Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Margot Tomes |
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Birthdate | August 10, 1917 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Illustrator |
Margot Tomes is best known as Illustrator who has born on August 10, 1917 in New York. Currently, Margot Tomes is 107 years, 2 months and 25 days old. Margot Tomes will celebrate 108th birthday on Sunday, 10th of August 2025. Below the countdown to Margot Tomes upcoming birthday.
Famous for illustrating the acclaimed children's books Jack and the Wonder Beans (1977) and If There Were Dreams to Sell (1984), she is also well known for her work on writer Jean Fritz's Newbery Honor-winning autobiographical work Homesick: My Own Story.
Before beginning her career by illustrating Daphne du Maurier's 1959 work The Breaking Point, Tomes worked as an interior designer.
Over the course of her career, she illustrated some five dozen works of children's literature.
She grew up in Nassau County, New York. Born into an artistic family, she was a cousin of both Newbery Award-winning children's book illustrator William Pene du Bois and painter and art critic Guy Pene du Bois.
She and Robert Lawson were both New York-born illustrators.
Margot Tomes is 107 years old today.
Margot Tomes was born on August 10, 1917 in New York.
Margot Tomes zodiac sign is Leo.
Margot Tomes was best known as Illustrator.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Margot Tomes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1993 | Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 Mw shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 Mw event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island. |
1995 | Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony. |
1997 | Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan. |
1998 | HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation. |
1999 | Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting. |
2001 | The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths. |
2001 | Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the astronauts of Expedition 3 to replace the crew of Expedition 2. |
2003 | The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa. |
2009 | Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history. |
2012 | The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people. |
2014 | Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport. |
2018 | Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound. |
2018 | An anti-government rally turns into a riot when members of the Romanian Gendarmerie attack the 100,000 people protesting in front of the Victoria Palace, leading to 452 recorded injuries. The autorithies alleged that the crowd was infiltrated by hooligans who began attacking law enforcement agents. |
2019 | Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines. |
2020 | Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history. |
1987 | The birth of Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor |
1987 | The birth of Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor and singer |
1989 | The birth of Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player |
1989 | The birth of Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer |
1989 | The birth of Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor |
1990 | The birth of Cruze Ah-Nau, Australian rugby player |
1990 | The birth of Lee Sung-kyung, South Korean model, actress, and singer |
1991 | The birth of Marcus Foligno, American-Canadian ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Chris Tremain, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Dagný Brynjarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer |
1991 | The birth of Nikos Korovesis, Greek footballer |
1993 | The birth of Andre Drummond, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer |
1996 | The birth of Lauren Tait, Scottish netball player |
2000 | The birth of Sophia Smith, American soccer player |
2013 | The death of David C. Jones, American general (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Jody Payne, American singer and guitarist (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Amy Wallace, American author (b. 1955) |
2014 | The death of Jim Command, American baseball player and scout (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Dotty Lynch, American journalist and academic (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (b. 1912) |
2014 | The death of Bob Wiesler, American baseball player (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941) |
2015 | The death of Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physician, geneticist, and academic (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Knut Osnes, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Eriek Verpale, Belgian author and poet (b. 1952) |
2017 | The death of Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani doctor and nun (b. 1929) |
2019 | The death of Jeffrey Epstein, American financier (b. 1953) |
2021 | The death of Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1943) |
2022 | The death of Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor, musician and comedian (b. 1945) |
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