On This Day — January 24
4138 noted people were born and 2095 died on January 24 in our archive, including Lars Hörmander, Menachem Magidor and Alain Colmerauer.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 24
Lars Hörmander
1931 – 2012
Menachem Magidor
b. 1946
Alain Colmerauer
1941 – 2017
Alex Marlow
b. 1986
Antonio Ruberti
1927 – 2000
Arkadz Kulyashow
1914 – 1978
Bernard Bigot
1950 – 2022
Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer
1833 – 1901
Bruce M. Lawlor
b. 1948
Chad Hurley
b. 1977
Christian Wolff
1679 – 1754
Dan Shechtman
b. 1941
Elliott Abrams
b. 1948
Ferdinand Cohn
1828 – 1898
Giuseppe Brotzu
1895 – 1976
Henry Barnard
1811 – 1900
Hoyt Vandenberg
1899 – 1954
Jaime García Añoveros
1932 – 2000
Jamal Nazrul Islam
1939 – 2013
John Colenso
1814 – 1883
John R. Klauder
1932 – 2024
John Shaw-Lefevre
1797 – 1879
Józef Dietl
1804 – 1878
Kevin B. MacDonald
b. 1944
Manny Lehman
1925 – 2010
Mariano de la Paz Graells y de la Agüera
1809 – 1898
Maurice Couve de Murville
1907 – 1999
Michio Kaku
b. 1947
Moon Jae-in
b. 1953
Nancy Cartwright
b. 1944
Paruyr Sevak
1924 – 1971
Piyush Gupta
b. 1960
Rafael Caldera
1916 – 2009
Robbert Dijkgraaf
b. 1960
Robert J. Schoelkopf
b. 1964
Thierry Braillard
b. 1964
Yelena Masyuk
b. 1966
Abigail Disney
b. 1960
Abram Besicovitch
1891 – 1970
Agus Martowardojo
b. 1956
Aimé-Joseph de Fleuriau
1870 – 1938
Alan Sokal
b. 1955
Alberto Isidori
b. 1942
Alexander Ilyinsky
1859 – 1920
Alfred Merz
1880 – 1925
Andrii Yermolenko
b. 1974
André Blais
b. 1947
Antoine Grumbach
b. 1942
Ayanna Howard
b. 1972
Bamber Gascoigne
1935 – 2022
Beatrice Mintz
1921 – 2022
Benjamin Lincoln
1733 – 1810
Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis
b. 1949
Braulio Rodríguez Plaza
b. 1944
Carrie Coon
b. 1981
Catherine Hamlin
1924 – 2020
Charles Kendall Adams
1835 – 1902
Charles Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme
1875 – 1924
Daniel Auteuil
b. 1950
Daniel Wise
b. 1971
Dariush Shayegan
1935 – 2018
Dick de Zeeuw
1924 – 2009
Drago Hedl
b. 1950
Duncan Sandys
1908 – 1987
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Klimova
b. 1978
Elena Korosteleva
b. 1972
Ernst Heinkel
1888 – 1958
Felicia Keesing
b. 1966
Florence Fifer Bohrer
1877 – 1960
Florica Bagdasar
1901 – 1978
Francisco Jareño y Alarcón
1818 – 1892
Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn
1844 – 1899
Gaetano Giardino
1864 – 1935
General Soedirman
1916 – 1950
Genie Chance
1927 – 1998
Gennosuke Fuse
1880 – 1946
Geoff Shepherd
b. 1952
Gerard Wall
1920 – 1992
Gojmir Anton Kos
1896 – 1970
Guido Girardi
b. 1961
Guillaume Larrivé
b. 1977
Hans Fischböck
1895 – 1967
Henri Nouwen
1932 – 1996
Henri de Brouckère
1801 – 1891
Hermann Ebbinghaus
1850 – 1909
Hovik Abrahamyan
b. 1958
Ichita Yamamoto
b. 1958
Irving Ives
1896 – 1962
Ivan Batakliev
1891 – 1973
Jaakko Kalela
b. 1944
James Powell
1853 – 1922
Jan-Magnus Jansson
1922 – 2003
Jane Somerville
b. 1933
Javier Azagra Labiano
1923 – 2014
Jean-François Debat
b. 1966
Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville
1776 – 1858
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
b. 1970
Jerzy Baurski
b. 1974
Jiří Dolejš
b. 1961
