Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Madeline Defrees |
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Birthdate | November 18, 1919 |
Birth Place | Oregon |
Age (in 2024) | 105 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Poet |
Madeline Defrees is best known as Poet who has born on November 18, 1919 in Oregon. Currently, Madeline Defrees is 105 years, 0 months and 3 days old. Madeline Defrees will celebrate 106th birthday on Tuesday, 18th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Madeline Defrees upcoming birthday.
American poet and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient known for Blue Dusk, Magpie on the Gallows, and other works. She received the Washington State Book Award for poetry for a 2006 collection entitled Spectral Waves.
She received degrees from Marylhurst College and the University of Oregon. She published her debut poetry collection, From the Darkroom, in 1964.
She joined the Catholic Sisterhood in 1936 and went by the name Sister Mary Gilbert until 1973.
She was born and raised in Oregon. She later taught in the Pacific University graduate creative writing program in her home state.
She was a contemporary of fellow American poet Amy Clampitt.
Madeline Defrees is 105 years old today.
Madeline Defrees was born on November 18, 1919 in Oregon.
Madeline Defrees zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Madeline Defrees was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Madeline Defrees's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1978 | The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, United States. |
1978 | In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. |
1987 | King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. |
1991 | Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. |
1991 | After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. |
1991 | The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, which would in 1993 become a republic, was established in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
1993 | In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives. |
1993 | In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule. |
1996 | A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel. |
1999 | At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others. |
2002 | Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
2003 | The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4-3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. |
2012 | Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. |
2013 | NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars. |
2020 | The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016 is discovered by state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. |
1983 | The birth of Jon Lech Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer and engineer, created DeCSS |
1984 | The birth of Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer and dancer |
1984 | The birth of Enar Jääger, Estonian footballer |
1985 | The birth of Allyson Felix, American sprinter |
1987 | The birth of Yoon Park, South Korean actor |
1988 | The birth of Jeffrey Jordan, American basketball player |
1988 | The birth of Michael Roach, American soccer player |
1988 | The birth of Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Ivorian sprinter |
1989 | The birth of Lu Jiajing, Chinese tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Ahmed Kelly, Iraqi-Australian swimmer |
1991 | The birth of Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player |
1992 | The birth of Steven Skrzybski, German footballer |
1994 | The birth of Danka Kovinić, Montenegrin professional tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Bernhard Luxbacher, Austrian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Akiyuki Hashimoto, Japanese sprinter |
2013 | The death of Thomas Howard, American football player (b. 1983) |
2013 | The death of S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Dave Appell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1922) |
2014 | The death of Pepe Eliaschev, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Ahmad Lozi, Jordanian educator and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of C. Rudhraiya, Indian director and producer (b. 1947) |
2015 | The death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Belgian-Moroccan terrorist (b. 1987) |
2015 | The death of Dan Halldorson, Canadian-American golfer (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1975) |
2016 | The death of Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer (b. 1956) |
2016 | The death of Denton Cooley, American surgeon and scientist (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian hard rock guitarist (b. 1953) |
2022 | The death of Tabassum, Indian actress and talk show host (b. 1944) |
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