Kelly Cherry Age, Birthday, Bio, Zodiac, Family & Fun Facts

Updated at December 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team

Kelly Cherry Age, Birthday, Birthplace, Bio, Zodiac & Family

Kelly Cherry Facts

Full Name	Kelly Cherry
Birthdate	December 21, 1940
Birth Place	Louisiana
Age (in 2024)	84 Years Old
Zodiac	Sagittarius
Occupation	Poet

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Kelly Cherry Age & Birthday

Kelly Cherry is best known as Poet who has born on December 21, 1940 in Louisiana. Currently, Kelly Cherry is 84 years, 0 months and 2 days old. Kelly Cherry will celebrate 85th birthday on Sunday, 21st of December 2025. Below the countdown to Kelly Cherry upcoming birthday.

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Kelly Cherry Biography

About

Former Poet Laureate of Virginia whose best-known works include Death and Transfiguration, Rising Venus, and Hazard and Prospect. Also a fiction and nonfiction writer, she published such works as In the Wink of an Eye and The Exiled Heart.

Before Fame

She attended the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Beginning in the late 1970s, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Trivia

She wrote reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Book Review.

Family Life

She was born in Louisiana and raised in New York and Virginia. She married Burke Davis III.

Associated With

She and Sylvia Plath were both twentieth-century American poets.

Top Asked Questions about Kelly Cherry

How old is Kelly Cherry in 2024?

Kelly Cherry is 84 years old today.

When was Kelly Cherry born?

Kelly Cherry was born on December 21, 1940 in Louisiana.

What is Kelly Cherry zodiac sign?

Kelly Cherry zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

What was Kelly Cherry best known for?

Kelly Cherry was best known as Poet.

Fun Facts about Kelly Cherry's Birthday

Here's quick list of some fun facts about Kelly Cherry's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.

Kelly Cherry was born on Saturday, 356^th day / 51^st week of 1940
Kelly Cherry has Sagittarius zodiac sign and Fire element based on western astrology
Roman numeral of Kelly Cherry birthday is XXI.XII.MCMXL
Kelly Cherry's birthstone is Turquoise
Kelly Cherry's birth flower is Narcissus that symbolize sweetness, self-esteem & vanity
Kelly Cherry age in year is 84 years old
Kelly Cherry age in month is 1008 months old
Kelly Cherry age in day is 30683 days old
Kelly Cherry age in hour is 736392 hours old
Kelly Cherry age in minute is 44183520 minutes old
Kelly Cherry age in second is 2651011200 seconds old
Next Kelly Cherry birthday is on Sunday, December 21st 2025
Kelly Cherry age in next birthday (2025) is 85 years old
Learn more interesting facts about December 21, 1940 birthday

Historical Events on Kelly Cherry Birthday (December 21)

Below are historical events that coincided with Kelly Cherry's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.

Year	Event
1963	"Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.
1965	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
1967	Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
1968	Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1970	First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
1973	The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1979	Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1988	A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil.
1988	The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.
1992	A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
1995	The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999	The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
1999	Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
2004	Iraq War: A suicide bomber kills 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
2020	A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
1978	The birth of Emiliano Brembilla, Italian swimmer
1978	The birth of Charles Dera, American pornographic actor, dancer, model, and mixed martial arts fighter
1978	The birth of Shaun Morgan, South African musician, singer, and guitarist
1979	The birth of Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1981	The birth of Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
1982	The birth of Philip Humber, American baseball player
1983	The birth of Steven Yeun, American actor
1985	The birth of Tom Sturridge, English actor
1988	The birth of Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler
1989	The birth of Mark Ingram II, American football player
1989	The birth of Tamannaah, South Indian actress
1991	The birth of Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
1995	The birth of Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver
1995	The birth of Kelly Smith, English rugby union player
2002	The birth of Clara Tauson, Danish tennis player
1992	The death of Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
1992	The death of Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
1998	The death of Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)
2004	The death of Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)
2006	The death of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2009	The death of Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2009	The death of Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
2010	The death of Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2013	The death of Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2013	The death of John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
2014	The death of Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
2014	The death of Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
2014	The death of Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
2017	The death of Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)
2019	The death of Andrew Clennel Palmer, British engineer (b. 1938)

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