On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 24 1968
Born on This Day
Anton Krasnobayev🇷🇺
Russian footballer · b. 1992
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Ashleigh Barty🇦🇺
Australian tennis player · b. 1996
Bamir Topi🇦🇱
politician · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Barbra Streisand
film actor · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Bernhard Grzimek🇩🇪
deceasedGerman zoo director and author (1909–1987) · 1909–1987
Days lived
28,447
Bridget Riley🇬🇧
artist · b. 1931
Days alive
13,515
Dieter Grossmann🇩🇪
artist · b. 1926
Days alive
15,341
Dino Rađa🇭🇷
basketball player · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Djimon Hounsou🇧🇯
Actor · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian German-born expert in maritime law, ecologist · 1918–2002
Days lived
30,606
Erna Morena🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1885-1962) · 1885–1962
Days lived
28,210
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Fatty George🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian musician (1927–1982) · 1927–1982
Days lived
20,063
Hans-Peter Seidel🇩🇪
Computer graphics researcher · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Harald Philipp🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1921–1999
Days lived
28,561
Hashim Thaçi
military person · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Heinz Krügel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman footballer-manager (1921-2008) · 1921–2008
Days lived
31,963
Heinz Paula🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Horst Fuchs🇩🇪
deceasedGerman teleshopping promoter (1946–2023) · 1946–2023
Days lived
28,202
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Ian King🇬🇧
British businessman · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
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Joan Saura i Laporta🇪🇸
Catalan politician · b. 1950
Days alive
6,575
John W. Thompson🇺🇸
American businessman · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
José Antonio Primo de Rivera🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish politician and founder of Falange Española (1903–1936) · 1903–1936
Days lived
12,264
José Touré🇫🇷
French footballer · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
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Karl Schiller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman scientist and politician (1911-1994) · 1911–1994
Days lived
30,562
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Kelly Clarkson🇺🇸
Singer · b. 1982
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Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa
Bahraini politician · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Max Himmelheber🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1904–2000
Days lived
35,301
Mourik Huijser
Dutch baseball player · b. 1991
Philippe Pétain
deceasedNotable Trials · 1856–1951
Days lived
34,787
Robert Knight🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican singer · 1945–2017
Days lived
26,493
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Ryan Newman🇺🇸
singer · b. 1998
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Sachin Tendulkar🇮🇳
politician · b. 1973
Shirley MacLaine🇺🇸
American actress · b. 1934
Days alive
12,419
Siegfried Frederick Nadel🇦🇹
deceasedBritish anthropologist (1903–1956) · 1903–1956
Days lived
19,258
Taylor Dent🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1981
Toomas Tohver🇪🇪
Estonian footballer (born 1973) · b. 1973
Died on This Day
Alejo Carpanter🇫🇷
deceasedCuban-French writer and musicologist (1904–1980) · 1904–1980
Days lived
27,513
Alfred Polgar🇦🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1873–1955
Days lived
29,773
Bo Leuf🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish politician and writer (1952-2009) · 1952–2009
Days lived
20,743
Bud Abbott🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1897–1974
Days lived
27,962
Calvin Bricker🇨🇦
deceasedathlete · 1884–1963
Days lived
28,660
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Carl H. Eigenmann🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American ichthyologist (1863–1927) · 1863–1927
Days lived
23,421
Ernst Huberty🇩🇪
deceasedGerman sports journalist (1927–2023) · 1927–2023
Days lived
35,125
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Ernst-Robert Grawitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945) · 1899–1945
Days lived
16,756
Fokke Jelsma
deceasedDutch baseball player (1943–2012) · 1943–2012
Days lived
24,960
Franz Jonas🇦🇹
deceasedseventh President of Austria (1899–1974) · 1899–1974
Days lived
27,230
Friedrich Baumbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player · 1935–2025
Days lived
32,736
Fritz R. Huitfeldt🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian sports official (1851-1938) · 1851–1938
Days lived
31,751
Georg Bredig
deceasedchemist · 1868–1944
Days lived
27,598
Georgy Zograf🇷🇺
deceasedRussian scientist · 1928–1993
Days lived
23,750
Gerhard Domagk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman bacteriologist (1895-1964) · 1895–1964
Days lived
25,013
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Gustl Bayrhammer🇩🇪
deceasedsinger · 1922–1993
Days lived
26,004
Hans Hollein🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect and designer (1934-2014) · 1934–2014
Days lived
29,245
Hans Koch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman resistance fighter (1893–1945) · 1893–1945
Days lived
18,878
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Heartley Anderson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach (1898-1978) · 1898–1978
Days lived
29,068
Iosif Bumagin
deceasedmilitary person · 1907–1945
Days lived
13,704
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
deceasedmilitary person · 1878–1943
Days lived
23,585
Louis Bernacchi🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1876–1942
Days lived
23,907
Margot Trooger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1923-1994) · 1923–1994
Days lived
25,894
Oscar Blumenthal🇩🇪
deceasedGerman playwright and drama critic (1852–1917) · 1852–1917
Days lived
23,782
Pentti Kirstilä🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish writer · 1948–2021
Days lived
26,631
Wilhelm Ernst I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach🇩🇪
deceasedGrand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach · 1876–1923
Days lived
17,118
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Willi Resetarits🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1948–2022
Days lived
26,787
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
42,116
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
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
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
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
49,787
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
47,960
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,657
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,230
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,672
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,638
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,272
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,716
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,368
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,167
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,681
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,699
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,368
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,720
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,263
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,173
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,150
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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