Updated at November 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Vachel Lindsay |
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Birthdate | November 10, 1879 |
Birth Place | Springfield, IL |
Age (in 2024) | 145 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Poet |
Vachel Lindsay is best known as Poet who has born on November 10, 1879 in Springfield, IL. Currently, Vachel Lindsay is 145 years, 0 months and 4 days old. Vachel Lindsay will celebrate 146th birthday on Monday, 10th of November 2025. Below the countdown to Vachel Lindsay upcoming birthday.
American poet whose works include "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" and "The Eagle That is Forgotten." He is regarded as the father of "singing poetry" -- poetry written to be chanted.
After briefly studying medicine at Hiram College, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago.
Both a poet and a musical performance artist, he earned the nickname of "Prairie Troubadour."
He married and had two children with Elizabeth Connor, who was twenty years his junior.
He was a contemporary of William Butler Yeats.
Vachel Lindsay is 145 years old today.
Vachel Lindsay was born on November 10, 1879 in Springfield, IL.
Vachel Lindsay zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Vachel Lindsay was best known as Poet.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Vachel Lindsay's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Vachel Lindsay's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1975 | The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. |
1975 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. |
1979 | A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history. |
1983 | Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0. |
1989 | Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov. |
1989 | Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall. |
1995 | In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces. |
1997 | WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). |
2002 | Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio, during the early to mid afternoon and destroys a movie theater, which had been evacuated. |
2006 | Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. |
2006 | The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor. |
2008 | Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. |
2009 | Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. |
2019 | President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military. |
2020 | Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and prompting protests in Armenia. |
1997 | The birth of Benoit Buratti, French skier |
1997 | The birth of Federico Dimarco, Italian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Cao Dong, Chinese footballer |
1997 | The birth of Marios Georgiou, Cypriot gymnast |
1997 | The birth of Maurice Gomis, Italian-Senegalese footballer |
1997 | The birth of Daniel James, Welsh footballer |
1997 | The birth of Patrik Klačan, Slovak footballer |
1997 | The birth of Khalil Madovi, British actor |
1997 | The birth of Dhruv Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer |
1997 | The birth of Giovanna Scoccimarro, German judoka |
1997 | The birth of Yuriy Vakulko, Ukrainian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Jasper van Heertum, Dutch footballer |
1997 | The birth of Wang Xin, Chinese footballer |
1998 | The birth of Karen Villanueva, Mexican rhythmic gymnast |
1999 | The birth of Kiernan Shipka, American actress |
2013 | The death of John Matchefts, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931) |
2013 | The death of Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet and translator (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Josip Boljkovac, Croatian soldier and politician, 1st Croatia Minister of the Interior (b. 1920) |
2014 | The death of Wayne Goss, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Premier of Queensland (b. 1951) |
2014 | The death of John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926) |
2014 | The death of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, American surfer and physician (b. 1921) |
2014 | The death of Al Renfrew, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (b. 1922) |
2015 | The death of Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (b. 1952) |
2015 | The death of André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1918) |
2015 | The death of Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1938) |
2020 | The death of Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (b. 1955) |
2021 | The death of Miroslav Žbirka, Slovak singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952) |
2022 | The death of Kevin Conroy, American voice actor (b. 1955) |
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