Anniversaries 24 April

Birth

William the Silent33

stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the … 1533–1584

Jakob Böhme4

German Christian mystic and theologian 1575–1624

Vincent de Paul4

French priest, founder and saint 1581–1660

John Trumbull (poet)4

American poet 1750–1831

Anthony Trollope128

English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

Philippe Pétain4

French military and political leader 1856–1951

A. C. Benson3

English essayist, poet, author and Master of Magdalene Coll… 1862–1925

Erich Raeder3

German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II 1876–1960

Felix Ehrenhaft2

Austrian physicist 1879–1952

Stafford Cripps20

British politician 1889–1952

Lyubov Popova3

Russian artist 1889–1924

Benjamin Lee Whorf8

American linguist 1897–1941

Аллен Сондерс1

1899–1986

Elizabeth Goudge20

English fiction writer 1900–1984

José Antonio Primo de Rivera2

Spanish noble and politician 1903–1936

Willem de Kooning38

Dutch painter 1904–1997

Robert Penn Warren49

American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz1

German journalist, poet and prisoner in Dachau concentratio… 1906–1991

William Joyce19

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster 1906–1946

George Oppen6

American poet 1908–1984

Karl Schiller1

German scientist and politician 1911–1994

Flora Rheta Schreiber4

American journalist 1918–1988

Clement Freud4

English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef 1924–2009

Eugen Weber1

American historian 1925–2007

Bridget Riley1

British painter 1931

Shirley MacLaine3

American actress 1934

Sue Grafton28

American writer 1940–2017

Richard Holbrooke21

American diplomat 1941–2010

George Vella1

Maltese politician 1942

Barbra Streisand5

American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and direct… 1942

Gerd Theissen1

German theologian 1943

Robert B. Cialdini4

American social psychologist 1945

Thomas Shapiro3

American sociologist 1947

João Braz de Aviz1

Catholic cardinal 1947

Enda Kenny12

Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach 1951

Eric Bogosian1

actor, playwright, monologist, novelist 1953

Mumia Abu-Jamal8

Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist 1954

Eamon Gilmore5

Irish politician 1955

Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa1

Bahraini politician 1960

Salwa Bugaighis5

Libyan activist 1963–2014

Alejandro Fernández8

Mexican singer 1971

James Marape1

Papua New Guinea politician 1971

Sachin Tendulkar13

A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greates… 1973

Sebastian Bieniek2

German artist 1975

Kelly Clarkson7

American singer-songwriter, actress 1982

Abigail Thorn7

British actress and YouTuber 1993

Death

Jacopo Sannazaro4

Italian writer 1458–1530

Daniel Defoe43

English trader, writer and journalist 1660–1731

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder4

German Field Marshal 1800–1891

Jules Sandeau1

French writer 1811–1883

James Thomas Fields6

American writer and publisher 1817–1881

William Winwood Reade32

British historian 1838–1875

G. Stanley Hall2

American psychologist 1846–1924

Felix Adler99

German American professor of political and social ethics, r… 1851–1933

Marie Corelli3

British writer 1855–1924

Henry Dudeney1

Puzzlist, Mathematical games designer 1857–1930

Finley Peter Dunne7

author 1867–1936

Willa Cather99

American writer and novelist 1873–1947

Lucy Maud Montgomery14

Canadian fiction writer 1874–1942

Max von Laue2

German physicist 1879–1960

Mark Tobey22

American abstract expressionist painter 1890–1976

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor2

wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom 1896–1986

W. Willard Wirtz1

American Secretary of Labor 1912–2010

Bill Edrich1

Cricket player of England. 1916–1986

Sid Tepper2

American songwriter 1918–2015

Eugene Stoner1

American firearms designer 1922–1997

Pierre Hadot22

French historian and philosopher 1922–2010

Madame Nhu8

First lady of South Vietnam 1924–2011

Sathya Sai Baba33

Indian guru 1926–2011

Pat Paulsen13

United States Marine 1927–1997

Robert M. Pirsig164

American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison2

American journalist 1934–2002

Benjamin R. Barber15

US political scientist 1939–2017

Alber Elbaz4

Israeli fashion designer 1961–2021

Swami Adbhutananda13

Disciple