Anniversaries 24 February

Birth

Ibn Battuta13

Moroccan explorer 1304–1377

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola7

humanist and philosopher from Italy 1463–1494

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor21

Holy Roman Emperor 1500–1558

Gardiner Spring12

American clergyman 1785–1873

Samuel Lover9

Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter 1797–1868

Elbridge G. Spaulding10

American politician 1809–1897

George William Curtis78

American writer 1824–1892

Rosalía de Castro1

Galician poet, writer 1837–1885

George Moore (novelist)33

Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933

John Snaith2

British cricketer (1876-) 1876–1936

Chester W. Nimitz29

United States Navy fleet admiral 1885–1966

Mary Ellen Chase1

Educator, scholar, novelist 1887–1973

Irène Némirovsky7

French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz 1903–1942

Telford Taylor2

American lawyer 1908–1998

Weldon Kees1

American artist 1914–1955

Michael Harrington17

American political writer 1928–1989

James Abourezk3

United States Senator 1931

Zell Miller9

Politician and United States Marine Corps officer 1932–2018

Bingu wa Mutharika1

politician and economist (1934-2012) 1934–2012

Joe Lieberman6

politician from the United States 1942

Kent Haruf3

Novelist 1943–2014

Terry Winograd7

American computer scientist 1946

Edward James Olmos1

American actor and director 1947

Jayalalithaa2

Indian politician and actress 1948–2016

Gilbert Herdt3

American anthropologist 1949

Richard Bandler2

American psychologist 1950

Jane Hirshfield6

Poet 1953

Sid Meier2

Canadian-American game programmer and designer 1954

Željko Glasnović6

Croatian politician 1954

Steve Jobs150

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955–2011

Judith Butler15

American philosopher and gender theorist 1956

Joel Salatin7

American environmentalist 1957

Charles A. Kupchan9

American university teacher 1958

Judith Collins1

New Zealand politician 1959

Mitch Hedberg101

American stand-up comedian 1968–2005

Laila Lalami3

American writer 1968

Gillian Flynn134

American author and critic 1971

Sabrina Tavernise2

American journalist 1971

Maurizio Giuliano1

Italian journalist 1975

Marcin Malek11

Polish writer 1975

Walter O'Brien3

Irish businessman, founder of Scorpion Computer Services 1975

Matt Skiba1

American musician 1976

Yuval Noah Harari42

Israeli historian 1976

Floyd Mayweather Jr.9

American boxer 1977

Fala Chen6

Hong Kong actress 1982

Lauren Duca6

American journalist 1991

Death

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby3

English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart… 1648–1721

Henry Cavendish1

British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important ex… 1731–1810

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg137

German scientist, satirist 1742–1799

Thomas Guthrie11

British divine 1803–1873

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain7

Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient 1828–1914

Dagobert von Gerhardt1

German writer 1831–1910

Richard Hovey16

American writer 1864–1900

Gerd von Rundstedt13

German Field Marshal during World War II 1875–1953

Hu Shih3

Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat 1891–1962

Tommy Douglas26

Scottish-born Canadian politician 1904–1986

Rukmini Devi Arundale13

Indian Bharatnatyam dancer 1904–1986

Bruce Bennett4

actor 1906–2007

Henny Youngman18

American comedian 1906–1998

Hugh Nibley3

Religious scholar 1910–2005

Claude Elwood Shannon4

American mathematician and information theorist 1916–2001

Dinah Shore1

American singer and actress 1916–1994

Martin Esslin11

Playwright, theatre critic, scholar 1918–2002

Benedict Freedman1

American mathematician and writer 1919–2012

Malcolm Forbes2

American publisher 1919–1990

Warren Gulley2

American military non-commissioned officer (NCO) 1922–2012

Dennis Weaver2

American actor 1924–2006

Johnnie Ray5

American singer, actor, songwriter and composer 1927–1990

A. Wayne Wymore13

American mathematician 1927–2011

Andre Dubus9

Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1936–1999

Bertrice Small1

American writer 1937–2015

Daniel Gottlieb1

French rabbi 1939–2010

Octavia E. Butler107

American science fiction writer 1947–2006