Joachim Gauck
b. 1940
John Belushi
1949 – 1982
John Garamendi
b. 1945
John Stanley Gardiner
1872 – 1946
John Unger
b. 1969
Joseph F. Smith
1920 – 1999
Joseph Rosier
1870 – 1951
Jun'ya Koizumi
1904 – 1969
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt
1798 – 1867
Karl Hermann Frank
1898 – 1946
Kathleen Dixon Huntley Gordon-Gray
1918 – 2012
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
1874 – 1965
Kenzō Matsumura
1883 – 1971
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García
1930 – 2009
Konstantin Kalinin
1887 – 1938
Kōji Kinutani
1943 – 2025
L. Fletcher Prouty
1917 – 2001
Lewis Victor Heilbrunn
1892 – 1959
Maejima Hisoka
1835 – 1919
Mahmoud Farshchian
1930 – 2025
Marguerite Durand
1864 – 1936
Martin Schenck
1848 – 1918
Martín Kohan
b. 1967
Matilde Fernández
b. 1950
Maurice Pryce
1913 – 2003
Michihiko Kano
1942 – 2021
Mieczysław Cieniuch
b. 1951
Miguel Herrero Uceda
b. 1964
Mike Thompson
b. 1951
Miklós Németh
b. 1948
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
1602 – 1666
Morris Travers
1872 – 1961
Murray Sinclair
1951 – 2024
Mykhaylo Zabrodsky
b. 1973
Naoshi Ohara
1877 – 1966
Nikolaus Brender
b. 1949
Nikolay Ramazanov
1815 – 1867
Olena Shuliak
b. 1976
Paul Julius Möbius
1853 – 1907
Paula Hawkins
1927 – 2009
Peter B. Robb
b. 1948
Peter Haggett
1933 – 2025
Peter McPhee
b. 1948
Peter Struck
1943 – 2012
Prince Alfons of Bavaria
1862 – 1933
Radomir Putnik
1847 – 1917
Raymond Domenech
b. 1952
Renzo L. Ricca
b. 1960
Richard Haking
1862 – 1945
Roberto Barzanti
b. 1939
Roman Jerala
b. 1962
Sigfrid Siwertz
1882 – 1970
Stanley Falkow
1934 – 2018
Susan Koch
b. 1943
Sándor Liezen-Mayer
1839 – 1898
Tatsuo Kawabata
b. 1945
Thomas Blamey
1884 – 1951
Thomas Jaggar
1871 – 1953
Ting Wu
b. 1954
Vasily Modestov
1839 – 1907
Vasily Zakharyashchev
1946 – 2023
Vito Acconci
1940 – 2017
Volodymyr Kryzhanivskyi
b. 1940
Walter John Stoessel
1920 – 1986
William F. Readdy
b. 1952
Wilson Baker
1900 – 2002
Wu Jinglian
b. 1930
Yakov Smirnoff
b. 1951
Yoshinori Shirakawa
1869 – 1932
Yoshirō Fujimura
1871 – 1933
Yury Bashmet
b. 1953
Yūji Tsushima
1930 – 2023
Zhan Beleniuk
b. 1991
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics
1887 – 1925
Éric Moulines
b. 1963
Aaron Marshall Elliott
1844 – 1910
Agostino Borromeo
1944 – 2024
Ahasverus Samuel van Nierop
1813 – 1878
Aino-Kaisa Pekonen
b. 1979
Alex Atamanenko
b. 1945
Alexander Bogen
1916 – 2010
Alexander Dyachenko
b. 1990
Alexander Struys
1852 – 1941
Alfie Agnew
b. 1969
Alfred Stowell Jones
1832 – 1920
Ali Parsa
b. 1965
Alois Glück
1940 – 2024
Amanda Levens
b. 1979
Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia
1897 – 1981
Andrei Popov
b. 1973
Andrew Ellicott
1754 – 1820
Andrzej Derdziuk
b. 1962
Andrzej Popiel
1936 – 2020
André Barsacq
1909 – 1973
Anthony Fisher
b. 1994
Antonio Miguel Carmona
b. 1963
Antony Garrett Lisi
b. 1968
Arabela Carreras
b. 1970
Archibald Cary
1721 – 1787
Arnoldo Foà
1916 – 2014
Ashraf Hasanov
1909 – 1983
… and 3,938 more
Died on January 24
Johann Christian Poggendorff
1796 – 1877
Marvin Minsky
1927 – 2016
Percy John Heawood
1861 – 1955
Adolf Kneser
1862 – 1930
Alejandro Muñoz-Alonso
1934 – 2016
