Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Thomas McGrath |
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Birthdate | November 20, 1916 |
Birth Place | North Dakota |
Age (in 2024) | 108 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Poet |
Thomas McGrath is best known as Poet who has born on November 20, 1916 in North Dakota. Currently, Thomas McGrath is 108 years, 0 months and 21 days old. Thomas McGrath will celebrate 109th birthday on Thursday, 20th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Thomas McGrath upcoming birthday.
Twentieth-century American poet who is best known for Letter to an Imaginary Friend. His other works include The Beautiful Things, To Walk a Crooked Mile, and The Movie at the End of the World.
He fought in World War II and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.
He taught at both California State University, Los Angeles and Colby College (Maine).
He was raised on a North Dakota farm. He married three times and had one child.
He was a contemporary of poet Margaret Walker.
Thomas McGrath is 108 years old today.
Thomas McGrath was born on November 20, 1916 in North Dakota.
Thomas McGrath zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Thomas McGrath was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Thomas McGrath's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1980 | Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. |
1985 | Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released. |
1989 | Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. |
1990 | Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings. |
1991 | An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan. |
1992 | In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage. |
1993 | Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. |
1993 | Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board. |
1994 | The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.) |
1996 | A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81. |
1998 | A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
1998 | The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
2003 | After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. |
2015 | Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali. |
2022 | The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament will be held in the Middle East. |
1993 | The birth of Junior Paulo, New Zealand rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer |
1993 | The birth of Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner |
1995 | The birth of Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete |
1995 | The birth of Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist |
1995 | The birth of Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater |
1995 | The birth of Kyle Snyder, American wrestler |
1996 | The birth of Jack Harrison, English professional footballer |
1996 | The birth of Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer |
1996 | The birth of Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer |
1997 | The birth of Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer |
2000 | The birth of Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter |
2001 | The birth of Caty McNally, American tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Madisyn Shipman, American actress |
2013 | The death of Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926) |
2015 | The death of Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (b. 1953) |
2016 | The death of Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984) |
2016 | The death of Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (b. 1937) |
2016 | The death of Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (b. 1926) |
2016 | The death of William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (b. 1934) |
2018 | The death of James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (b. 1929) |
2018 | The death of Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
2019 | The death of Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923) |
2020 | The death of Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (b. 1926) |
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