Anniversaries 24 November
Birth
![Baruch Spinoza photo]()
Dutch philosopher
1632–1677
![Laurence Sterne photo]()
Irish/English writer
1713–1768
![Zachary Taylor photo]()
American general and politician, 12th President of the Unit…
1784–1850
![Alphonse Karr photo]()
French critic, journalist, and novelist
1808–1890
![Henry Thomas Buckle photo]()
English historian
1821–1862
![George Augustus Henry Sala photo]()
British journalist
1828–1895
![Frances Hodgson Burnett photo]()
English-American childrens' playwright and author
1849–1924
![Edwin Grant Conklin photo]()
American biologist and zoologist
1863–1952
![Yitzchak Gruenbaum photo]()
Israeli politician
1879–1970
![Margaret Caroline Anderson photo]()
American magazine editor
1886–1973
![Dale Carnegie photo]()
American writer and lecturer
1888–1955
![Lucky Luciano photo]()
Italian-American mobster
1897–1962
![Liu Shaoqi photo]()
2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)
1898–1969
![Claus Moser, Baron Moser photo]()
British statistician and Civil Servant
1922–2015
![William F. Buckley Jr. photo]()
American conservative author and commentator
1925–2008
![Simon van der Meer photo]()
Dutch physicist
1925–2011
![Dan Glickman photo]()
American businessman and politician
1944
![Gilles Côté (bishop) photo]()
Canadian-born bishop
1945
![Penny Jordan photo]()
British women's author
1946–2011
![Ted Bundy photo]()
American serial killer
1946–1989
![Rudy Tomjanovich photo]()
American basketball player and coach
1948
![Parveen Shakir photo]()
Pakistani writer and poet
1952–1994
![Emir Kusturica photo]()
Serbian film director, actor and musician of Bosnian origin
1954
![Arundhati Roy photo]()
Indian novelist, essayist
1961
![Mark Pilgrim photo]()
American computer programmer
1972
![Katherine Heigl photo]()
American actress and film producer
1978
![Tom Odell photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1990
Death
![John Knox photo]()
Scottish clergyman, writer and historian
1514–1572
![Dokyo Etan photo]()
Son of Sanada Nobuyuki
1642–1721
![William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne photo]()
British Whig statesman
1779–1848
![George Croly photo]()
Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine
1780–1860
![James Hamilton photo]()
Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
1814–1867
![Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton photo]()
English statesman and poet
1831–1891
![Georges Clemenceau photo]()
French politician
1841–1929
![John Park Finley photo]()
American meteorologist
1854–1943
![Ma Anliang photo]()
Qing dynasty army general
1855–1918
![Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood photo]()
lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom
1864–1958
![Robert Erskine Childers photo]()
Irish nationalist and author
1870–1922
![James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon photo]()
British politician
1871–1940
![Diego Rivera photo]()
Mexican painter, muralist, Communist
1886–1957
![Warren Weaver photo]()
American mathematician
1894–1978
![László Moholy-Nagy photo]()
Hungarian artist
1895–1946
![Dodie Smith photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1896–1990
![Keiji Nishitani photo]()
Japanese philosopher
1900–1990
![Nicholas Kurti photo]()
Hungarian physicist
1908–1998
![Bernard Brodie photo]()
American nuclear strategist
1910–1978
![John Rawls photo]()
American political philosopher
1921–2002
![Fred Shero photo]()
Former ice hockey player and coach
1925–1990
![Frank Pittman photo]()
American psychiatrist
1935–2012
![Clive James photo]()
Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an…
1939–2019
![Abdullah Azzam photo]()
Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar
1941–1989
![George W. S. Trow photo]()
American writer
1943–2006
![Freddie Mercury photo]()
British singer, songwriter and record producer
1946–1991
