Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Martha Ostenso |
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Birthdate | September 17, 1900 |
Birth Place | Norway |
Age (in 2024) | 124 Years Old |
Zodiac | Virgo |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Martha Ostenso is best known as Screenwriter who has born on September 17, 1900 in Norway. Currently, Martha Ostenso is 124 years, 2 months and 4 days old. Martha Ostenso will celebrate 125th birthday on Wednesday, 17th of September 2025. Below the countdown to Martha Ostenso upcoming birthday.
A Canadian fiction writer and screenwriter, she is particularly known for her 1925 bestselling novel, Wild Geese. Her other works include The White Reef; The Dark Dawn; Prologue to Love; and The Stone Field.
After briefly studying at the University of Manitoba, she moved to New York and pursued a career as a social worker.
Her novel Wild Geese was made into a Canadian television movie starring Sam Shepard.
She married Douglas Durkin in 1945.
She and Alice Munro are both Canadian writers.
Martha Ostenso is 124 years old today.
Martha Ostenso was born on September 17, 1900 in Norway.
Martha Ostenso zodiac sign is Virgo.
Martha Ostenso was best known as Screenwriter.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Martha Ostenso's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1976 | The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA. |
1978 | The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. |
1980 | After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. |
1980 | Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay. |
1983 | Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. |
1991 | Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. |
1991 | The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. |
1992 | An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin. |
2001 | The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. |
2006 | Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years. |
2006 | An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country. |
2011 | Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City. |
2013 | Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release. |
2016 | Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing. |
2018 | A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea. |
1989 | The birth of Kate Deines, American soccer player |
1990 | The birth of Sean Scannell, English footballer |
1990 | The birth of Pixie Geldof, English model and singer |
1991 | The birth of Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer |
1991 | The birth of Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Cameron King, Australian rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Sofiane Boufal, Moroccan footballer |
1993 | The birth of Sophie Howard, Scottish footballer |
1994 | The birth of Na In-woo, South Korean actor |
1995 | The birth of Patrick Mahomes, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Yoo Si-ah, South Korean singer |
1996 | The birth of Esteban Ocon, French F1 racing driver |
1997 | The birth of Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player |
1999 | The birth of Jaimee Fourlis, Australian tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Elina Avanesyan, Russian tennis player |
2014 | The death of Charles Read, Australian air marshal (b. 1918) |
2014 | The death of Peter von Bagh, Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (b. 1925) |
2015 | The death of Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919) |
2016 | The death of Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian racing cyclist (b. 1968) |
2016 | The death of Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1936) |
2017 | The death of Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1944) |
2019 | The death of Cokie Roberts, American journalist and bestselling author (b. 1943) |
2020 | The death of Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (b. 1937) |
2021 | The death of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1937) |
2022 | The death of Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (b. 1929) |
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