Anniversaries 24 July

Birth

John Newton24

Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer 1725–1807

Simón Bolívar17

Venezuelan military and political leader, South American li… 1783–1830

Alexandre Dumas123

French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a… 1802–1870

Josiah Gilbert Holland16

Novelist, poet, editor 1819–1881

Frank Wedekind2

German playwright 1864–1918

E. F. Benson3

novelist 1867–1940

Oswald Chambers43

British missionary 1874–1917

Jean Webster15

American novelist 1876–1916

Lord Dunsany21

Irish writer and dramatist 1878–1957

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki4

Japanese author 1886–1965

Ammon Hennacy14

American Christian radical 1893–1970

Robert Graves117

English poet and novelist 1895–1985

Amelia Earhart19

American aviation pioneer and author 1897–1937

Zelda Fitzgerald33

Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948

John D. MacDonald39

writer from the United States 1916–1986

Bella Abzug4

American politician 1920–1998

Roland W. Schmitt1

American academic 1923–2017

Albert Marrin1

American historian 1936

Eugene J. Martin41

American artist 1938–2005

Barry N. Malzberg4

American novelist, short story writer 1939

Stanley Hauerwas11

American theologian 1940

Mike Yaconelli2

American theologian 1942–2003

Margot Parker3

UK politician 1943

Gallagher3

American comedian 1946–2022

Michael Richards8

American actor 1949

Ruediger Dahlke2

German physician and writer 1951

John Burdett4

British crime novelist 1951

Carsten Jensen1

Danish author and political columnist 1952

Gus Van Sant1

American film director, producer, photographer and musician 1952

David Miedzianik2

British writer 1956

Shavkat Mirziyoyev3

President of Uzbekistan (2016-present) 1957

Kari Tolvanen1

Finnish politician 1961

Cate Tiernan25

American novelist 1961

H. R. McMaster2

26th United States National Security Advisor 1962

Banana Yoshimoto43

Japanese writer 1964

Jennifer Lopez7

American singer and actress 1969

Torrie Wilson4

American professional wrestler 1975

Madeline Miller55

American writer 1978

Anna Paquin1

Canadian-born New Zealand actress 1982

Qian Julie Wang2

Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer 1987

Julian LeBlanc1

Canadian actor 1989

Elliot Rodger52

American spree killer 1991–2014

Rachit Yadav3

Indian Author 1996

Death

Al-Mahdi3

the third Abbasid Caliph 744–785

Friedrich von Logau8

German poet 1605–1655

Кэролайн Холланд1

1723–1774

Martin Van Buren8

American politician, 8th President of the United States (in… 1782–1862

Khwaja Ghulam Farid1

19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, sc… 1845–1901

Mary Church Terrell6

African Americans' rights activist 1863–1954

Sacha Guitry5

French dramatist and playwright 1885–1957

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa2

Japanese writer 1892–1927

Peter de Noronha44

Indian businessman 1897–1970

Isaac Bashevis Singer39

Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

Witold Gombrowicz9

Polish writer 1904–1969

William J. Brennan12

American judge 1906–1997

Albert Ellis5

American psychologist 1913–2007

Jagan Nath Azad1

Indian writer (1918-2004) 1918–2004

Virginia Christine4

actress 1920–1996

Garry Davis6

American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013) 1921–2013

Ahmad Shamlou2

Iranian Persian poet, writer, and journalist 1925–2000

Peter Sellers16

British film actor, comedian and singer 1925–1980

David L. Norton13

American philosopher 1930–1995

Alice Borchardt57

American fiction writer 1939–2007

Orest Subtelny1

Canadian-Ukrainian historian 1941–2016

Gerald R. Salancik10

American organizational theorist 1943–1996