Anniversaries 24 October

Birth

James Mackintosh6

British politician 1765–1832

Bahadur Shah Zafar1

Mughal emperor 1775–1862

Eugène Fromentin9

French painter 1820–1876

Marianne North1

English biologist and botanical artist 1830–1890

Alexandra David-Néel5

French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist and writ… 1868–1969

Brenda Ueland9

Journalist and writer 1891–1985

Merian C. Cooper1

American aviator, actor, director and producer 1893–1973

Bruno Munari1

Italian artist and designer 1907–1998

Bob Kane3

American comic book artist, the creator of Batman 1915–1998

Calvin Mooers5

American computer scientist 1919–1994

Denise Levertov49

Poet 1923–1997

Дениз Левертов1

1923–1997

Luciano Berio3

Italian composer 1925–2003

John T. Noonan Jr.3

United States federal judge 1926–2017

O.B. Hardison Jr.1

1927–1990

Robert Mundell1

economist 1932

Adrian Mitchell9

British writer 1932–2008

Stephen R. Covey125

American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe… 1932–2012

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes5

French Physicist 1932–2007

Norman Rush2

American writer 1933

Antony Selvanayagam1

Catholic bishop 1935

Mark Tully21

British journalist 1935

Rafael Hernández Colón2

Puerto Rican politician 1936–2019

Donald Phillip Verene7

philosopher 1937

Frank Delaney4

Irish writer and journalist 1942–2017

Katherine Dunn20

American novelist, journalist, poet 1945–2016

Kevin Kline3

American actor 1947

David Weber14

author 1952

Leila Ben Ali3

Wife of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 1956

Vincent K. Brooks2

United States general 1958

Alan Hirsch49

South African missionary 1959

Ted Dekker39

American writer 1962

Amor Towles1

American novelist 1964

Pauli Hanhiniemi9

Finnish musician and composer 1964

Emma Donoghue36

Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969

Gwen Cooper1

American novelist 1971

Zephyr Teachout3

American academic, political activist and candidate 1971

Sofia Samatar5

Somali-American professor, editor and writer 1971

Róbert Puzsér21

hungarian publicist 1974

Mallika Sherawat9

Indian actress 1976

Gabrielle Zevin88

American writer 1977

Tila Tequila2

American television and social media personality, singer an… 1981

Drake10

Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and a… 1986

Paras Khadka2

Nepalese Cricket team captain 1987

Феликс Челльберг (PewDiePie)5

1989

PewDiePie15

Swedish YouTuber and video game commentator 1989

Death

Pierre Gassendi1

French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and … 1592–1655

Thomas Parnell7

Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet. 1679–1718

Francis Turner Palgrave21

English poet and critic 1824–1897

Boris Sidis26

American psychiatrist 1867–1923

Ernst Barlach1

German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer 1870–1938

G. E. Moore3

British philosopher 1873–1958

Edith Head2

American film and television costumer 1897–1981

Kurt Daluege1

German SS general 1897–1946

Dutch Schultz12

American mobster 1902–1935

David Oistrakh3

Soviet violinist 1908–1974

William Montgomery Watt3

Scottish historian 1909–2006

Ismat Chughtai1

an Indian Urdu language writer 1911–1991

Harry Hay11

American gay rights activist 1912–2002

Joseph Stein1

American playwright 1912–2010

Rosa Parks22

African-American civil rights activist 1913–2005

Jo Grimond13

British soldier, politician and academic 1913–1993

Richard Hofstadter34

American historian 1916–1970

Peggy Moran3

actress 1918–2002

Jackie Robinson1

American baseball player 1919–1972

Maureen O'Hara6

Irish-American film actress and singer 1920–2015

Gene Roddenberry27

American television screenwriter and producer 1921–1991

Dharampal3

Indian historian 1922–2006

Benjamin Creme134

artist, author, esotericist 1922–2016

John McCarthy12

American computer scientist and cognitive scientist 1927–2011

Fats Domino4

American R&B musician 1928–2017

Laurie Colwin1

Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1944–1992