Kit Wright Age, Birthday, Bio, Zodiac, Family & Fun Facts

Updated at December 13, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team

Kit Wright Age, Birthday, Birthplace, Bio, Zodiac & Family

Kit Wright Facts

Full Name	Kit Wright
Birthdate	June 17, 1944
Birth Place	England
Age (in 2024)	80 Years Old
Zodiac	Gemini
Occupation	Children's Author

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Kit Wright Age & Birthday

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 26 days old. Kit Wright will celebrate 81st birthday on Tuesday, 17th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Kit Wright upcoming birthday.

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Kit Wright Biography

About

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.

Before Fame

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.

Trivia

He worked in the education office of England's Poetry Society from 1970-1975.

Family Life

He grew up in Crockham Hill, Kent, England.

Associated With

His 1978 collection, Rabbiting On and Other Poems, contained illustrations by author/artist Posy Simmonds.

Top Asked Questions about Kit Wright

How old is Kit Wright in 2024?

Kit Wright is 80 years old today.

When was Kit Wright born?

Kit Wright was born on June 17, 1944 in England.

What is Kit Wright zodiac sign?

Kit Wright zodiac sign is Gemini.

What was Kit Wright best known for?

Kit Wright was best known as Children's Author.

Fun Facts about Kit Wright's Birthday

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.

Kit Wright was born on Saturday, 169^th day / 24^th week of 1944
Kit Wright has Gemini zodiac sign and Air element based on western astrology
Roman numeral of Kit Wright birthday is XVII.VI.MCMXLIV
Kit Wright's birthstone is Pearl
Kit Wright's birth flower is Rose that symbolize love, gratitude & appreciation
Kit Wright age in year is 80 years old
Kit Wright age in month is 965 months old
Kit Wright age in day is 29399 days old
Kit Wright age in hour is 705576 hours old
Kit Wright age in minute is 42334560 minutes old
Kit Wright age in second is 2540073600 seconds old
Next Kit Wright birthday is on Tuesday, June 17th 2025
Kit Wright age in next birthday (2025) is 81 years old
Learn more interesting facts about June 17, 1944 birthday

Historical Events on Kit Wright Birthday (June 17)

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
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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