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. |
2001 | NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. |
2002 | The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion. |
2002 | An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119. |
2004 | The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. |
2009 | Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground. |
2016 | Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054. |
2019 | The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece. |
1982 | The birth of Anthony Tuitavake, New Zealand rugby player |
1983 | The birth of Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach |
1984 | The birth of Brad Keselowski, American race car driver |
1984 | The birth of Andrei Sidorenkov, Estonian footballer |
1984 | The birth of Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer |
1987 | The birth of Jérémy Chardy, French tennis player |
1988 | The birth of DeMarco Murray, American football player |
1988 | The birth of Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer |
1988 | The birth of Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer |
1990 | The birth of Robert Griffin III, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Patrick Herrmann, German footballer |
1992 | The birth of Magda Linette, Polish tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Arman Hall, American sprinter |
1999 | The birth of Maggie Coles-Lyster, Canadian cyclist |
2000 | The birth of Kim Ji-min, South Korean actress |
2015 | The death of Gary Owens, American radio host and voice actor (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Steve Strange, Welsh singer (b. 1959) |
2016 | The death of Dominique D'Onofrio, Italian-Belgian footballer and coach (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Yannis Kalaitzis, Greek cartoonist (b. 1945) |
2016 | The death of Yan Su, Chinese general and composer (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940) |
2017 | The death of Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist (b. 1933) |
2017 | The death of Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915) |
2018 | The death of Bill Crider, American author (b. 1941) |
2019 | The death of Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1937) |
2019 | The death of Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922) |
2019 | The death of Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler and commentator (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1951) |
2020 | The death of Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (b. 1928) |
2022 | The death of Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1946) |
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