Anniversaries 24 January

Birth

John Vanbrugh9

English architect and dramatist 1664–1726

William Congreve35

British writer 1670–1729

Frederick II of Prussia36

king of Prussia 1712–1786

Pierre Beaumarchais11

French playwright diplomat and polymath 1732–1799

Charles James Fox42

British Whig statesman 1749–1806

E. T. A. Hoffmann1

German Romantic author 1776–1822

Charles Henry Webb3

American poet 1834–1905

Hermann Ebbinghaus16

German psychologist 1850–1909

Edith Wharton103

American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862–1937

Lev Shestov7

Russian theologian 1866–1938

Walter Model13

German field marshal 1891–1945

Oskar Morgenstern5

austrian economist 1902–1977

Doris Haddock5

American political activist 1910–2010

C. L. Moore19

American author 1911–1987

Robert Motherwell42

American artist 1915–1991

Howard Raiffa21

American academic 1924–2016

Desmond Morris14

English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter 1928

Henri Nouwen23

Dutch priest and writer 1932–1996

Gabriel Zaid1

Mexican writer 1934

José Argüelles1

American author and artist 1939–2011

Vito Acconci2

Designer, landscape architect, performance and installation… 1940–2017

Joachim Gauck2

German politician 1940

Neil Diamond37

American singer-songwriter 1941

Sharon Tate7

actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers 1943–1969

David Gerrold26

American screenwriter and novelist 1944

Warren Zevon35

American singer-songwriter 1947–2003

Michio Kaku19

American theoretical physicist, futurist and author 1947

John Belushi4

American comedian, actor, and musician 1949–1982

Gennifer Flowers1

American actress and model 1950

Rogelio Cabrera López1

Roman Catholic archbishop 1951

Curtis White17

American academic 1951

Moon Jae-in2

President of South Korea 1953

Fridolin Ambongo Besungu1

Congolese theologian and catholic cardinal 1960

Robbert Dijkgraaf3

Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist 1960

Nastassja Kinski23

German actress 1961

Christopher McDougall17

American journalist and writer 1962

Antony Garrett Lisi1

American theoretical physicist 1968

Allison DuBois1

American psychic 1972

Alexander Marlow2

american journalist 1986

Callan McAuliffe1

actor 1995

Death

Caligula4

3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian… 12–41

Rebecca Latimer Felton8

American politician 1835–1930

Lord Randolph Churchill5

British politician 1849–1895

John Burns1

English trade unionist and politician 1858–1943

James Allen47

British philosophical writer 1864–1912

Vladimir Barsky1

Russian film director 1866–1936

Winston S. Churchill601

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

Amedeo Modigliani5

Italian painter and sculptor 1884–1920

Oliverio Girondo1

Argentinian writer 1891–1967

William Barclay6

Church of Scotland minister and academic 1907–1978

Thurgood Marshall11

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1908–1993

Homi J. Bhabha7

1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist 1909–1966

L. Ron Hubbard85

American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, … 1911–1986

Raymond F. Jones1

American writer 1915–1994

Gianni Agnelli5

Italian businessman 1921–2003

Bhimsen Joshi11

Indian vocalist 1922–2011

Peter Ladefoged5

British phonetician 1925–2006

Marvin Minsky65

American cognitive scientist 1927–2016

Shulamit Aloni1

Israeli politician 1928–2014

Betty Berzon1

American psychotherapist 1928–2006

David Finkelstein1

American physicist 1929–2016

Pete Stark4

American politician 1931–2020

Jack Ketchum2

American horror writer 1946–2018

Ted Bundy29

American serial killer 1946–1989

Mark E. Smith1

English spoken-word artist, singer, songwriter & bandleader… 1957–2018