On This Day — April 24
4220 noted people were born and 1947 died on April 24 in our archive, including David Blackwell, Oscar Zariski and Wolfgang Haack.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 24
David Blackwell
1919 – 2010
Oscar Zariski
1899 – 1986
Wolfgang Haack
1902 – 1994
Alfons Mais
b. 1962
Alfred Kleiner
1849 – 1916
Catrin Finch
b. 1980
David Crombie
b. 1936
Douglas McIlroy
b. 1932
Edmund Cartwright
1743 – 1823
Francis Humphrys
1879 – 1971
Franz Klein
1854 – 1926
Gabby Logan
b. 1973
Giuseppe Sanarelli
1864 – 1940
Jaume Roures
b. 1950
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
1817 – 1894
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld
b. 1978
Jiří Horák
1924 – 2003
Josep Borrell
b. 1947
Juliusz Kleiner
1886 – 1957
Karl Schiller
1911 – 1994
Maria da Conceição Tavares
1930 – 2024
Marie Paule Kieny
b. 1955
Mathieu Orfila
1787 – 1853
Maxie Clarence Maultsby, Jr.
1932 – 2016
Michael Ristow
b. 1967
Mihailo Petrović
1868 – 1943
Paul Helbronner
1871 – 1938
Reinhart Heinrich
1946 – 2006
Roger D. Kornberg
b. 1947
Samuel Linde
1771 – 1847
Saša Janković
b. 1970
Stafford Cripps
1889 – 1952
Tatiana Roque
b. 1970
Thomas King
b. 1943
Timothy Field Allen
1837 – 1902
Vittorio Scialoja
1856 – 1933
Volker Mehrmann
b. 1955
Wilhelm Endemann
1825 – 1899
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
1919 – 2007
Zianon Paźniak
b. 1944
Allen Lee
1940 – 2020
Andrew Murrison
b. 1961
Angelica Cheung
b. 1966
Anthony Taylor
b. 1954
Anupama Kundoo
b. 1967
Aslaug Blytt
1899 – 1966
Augusta Read Thomas
b. 1964
Benjamin Lee Whorf
1897 – 1941
Bernhard Grzimek
1909 – 1987
Brian Paddick
b. 1958
Carl Årmann
1894 – 1988
Carlisle Trost
1930 – 2020
Chang Kee Jung
b. 1955
Chantal Hébert
b. 1954
Charles Franklin Born
1903 – 1979
Charles Moseley
b. 1941
Charles Sprague Sargent
1841 – 1927
Chipper Jones
b. 1972
Christine Ockrent
b. 1944
Clinton Bailey
1936 – 2025
Daniel Danielopolu
1884 – 1955
David Gordon Lyon
1852 – 1935
David Morrell
b. 1943
Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill
b. 1947
Douglas J. Futuyma
b. 1942
Elena Băsescu
b. 1980
Elisabeth Mann Borgese
1918 – 2002
Elsie Leung
b. 1939
Enda Kenny
b. 1951
Enrique Hermitte
1871 – 1955
Ettore Conti of Verampio, Count of Verampio
1871 – 1972
Farid Gayibov
b. 1979
Felix Ehrenhaft
1879 – 1952
François Gros
1925 – 2022
Geo Widengren
1907 – 1996
Georg Hellmesberger
1800 – 1873
George William Vella
b. 1942
Glafcos Clerides
1919 – 2013
Grace Oladunni Taylor
1937 – 2025
György Kósa
1897 – 1984
Hashim Thaçi
b. 1968
Hellen Grace Asamo
b. 1964
Helmut Türk
b. 1941
Henry Gee
b. 1962
Hilding Kring
1899 – 1971
Hua Chunying
b. 1970
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
1882 – 1970
Ilsur Metshin
b. 1969
Isadore Singer
1924 – 2021
Ishii Kikujirō
1866 – 1945
Israel Jacob Kligler
1888 – 1944
Jacline Mouraud
b. 1967
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
b. 1956
James Muirhead
1925 – 1999
James Paice
b. 1949
Jasmine Warga
b. 1988
Javier Rupérez
b. 1941
Jean de Castellane
1868 – 1965
Jean-Paul Gaultier
b. 1952
Joan Saura i Laporta
b. 1950
John W. Thompson
b. 1949
John Williams
b. 1941
John de Mol Jr.
