On This Day
Saturday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 24 1968
Born on This Day
Andre Gunder Frank🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1929–2005
Days lived
27,817
Andrey Ilyin🇷🇺
Russian scientist · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Antony🇧🇷
Professional footballer · b. 2000
Ashley Walker🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1987
Benny Safdie🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1986
Beth Broderick🇺🇸
actor · b. 1959
Days alive
3,287
Billy Zane🇺🇸
American actor (born 1966) · b. 1966
Days alive
730
Bob Sanders🇺🇸
American football player, defensive back · b. 1981
Bolla Conradie🇿🇦
South African rugby union footballer · b. 1978
Bonnie Somerville🇺🇸
American actress (born 1974) · b. 1974
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Carlos Vidal🇨🇱
deceasedChilean footballer (1902-1982) · 1902–1982
Days lived
29,323
Cerina Fairfax🌍
deceasedNotable Person · 1977–2026
Days lived
17,948
Cham🇯🇲
Jamaican musician · b. 1977
Christopher Lutz🇩🇪
German chess player · b. 1971
David C. Evans🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist (1924-1998) · 1924–1998
Days lived
27,250
David May🇬🇧
British computer scientist (born 1951) · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Detlev Kittstein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player · 1944–1996
Days lived
19,062
Dilâver Satılmış🇨🇭
Turkish association football player (born 1979) · b. 1979
Einar Westye Egeberg, Jr.🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian businessman (1883–1946) · 1883–1946
Days lived
22,956
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Floyd Mayweather
Notable Trials · b. 1977
Frank Fertitta III🇺🇸
American entrepreneur · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Gabriele Schnaut🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1951–2023
Days lived
26,413
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak🇮🇳
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
Honus Wagner🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1874–1955
Days lived
29,869
Ike Nassi🇺🇸
American computer scientist (1949-) · b. 1949
Days alive
6,939
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Jan Koum
engineer · b. 1976
Jessica Pegula🇺🇸
US tennis player · b. 1994
João Batista Becker🇧🇷
deceasedCatholic archbishop · 1870–1946
Days lived
27,869
Joe Celko🇺🇸
American software engineer · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
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Judith Butler🇺🇸
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956) · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Jürgen Jendrossek🇩🇪
football player · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Kasper Rorsted🇩🇰
Danish economist · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Klaus Darga🇩🇪
chess player · b. 1934
Days alive
12,418
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Klaus Niedzwiedz🇩🇪
German racing driver · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Kurt Tank🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1898–1983
Days lived
31,146
La Jana🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1905–1940
Days lived
12,801
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Lars Kraume🇩🇪
German film director, screenwriter and film producer · b. 1973
Laurence Docherty🇬🇧
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1980
Marie Goslich🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer, editor (1859-1938) · 1859–1938
Days lived
28,800
Marisa Mell🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actress (1939–1992) · 1939–1992
Days lived
19,440
Michael Johnson🇬🇧
football player · b. 1988
Michel Legrand🇫🇷
deceasedComposer, conductor, jazz pianist, singer · 1932–2019
Days lived
31,748
Mike Lowell🇺🇸
film director · b. 1974
Nicky Hopkins🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1944–1994
Days lived
18,457
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Paul Jones🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
Per Lønning🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian Lutheran bishop and politician, lyricist (1928-2016) · 1928–2016
Days lived
32,321
Peter Müller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman boxer (1927-1992) · 1927–1992
Days lived
23,860
Phil Knight
businessperson · b. 1938
Days alive
10,957
Richard Hamilton🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1922–2011
Days lived
32,708
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Ryan Fraser🇬🇧
Scottish association football player (born 1994) · b. 1994
Sepp Rist🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1900-1980) · 1900–1980
Days lived
29,510
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Sid Meier🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Steve Jobs🇺🇸
deceasedEntrepreneur and inventor · 1955–2011
Days lived
20,677
Terry Winograd🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1946
Days alive
8,035
Tina Frank🇦🇹
Austrian graphic designer and artist · b. 1970
Tony Holiday🇩🇪
deceasedGerman pop singer and songwriter (1951–1990) · 1951–1990
Days lived
14,235
Trace Cyrus🇺🇸
singer · b. 1989
Zoltán Adrigán🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1937–2003
Days lived
24,111
Died on This Day
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Alberto Sordi🇮🇹
deceasedactor · 1920–2003
Days lived
30,204
Alice Pennefather🇸🇬
deceasedSingaporean badminton and tennis player (1903–1983) · 1903–1983
Days lived
28,986
Claude Shannon🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001) · 1916–2001
Days lived
30,981
Eddie Croak🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican soccer player (1900-1984) · 1900–1984
Days lived
30,473
Edward Judd🇬🇧
deceasedBritish actor (1932-2009) · 1932–2009
Days lived
27,902
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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde🇩🇪
deceasedGerman judge (1930-2019) · 1930–2019
Days lived
32,300
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American social philosopher (1888-1973) · 1888–1973
Days lived
30,913
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Gary North🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican historian and author (1942–2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,233
Gustav Adolf Semler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1885-1968) · 1885–1968
Days lived
30,296
Harold Ramis🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1944–2014) · 1944–2014
Days lived
25,297
Hjalmar Branting
deceasedNotable Trials · 1860–1925
Days lived
23,468
Hu Shih🇨🇳
deceasedjournalist · 1891–1962
Days lived
25,636
Jean d'Esme🇫🇷
deceasedjournalist · 1893–1966
Days lived
26,451
Johannes Peter Meyer-Mendez🇩🇪
deceasedarchbishop (1909–1976) · 1909–1976
Days lived
24,461
Ludwig Wolff🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1857–1919
Days lived
22,429
Marguerite Wildenhain🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1896–1985
Days lived
32,277
Marius Besson🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss priest and historian (1876-1945) · 1876–1945
Days lived
25,077
Max Théret🇫🇷
deceasedFrench businessman (1913–2009) · 1913–2009
Days lived
35,113
Oskar Loerke
deceasedwriter · 1884–1941
Days lived
20,801
Sandro Pertini🇮🇹
deceasedpolitician · 1896–1990
Days lived
34,119
Stanley Shoveller🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player · 1881–1959
Days lived
28,298
Ulrich Gabler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman shipbuilding engineer and World War II U-boat chief engineer · 1913–1994
Days lived
29,366
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,056
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,727
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,900
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,597
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,170
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,612
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,578
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,212
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,656
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,308
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,107
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,621
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,639
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,308
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,660
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,203
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,113
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,090
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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