Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Sandra Cisneros |
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Birthdate | December 20, 1954 |
Birth Place | Chicago, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 69 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Novelist |
Sandra Cisneros is best known as Novelist who has born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago, IL. Currently, Sandra Cisneros is 69 years, 11 months and 3 days old. Sandra Cisneros will celebrate 70th birthday on Friday, 20th of December 2024. Below the countdown to Sandra Cisneros upcoming birthday.
Author whose works of Chicana literature include the award-winning, coming-of-age novel, The House on Mango Street (1984), and the short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). She was the recipient of both the Clay McDaniel Fellowship and the American Book Award.
She wrote her first poem at the age of ten and was encouraged by her high school teacher to pursue a writing career. She published her debut work, Bad Boys, in 1980.
She was an important figure in Chicana literature, and she established both the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation.
She was born in Chicago to a Mexican-American family and was the only surviving girl in a family of seven children. She is the daughter of Alfredo and Elvira Cisneros de Mora.
Like Sinclair Lewis, she was a social critic as well as a novelist.
Sandra Cisneros is 69 years old today.
Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago, IL.
Sandra Cisneros zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Sandra Cisneros was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Sandra Cisneros's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1967 | A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 249 kilometres per hour (155Â mph) on their New York Division, also present-day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. |
1973 | Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. |
1984 | The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines. |
1984 | Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 24Â km (15Â mi) southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head." |
1985 | Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day. |
1987 | In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). |
1989 | The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega. |
1991 | A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. |
1995 | NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. |
1995 | American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50Â km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board. |
1999 | Macau is handed over to China by Portugal. |
2004 | A gang of thieves steal ÂŁ26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history. |
2007 | Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days. |
2007 | The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cùndido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later. |
2019 | The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947. |
1982 | The birth of Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer |
1982 | The birth of David Wright, American baseball player |
1983 | The birth of Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter |
1987 | The birth of Malcolm Jenkins, American football player |
1990 | The birth of JoJo, American singer and actress |
1991 | The birth of Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jillian Rose Reed, American actress |
1991 | The birth of Fabian SchÀr, Swiss footballer |
1991 | The birth of Jorginho, Brazilian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater |
1993 | The birth of Robeisy RamĂrez, Cuban boxer |
1997 | The birth of De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player |
1997 | The birth of Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer |
1998 | The birth of Kylian Mbappé, French footballer |
2001 | The birth of Facundo Pellistri, Uruguayan footballer |
2008 | The death of Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912) |
2009 | The death of Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
2009 | The death of Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918) |
2010 | The death of James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914) |
2011 | The death of Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929) |
2012 | The death of Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Per-Ingvar BrÄnemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915) |
2020 | The death of Fanny Waterman, British pianist (b. 1920) |
2020 | The death of Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Franco Harris, American football player (b. 1950) |
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