In what year was Dr. Seuss born?

Dr. Seuss was born in 1904. His birth name was Theodor Seuss Geisel, and he was born on March 2 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Geisel later adopted “Dr. Seuss” as his best-known pen name. He became an author, illustrator, political cartoonist, animator, and publisher of more than 60 books, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

A common mix-up is confusing his birth year with the dates of his major books. The Cat in the Hat appeared in 1957, more than five decades after his birth, while his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was published in 1937. Geisel died in 1991, aged 87.