On This Day — May 24
3982 noted people were born and 1920 died on May 24 in our archive, including Harry Hammond Hess, Martin Winterkorn and Aleksandr Kazakov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 24
Harry Hammond Hess
1906 – 1969
Martin Winterkorn
b. 1947
Aleksandr Kazakov
b. 1948
Alma Zadić
b. 1984
Aram Khachaturian
1903 – 1978
Arthur Llewellyn Basham
1914 – 1986
Austin Adams
1826 – 1890
Bertram Kostant
1928 – 2017
Bradley Efron
b. 1938
Clark L. Hull
1884 – 1952
Claude Huriet
1930 – 2024
Emily Temple-Wood
b. 1994
Fraser Stoddart
1942 – 2024
George Lakoff
b. 1941
Giovanni Sansone
1888 – 1979
Howard W. Odum
1884 – 1954
Jan Bernard Szlaga
1940 – 2012
Javier Gomá
b. 1965
Jorge Castañeda Gutman
b. 1953
Jürgen Rohwer
1924 – 2015
Kai Simons
b. 1938
Karl-Heinrich Weise
1909 – 1990
Knut Ahnlund
1923 – 2012
Larry Siedentop
1936 – 2024
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
1878 – 1972
Madhav Gadgil
1942 – 2026
Marcelle Machluf
b. 1963
Matthew Meselson
b. 1930
Mireille Corbier
b. 1943
Patricia Hollis
1941 – 2018
Robert Adair
1763 – 1855
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
b. 1948
Sefton Delmer
1904 – 1979
Tansu Çiller
b. 1946
Tom Phillips
1937 – 2022
Valerie Taylor
b. 1963
William Chauvenet
1820 – 1870
William Haley
1901 – 1987
William Whewell
1794 – 1866
Wojciech Maksymowicz
b. 1955
Władysław Orlicz
1903 – 1990
Abdulla Aripov
b. 1961
Adrian Frutiger
1928 – 2015
Aili M. Tripp
b. 1958
Albert Adu Boahen
1932 – 2006
Aleksandr Gorbunov
b. 1990
Alexei Bogaturov
b. 1954
Alfred Cort Haddon
1855 – 1940
Alice Guionnet
b. 1969
Alice Perkins
b. 1949
Anatol Łapo
b. 1963
Andrei Shevelyov
b. 1970
Anton Budilovich
1846 – 1908
Aramais Sahakyan
1936 – 2013
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany
1872 – 1942
Archie Shepp
b. 1937
Arthur Smithells
1860 – 1939
Arvid Harnack
1901 – 1942
Asim Peco
1927 – 2011
Avtandil Gartskiya
b. 1959
Barry O'Farrell
b. 1959
Ben Zyskowicz
b. 1954
Benjamin N. Cardozo
1870 – 1938
C. Richard Tracy
b. 1943
Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardinia
1751 – 1819
Carmine Infantino
1925 – 2013
Cecilia Cheung
b. 1980
Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch
1772 – 1819
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
1748 – 1831
Christoph Wolff
b. 1940
Coleman Young
1918 – 1997
Colin Gonsalves
b. 1952
Colin Humphreys
b. 1941
Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea
1689 – 1769
Danny Calegari
b. 1972
Dermot O'Leary
b. 1973
Dexter Filkins
b. 1961
Driss Jettou
b. 1945
Edward Hitchcock
1793 – 1864
Eliezer Goldberg
1931 – 2022
Ernest J. Harris
1928 – 2018
Felix Korobov
b. 1972
Florence Knoll
1917 – 2019
Frank Edward Brown
1908 – 1988
Friedrich Trendelenburg
1844 – 1924
Gary L. Francione
b. 1954
Georg von Krogh
b. 1963
George Bowdler Buckton
1818 – 1905
George Tchobanoglous
b. 1935
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland
1861 – 1940
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington
1877 – 1946
Hazel Irvine
b. 1965
Hedley Donovan
1914 – 1990
Helen B. Taussig
1898 – 1986
Henri de Miffonis
1882 – 1955
Henrik Olrik
1830 – 1890
Henry Dawkins
1728 – 1814
Herbert L. Anderson
1914 – 1988
Hermann Duncker
1874 – 1960
Hristo Silyanov
1880 – 1939
Håvard Alstadheim
1936 – 1998
Ichirō Ozawa
b. 1942
Ivan Corwin
b. 1984
Ivan Gvozdev
1859 – 1932
Ivar Fonnes
b. 1944
Jacob Rees-Mogg
b. 1969
James K. Watkins
1887 – 1970
Jan Christiaan Smuts
1870 – 1950
Jan Sokołowski
1899 – 1982
Jason Wood
b. 1968
Jerome R. Cox, Jr.
