Updated at November 4, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Tracy K. Smith |
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Birthdate | April 16, 1972 |
Birth Place | Massachusetts |
Age (in 2024) | 52 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Poet |
Tracy K. Smith is best known as Poet who has born on April 16, 1972 in Massachusetts. Currently, Tracy K. Smith is 52 years, 6 months and 18 days old. Tracy K. Smith will celebrate 53rd birthday on Wednesday, 16th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Tracy K. Smith upcoming birthday.
African-American poet who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Life on Mars. Her other works include Duende and The Body's Question.
She graduated from Harvard University in 1994 and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University three years later.
She won the James Laughlin Award for poetry in 2006.
She married Raphael Allison, with whom she had three children.
Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012. Fellow poet Sharon Olds won the same honor the following year.
Tracy K. Smith is 52 years old today.
Tracy K. Smith was born on April 16, 1972 in Massachusetts.
Tracy K. Smith zodiac sign is Aries.
Tracy K. Smith was best known as Poet.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Tracy K. Smith's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
1990 | "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. |
1996 | Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children. |
2001 | India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border. |
2003 | The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union. |
2003 | Michael Jordan plays his final game with the National Basketball Association. |
2007 | Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. |
2008 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. |
2012 | The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway. |
2012 | The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. |
2013 | A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. |
2013 | The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga. |
2014 | The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities. |
2016 | Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274. |
2018 | The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal. |
1986 | The birth of Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast |
1987 | The birth of Cenk Akyol, Turkish basketball player |
1987 | The birth of Aaron Lennon, English international footballer |
1988 | The birth of Kyle Okposo, American ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Reggie Jackson, American basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player |
1990 | The birth of Tony McQuay, American sprinter |
1991 | The birth of Nolan Arenado, American baseball player |
1991 | The birth of Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer |
1993 | The birth of Chance the Rapper, American rapper |
1993 | The birth of Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater |
1996 | The birth of Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress |
1996 | The birth of Taylor Townsend, American tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Sadie Sink, American actress |
2013 | The death of Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909) |
2013 | The death of Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of Pedro RamĂrez VĂĄzquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (b. 1919) |
2014 | The death of Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923) |
2015 | The death of Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1948) |
2015 | The death of Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, fifth Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969) |
2018 | The death of Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (b. 1952) |
2021 | The death of Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (b. 1939) |
2021 | The death of Helen McCrory, British actress (b. 1968) |
2021 | The death of Liam Scarlett, British choreographer (b. 1986) |
2021 | The death of John Dawes, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1940) |
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