Anniversaries 24 July
Birth
![John Newton photo]()
Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
1725–1807
![Simón Bolívar photo]()
Venezuelan military and political leader, South American li…
1783–1830
![Alexandre Dumas photo]()
French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a…
1802–1870
![Josiah Gilbert Holland photo]()
Novelist, poet, editor
1819–1881
![Frank Wedekind photo]()
German playwright
1864–1918
![Oswald Chambers photo]()
British missionary
1874–1917
![Jean Webster photo]()
American novelist
1876–1916
![Lord Dunsany photo]()
Irish writer and dramatist
1878–1957
![Jun'ichirō Tanizaki photo]()
Japanese author
1886–1965
![Ammon Hennacy photo]()
American Christian radical
1893–1970
![Robert Graves photo]()
English poet and novelist
1895–1985
![Amelia Earhart photo]()
American aviation pioneer and author
1897–1937
![Zelda Fitzgerald photo]()
Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1900–1948
![John D. MacDonald photo]()
writer from the United States
1916–1986
![Bella Abzug photo]()
American politician
1920–1998
![Roland W. Schmitt photo]()
American academic
1923–2017
![Eugene J. Martin photo]()
American artist
1938–2005
![Barry N. Malzberg photo]()
American novelist, short story writer
1939
![Mike Yaconelli photo]()
American theologian
1942–2003
![Gallagher photo]()
American comedian
1946–2022
![Ruediger Dahlke photo]()
German physician and writer
1951
![John Burdett photo]()
British crime novelist
1951
![Carsten Jensen photo]()
Danish author and political columnist
1952
![Gus Van Sant photo]()
American film director, producer, photographer and musician
1952
![Shavkat Mirziyoyev photo]()
President of Uzbekistan (2016-present)
1957
![H. R. McMaster photo]()
26th United States National Security Advisor
1962
![Jennifer Lopez photo]()
American singer and actress
1969
![Torrie Wilson photo]()
American professional wrestler
1975
![Anna Paquin photo]()
Canadian-born New Zealand actress
1982
![Qian Julie Wang photo]()
Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer
1987
![Elliot Rodger photo]()
American spree killer
1991–2014
Death
![Al-Mahdi photo]()
the third Abbasid Caliph
744–785
![Martin Van Buren photo]()
American politician, 8th President of the United States (in…
1782–1862
![Khwaja Ghulam Farid photo]()
19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, sc…
1845–1901
![Mary Church Terrell photo]()
African Americans' rights activist
1863–1954
![Sacha Guitry photo]()
French dramatist and playwright
1885–1957
![Ryūnosuke Akutagawa photo]()
Japanese writer
1892–1927
![Peter de Noronha photo]()
Indian businessman
1897–1970
![Isaac Bashevis Singer photo]()
Polish-born Jewish-American author
1902–1991
![Albert Ellis photo]()
American psychologist
1913–2007
![Jagan Nath Azad photo]()
Indian writer (1918-2004)
1918–2004
![Garry Davis photo]()
American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013)
1921–2013
![Ahmad Shamlou photo]()
Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist
1925–2000
![Peter Sellers photo]()
British film actor, comedian and singer
1925–1980
![David L. Norton photo]()
American philosopher
1930–1995
![Alice Borchardt photo]()
American fiction writer
1939–2007
![Orest Subtelny photo]()
Canadian-Ukrainian historian
1941–2016
![Gerald R. Salancik photo]()
American organizational theorist
1943–1996