Christian Juel
1855 – 1935
Dimitrios Stroumpos
1806 – 1890
Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio
1901 – 1951
Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter
1809 – 1889
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
1802 – 1872
Gianni Agnelli
1921 – 2003
Heinrich Geißler
1814 – 1879
Henri Baudrillart
1821 – 1892
Henri Krasucki
1924 – 2003
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
1909 – 1966
Iris Cummings
1920 – 2025
Jean Lhermitte
1877 – 1959
Jean-François Deniau
1928 – 2007
Johann Gottfried Stallbaum
1793 – 1861
Karl Gustaf Westman
1876 – 1944
Karol Borsuk
1905 – 1982
Paul Schupp
1937 – 2022
Peter Ladefoged
1925 – 2006
Pieter Bleeker
1819 – 1878
Shulamit Aloni
1928 – 2014
Stephen G. Kurtz
1926 – 2008
Werner Fenchel
1905 – 1988
Willem van Eysinga
1878 – 1961
Winston Churchill
1874 – 1965
Adam Black
1784 – 1874
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
1901 – 1962
Alphonse Munchen
1850 – 1917
Andrew Humphrey
1921 – 1977
Andrey Korf
1831 – 1893
Aram Nalbandyan
1908 – 1987
Archibald Goldie
1888 – 1964
Arik Brauer
1929 – 2021
Arthur Auwers
1838 – 1915
Arthur Liebehenschel
1901 – 1948
Attila Verestóy
1954 – 2018
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş
1958 – 2024
Benjamin Lany
1591 – 1675
Carolina Isakson Proctor
1930 – 2012
Celedonio Calatayud
1880 – 1931
Charles Wardell Stiles
1867 – 1941
Clara Converse
1857 – 1935
David Abulafia
1949 – 2026
David Gill
1843 – 1914
David Rittenberg
1906 – 1970
Edwin Fischer
1886 – 1960
Edwin Redslob
1884 – 1973
Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
1854 – 1933
Ercole Consalvi
1757 – 1824
Federico Gómez de Salazar y Nieto
1912 – 2006
Floyd Dunn
1924 – 2015
Francesco Giordani
1896 – 1961
François Thureau-Dangin
1872 – 1944
Fredrik Barth
1928 – 2016
Georgios Sotiriou
1880 – 1965
Ghazali Shafie
1922 – 2010
Gonzalo Facio Segreda
1918 – 2018
Gordon MacRae
1921 – 1986
Guadalupe Larriva
1956 – 2007
Hans Aumeier
1906 – 1948
Harry G. Hamlet
1874 – 1954
Hermann Matern
1893 – 1971
Hubert Rance
1898 – 1974
Ignaty Krachkovsky
1883 – 1951
Ismail Kemal
1844 – 1919
J. Joseph Garrahy
1930 – 2012
James Percy FitzPatrick
1862 – 1931
Jan Vis
1933 – 2011
Jean-Marc Boegner
1913 – 2003
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
1893 – 1957
Joseph Sabine
1770 – 1837
Julio Canessa
1925 – 2015
Ján Kollár
1793 – 1852
Karl Gottlieb Wenig
1830 – 1908
Karl Zell
1793 – 1873
Knut Aukland
1929 – 2014
Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck
1776 – 1851
Krystyna Feldman
1916 – 2007
L. Ron Hubbard
1911 – 1986
Louis-Philippe de Grandpré
1917 – 2008
Luigi Federzoni
1878 – 1967
Malcolm Macnaghten
1869 – 1955
Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga
1766 – 1849
Marin Molliard
1866 – 1944
Michele Gortani
1883 – 1966
Mikhail Malinin
1899 – 1960
Mikhail Rodzianko
1859 – 1924
N. Scott Momaday
1934 – 2024
Nicholas Shackleton
1937 – 2006
Nikola Milošević
1929 – 2007
Nikolay Strakhov
1828 – 1896
Pete Stark
1931 – 2020
Richard G. Stern
1928 – 2013
Samuel Hunter Christie
1784 – 1865
Samuel Ruiz García
1924 – 2011
Sir Henry Abel Smith
1900 – 1993
Spiros Evangelatos
1940 – 2017
