On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 24 1968
Born on This Day
Adriaan Katte🇳🇱
deceasedfield hockey player (1900-1991) · 1900–1991
Days lived
33,217
Agostino Lanfranchi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian bobsledder and skeleton racer (1892–1963) · 1892–1963
Days lived
25,802
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Alexander Beyer🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1973
Angela Roy🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Armin Dollinger🇩🇪
German boxer · b. 1971
Brigitte Fontaine🇫🇷
actor · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
Carole Caldwell Graebner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican tennis player (1943–2008) · 1943–2008
Days lived
23,890
Chip Cox🇺🇸
Player of American and Canadian football · b. 1983
Chris Wood🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1944–1983
Days lived
14,262
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Christine Neubauer🇩🇪
German actress and writer · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Dafydd Jones🇬🇧
Welsh rugby union footballer · b. 1979
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Darwin Núñez
association football player · b. 1999
David Alaba🇦🇹
football player · b. 1992
Dimos Dikoudis🇬🇷
basketball player · b. 1977
DJ Tonka🇩🇪
German musician · b. 1973
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle🇨🇭
politician · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Erika Rosenberg🇩🇪
Argentine-German Writer and journalist (born 1951) · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Eskil Rønningsbakken🇳🇴
Norwegian tightrope walker · b. 1979
Francis Bossman🇬🇭
Ghanaian soccer player · b. 1984
Francisco Benkö🇩🇪
deceasedGerman-Argentine chess player (1910-2010) · 1910–2010
Days lived
36,361
Gaëtan Varenne🇫🇷
football player · b. 1990
Gautam Adani
businessperson · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
George Pataki🇺🇸
politician · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
Gerhard Roth🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian writer and screenwriter (1942-2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,084
Graham Wood🇦🇺
Australian field hockey player · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
HA Schult🇩🇪
German conceptual artist · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
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Hannes Schöner🇩🇪
musician · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Hans Jaray🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1906–1990
Days lived
30,512
Hermann Busch🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1897–1975
Days lived
28,467
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Ilie Bărbulescu🇷🇴
deceasedRomanian footballer (1957-2020) · 1957–2020
Days lived
22,867
Irwin Crosthwait🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian artist (1914-1981) · 1914–1981
Days lived
24,541
Jack Dempsey🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican boxer (1895-1983) · 1895–1983
Days lived
32,117
Jan Brand🇳🇱
deceasedfield hockey player (1908-1969) · 1908–1969
Days lived
22,285
Jeff Beck🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish guitarist (1944–2023) · 1944–2023
Days lived
28,689
Jessica Davenport🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1985
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Juan Manuel Fangio🇦🇷
deceasedentrepreneur · 1911–1995
Days lived
30,704
Kevin Hodges🇺🇸
film director · b. 1973
Lionel Messi
Sports · b. 1987
Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis🇩🇪
deceasedGerman prince (1862-1885) · 1862–1885
Days lived
8,379
Michael Kessler🇩🇪
actor · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Michael Knauth🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Michele Lee🇺🇸
American actress, singer, dancer, producer and director · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Minka Kelly🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1980
Monika Dannemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman figure skater and painter (1945–1996) · 1945–1996
Days lived
18,548
Mutaz Essa Barshim🇶🇦
Qatari track and field athlete (1991-) · b. 1991
Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili🇦🇿
athlete · b. 1933
Days alive
12,784
Patrick Moraz🇨🇭
Swiss musician · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Paweł Kukiz🇵🇱
singer · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
Priscah Jeptoo🇰🇪
Kenyan female Olympic long-distance/marathon runner · b. 1984
Randy Jones🇺🇸
American bobsledder · b. 1969
Ricardo Alexandre dos Santos🇧🇷
Brazilian association football player · b. 1976
Richard Kruspe🇩🇪
German rock musician · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Robbert Kemperman🇳🇱
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1990
Rolf Crummenauer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist and university professor (1925–1999) · 1925–1999
Days lived
26,856
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Saralisa Volm🇩🇪
actress · b. 1985
Solange Knowles🇺🇸
American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1986) · b. 1986
Wally Yonamine🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1925–2011
Days lived
31,295
Wastl Fanderl🇩🇪
deceasedGerman musician (1915–1991) · 1915–1991
Days lived
27,699
Yusuke Nomura🇯🇵
film director · b. 1989
Died on This Day
Alfred Döblin🇵🇱
deceasedYouTube personality · 1878–1957
Days lived
28,807
Benigno Aquino III🇵🇭
deceasedpolitician · 1960–2021
Days lived
22,417
Camille Roy🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian academic (1870-1943) · 1870–1943
Days lived
26,542
Chris Langham🇬🇧
deceasedComedian · 1949–2026
Days lived
28,195
Ed Thomas🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican high school football coach, shot by former player · 1950–2009
Days lived
21,527
Eli Wallach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1915–2014) · 1915–2014
Days lived
35,994
Emerik Blum🇧🇦
deceasedBosnian Jewish businessman and politician · 1911–1984
Days lived
26,620
Hans Jenny🇨🇭
deceasedscientist · 1904–1972
Days lived
24,784
Hibari Misora🇯🇵
deceasedsinger · 1937–1989
Days lived
19,019
Kōjirō Matsukata🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese businessman (1865–1950) · 1865–1950
Days lived
31,203
Konrad Alberti🇵🇱
deceasedGerman journalist (1862–1918) · 1862–1918
Days lived
20,438
Ludwig Aschoff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician/pathologist (1866–1942) · 1866–1942
Days lived
27,923
Natasja Saad🇩🇰
deceasedartist · 1974–2007
Days lived
11,924
Rodrigo Bueno🇦🇷
deceasedArgentine singer (1973-2000) · 1973–2000
Days lived
9,893
Tokuji Hayakawa🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese businessman (1893-1980) · 1893–1980
Days lived
31,644
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Willy Ley🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1906–1969
Days lived
22,911
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
42,177
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
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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
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
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
49,848
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,021
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,718
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,291
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,733
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,699
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,333
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,777
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,429
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,228
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,742
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,760
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,429
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,781
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,324
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,234
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,211
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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