1925 – 2023
Jerzy Limon
1950 – 2021
Johann Amadeus Francis de Paula, Baron of Thugut
1736 – 1818
John Adams
1920 – 1984
John Arnup
1911 – 2005
John Arthur Bartrum
1885 – 1949
John B. Kelly Jr.
1927 – 1985
John Davy
1790 – 1868
John Gorst
1835 – 1916
John King Fairbank
1907 – 1991
John Mayow
1640 – 1679
John Moffat
b. 1932
Joseph Brodsky
1940 – 1996
Jozef Konings
b. 1967
Kasie Hunt
b. 1985
Kiichi Inoue
1932 – 2010
Kim Sunmin
b. 1964
Kozo Watanabe
1932 – 2020
Lionel Conacher
1902 – 1954
Lorna Crozier
b. 1948
Maciej Szpunar
b. 1971
Maia Sandu
b. 1972
Maksim Surayev
b. 1972
Margarita Prohens Rigo
b. 1982
Mark van der Giezen
b. 1968
Mathieu Weill
1851 – 1939
Maude Barlow
b. 1947
Maurice Francis Egan
1852 – 1924
Michel Alcan
1810 – 1877
Mihajlo Janketić
1938 – 2019
Moudud Ahmed
1940 – 2021
Nagif Hamzayev
b. 1983
Najmeddin Sadikov
b. 1956
Nathalie Griesbeck
b. 1956
Ne Win
1911 – 2002
Nilamani Routray
1920 – 2004
Nils Ahrbom
1905 – 1997
Oleksandr Vilkul
b. 1974
Otto Liebe
1860 – 1929
Paul A. David
1935 – 2023
Paul Gigot
b. 1955
Peter Ascanius
1723 – 1803
Peter J. Brennan
1918 – 1996
Peter Topping
b. 1971
Philip Holmes
b. 1945
Prithvirajsing Roopun
b. 1959
Raed Arafat
b. 1964
Rajdeep Sardesai
b. 1965
Rein Otsason
1931 – 2004
René Lorin
1877 – 1933
Richard Amphlett
1809 – 1883
Richard Ottaway
b. 1945
Robert Proust
1873 – 1935
Roden Cutler
1916 – 2002
Rudolf Kippenhahn
1926 – 2020
Ruslana Lyzhychko
b. 1973
Sadao Bekku
1922 – 2012
Safiatou Thiam
b. 1963
Scott Wolpert
b. 1950
Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo
b. 1944
Sofie Carsten Nielsen
b. 1975
Sophus Müller
1846 – 1934
Sun Chunlan
b. 1950
Susan Sutherland Isaacs
1885 – 1948
Susana Baca
b. 1944
Svend Auken
1943 – 2009
Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
1743 – 1823
Sylvia Daoust
1902 – 2004
Tadeusz Rolke
1929 – 2025
Taizo Mikazuki
b. 1971
Thomas Langmann
b. 1971
Tobías Lasser
1911 – 2006
Tomaž Pisanski
b. 1949
Toyotarō Yūki
1877 – 1951
Victoria
1819 – 1901
William F. Albright
1891 – 1971
William Mortimer Clark
1836 – 1917
Yevgeny Kindinov
b. 1945
Ynes Mexia
1870 – 1938
Yuri Shvytkin
1965 – 2026
Zareh Vorpuni
1902 – 1980
Štefan Füle
b. 1962
A N Shamseer
b. 1977
A. J. Beck
1914 – 2006
Abigaba Cuthbert Mirembe
b. 1975
Abraham Geiger
1810 – 1874
Adam Ignatius Komorowski
1699 – 1759
Adeline Blancquaert
b. 1996
Adolf Tobler
1835 – 1910
Adrian Custis
b. 1974
… and 3,782 more
Died on May 24
Juan Peset Aleixandre
1886 – 1941
Rolf Skår
1941 – 2023
Ernest Labrousse
1895 – 1988
Georg Waitz
1813 – 1886
George Frederick Barker
1835 – 1910
Harold Wilson
1916 – 1995
Jan Kačer
1936 – 2024
John Foster Dulles
1888 – 1959
John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner
1859 – 1934
José Cuatrecasas
1903 – 1996
Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote
1828 – 1902
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
1794 – 1872
Lancelot Stirling
1849 – 1932
Michael Birkeland
1830 – 1896
Murray Gell-Mann
1929 – 2019
Pompiliu Eliade
1870 – 1914
Samuel Bard
1742 – 1821
Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet
1869 – 1941
Thomas Erskine Holland
1835 – 1926
Watanabe Hiromoto
1848 – 1901
Alan Yentob
