Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Kit Wright |
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Birthdate | June 17, 1944 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 80 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Kit Wright is best known as Children's Author who has born on June 17, 1944 in England. Currently, Kit Wright is 80 years, 5 months and 4 days old. Kit Wright will celebrate 81st birthday on Tuesday, 17th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Kit Wright upcoming birthday.
Award-winning British children's writer and poet. His best-known works include Short Afternoons, The Bear Looked Over the Mountain, and Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000.
After graduating from Oxford University, he taught in Canada. His early work, The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (published in 1977), won both the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
He worked in the education office of England's Poetry Society from 1970-1975.
He grew up in Crockham Hill, Kent, England.
His 1978 collection, Rabbiting On and Other Poems, contained illustrations by author/artist Posy Simmonds.
Kit Wright is 80 years old today.
Kit Wright was born on June 17, 1944 in England.
Kit Wright zodiac sign is Gemini.
Kit Wright was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Kit Wright's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Kit Wright's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1960 | The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. |
1963 | The United States Supreme Court rules 8-1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. |
1963 | A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. |
1967 | Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. |
1971 | U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs. |
1972 | Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process. |
1985 | Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. |
1987 | With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct. |
1989 | Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people. |
1991 | Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. |
1992 | A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). |
1994 | Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
2015 | Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. |
2017 | A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. |
2021 | Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. |
1987 | The birth of Kendrick Lamar, American rapper |
1987 | The birth of Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer and actress |
1988 | The birth of Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Shaun MacDonald, Welsh footballer |
1988 | The birth of Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer |
1989 | The birth of Georgios Tofas, Cypriot footballer |
1989 | The birth of Simone Battle, American singer and actress (d. 2014) |
1990 | The birth of Jordan Henderson, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Daniel Tupou, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1994 | The birth of Amari Cooper, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Clément Lenglet, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of KJ Apa, New Zealand actor |
1997 | The birth of Raluca Șerban, Romanian-Cypriot tennis player |
1999 | The birth of Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstani tennis player |
2013 | The death of James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934) |
2014 | The death of Patsy Byrne, English actress (b. 1933) |
2014 | The death of Éric Dewailly, Canadian epidemiologist and academic (b. 1954) |
2014 | The death of Stanley Marsh 3, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1938) |
2014 | The death of Arnold S. Relman, American physician and academic (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Larry Zeidel, Canadian-American ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of John David Crow, American football player and coach (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (b. 1973) |
2017 | The death of Baldwin Lonsdale, president of Vanuatu (b. 1948) |
2019 | The death of Gloria Vanderbilt, American artist, author actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite (b. 1924) |
2019 | The death of Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian professor and politician, first elected president of Egypt after Egyptian revolution (b. 1951) |
2021 | The death of Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (b. 1924) |
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