Anniversaries 24 April
Birth
![William the Silent photo]()
stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the …
1533–1584
![Jakob Böhme photo]()
German Christian mystic and theologian
1575–1624
![Vincent de Paul photo]()
French priest, founder and saint
1581–1660
![Anthony Trollope photo]()
English novelist (1815-1882)
1815–1882
![Philippe Pétain photo]()
French military and political leader
1856–1951
![A. C. Benson photo]()
English essayist, poet, author and Master of Magdalene Coll…
1862–1925
![Erich Raeder photo]()
German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II
1876–1960
![Felix Ehrenhaft photo]()
Austrian physicist
1879–1952
![Stafford Cripps photo]()
British politician
1889–1952
![Benjamin Lee Whorf photo]()
American linguist
1897–1941
![Elizabeth Goudge photo]()
English fiction writer
1900–1984
![José Antonio Primo de Rivera photo]()
Spanish noble and politician
1903–1936
![Robert Penn Warren photo]()
American poet, novelist, and literary critic
1905–1989
![Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz photo]()
German journalist, poet and prisoner in Dachau concentratio…
1906–1991
![William Joyce photo]()
British fascist and propaganda broadcaster
1906–1946
![Karl Schiller photo]()
German scientist and politician
1911–1994
![Flora Rheta Schreiber photo]()
American journalist
1918–1988
![Clement Freud photo]()
English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef
1924–2009
![Eugen Weber photo]()
American historian
1925–2007
![Sue Grafton photo]()
American writer
1940–2017
![Richard Holbrooke photo]()
American diplomat
1941–2010
![Barbra Streisand photo]()
American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and direct…
1942
![Robert B. Cialdini photo]()
American social psychologist
1945
![Thomas Shapiro photo]()
American sociologist
1947
![Enda Kenny photo]()
Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach
1951
![Eric Bogosian photo]()
actor, playwright, monologist, novelist
1953
![Mumia Abu-Jamal photo]()
Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist
1954
![Salwa Bugaighis photo]()
Libyan activist
1963–2014
![James Marape photo]()
Papua New Guinea politician
1971
![Sachin Tendulkar photo]()
A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greates…
1973
![Kelly Clarkson photo]()
American singer-songwriter, actress
1982
![Abigail Thorn photo]()
British actress and YouTuber
1993
Death
![Daniel Defoe photo]()
English trader, writer and journalist
1660–1731
![Helmuth von Moltke the Elder photo]()
German Field Marshal
1800–1891
![James Thomas Fields photo]()
American writer and publisher
1817–1881
![William Winwood Reade photo]()
British historian
1838–1875
![G. Stanley Hall photo]()
American psychologist
1846–1924
![Felix Adler photo]()
German American professor of political and social ethics, r…
1851–1933
![Henry Dudeney photo]()
Puzzlist, Mathematical games designer
1857–1930
![Willa Cather photo]()
American writer and novelist
1873–1947
![Lucy Maud Montgomery photo]()
Canadian fiction writer
1874–1942
![Max von Laue photo]()
German physicist
1879–1960
![Mark Tobey photo]()
American abstract expressionist painter
1890–1976
![Wallis, Duchess of Windsor photo]()
wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
1896–1986
![W. Willard Wirtz photo]()
American Secretary of Labor
1912–2010
![Bill Edrich photo]()
Cricket player of England.
1916–1986
![Sid Tepper photo]()
American songwriter
1918–2015
![Eugene Stoner photo]()
American firearms designer
1922–1997
![Pierre Hadot photo]()
French historian and philosopher
1922–2010
![Madame Nhu photo]()
First lady of South Vietnam
1924–2011
![Pat Paulsen photo]()
United States Marine
1927–1997
![Robert M. Pirsig photo]()
American writer and philosopher
1928–2017
![Barbara Grizzuti Harrison photo]()
American journalist
1934–2002
![Benjamin R. Barber photo]()
US political scientist
1939–2017
![Alber Elbaz photo]()
Israeli fashion designer
1961–2021
