Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Jo Shapcott |
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Birthdate | March 24, 1953 |
Birth Place | London, England |
Age (in 2024) | 71 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Poet |
Jo Shapcott is best known as Poet who has born on March 24, 1953 in London, England. Currently, Jo Shapcott is 71 years, 7 months and 11 days old. Jo Shapcott will celebrate 72nd birthday on Monday, 24th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Jo Shapcott upcoming birthday.
British poet, professor, and two-time National Poetry Competition winner. Her best-known works include My Life Asleep, Electroplating the Baby, and Of Mutability.
She studied at Trinity College, Dublin and at Harvard University. She published her debut poetry collection, Electroplating the Baby, in 1988.
She received the prestigious Costa Book of the Year Award for a 2010 poetry collection entitled Of Mutability.
She was born in London, England, and she studied in her youth at the Cavendish School.
She co-edited a 2002 essay collection on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.
Jo Shapcott is 71 years old today.
Jo Shapcott was born on March 24, 1953 in London, England.
Jo Shapcott zodiac sign is Aries.
Jo Shapcott was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Jo Shapcott's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1986 | The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. |
1989 | In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000Â m3) of crude oil after running aground. |
1990 | Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka. |
1993 | Comet ShoemakerâLevy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California. |
1998 | Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. |
1998 | A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others. |
1998 | Dr. RĂŒdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany. |
1999 | Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. |
1999 | A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people. |
2003 | The Arab League votes 21â1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
2008 | Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
2015 | Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. |
2018 | Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive. |
2018 | Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. |
2019 | Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation. |
1988 | The birth of MatĂas MartĂnez, Argentinian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer |
1988 | The birth of Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player |
1989 | The birth of Aziz Shavershian, Russian-born Australian bodybuilder (d. 2011) |
1990 | The birth of Starlin Castro, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor |
1990 | The birth of Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress |
1990 | The birth of Lacey Evans, American wrestler |
1990 | The birth of Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Nick Browne, English cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player |
1995 | The birth of Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Mina MyĆi, Japanese singer and dancer |
1999 | The birth of Katie Swan, British tennis player |
2001 | The birth of Clara Burel, French tennis player |
2014 | The death of John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954) |
2015 | The death of Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash: Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960) Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981) |
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2016 | The death of Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947) |
2016 | The death of Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949) |
2018 | The death of Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924) |
2018 | The death of Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (b. 1966) |
2019 | The death of Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b. 1949) |
2020 | The death of Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (b. 1933) |
2021 | The death of Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (b. 1941) |
2022 | The death of Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (b. 1912) |
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