b. 1955
Jorge Moreira da Silva
b. 1971
Jorge Prat
1918 – 1971
Joseph Addison Alexander
1809 – 1860
Joseph Gallieni
1849 – 1916
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
1903 – 1936
José Sarney
b. 1930
João Braz de Aviz
b. 1947
Jusztinián György Serédi
1884 – 1945
Kanō Tomonobu
1843 – 1912
Karin Roelofs
b. 1972
Kōji Matsui
b. 1960
Lev Kuznetsov
b. 1965
Lou Dorfsman
1918 – 2008
Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez
1808 – 1871
Louis-Charles-Georges-Jules Lafont
1825 – 1908
Manuel Ávila Camacho
1897 – 1955
Manó Beke
1862 – 1946
Marc-Adélard Tremblay
1922 – 2014
Marion Caspers-Merk
b. 1955
Mark Pinsker
1925 – 2003
Matti Lehtinen
1922 – 2022
Mike Garcia
b. 1976
Mustafa Akaydın
b. 1952
Natalie Jaresko
b. 1965
Nicholas Russo
1845 – 1902
Noboru Karashima
1933 – 2015
Oleksandr Zholobetskyi
b. 1966
Otto Willmann
1839 – 1920
Paolo Piccione
b. 1964
Percy Herbert
1885 – 1968
Philippe Pétain
1856 – 1951
Phạm Duy Khiêm
1908 – 1974
Richard Friederich Arens
1919 – 2000
Richard Holbrooke
1941 – 2010
Richard M. Daley
b. 1942
Richard Ned Lebow
b. 1942
Richard van der Riet Woolley
1906 – 1986
Robert Penn Warren
1905 – 1989
Ron Arad
b. 1951
Sam Willis
b. 1977
Sandro Galea
b. 1971
Sarah Knafo
b. 1993
Seiji Osaka
b. 1959
Seymour Bernstein
1927 – 2026
Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet
1853 – 1929
Stanley Osher
b. 1942
Susanna Agnelli
1922 – 2009
Teresa Domingo Segarra
b. 1953
Thomas Shapiro
b. 1947
Tomitaro Makino
1862 – 1957
Tomoko Abe
b. 1948
Vicente Fidel López
1815 – 1903
Viktor Liashko
b. 1980
Violet Alva
1908 – 1969
Violet Archer
1913 – 2000
Willem de Kooning
1904 – 1997
William Lambert Dobson
1833 – 1898
Yury Lomonosov
1876 – 1952
A. C. Benson
1862 – 1925
Aaldert Wapstra
1922 – 2006
Achille Cutrera
1929 – 2018
Adrienne Arsenault
b. 1967
Aino Ackté
1876 – 1944
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera
b. 1959
Alberto Ricardo da Silva
1943 – 2015
Alessandro Riberi
1794 – 1861
Alexander Christian Møller
1762 – 1847
Alfred Cowley
1848 – 1926
Ali Ehsassi
b. 1970
Alice Haskins
1880 – 1971
Alphonse Bertillon
1853 – 1914
Andrew Pakes
b. 1973
Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth
1865 – 1955
András Sebő
b. 1954
André Caquot
1923 – 2004
Ann Rest
b. 1942
Annamaria Furlan
b. 1958
Anthony Trollope
1815 – 1882
Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa
b. 1960
Apolo Safanpo
b. 1975
Arthur Asquith
1883 – 1939
Ashleigh Barty
b. 1996
Aziz Qureshi
1941 – 2024
Bamike Olawunmi
b. 1989
Bamir Topi
b. 1957
Barbara Boyd
1942 – 2022
Barbra Streisand
b. 1942
Beate Gangås
b. 1963
Belinda Ang
b. 1954
Bishnuram Medhi
1888 – 1981
Bjørn Røse
b. 1951
Brian Barnwell
b. 1986
Brian Donnelly
b. 1945
Brian Munzlinger
b. 1956
Bridget Riley
b. 1931
Brittany Hrynko
b. 1993
Camille Paulus
b. 1943
… and 4,020 more
Died on April 24
Fei Xiaotong
1910 – 2005
François Gigot de la Peyronie
1678 – 1747
Hans Kramers
1894 – 1952
Hans Tuppy
1924 – 2024
Dimitris Tsatsos
1933 – 2010
Edgar Sanabria
1911 – 1989
Felice Ippolito
1915 – 1997
Franz Jonas
1899 – 1974
Georg Bredig
1868 – 1944
