Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Margaret Wise Brown |
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Birthdate | May 23, 1910 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 114 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Margaret Wise Brown is best known as Children's Author who has born on May 23, 1910 in New York. Currently, Margaret Wise Brown is 114 years, 5 months and 29 days old. Margaret Wise Brown will celebrate 115th birthday on Friday, 23rd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Margaret Wise Brown upcoming birthday.
Famous for her children's picture books The Runaway Bunny (1942), Goodnight, Moon (1947), and The Color Kittens (1949), she is also notable for her Noisy Book series. Her widely popular work has been translated into many languages.
After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Hollins College (in Virginia), she taught school in New York City and published her first children's book, When the Wind Blew, in 1937.
Many of her most famous works are illustrated by Clement Hurd.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, she spent a portion of her childhood at schools in Switzerland and Massachusetts. Following a lengthy relationship with actress and writer Blanche Oelrichs (the ex-wife of actor John Barrymore), Brown became engaged to James Stillman Rockefeller, Jr., but never had the opportunity to marry him, as she died suddenly in her early forties.
Mary Mapes Dodge is another popular American children's writer.
Margaret Wise Brown is 114 years old today.
Margaret Wise Brown was born on May 23, 1910 in New York.
Margaret Wise Brown zodiac sign is Gemini.
Margaret Wise Brown was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Margaret Wise Brown's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1992 | Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. |
1995 | The first version of the Java programming language is released. |
1998 | The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes. |
2002 | The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. |
2006 | Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts. |
2008 | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. |
2013 | A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. |
2014 | Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. |
2015 | At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma. |
2016 | Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen. |
2016 | Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured. |
2017 | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi. |
2021 | A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people. |
2021 | Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. |
2022 | Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. |
1991 | The birth of Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of César Pinares, Chilean footballer |
1996 | The birth of Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper |
1996 | The birth of Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Razvan Marin, Romanian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Coy Craft, American footballer |
1997 | The birth of Joe Gomez, English footballer |
1997 | The birth of Gustaf Nilsson, Swedish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Sam Timmins, New Zealand basketball player |
1998 | The birth of Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian racing driver |
1998 | The birth of Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter |
1999 | The birth of James Charles, American internet personality |
1999 | The birth of Trinidad Cardona, American singer and songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian-Italian racing driver |
2012 | The death of Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian sergeant (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1997) |
2021 | The death of Ron Hill, English long-distance runner (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of Eric Carle, American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (b. 1929) |
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