1947 – 2025
Albert Adu Boahen
1932 – 2006
Aleksander Brückner
1856 – 1939
Alexey Shchusev
1873 – 1949
Anders Josef Europaeus
1797 – 1870
Angus Ross
1911 – 2000
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
1883 – 1950
Asa Bird Gardiner
1839 – 1919
Berend Jan Udink
1926 – 2016
Brigitte Jordan
1938 – 2016
Bruce McKenzie
1919 – 1978
Charles Cooper
1795 – 1887
Charles Franklin Born
1903 – 1979
Clyde Cowan
1919 – 1974
Dezső Bánffy
1843 – 1911
Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera
1873 – 1949
Emilio Oribe
1893 – 1975
Francesco Rizzoli
1809 – 1880
Franz Volhard
1872 – 1950
Félix Martí Ibáñez
1911 – 1972
Gabriel Valentin
1810 – 1883
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
1719 – 1792
George W. Pepper
1867 – 1961
Giovanni Giudici
1924 – 2011
Gotthard Graubner
1930 – 2013
Guy La Chambre
1898 – 1975
Henri Salaün
1866 – 1936
Henry Brougham, 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux
1836 – 1927
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
1882 – 1947
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1859 – 1937
Hugh McCulloch
1808 – 1895
Ichisada Miyazaki
1901 – 1995
Inigo Campioni
1878 – 1944
Ivan Horbachevsky
1854 – 1942
Jacob Druckman
1928 – 1996
Jaime Roldos Aquilera
1940 – 1981
James Peter Hill
1873 – 1954
Javier Álvarez
1956 – 2023
Jean-Baptiste Noulet
1802 – 1890
Jean-Loup Dabadie
1938 – 2020
Jerome Daugherty
1849 – 1914
Jonathan L. Rosner
1941 – 2025
Joseph Lafayette Rawlins
1850 – 1926
Juan Meléndez Valdés
1754 – 1817
Julien Hébert
1917 – 1994
Kenkichi Yabashi
1869 – 1927
Khizri Shikhsaidov
1947 – 2026
L. A. Puntila
1907 – 1988
Lajos Ligeti
1902 – 1987
Lee Rich
1918 – 2012
Louis Alan Hazeltine
1886 – 1964
Louis Bernard Bonjean
1804 – 1871
Margaret Alison Telfer
1904 – 1974
Martha Annie Whiteley
1866 – 1956
Mats Hellström
1942 – 2026
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
1903 – 1997
Neil Cherry
1946 – 2003
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
Oleg Yefremov
1927 – 2000
Paolo Rossi
1900 – 1985
Parker Corning
1874 – 1943
Pyotr Todorovsky
1925 – 2013
Richard Peck
1934 – 2018
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
1563 – 1612
Romualdo de Toledo y Robles
1895 – 1974
Rowland Blades, 1st Baron Ebbisham
1868 – 1953
Ruth G. Waddy
1909 – 2003
Sadiq Muhammad Khan V of Bahawalpur
1904 – 1966
Seiichi Ōmura
1892 – 1968
Shikhali Gurbanov
1925 – 1967
Shyamanand Jalan
1934 – 2010
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet
1781 – 1849
Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, of the City of London
1840 – 1926
Stephen D. Thorne
1953 – 1986
Sylvestre François Lacroix
1765 – 1843
Thomas Holcomb
1879 – 1965
Thomas J. Dodd
1907 – 1971
Thomas Vernor Smith
1890 – 1964
Victor Sadler
1937 – 2020
Väinö Voionmaa
1869 – 1947
Wilhelmina Seegmiller
1866 – 1913
William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
1815 – 1899
William Heneker
1867 – 1939
William Meeks
1947 – 2026
William Patrick Adam
1823 – 1881
William Sheat
1899 – 1982
Yevgeny Kychanov
1932 – 2013
Abdulla Qahhor
1907 – 1968
Albert W. Cretella
1897 – 1979
Alexander Campbell
1822 – 1892
Alexander Langsdorf Jr.
