On This Day — February 24
4391 noted people were born and 1986 died on February 24 in our archive, including Adolf Seilacher, Catherine Cesarsky and Joseph Banks.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 24
Adolf Seilacher
1925 – 2014
Catherine Cesarsky
b. 1943
Joseph Banks
1743 – 1820
Ali Mazrui
1933 – 2014
Andres Keevallik
b. 1943
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
1697 – 1770
Bingu wa Mutharika
1934 – 2012
David J. Wineland
b. 1944
David Kessler
1959 – 2020
Diane Larsen-Freeman
b. 1946
Ellen R. Stofan
b. 1961
François Villeroy de Galhau
b. 1959
Gabriela González
b. 1965
Grigory Margulis
b. 1946
Harold Denton
1936 – 2017
Henri Turot
1865 – 1920
Hermann Paasche
1851 – 1925
Ivan Alekseevich Dvigubski
1771 – 1839
Janusz Zemke
b. 1949
Joe Lieberman
1942 – 2024
Josep Maria Nadal i Farreras
b. 1949
Katie Allen
1966 – 2025
Konstantin Fedin
1892 – 1977
Leo von Caprivi
1831 – 1899
Marek Jędraszewski
b. 1949
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
1907 – 2004
Michel Spiro
b. 1946
Miguel Arias Cañete
b. 1950
Mona Ozouf
b. 1931
Nitzan Horowitz
b. 1965
Paul Barry
b. 1952
Per Lønning
1928 – 2016
Raphael Georges Lévy
1853 – 1933
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
1880 – 1959
Sid Meier
b. 1954
Telford Taylor
1908 – 1998
Teodor Currentzis
b. 1972
Terry Winograd
b. 1946
Teófilo Braga
1843 – 1924
Tokushichi Mishima
1893 – 1975
Yoram Elron
b. 1960
Yuval Noah Harari
b. 1976
Adam Józef Potocki
1822 – 1872
Alain Mabanckou
b. 1966
Alan Deyermond
1932 – 2009
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
b. 1964
Aleksandr Nazarov
b. 1951
Alexander Bustamante
1884 – 1977
Alexandru Tănase
b. 1971
Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
1837 – 1916
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
1883 – 1973
Andrea Klambauer
b. 1977
Andrew Jacobs Jr.
1932 – 2013
Andrew Leung
b. 1951
Angie Cruz
b. 1972
Ann Hercus
b. 1942
Anushavan Ter-Ghevondyan
1887 – 1961
Arrigo Boito
1842 – 1918
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
1817 – 1882
Baltzar von Platen
1898 – 1984
Benedita Barata da Rocha
1949 – 2021
Brian Schmidt
b. 1967
Bruce Lloyd
b. 1937
Carl Gräbe
1841 – 1927
Carl Isidor Cori
1865 – 1954
Carlos Torres Vila
b. 1966
Charlene Fernandez
b. 1955
Charles Andrew Cotton
1885 – 1970
Chester W. Nimitz
1885 – 1966
Christian Gerhard Leopold
1846 – 1911
Constance Horner
b. 1942
Dan Bidois
b. 1983
David Diop
b. 1966
David Mourão-Ferreira
1927 – 1996
David Williamson
b. 1942
Dermot Earley Snr
1948 – 2010
Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe
1833 – 1895
Einar Arnórsson
1880 – 1955
Emma Lampert Cooper
1855 – 1920
Emmanuelle Wargon
b. 1971
Enzo Ghigo
b. 1953
Erna Solberg
b. 1961
Ernst Sieber
1927 – 2018
Etel Adnan
1925 – 2021
Eugène Penancier
1873 – 1955
Fabrice Amedeo
b. 1978
Fanny Law
b. 1953
Felix Bernstein
1878 – 1956
Freek Vonk
b. 1983
Gabriele Giordano Caccia
b. 1958
Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro
1832 – 1904
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
b. 1942
George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
1755 – 1842
Georgy Poltavchenko
b. 1953
Gregory Kunde
b. 1954
Gunnar Seidenfaden
1908 – 2001
Hans Helmut Kornhuber
1928 – 2009
Henry Barkly
1815 – 1898
Henry Houssaye
1848 – 1911
Henry W. Shoemaker
1880 – 1958
Hernán Figueroa Anguita
1897 – 1985
Hieronymus David Gaubius
1705 – 1780
Ignaz Czapka
1791 – 1881
Isabelle Ithurburu
b. 1983
Jacques Barnaud
