Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Louise Erdrich |
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Birthdate | June 07, 1954 |
Birth Place | Little Falls, MN |
Age (in 2024) | 70 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Louise Erdrich is best known as Children's Author who has born on June 07, 1954 in Little Falls, MN. Currently, Louise Erdrich is 70 years, 5 months and 14 days old. Louise Erdrich will celebrate 71st birthday on Saturday, 7th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Louise Erdrich upcoming birthday.
A Native American writer of children's literature, poetry, and novels, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her 2012 novel, The Round House. Her other notable works include Tracks (novel), Jacklight (poems), and The Birchbark House (children's book).
She earned a Master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University after receiving her Bachelor's degree in English from Dartmouth. She published her first novel, Love Medicine, in 1984.
Her novel, The Plague of Doves, was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
She was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. With her husband, Michael Dorris, she had three biological and three adopted children.
She defeated Junot Diaz to win the National Book Award in 2012.
Louise Erdrich is 70 years old today.
Louise Erdrich was born on June 07, 1954 in Little Falls, MN.
Louise Erdrich zodiac sign is Gemini.
Louise Erdrich was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Louise Erdrich's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Louise Erdrich's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1948 | Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state. |
1955 | Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. |
1962 | The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. |
1965 | The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
1967 | Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem. |
1971 | The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
1971 | The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. |
1975 | Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format. |
1977 | Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television. |
1981 | The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. |
1982 | Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. |
1989 | Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard. |
1991 | Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high. |
2000 | The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. |
2017 | A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. |
1960 | The birth of Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer |
1965 | The birth of Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector |
1965 | The birth of Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and author |
1967 | The birth of Dave Navarro, American musician |
1970 | The birth of Cafu, Brazilian footballer |
1974 | The birth of Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host |
1975 | The birth of Allen Iverson, American basketball player |
1978 | The birth of Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter |
1981 | The birth of Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player |
1988 | The birth of Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician |
1990 | The birth of Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model |
1991 | The birth of Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress |
1993 | The birth of George Ezra, English singer-songwriter |
1996 | The birth of Christian McCaffrey, American football player |
1970 | The death of E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1879) |
1978 | The death of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
1980 | The death of Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (b. 1883) |
1980 | The death of Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (b. 1913) |
1980 | The death of Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (b. 1891) |
1985 | The death of Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (b. 1906) |
1987 | The death of Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940) |
1992 | The death of Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (b. 1909) |
1995 | The death of Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (b. 1918) |
2001 | The death of Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907) |
2001 | The death of Betty Neels, English nurse and author (b. 1910) |
2002 | The death of Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (b. 1915) |
2012 | The death of Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922) |
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