1912 – 1996
Alphonse de Cailleux
1788 – 1876
Anders Lysgaard
1756 – 1827
Andrew Stephen Wilson
1947 – 2008
Anna Halprin
1920 – 2021
Anton von Frisch
1849 – 1917
Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria
1823 – 1898
Arthur Fleming-Sandes
1894 – 1961
Banira Giri
1946 – 2021
Bruce Cervon
1941 – 2007
Bryan Cusack
1882 – 1973
Burt Kwouk
1930 – 2016
Béatrice Bellamy
1966 – 2026
Carl Fehrman
1915 – 2010
Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
1735 – 1799
Cevat Açıkalın
1902 – 1970
Charles August Lindbergh
1859 – 1924
Charles Herbert Mullins
1869 – 1916
Charles Lucien Léandre
1862 – 1934
Charles Mann
1799 – 1860
Charles Wager
1666 – 1743
Charles de Menou d'Aulnay
1604 – 1650
Charles de Valois, Duc de Berry
1446 – 1472
Charles-Etienne Jordan
1700 – 1745
Christopher Furness
1912 – 1940
Cino Del Duca
1899 – 1967
Clifford C. Ireland
1878 – 1930
David Archibald Harvey
1845 – 1916
David Renton, Baron Renton
1908 – 2007
David W. Bagley
1883 – 1960
Denis Johnson
1949 – 2017
Destiny Deacon
1957 – 2024
Dhananjayrao Gadgil
1901 – 1971
Dick Martin
1922 – 2008
Dietrich Tiedemann
1748 – 1803
Don Beck
1937 – 2022
Dorothy Fraser
1926 – 2015
Duke Ellington
1899 – 1974
Edgard de Trentinian
1851 – 1942
Edmund Morris
1940 – 2019
Eduardo González-Gallarza
1898 – 1986
Edward Albert Kreger
1868 – 1955
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
1853 – 1937
Edward Hemmerde
1871 – 1948
Eric Girdwood
1876 – 1963
Ernst Remak
1849 – 1911
Ethel Myers
1881 – 1960
Eugenio Garza Lagüera
1943 – 2008
Fanny Searls
1851 – 1939
Fateh Singh
1849 – 1930
Fazlul Karim
1905 – 1986
Francesco Alidosi
1455 – 1511
Francis Edward Gilman
1842 – 1917
Francis Kjeldsberg
1869 – 1948
Francis Octavius Grenfell
1880 – 1915
François-Xavier Joseph de Casabianca
1796 – 1881
Fred Aftalion
1922 – 2022
Frederick Simpson Deitrick
1875 – 1948
Frederick Van Ness Bradley
1898 – 1947
Frithjof Bergmann
1930 – 2021
Fritz Hofmann
1924 – 2005
Fritz Joubert Duquesne
1877 – 1956
Gene Clark
1944 – 1991
Georg von Schnitzler
1884 – 1962
George Chetwynd
1783 – 1850
George Douglas
1826 – 1904
George E. Cryer
1875 – 1961
George Lambert
1909 – 1989
George Maharis
1928 – 2023
George William von Zedlitz
1871 – 1949
Georges Darboy
1813 – 1871
Gudrun Burwitz
1929 – 2018
Gustav Åkerman
1901 – 1988
Hans Jüttner
1894 – 1965
Hans Wehr
1909 – 1981
Harold Bell Wright
1872 – 1944
Haynes Johnson
1931 – 2013
Heinrich Bender
1925 – 2016
Heinrich Friedrich Weber
1843 – 1912
Helen Krich Chinoy
1922 – 2010
Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien
1613 – 1707
Henri Paris
1935 – 2021
Henry Greenhill
1646 – 1708
Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
1684 – 1714
Howard B. Lee
1879 – 1985
Huguette Marcelle Clark
1906 – 2011
Igor Vieru
1923 – 1988
J. A. O. Preus I
1883 – 1961
J. George Stewart
1890 – 1970
Jack Warner
1895 – 1981
… and 1,720 more