1893 – 1962
Jacques Presser
1899 – 1970
Jadwiga Rappé
1952 – 2025
James Ireland Craig
1868 – 1952
Jane Hirshfield
b. 1953
Jayaram Jayalalithaa
1948 – 2016
Jean-Marie Cavada
b. 1940
Jennie Livingston
b. 1962
Jiří Bělohlávek
1946 – 2017
Joan Fontcuberta
b. 1955
Joel Salatin
b. 1957
Johan Christian Dahl
1788 – 1857
John Arthur James
1853 – 1917
John Burgoyne
1722 – 1792
John Flateau
1950 – 2023
John Lewis
1836 – 1928
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
1660 – 1724
John Strong Perry Tatlock
1876 – 1948
John of Austria
1547 – 1578
Jorge B. Vargas
1890 – 1980
Joseph A. Walker
1935 – 2003
Joseph P. Newhouse
b. 1942
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao
b. 1977
Judith Butler
b. 1956
Judith Ortiz Cofer
1952 – 2016
Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman
1948 – 2025
Julius Kollmann
1834 – 1918
Julius Vogel
1835 – 1899
K. N. Kornilov
1879 – 1957
Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow
b. 1938
Kedarnath Das
1867 – 1936
Kurt Tank
1898 – 1983
Laila Lalami
b. 1968
Laimdota Straujuma
b. 1951
Laura Gallardo
b. 1962
Laurent Ruquier
b. 1963
Lola Gorostiaga
b. 1957
Lucien Braun
1923 – 2020
Maksym Radziwill
b. 1988
Mark J. Bennett
b. 1953
Markus Mustajärvi
b. 1963
Martha Black
1866 – 1957
Martin Hall
b. 1952
Martin Malvy
b. 1936
Mashiho Chiri
1909 – 1961
Max Askanazy
1865 – 1940
Michael Frank Goodchild
b. 1944
Michael Harrington
1928 – 1989
Mihailo Marković
1923 – 2010
Mo O'Toole
b. 1960
Modesto López Otero
1885 – 1962
Modesto Montoya
b. 1949
Murray Costello
1934 – 2024
Nils Christie
1928 – 2015
P.M. Nilsson
b. 1968
Per Unckel
1948 – 2011
Peter Diggle
b. 1950
Peter Whish-Wilson
b. 1968
Philippe Vandevelde
1957 – 2019
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
1774 – 1850
Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
b. 1963
Pyotr Gannushkin
1875 – 1933
Pyotr Lebedev
1866 – 1912
René Pellat
1936 – 2003
Richard Bandler
b. 1950
Risa Hontiveros
b. 1966
Robert P. Burke
b. 1962
Robert Tsao
b. 1947
Rudolph Ganz
1877 – 1972
Ryhor Baradulin
1935 – 2014
Signe Kivi
b. 1957
Sima Lozanić
1847 – 1935
Simon L. Klemperer
b. 1958
Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet
1866 – 1921
Song Young-moo
b. 1949
Stephen Bienko
b. 1979
Svatopluk Beneš
1918 – 2007
Sylvie Granger
1955 – 2022
Sylvie Retailleau
b. 1965
Səkinə İsmayılova
b. 1956
Talat Mahmood
1924 – 1998
Tele Ikuru
b. 1966
Theo Bemelmans
b. 1943
Trevor Colbourn
1927 – 2015
Urmas Kõljalg
b. 1961
Valeriy Kalchenko
1947 – 2025
Volodymyr Zheliba
1934 – 2013
Waller Redd Staples
1826 – 1897
Walter O'Brien
b. 1978
Wilhelm Grimm
1786 – 1859
William Pollitt
1842 – 1908
Władysław Kowalski
1936 – 2017
Yehuda Lindell
b. 1971
Zdzisław Beksiński
1929 – 2005
Zell Miller
1932 – 2018
Zinka Zorko
1936 – 2019
… and 4,191 more
Died on February 24
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
1930 – 2019
Alan Lindsay Mackay
1926 – 2025
Alexander Kemurdzhian
1921 – 2003
Antonio Catricalà
1952 – 2021
Bernard Ingham
1932 – 2023
Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy
1880 – 1951
Claude Shannon
1916 – 2001
Edward W. Morley
1838 – 1923
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
1888 – 1973
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742 – 1799
Georgi Nadjakov
1896 – 1981
Henk van der Maas
1899 – 1987
Henry Cavendish
1731 – 1810
Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel
1512 – 1580
Hu Shih
1891 – 1962
Hugh Allen
1869 – 1946
James H. Douglas Jr.
