Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Phoebe Gilman |
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Birthdate | April 04, 1940 |
Birth Place | The Bronx, NY |
Age (in 2024) | 84 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Phoebe Gilman is best known as Children's Author who has born on April 04, 1940 in The Bronx, NY. Currently, Phoebe Gilman is 84 years, 7 months and 17 days old. Phoebe Gilman will celebrate 85th birthday on Friday, 4th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Phoebe Gilman upcoming birthday.
American-born children's author and illustrator who is known for creating strong female characters. Her most popular works include Something From Nothing (1992) and Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs (1987).
She studied at both Hunter College and the Art Students League of New York and subsequently traveled Europe while making a living as a painter. She published her first children's book, The Balloon Tree, in 1984.
In 1993, she won the Ruth Schwartz Award for Best children's Book for her work, Something From Nothing.
She died of leukemia in her early sixties. She was survived by her three children, as well as by her husband, Brian Bender.
She and American poet, Malka Lee, both attended Hunter College.
Phoebe Gilman is 84 years old today.
Phoebe Gilman was born on April 04, 1940 in The Bronx, NY.
Phoebe Gilman zodiac sign is Aries.
Phoebe Gilman was best known as Children's Author.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Phoebe Gilman's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Phoebe Gilman's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1981 | Iran-Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft. |
1983 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6. |
1984 | President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons. |
1988 | Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office. |
1990 | The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. |
1991 | Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. |
1991 | Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. 3 of the hostage takers and 3 hostages are killed |
1994 | Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. |
1996 | Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. |
2002 | The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. |
2009 | France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO. |
2010 | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing two and damaging buildings across the two countries. |
2013 | More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. |
2017 | Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians. |
2020 | China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak. |
1989 | The birth of Steven Finn, English cricketer |
1989 | The birth of Chris Herd, Australian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress |
1991 | The birth of Asia Muhammad, American tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Justin O'Neill, Australian rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer |
1991 | The birth of Marlon Stöckinger, Filipino race car driver |
1992 | The birth of Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer |
1992 | The birth of Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter |
1992 | The birth of Ricky Dillon, American youtuber and singer |
1993 | The birth of Samir Carruthers, English footballer |
1993 | The birth of Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor |
1994 | The birth of Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress |
1996 | The birth of Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor |
2013 | The death of Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1933) |
2013 | The death of Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (b. 1972) |
2014 | The death of İsmet Atlı, Turkish wrestler and trainer (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1953) |
2014 | The death of Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1943) |
2014 | The death of Curtis Bill Pepper, American journalist and author (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Muhammad Qutb, Egyptian author and academic (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian engineer and politician (b. 1951) |
2015 | The death of Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Donald N. Levine, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (b. 1931) |
2016 | The death of Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930) |
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