Georges Montefiore-Levi
1832 – 1906
Gerhard Domagk
1895 – 1964
Hamilton Fish Armstrong
1893 – 1973
Hans Hollein
1934 – 2014
Ian Jacob
1899 – 1993
Jean-Antoine Nollet
1700 – 1770
John Adams
1772 – 1863
John Phillips
1800 – 1874
Josep Massot i Muntaner
1941 – 2022
M. Vijayan
1941 – 2022
Max von Laue
1879 – 1960
Paul Bartsch
1871 – 1960
Paul Shorey
1857 – 1934
Robert M. Warner
1927 – 2007
Susan L. Williams
1954 – 2018
Tatsuo Satō
1964 – 2026
William Gregory
1803 – 1858
Władysław Bartoszewski
1922 – 2015
Yuri Kholopov
1932 – 2003
Abdullah al-Hamid
1950 – 2020
Agustín Edwards Eastman
1927 – 2017
Albrecht Alt
1883 – 1956
Alejo Carpanter
1904 – 1980
Antonio Rosón Pérez
1911 – 1986
Arthur Boyd
1920 – 1999
Arvid Posse
1820 – 1901
Axel von Fersen the Elder
1719 – 1794
Azuma Konno
1947 – 2013
Babill Stray-Pedersen
1943 – 2019
Benjamin Barber
1939 – 2017
Betty Clay
1917 – 2004
C. Sankaran Nair
1857 – 1934
Carl H. Eigenmann
1863 – 1927
Charles Seignobos
1854 – 1942
Dimitrios Kallergis
1803 – 1867
Donald J. Atwood Jr.
1924 – 1994
Donald Payne Jr.
1958 – 2024
Donald Petersen
1926 – 2024
Donald Riegle
1938 – 2026
Edgar Bonham-Carter
1870 – 1956
Elizaveta Karamihailova
1897 – 1968
Erast Parmasto
1928 – 2012
Erich Harnack
1852 – 1915
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
1899 – 1945
Estée Lauder
1906 – 2004
Ezer Weizman
1924 – 2005
Federico Chávez
1881 – 1978
Felix Adler
1851 – 1933
Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn
1809 – 1864
G. Stanley Hall
1844 – 1924
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
1823 – 1900
George Volkoff
1914 – 2000
George Vujnovich
1915 – 2012
Hakob Kojoyan
1883 – 1959
Hans Neij
1921 – 1985
Heinrich Leo
1799 – 1878
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
1800 – 1891
Hirohiko Okano
1924 – 2026
Iosif Kheifits
1905 – 1995
Jan Albin Goetz
1864 – 1931
Jerzy Majewski
1925 – 2019
Johan Ludvig Nathansen
1870 – 1922
John M. Farquhar
1832 – 1918
Julia Perry
1924 – 1979
Józefa Joteyko
1866 – 1928
Jāzeps Vītols
1863 – 1948
Karl Fuchs
1776 – 1846
Karl Krug
1873 – 1952
Lawren P. Harris
1910 – 1994
Louis A. Johnson
1891 – 1966
M. S. Krishnan
1898 – 1970
Mari Beyleryan
1877 – 1915
Maud Chadburn
1868 – 1957
Mel Powell
1923 – 1998
Michael Pedersen Friis
1857 – 1944
Michel Aglietta
1938 – 2025
Miguel Portas
1958 – 2012
Mooryati Soedibyo
1928 – 2024
Nestor Roqueplan
1805 – 1870
Nikolai Kravkov
1865 – 1924
Nina Arkhipova
1921 – 2016
Oliver Tambo
1917 – 1993
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
1883 – 1970
Pierre Hadot
1922 – 2010
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
1908 – 1974
Robert Arundell
1904 – 1989
Robert Carr
1774 – 1841
Robert M. Pirsig
1928 – 2017
Sergei Yutkevich
1904 – 1985
Sir Norbert Michael Keenan
1864 – 1954
Solange Schwarz
1910 – 2000
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
1902 – 1982
Thomas Fincke
1561 – 1656
Thomas K. Finletter
1893 – 1980
Trish Fraser
1966 – 2025
Valtazar Bogišić
1834 – 1908
Vanja Radauš
1906 – 1975
Vasilios Markesinis
1944 – 2023
Virgil Orr
1923 – 2021
Vladimir Burkov
1939 – 2025
