Fords is a locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, southwest of Kapunda, South Australia.
 It is crossed by the Thiele Highway, and the former Morgan railway line.
 The northern boundary of Fords is the Light River.
 Fords is named after an early landowner, John Ford.
Colin Milton Thiele AC ( ; 16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator.
 He was renowned for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels "Storm Boy", "Blue Fin", the "Sun on the Stubble" series, and "February Dragon".
Maryland Route 611 (MD 611) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.
 Known as Stephen Decatur Highway, the state highway runs 8.51 mi from Assateague Island north to U.S. Route 50 (US 50) in West Ocean City.
 MD 611 is named for Stephen Decatur, the U.S. naval officer of the early 19th century who was born in nearby Berlin.
 The state highway provides access to Assateague State Park and Assateague Island National Seashore via the Verrazano Bridge named for Giovanni da Verrazzano.
 MD 611 was first paved in West Ocean City in the mid-1930s.
 The highway was extended south to MD 376 at Lewis Corner in the 1940s.
 A ferry crossed Sinepuxent Bay to Assateague Island from the southern end of the county highway that continued south from Lewis Corner until MD 611 was extended across the Verrazano Bridge in the mid-1960s.
The Thiele Highway is a road in South Australia connecting the outskirts of Adelaide to the North west bend of the Murray River at Morgan, South Australia.
 It is named after author Colin Thiele who lived most of his life in towns along the route, and set some of his stories in the area.
Eba is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, between the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Murray River.
 It is on the Thiele Highway and was on the Morgan railway line, 10 km southwest of Morgan near the northwest bend of the Murray River.
Richard H. Small (born 1935) is an American scientist, who has worked mainly in the field of electroacoustics.
 He is known for the commonly used Thiele/Small parameters for loudspeaker enclosure design, which are named after Small and his colleague Neville Thiele.
Kingsford is a locality in South Australia located about 46 km north of the Adelaide city centre.
 The Sturt Highway crosses the locality which is bounded by the Thiele Highway on the northwest, Roseworthy and Gomersal Roads on the north and the North Para River on the south.
Bower is a town in South Australia, approximately halfway between Eudunda and Morgan on the Thiele Highway.
Hansborough is a locality along the former Morgan railway line adjacent to the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region.
 It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda.
 The Light River runs through the locality.
Mount Mary (formerly Krichauff and Beatty) is a small town on the Thiele Highway between Eudunda and Morgan in South Australia.
 It was also served by the Morgan railway line from 1878 until 1969 and is named for the Mount Mary railway station on that line.

Question: When was the author after which Thiele Highway was named born? 
Answer: 16 November 1920