Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Virginia Hamilton |
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Birthdate | March 12, 1934 |
Birth Place | Ohio |
Age (in 2024) | 90 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Virginia Hamilton is best known as Children's Author who has born on March 12, 1934 in Ohio. Currently, Virginia Hamilton is 90 years, 7 months and 24 days old. Virginia Hamilton will celebrate 91st birthday on Wednesday, 12th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Virginia Hamilton upcoming birthday.
Most well known for her Newbery Medal and U.S. Book Award-winning children's book M. C. Higgins, the Great, she is also famous for her children's mystery The House of Dies Drear, as well as for works such as Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl; The Planet of Junior Brown; and The Girl Who Spun Gold.
Some years after attending Antioch College and Ohio State University, she published her debut literary work, Zeely. The novel received the Nancy Bloch Award and an American Library Association Notable Book designation.
Her prestigious literary honors include the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
One of five children born to Kenneth and Etta Hamilton, she spent her childhood in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her marriage to children's poet Arnold Adoff produced two children.
In 2010, the American Library Association introduced a literary honor known as the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award that recognizes exceptional work by African American children's writers.
Virginia Hamilton is 90 years old today.
Virginia Hamilton was born on March 12, 1934 in Ohio.
Virginia Hamilton zodiac sign is Pisces.
Virginia Hamilton was best known as Children's Author.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Virginia Hamilton's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. |
1971 | The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. |
1989 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web. |
1992 | Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
1993 | Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more. |
1993 | North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. |
1999 | Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. |
2003 | Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. |
2003 | The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). |
2004 | The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. |
2009 | Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history. |
2011 | A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. |
2014 | A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. |
2019 | In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes. |
2020 | The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
1993 | The birth of Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist |
1994 | The birth of Jerami Grant, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) |
1996 | The birth of Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Robert Murić, Croatian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper |
1997 | The birth of Dean Henderson, English footballer |
1997 | The birth of Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer |
1997 | The birth of Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer |
1998 | The birth of Mecole Hardman, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater |
1998 | The birth of Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater |
2001 | The birth of Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor |
2012 | The death of Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936) |
2013 | The death of Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937) |
2014 | The death of Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936) |
2015 | The death of Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924) |
2015 | The death of Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948) |
2016 | The death of Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942) |
2016 | The death of Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) |
2021 | The death of Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (b. 1951) |
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