As per our current Database, Katharine Lee Bates is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Katharine Lee Bates is 164 years, 8 months and 22 days old. Katharine Lee Bates will celebrate 165rd birthday on a Monday 12th of August 2024. Below we countdown to Katharine Lee Bates upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Katharine Lee Bates |
Occupation | Songwriter |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | August 12, 1859 (MA) |
Birthday | August 12 |
Town/City | MA |
Nationality | MA |
Katharine Lee Bates’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Katharine Lee Bates was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
Wrote the lyrics to "America the Beautiful" and the poem "Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride" that made Mrs. Santa Claus popular.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 where she later served as full professor of English literature.
She was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
She never married, but was said to have had a close relationship with Katharine Coman, a teacher with whom she lived.
She graduated from the same college as Cokie Roberts.