1899 – 1988
John Moors Cabot
1901 – 1981
Joseph Hackin
1886 – 1941
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
1828 – 1914
Paul Charles Edouard Bertrand
1879 – 1944
Pekka Tarjanne
1937 – 2010
Pierre Janet
1859 – 1947
Ryszard Bender
1932 – 2016
Sandro Pertini
1896 – 1990
Sergei Winogradsky
1856 – 1953
Siniša Stanković
1892 – 1974
Tony Wrigley
1931 – 2022
Tor Andræ
1885 – 1947
Étienne-Louis Malus
1775 – 1812
Agathangelos Xirouchakis
1872 – 1958
Ahmed Sharif
1921 – 1999
Al Hibbs
1924 – 2003
Albert Cabell Ritchie
1876 – 1936
Alfred Espinas
1844 – 1922
Alma Thomas
1891 – 1978
Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate
1904 – 2004
Arnold Bergstraesser
1896 – 1964
Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad
1886 – 1967
Birger Hedqvist
1894 – 1964
Bluma Zeigarnik
1900 – 1988
Bruce George
1942 – 2020
Bud Luckey
1934 – 2018
Carlos Martínez Sotomayor
1929 – 2006
Cecilia Nettelbrandt
1922 – 2009
Charles Beaumont Phipps
1801 – 1866
Charles Reid Barnes
1858 – 1910
Cornelis Johannes van Doorn
1837 – 1906
David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
1904 – 1999
David Hawkins
1913 – 2002
Dennis Weaver
1924 – 2006
Dinah Shore
1916 – 1994
Dominicus Arumaeus
1579 – 1637
Donald Keene
1922 – 2019
Douglas Houghton Campbell
1859 – 1953
Edmond-Charles Édouard de Martimprey
1808 – 1883
Edward Henry Sieveking
1816 – 1904
Edward Marshall Hall
1858 – 1927
Emil Welti
1825 – 1899
Ercole Ricotti
1816 – 1883
Ernst Mauritz Dahlin
1843 – 1929
Fabio Conforto
1909 – 1954
Fanny Gates
1872 – 1931
Franciszek Kamiński
1902 – 2000
Franz Xaver von Funk
1840 – 1907
Frederick William Andrewes
1859 – 1932
Gary North
1942 – 2022
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
1869 – 1956
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
1924 – 2017
Hamid Nawaz Khan
Hermann von Ihering
1850 – 1930
Hideko Maehata
1914 – 1995
Hjalmar Branting
1860 – 1925
Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas
1904 – 1966
Irene Barnes Taeuber
1906 – 1974
Irving Ives
1896 – 1962
István Anhalt
1919 – 2012
Jacques Benoist-Méchin
1901 – 1983
James M. Cutts
1837 – 1903
James Strong
1833 – 1913
Jean Sablon
1906 – 1994
Johann Ernst Gerhard
1621 – 1668
John Landy
1930 – 2022
John Randolph
1915 – 2004
John Struthers
1823 – 1899
Jules Lefebvre
1836 – 1911
Julius Weisbach
1806 – 1871
Jørgen Aall
1806 – 1894
Katherine Johnson
1918 – 2020
Kume Kunitake
1839 – 1931
Li Xueqin
1933 – 2019
Lillian Chrystall
1926 – 2022
Lucien Saint
1867 – 1938
Lyn Hejinian
1941 – 2024
Léon Bérard
1876 – 1960
Malcolm Forbes
1919 – 1990
Marc Seguin
1786 – 1875
Marie Hackin
1905 – 1941
Methodiy (Kudriakov)
1949 – 2015
Naguib Gohar
1944 – 2015
Nigol Andresen
1899 – 1985
Panormitanus
1386 – 1445
Paul Thureau-Dangin
1837 – 1913
Peter Roquette
1927 – 2023
Pierre Sylvain Dumon
1797 – 1870
Rakhat Aliev
1962 – 2015
Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
1867 – 1940
Roberto Ago
1907 – 1995
Sergey Kovalyov
1919 – 2011
Sir Giles Rolls Loder, 3rd Baronet
