April 24
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April 24 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining after April 24 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1533 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
- 1580 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
- 1620 – John Graunt, English statistician (d. 1674)
- 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
- 1718 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
- 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
- 1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
- 1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
- 1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
- 1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
- 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Hugh Dowding, Scottish fighter pilot (d. 1970)
- 1889 – Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
- 1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
- 1896 – Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
- 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
- 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
- 1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
- 1906 – William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
- 1907 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- 1908 – Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Jozef Goslawski, Polish sculptor (d. 1963)
- 1909 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist, naturalist, author and filmmaker (d. 1987)
- 1914 – William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
- 1916 – Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
- 1922 – J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1924 – Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1930 – Jerome Callet, American musician
- 1930 – Richard Donner, American film director and producer
- 1930 – Jose Sarney, Brazilian President
- 1933 – Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
- 1933 – Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
- 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
- 1936 – Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
- 1937 – Joe Henderson American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
- 1940 – Sue Grafton, American author
- 1941 – John Williams, Australian guitarist
- 1941 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Richard M. Daley, American politician
- 1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, and director
- 1945 – Doug Clifford, American drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1951 – Enda Kenny, Irish Taoiseach
- 1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
- 1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
- 1954 – Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist, political activist, and death-row inmate
- 1954 – Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
- 1955 – John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon
- 1957 – David J, British musician
- 1957 – Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
- 1960 – Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
- 1962 – Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
- 1962 – Steve Roach, Australian rugby player
- 1963 – Billy Gould, American musician (Faith No More)
- 1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
- 1964 – Djimon Hounsou, Benin-born actor
- 1966 – Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1968 – Stacy Haiduk, American actress
- 1968 – Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
- 1971 – Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer (Evil Superstars and dEUS)
- 1972 – Chipper Jones, American baseball player
- 1972 – Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
- 1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
- 1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
- 1974 – Comedy Dave, British television and radio host
- 1974 – Joseph Bruce, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
- 1974 – Stephen Wiltshire, British artist
- 1975 – Sam Doumit, American actress
- 1976 – Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
- 1977 – Carlos Beltran, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1977 – Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian writer
- 1978 – Eric Balfour, American actor
- 1980 – Austin Nichols, American actor
- 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player (d. 2008)
- 1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer
- 1982 – Shayna Nackoney, Canadian synchronized swimmer
- 1984 – Tyson Ritter, American singer and bassist (All-American Rejects)
- 1985 – Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress
- 1998 – Ryan Newman, American actress
- 2005 – Snuppy, cloned dog
[change] Deaths
- 1342 – Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
- 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
- 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
- 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
- 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist (b. 1897)
- 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German doctor, won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
- 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
- 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (b. 1943)
- 1986 – Wallis Simpson, wife of the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896)
- 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African politician (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Estee Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Ezer Weizman, former President of Israel (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)
[change] Events
- 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots marries future King Francis II of France.
- 1800 – The Library of Congress in Washington, DC opens.
- 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1898 – The Spanish-American War begins.
- 1913 – New York's Woolworth building is opened.
- 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- 1916 – The Irish Easter Rising begins in Dublin.
- 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1967 – Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when his parachute fails to open.
- 1968 – Mauritius joins the UN.
- 1970 – The Gambia becomes a Republic with Dawda Jawara is its first President
- 1990 – Gruinard Island in Scotland is declared free of Anthrax.
- 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space shuttle Discovery.
- 2004 – In Cyprus, a referendum on reunification results in the Turkish population mainly voting yes, but the Greek population mainly voting no, meaning that only Greek Cyprus joins the EU the following week.
- 2005 – Josef Alois Ratzinger is officially inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2005 – Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
- 2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will take responsibilty of its defence in peacetime.
