Anniversaries 24 September

Birth

Girolamo Cardano17

Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer 1501–1576

Tang Xianzu1

Chinese playwright 1550–1616

John Cleland6

British writer 1709–1789

Horace Walpole33

English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig… 1717–1797

John Marshall41

fourth Chief Justice of the United States 1755–1835

William Lisle Bowles3

English priest, poet and critic 1762–1850

Jean-Andoche Junot1

French general 1771–1813

Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet13

Lord Chief Justice 1802–1880

Epes Sargent3

American editor, poet and playwright 1813–1880

Frances Harper2

American writer 1825–1911

Mark Hanna1

Republican United States Senator from Ohio 1837–1904

Florence Scovel Shinn5

American writer 1871–1940

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow7

British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administra… 1887–1952

A. P. Herbert22

British politician 1890–1971

Adélard Godbout2

Canadian politician 1892–1956

F. Scott Fitzgerald411

American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

Ruhollah Khomeini57

Religious leader, politician 1902–1989

Leon MacLaren10

British philosopher 1910–1994

Konstantin Chernenko7

Soviet politician 1911–1985

Ian Serraillier1

British writer 1912–1994

Lawrence H. Aller1

astronomer 1913–2003

Wilson Rawls6

American children's writer 1913–1984

Geoffrey Burbidge1

British astronomer 1925–2010

Bruce Baillie3

American film director 1931

Joanne Greenberg7

American writer 1932

John Brunner147

British author 1934–1995

Jim Henson78

American puppeteer 1936–1990

Linda McCartney3

American photographer 1941–1998

Rhys Bowen1

British writer of children's picture books, YA novels, and … 1941

Antonio Tabucchi1

writer and literary scholar 1943–2012

Eavan Boland2

Irish poet 1944

Ian Stewart2

British mathematician and science fiction author 1945

Lou Dobbs2

American Television Host 1945

Stuart Wilde1

English writer 1946–2013

Phil Hartman17

Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphi… 1948–1998

Stowe Boyd2

information technologist 1953

Ash Carter8

United States Secretary of Defense 1954

Gail Giles2

American writer 1955

Gu Cheng4

Chinese poet 1956–1993

Brad Bird5

American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occ… 1957

Karen Kwiatkowski3

retired military officer and author 1960

Pavel Kroupa8

Australian astrophysicist 1963

Richard K. Morgan32

British writer 1965

Stefan Molyneux5

libertarian philosopher, writer, speaker, and online broadc… 1966

Shawn Crahan1

American musician 1969

Zainab Salbi11

Iraqi American author, women's rights activist 1969

Death

Paracelsus24

Swiss physician and alchemist 1493–1541

Robert Hayne4

American politician 1791–1839

Henry Hart Milman5

English historian and churchman 1791–1868

Alfred Stillé2

American physician, educator, and writer 1813–1900

Branwell Brontë2

British artist 1817–1848

Walter Dill Scott12

President of Northwestern university and psychologist 1869–1955

Otto Mueller6

German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement 1874–1930

Gottfried Feder28

German economist and politician 1883–1941

Warren S. McCulloch6

American neuroscientist 1898–1969

Dr. Seuss185

American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991

Derek Prince1

British missionary 1915–2003

Bill Mollison32

Australian permaculturist 1928–2016

Zeki Müren3

Turkish musician 1931–1996

Françoise Sagan34

French writer 1935–2004

Gennady Yanayev3

USSR politician 1937–2010