Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Margaret Mitchell |
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Birthdate | November 08, 1900 |
Birth Place | Atlanta, GA |
Age (in 2024) | 124 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Novelist |
Margaret Mitchell is best known as Novelist who has born on November 08, 1900 in Atlanta, GA. Currently, Margaret Mitchell is 124 years, 0 months and 13 days old. Margaret Mitchell will celebrate 125th birthday on Saturday, 8th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Margaret Mitchell upcoming birthday.
Author of the bestselling novel, Gone with the Wind, which received both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was adapted into a critically acclaimed, 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.
After Mitchell's dress caught on fire when she was three years old, her mother started dressing her in boys' pants, earning her the nickname of Jimmy (based on Little Jimmy, a popular comic strip of the time). She wrote a novella called Lost Laysen during her adolescent years; the work was published nearly a century later.
She only had one book published while she was alive, but that work alone won her the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter of suffragist Mary Isabel Stephens and attorney Eugene Muse Mitchell. She was briefly married to Berrien K. Upshaw before meeting John R. Marsh, the man who would become second husband. She had no children.
Her writing was heavily influenced by the work of one of her favorite authors, Charles Dickens.
Margaret Mitchell is 124 years old today.
Margaret Mitchell was born on November 08, 1900 in Atlanta, GA.
Margaret Mitchell zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Margaret Mitchell was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Margaret Mitchell's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1973 | The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million. |
1977 | Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. |
1981 | Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board. |
1983 | TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed. |
1987 | Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded. |
1988 | U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president. |
1994 | Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination. |
1999 | Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder. |
2002 | Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". |
2004 | Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
2006 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun. |
2011 | The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. |
2013 | Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage. |
2016 | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes. |
2016 | Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination. |
1987 | The birth of Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer |
1988 | The birth of Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer |
1988 | The birth of Lucia Slaničková, Slovak heptathlete |
1989 | The birth of Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer |
1989 | The birth of Giancarlo Stanton, American baseball player |
1990 | The birth of Ingrid Puusta, Estonian sailor |
1990 | The birth of SZA, American singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Aaron Fotheringham, American wheelchair athlete |
1991 | The birth of Jack Littlejohn, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Dan Middleton, English YouTube personality and pro gamer |
1992 | The birth of Christophe Vincent, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Przemek Karnowski, Polish basketball player |
1993 | The birth of Fraser Mullen, Scottish footballer |
1999 | The birth of Katherine Uchida, Canadian rhythmic gymnast |
2000 | The birth of Jasmine Thompson, English singer |
2013 | The death of Penn Kimball, American journalist and academic (b. 1915) |
2013 | The death of Arnold Rosner, American composer (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (b. 1957) |
2014 | The death of Phil Crane, American academic and politician (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Luigi Gorrini, Italian soldier and pilot (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Don Paul, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Hugo Sánchez Portugal, Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (b. 1984) |
2014 | The death of Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Joseph Cure, American ice hockey player and actor (b. 1984) |
2015 | The death of Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Om Prakash Mehra, Indian air marshal and politician (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and activist (b. 1942) |
2020 | The death of Alex Trebek, Canadian-American television personality and longtime host of Jeopardy! (b. 1940) |
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