Stevenson Macadam
1829 – 1901
Susan Jane Cunningham
1842 – 1921
Theodore Sedgwick
1746 – 1813
Thurgood Marshall
1908 – 1993
Trygve Nagell
1895 – 1988
Uğur Mumcu
1942 – 1993
Victor Crutchley
1893 – 1986
William Charles White
1873 – 1960
William Foege
1936 – 2026
William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket
1864 – 1920
William Roy Hodgson
1892 – 1958
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
1884 – 1966
Éliane Montel
1898 – 1993
İsmail Cem
1940 – 2007
Ōta Masahiro
1871 – 1951
Abdullahi Ibrahim
1939 – 2021
Acton Adams
1843 – 1924
Adrian Slade
1936 – 2025
Albert C. Smith
1894 – 1974
Albert Edward McPhillips
1861 – 1938
Albert von Memerty
1814 – 1896
Alexander Kanoldt
1881 – 1939
Alexander McAllister Clydesdale
1875 – 1947
Alfred Yarrow
1842 – 1932
Alfredo Kanthack
1863 – 1898
Alice Hutchings
1900 – 1944
Allan Powell
1876 – 1948
Andrew Jackson Montague
1862 – 1937
Andrew McKee
1896 – 1976
André Lhote
1885 – 1962
Andrés Pérez de Herrasti
1750 – 1818
Angeliki Panajiotatou
1875 – 1954
Antonio Marchesano
1930 – 2019
António Cardoso e Cunha
1933 – 2021
Arthur Boyer
1851 – 1922
Arthur Hubert Terry
1927 – 2004
Ashihei Hino
1907 – 1960
August Meyszner
1886 – 1947
Avdo Humo
1914 – 1983
Bainbridge Wadleigh
1831 – 1891
Balkrishna Doshi
1927 – 2023
Benito Bollati
1926 – 2023
Bernd Eichinger
1949 – 2011
Bertrand Roth
1855 – 1938
Bill Axselle
1943 – 2019
Bill W.
1895 – 1971
Bobbi Trout
1906 – 2003
Bruce McCandless
1911 – 1968
Camille Blaisot
1881 – 1945
Caresse Crosby
1892 – 1970
Carl Brigham
1890 – 1943
Carl Curtis
1905 – 2000
Carl Frederik Sørensen
1818 – 1879
Carl Haag
1820 – 1915
Cecil Edgar Tilley
1894 – 1973
Chai Chidchob
1928 – 2020
Charles Dudley Rhodes
1865 – 1948
Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane
1708 – 1766
Charles Taylor
1863 – 1915
Charles de Salis
1860 – 1942
Charlotte Thompson Reid
1913 – 2007
Chris Lanooy
1881 – 1948
Claude of Lorraine, duke of Chevreuse
1578 – 1657
Constantino de Oliveira Júnior
1968 – 2026
Curtis Halford
1943 – 2025
David Finkelstein
1929 – 2016
David Morris
1930 – 2007
David Ritchie
1812 – 1867
Duane McRuer
1925 – 2007
Duke Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt
1831 – 1904
Désiré François Laugée
1823 – 1896
Edson B. Olds
1802 – 1869
Edward Ellsberg
1891 – 1983
Edwin Einstein
1842 – 1905
Emerson LeRoy Cummings
1902 – 1986
Emil Bodnăraș
1904 – 1976
Enevold Steenblock Høyum
1775 – 1830
Eugène Sauzay
1809 – 1901
Feng Lanzhou
1903 – 1972
Fernando Cordero Rusque
1939 – 2020
Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
1929 – 2019
Finn Blakstad
1865 – 1941
Francesco Alberi
1765 – 1836
Francis Underhill
1878 – 1943
Frank H. Hankins
1877 – 1970
Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch
1868 – 1955
Friedrich von Flotow
1812 – 1883
Fritz de Quervain
1868 – 1940
Fyodor Brovko
1904 – 1960
Félix-Joseph Barrias
1822 – 1907
Gaspare Spontini
1774 – 1851
Georg Weiner
1895 – 1957
George Cukor
1899 – 1983
George Dixon
1820 – 1898
George Hare Philipson
1836 – 1918
George McCready Price
1870 – 1963
George Rooke
1650 – 1709
George Wilbraham
1779 – 1852
Georges Perros
1923 – 1978
… and 1,895 more