Anniversaries 24 October
Birth
![James Mackintosh photo]()
British politician
1765–1832
![Marianne North photo]()
English biologist and botanical artist
1830–1890
![Alexandra David-Néel photo]()
French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist and writ…
1868–1969
![Brenda Ueland photo]()
Journalist and writer
1891–1985
![Merian C. Cooper photo]()
American aviator, actor, director and producer
1893–1973
![Bruno Munari photo]()
Italian artist and designer
1907–1998
![Bob Kane photo]()
American comic book artist, the creator of Batman
1915–1998
![Calvin Mooers photo]()
American computer scientist
1919–1994
![Luciano Berio photo]()
Italian composer
1925–2003
![John T. Noonan Jr. photo]()
United States federal judge
1926–2017
![Stephen R. Covey photo]()
American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe…
1932–2012
![Pierre-Gilles de Gennes photo]()
French Physicist
1932–2007
![Rafael Hernández Colón photo]()
Puerto Rican politician
1936–2019
![Frank Delaney photo]()
Irish writer and journalist
1942–2017
![Katherine Dunn photo]()
American novelist, journalist, poet
1945–2016
![Leila Ben Ali photo]()
Wife of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
1956
![Vincent K. Brooks photo]()
United States general
1958
![Alan Hirsch photo]()
South African missionary
1959
![Pauli Hanhiniemi photo]()
Finnish musician and composer
1964
![Emma Donoghue photo]()
Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
1969
![Zephyr Teachout photo]()
American academic, political activist and candidate
1971
![Sofia Samatar photo]()
Somali-American professor, editor and writer
1971
![Tila Tequila photo]()
American television and social media personality, singer an…
1981
![Drake photo]()
Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and a…
1986
![Paras Khadka photo]()
Nepalese Cricket team captain
1987
![PewDiePie photo]()
Swedish YouTuber and video game commentator
1989
Death
![Pierre Gassendi photo]()
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and …
1592–1655
![Thomas Parnell photo]()
Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
1679–1718
![Francis Turner Palgrave photo]()
English poet and critic
1824–1897
![Boris Sidis photo]()
American psychiatrist
1867–1923
![Ernst Barlach photo]()
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer
1870–1938
![G. E. Moore photo]()
British philosopher
1873–1958
![Edith Head photo]()
American film and television costumer
1897–1981
![Kurt Daluege photo]()
German SS general
1897–1946
![Dutch Schultz photo]()
American mobster
1902–1935
![David Oistrakh photo]()
Soviet violinist
1908–1974
![William Montgomery Watt photo]()
Scottish historian
1909–2006
![Ismat Chughtai photo]()
an Indian Urdu language writer
1911–1991
![Harry Hay photo]()
American gay rights activist
1912–2002
![Joseph Stein photo]()
American playwright
1912–2010
![Rosa Parks photo]()
African-American civil rights activist
1913–2005
![Jo Grimond photo]()
British soldier, politician and academic
1913–1993
![Richard Hofstadter photo]()
American historian
1916–1970
![Jackie Robinson photo]()
American baseball player
1919–1972
![Maureen O'Hara photo]()
Irish-American film actress and singer
1920–2015
![Gene Roddenberry photo]()
American television screenwriter and producer
1921–1991
![Dharampal photo]()
Indian historian
1922–2006
![Benjamin Creme photo]()
artist, author, esotericist
1922–2016
![John McCarthy photo]()
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
1927–2011
![Fats Domino photo]()
American R&B musician
1928–2017
![Laurie Colwin photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, food writer
1944–1992
