Anniversaries 24 November

Birth

Baruch Spinoza210

Dutch philosopher 1632–1677

Laurence Sterne50

Irish/English writer 1713–1768

Zachary Taylor1

American general and politician, 12th President of the Unit… 1784–1850

Alphonse Karr3

French critic, journalist, and novelist 1808–1890

Henry Thomas Buckle4

English historian 1821–1862

Carlo Collodi2

Italian writer 1826–1890

George Augustus Henry Sala1

British journalist 1828–1895

Frances Hodgson Burnett56

English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

Edwin Grant Conklin4

American biologist and zoologist 1863–1952

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec13

French painter 1864–1901

Yitzchak Gruenbaum2

Israeli politician 1879–1970

Eric Rücker Eddison11

British writer 1882–1945

Margaret Caroline Anderson7

American magazine editor 1886–1973

Erich von Manstein8

German general 1887–1973

Dale Carnegie98

American writer and lecturer 1888–1955

Lucky Luciano1

Italian-American mobster 1897–1962

Liu Shaoqi4

2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969) 1898–1969

Claus Moser, Baron Moser2

British statistician and Civil Servant 1922–2015

William F. Buckley Jr.43

American conservative author and commentator 1925–2008

Simon van der Meer1

Dutch physicist 1925–2011

Jean Ping1

Gabonese politician 1942

Billy Connolly23

British comedian 1942

Dan Glickman1

American businessman and politician 1944

Nuruddin Farah1

Somali writer 1945

Gilles Côté (bishop)1

Canadian-born bishop 1945

Penny Jordan1

British women's author 1946–2011

Ted Bundy29

American serial killer 1946–1989

Spider Robinson32

Canadian author 1948

Rudy Tomjanovich1

American basketball player and coach 1948

Parveen Shakir4

Pakistani writer and poet 1952–1994

Emir Kusturica4

Serbian film director, actor and musician of Bosnian origin 1954

Jeff Noon2

British writer 1957

Marek Sanak8

Polish scientist 1958

Amanda Wyss2

American actress 1960

Arundhati Roy122

Indian novelist, essayist 1961

Peter Schweizer2

American writer 1964

Merav Michaeli1

Israeli politician 1966

Mark Pilgrim2

American computer programmer 1972

Katherine Heigl13

American actress and film producer 1978

Krystal Ball7

American journalist 1981

Tom Odell6

British singer-songwriter 1990

Death

Persius12

ancient latin poet 34–62

Usama ibn Munqidh1

poet 1095–1188

John Knox14

Scottish clergyman, writer and historian 1514–1572

Dokyo Etan3

Son of Sanada Nobuyuki 1642–1721

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne8

British Whig statesman 1779–1848

George Croly2

Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine 1780–1860

James Hamilton30

Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814–1867

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton14

English statesman and poet 1831–1891

Georges Clemenceau33

French politician 1841–1929

Comte de Lautréamont8

French poet 1846–1870

John Park Finley1

American meteorologist 1854–1943

Ma Anliang1

Qing dynasty army general 1855–1918

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood30

lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom 1864–1958

Robert Erskine Childers30

Irish nationalist and author 1870–1922

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon2

British politician 1871–1940

Shushanik Kurghinian2

Armenian poet 1876–1927

Diego Rivera4

Mexican painter, muralist, Communist 1886–1957

Warren Weaver9

American mathematician 1894–1978

László Moholy-Nagy4

Hungarian artist 1895–1946

Dodie Smith49

English novelist and playwright 1896–1990

Keiji Nishitani11

Japanese philosopher 1900–1990

George Raft1

American actor 1901–1980

Nicholas Kurti1

Hungarian physicist 1908–1998

Bernard Brodie10

American nuclear strategist 1910–1978

Sorley MacLean6

Scottish poet 1911–1996

Arthur Hailey1

British writer 1920–2004

John Rawls63

American political philosopher 1921–2002

Louis Frédéric4

French scholar 1923–1996

Fred Shero15

Former ice hockey player and coach 1925–1990

Barbara (singer)3

French singer 1930–1997

Frank Pittman5

American psychiatrist 1935–2012

Clive James151

Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an… 1939–2019

Abdullah Azzam1

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar 1941–1989

George W. S. Trow23

American writer 1943–2006

Freddie Mercury29

British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946–1991

Melanie Thornton1

singer 1967–2001