Anniversaries 24 February
Birth
![Ibn Battuta photo]()
Moroccan explorer
1304–1377
![Giovanni Pico della Mirandola photo]()
humanist and philosopher from Italy
1463–1494
![Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor photo]()
Holy Roman Emperor
1500–1558
![Gardiner Spring photo]()
American clergyman
1785–1873
![Samuel Lover photo]()
Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter
1797–1868
![Elbridge G. Spaulding photo]()
American politician
1809–1897
![George William Curtis photo]()
American writer
1824–1892
![Rosalía de Castro photo]()
Galician poet, writer
1837–1885
![George Moore (novelist) photo]()
Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi…
1852–1933
![John Snaith photo]()
British cricketer (1876-)
1876–1936
![Chester W. Nimitz photo]()
United States Navy fleet admiral
1885–1966
![Mary Ellen Chase photo]()
Educator, scholar, novelist
1887–1973
![Irène Némirovsky photo]()
French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
1903–1942
![Telford Taylor photo]()
American lawyer
1908–1998
![Weldon Kees photo]()
American artist
1914–1955
![Michael Harrington photo]()
American political writer
1928–1989
![James Abourezk photo]()
United States Senator
1931
![Zell Miller photo]()
Politician and United States Marine Corps officer
1932–2018
![Bingu wa Mutharika photo]()
politician and economist (1934-2012)
1934–2012
![Joe Lieberman photo]()
politician from the United States
1942
![Terry Winograd photo]()
American computer scientist
1946
![Edward James Olmos photo]()
American actor and director
1947
![Jayalalithaa photo]()
Indian politician and actress
1948–2016
![Gilbert Herdt photo]()
American anthropologist
1949
![Richard Bandler photo]()
American psychologist
1950
![Sid Meier photo]()
Canadian-American game programmer and designer
1954
![Steve Jobs photo]()
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
1955–2011
![Judith Butler photo]()
American philosopher and gender theorist
1956
![Joel Salatin photo]()
American environmentalist
1957
![Charles A. Kupchan photo]()
American university teacher
1958
![Judith Collins photo]()
New Zealand politician
1959
![Mitch Hedberg photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1968–2005
![Gillian Flynn photo]()
American author and critic
1971
![Walter O'Brien photo]()
Irish businessman, founder of Scorpion Computer Services
1975
Death
![John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby photo]()
English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart…
1648–1721
![Henry Cavendish photo]()
British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important ex…
1731–1810
![Georg Christoph Lichtenberg photo]()
German scientist, satirist
1742–1799
![Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain photo]()
Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
1828–1914
![Richard Hovey photo]()
American writer
1864–1900
![Gerd von Rundstedt photo]()
German Field Marshal during World War II
1875–1953
![Hu Shih photo]()
Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat
1891–1962
![Tommy Douglas photo]()
Scottish-born Canadian politician
1904–1986
![Rukmini Devi Arundale photo]()
Indian Bharatnatyam dancer
1904–1986
![Henny Youngman photo]()
American comedian
1906–1998
![Hugh Nibley photo]()
Religious scholar
1910–2005
![Claude Elwood Shannon photo]()
American mathematician and information theorist
1916–2001
![Dinah Shore photo]()
American singer and actress
1916–1994
![Martin Esslin photo]()
Playwright, theatre critic, scholar
1918–2002
![Benedict Freedman photo]()
American mathematician and writer
1919–2012
![Malcolm Forbes photo]()
American publisher
1919–1990
![Warren Gulley photo]()
American military non-commissioned officer (NCO)
1922–2012
![Johnnie Ray photo]()
American singer, actor, songwriter and composer
1927–1990
![A. Wayne Wymore photo]()
American mathematician
1927–2011
![Andre Dubus photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, teacher
1936–1999
![Bertrice Small photo]()
American writer
1937–2015
![Octavia E. Butler photo]()
American science fiction writer
1947–2006