W. Willard Wirtz
1912 – 2010
Walter Charleton
1619 – 1707
Walter Jackson Freeman III
1927 – 2016
Warrington Yorke
1883 – 1943
Wilfrid de Fonvielle
1824 – 1914
Wojciech Siemion
1928 – 2010
Yukio Okamoto
1945 – 2020
Adelle August
1934 – 2005
Agnes Giebel
1921 – 2017
Al Hibbler
1915 – 2001
Albrecht von Bernstorff
1890 – 1945
Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin
1693 – 1768
Alfred Vierkandt
1867 – 1953
Aliheydar Garayev
1896 – 1938
Alphonse Georges
1875 – 1951
Amos Vogel
1921 – 2012
Andrew Smith Hallidie
1836 – 1900
Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff
1872 – 1957
Annæus Johannes Schjødt
1857 – 1923
Anton Lipošćak
1863 – 1924
Arthur H. Butler
1903 – 1972
Arthur James Mason
1851 – 1928
Arthur Naparstek
1938 – 2004
Ascanio Bascuñán Santa María
1880 – 1935
Assen Bossev
1913 – 1997
Augustus Meredith Nanton
1860 – 1925
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1934 – 2002
Barbara Toomer
1929 – 2018
Belus Smawley
1918 – 2003
Benjamin Harrison V
1726 – 1791
Benson K. Buffham
1919 – 2019
Bernard Charles Hartley
1879 – 1960
Bernt Ingvaldsen
1902 – 1985
Binapani Mohanty
1936 – 2022
Bogdan Borčić
1926 – 2014
Bonifacius Amerbach
1495 – 1562
Bronisław Bartel
1887 – 1968
Calvin Bricker
1884 – 1963
Camille Erlanger
1863 – 1919
Carl August Ehrensvärd
1892 – 1974
Casper R. Taylor, Jr.
1934 – 2023
Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné
1764 – 1836
Charles B. Landis
1858 – 1922
Charles Bagge Plowright
1849 – 1910
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
1699 – 1751
Charles I. Dawson
1881 – 1969
Charles Metz
1799 – 1853
Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley
1851 – 1926
Charles Sumner Hamlin
1861 – 1938
Chris Albertson
1931 – 2019
Concino Concini
1575 – 1617
Daniel D. Barnard
1797 – 1861
Daniel McGillivray Brown
1923 – 2012
David Cartwright
1920 – 1997
David Welsh
1793 – 1845
Denis Mahon
1910 – 2011
Dirk Kempthorne
1951 – 2026
Edith Munnings
1867 – 1939
Eduard Langer
1835 – 1905
Edward Bancroft Williston
1837 – 1920
Edward Newman
1859 – 1946
Edwin Hanson Webster
1829 – 1893
Emery L. Frazier
1896 – 1973
Emilio Prados
1899 – 1962
Enrico Dante
1884 – 1967
Erik Bergman
1911 – 2006
Eugene Jamot
1879 – 1937
Felix Ernst Peiser
1862 – 1921
Ferdinando Albertolli
1781 – 1844
Ferdinando Martini
1841 – 1928
Fernando Amorsolo
1892 – 1972
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
1577 – 1622
Firmin Didot
1764 – 1836
Francis Xavier Dercum
1856 – 1931
Franciszek Bohomolec
1720 – 1784
Franklin Fairbanks
1828 – 1895
Françoise Barrière
1944 – 2019
Frederick A. Scott
1866 – 1957
Frederick C. Turner
1923 – 2014
Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1717 – 1785
Fredrik Glad Balchen
1815 – 1899
Friedrich Baumbach
1935 – 2025
G. A. Hardaway
1954 – 2026
Garnet Mackley
1883 – 1986
George Herms
1935 – 2026
George Humphrey
1889 – 1966
George de Forest Brush
1855 – 1941
Gheorghe I. Brătianu
1898 – 1953
Giancarlo Gentilini
1929 – 2025
Gilbert Sheldon
1926 – 2023
Giovanni Battista Venturi
1746 – 1822
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