Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Mem Fox |
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Birthdate | March 05, 1946 |
Birth Place | Melbourne, Australia |
Age (in 2024) | 78 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Mem Fox is best known as Children's Author who has born on March 05, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia. Currently, Mem Fox is 78 years, 8 months and 18 days old. Mem Fox will celebrate 79th birthday on Wednesday, 5th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Mem Fox upcoming birthday.
An Australian children's author, educator, and literacy advocate, she is best known for works such as Possum Magic (1983), Time for Bed (1993), and Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (2008). Her controversial work, Guess What?, appeared on the list of the 100 Most Challenged Books in America from 1990 until 2000.
She attended drama school in England before beginning her career in education and children's literature. She taught literacy studies at Flinders University until 1996.
Her literary honors include the Advance Australia Award for an outstanding contribution to Australian literature (1991), and in 2005 she was appointed by Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark as one of five Australian ambassadors of Hans Christian Andersen in celebration of the author's 200th anniversary.
She married teacher Malcolm Fox in 1969. The couple welcomed a daughter, Chloe Fox, in 1971.
She had a passion for children's literacy, as did Jim Davis, who established the Professor Garfield Foundation to promote the cause.
Mem Fox is 78 years old today.
Mem Fox was born on March 05, 1946 in Melbourne, Australia.
Mem Fox zodiac sign is Pisces.
Mem Fox was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Mem Fox's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1965 | March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. |
1966 | BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board. |
1970 | The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. |
1974 | Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. |
1978 | The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. |
1979 | Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. |
1981 | The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1â2 million units around the world. |
1982 | Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. |
1991 | Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. |
1993 | Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. |
2003 | In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. |
2012 | Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. |
2018 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. |
2021 | Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. |
2021 | Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. |
1990 | The birth of Alex Smithies, English footballer |
1991 | The birth of Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentinian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer |
1993 | The birth of El Hadji Ba, French footballer |
1993 | The birth of Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer |
1993 | The birth of Fred, Brazilian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Harry Maguire, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player |
1994 | The birth of Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player |
1996 | The birth of Taylor Hill, American model |
1996 | The birth of Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Milena Venega, Cuban rower |
1998 | The birth of Bo Bichette, American baseball player |
1999 | The birth of Kim Ye-rim, South Korean singer and actress |
2007 | The birth of Roman Griffin Davis, British actor |
2012 | The death of Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934) |
2012 | The death of William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Hugo ChĂĄvez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954) |
2013 | The death of Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963) |
2014 | The death of Leopoldo MarĂa Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948) |
2014 | The death of Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958) |
2015 | The death of Edward Egan, American cardinal and former Archbishop of New York (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932) |
2016 | The death of Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941) |
2016 | The death of Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938) |
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