1914 – 1999
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
1586 – 1667
Stanisław Ryniak
1915 – 2004
Tadeusz Vetulani
1897 – 1952
Tatsunosuke Takasaki
1885 – 1964
Tommy Douglas
1904 – 1986
Valmont Martin
1875 – 1935
Vic Anciaux
1931 – 2023
Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky
1863 – 1937
Walter Liddall
1884 – 1963
Werner Hilpert
1897 – 1957
William Peel
1875 – 1945
Yervand Lalayan
1864 – 1931
Yordan Sokolov
1933 – 2016
Abraham Watkins Venable
1799 – 1876
Adolf Goetzberger
1928 – 2023
Akram al-Hawrani
1912 – 1996
Albert Kapikian
1930 – 2014
Alessandro Barnabò
1801 – 1874
Alex Cameron
1937 – 2003
Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov
1842 – 1908
Alexander MacDonald
1858 – 1941
Alexander von Kotzebue
1815 – 1889
Alexandre Guiraud
1788 – 1847
Alice Pennefather
1903 – 1983
Alphonse Olterdissen
1865 – 1923
Andre Dubus
1936 – 1999
Andrew H. Longino
1854 – 1942
Andrew Sherratt
1946 – 2006
András Kozák
1943 – 2005
André Messager
1853 – 1929
Antoine André Louis Reynaud
1771 – 1844
Antonio Alegre
1924 – 2010
Antonio José Cañas
1785 – 1844
Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria
1629 – 1685
Armando Arancibia
1941 – 2016
August Eisenlohr
1832 – 1902
Ayong Maliksi
1938 – 2021
Benjamin Ulmann
1829 – 1884
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
1789 – 1862
Bobby Moore
1941 – 1993
Brian Stableford
1948 – 2024
Bryant Moore
1894 – 1951
Byron A. Stover
1890 – 1984
Camille Ournac
1845 – 1925
Carl Olof Rosenius
1816 – 1868
Chaim L. Pekeris
1908 – 1993
Charles Fletcher-Cooke
1914 – 2001
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
1629 – 1685
Charles Monroe Sheldon
1857 – 1946
Christian Theodor Holtfodt
1863 – 1930
Christian Zetlitz Bretteville
1800 – 1871
Christoph Johann von Medem
1763 – 1838
Clara Fraser
1923 – 1998
Clive Cussler
1931 – 2020
Collin d'Harleville
1755 – 1806
Conrad Nagel
1897 – 1970
Dal Orlov
1935 – 2021
Daniel Florencio O'Leary
1801 – 1854
Dennis Edward Nolan
1872 – 1956
Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat
1934 – 2023
Don Knotts
1924 – 2006
Douglas Wilson Johnson
1878 – 1944
Du Chisiza
1963 – 1999
Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg
1445 – 1496
Edmond Clément
1867 – 1928
Eduardo Mirás
1929 – 2022
Edward Gaylord Bourne
1860 – 1908
Ekai Kawaguchi
1866 – 1945
Elizabeth Arnold
1958 – 2024
Emil August Fieldorf
1895 – 1953
Emil Zegadłowicz
1888 – 1941
Emilio Terrero y Perinat
1827 – 1892
Emilio Veratti
1872 – 1967
Ephraim King Wilson II
1821 – 1891
Eric Barrington
1847 – 1918
Ernst Gutstein
1924 – 1998
Erwin von Lahousen
1897 – 1955
Ethelie Madeleine Brohan
1833 – 1900
Eugenio Bertini
1846 – 1933
Eugenio Curiel
1912 – 1945
Fanny Moser
1872 – 1953
Faye Glenn Abdellah
1919 – 2017
Felix Ermacora
1923 – 1995
Ferenc Herczeg
1863 – 1954
Folco Quilici
1930 – 2018
Francis Burgess
1793 – 1864
Frank Conroy
1890 – 1964
Frank G. Wisner
1938 – 2025
Frank L. Winn
1864 – 1941
Franz Stock
1904 – 1948
… and 1,786 more