On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 24 2005
Born on This Day
Andre Gunder Frank🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1929–2005
Days lived
27,817
Andrey Ilyin🇷🇺
Russian scientist · b. 1963
Days alive
15,341
Antony🇧🇷
Professional footballer · b. 2000
Days alive
1,827
Ashley Walker🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1987
Days alive
6,575
Benny Safdie🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1986
Days alive
6,940
Beth Broderick🇺🇸
actor · b. 1959
Days alive
16,802
Billy Zane🇺🇸
American actor (born 1966) · b. 1966
Days alive
14,245
Bob Sanders🇺🇸
American football player, defensive back · b. 1981
Days alive
8,766
Bolla Conradie🇿🇦
South African rugby union footballer · b. 1978
Days alive
9,862
Bonnie Somerville🇺🇸
American actress (born 1974) · b. 1974
Days alive
11,323
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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
Days alive
10,227
Christopher Lutz🇩🇪
German chess player · b. 1971
Days alive
12,419
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
19,724
Detlev Kittstein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player · 1944–1996
Days lived
19,062
Dilâver Satılmış🇨🇭
Turkish association football player (born 1979) · b. 1979
Days alive
9,497
Einar Westye Egeberg, Jr.🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian businessman (1883–1946) · 1883–1946
Days lived
22,956
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Floyd Mayweather
Notable Trials · b. 1977
Days alive
10,227
Frank Fertitta III🇺🇸
American entrepreneur · b. 1962
Days alive
15,706
Gabriele Schnaut🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1951–2023
Days lived
26,413
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak🇮🇳
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic · b. 1942
Days alive
23,011
Honus Wagner🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1874–1955
Days lived
29,869
Ike Nassi🇺🇸
American computer scientist (1949-) · b. 1949
Days alive
20,454
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Jan Koum
engineer · b. 1976
Days alive
10,593
Jessica Pegula🇺🇸
US tennis player · b. 1994
Days alive
4,018
João Batista Becker🇧🇷
deceasedCatholic archbishop · 1870–1946
Days lived
27,869
Joe Celko🇺🇸
American software engineer · b. 1947
Days alive
21,185
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Judith Butler🇺🇸
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956) · b. 1956
Days alive
17,898
Jürgen Jendrossek🇩🇪
football player · b. 1948
Days alive
20,820
Kasper Rorsted🇩🇰
Danish economist · b. 1962
Days alive
15,706
Klaus Darga🇩🇪
chess player · b. 1934
Days alive
25,933
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Klaus Niedzwiedz🇩🇪
German racing driver · b. 1951
Days alive
19,724
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
Days alive
11,688
Laurence Docherty🇬🇧
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1980
Days alive
9,132
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
Days alive
6,210
Michel Legrand🇫🇷
deceasedComposer, conductor, jazz pianist, singer · 1932–2019
Days lived
31,748
Mike Lowell🇺🇸
film director · b. 1974
Days alive
11,323
Nicky Hopkins🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1944–1994
Days lived
18,457
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Paul Jones🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1942
Days alive
23,011
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
24,472
Richard Hamilton🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1922–2011
Days lived
32,708
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Ryan Fraser🇬🇧
Scottish association football player (born 1994) · b. 1994
Days alive
4,018
Sepp Rist🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1900-1980) · 1900–1980
Days lived
29,510
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Sid Meier🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1954
Days alive
18,628
Steve Jobs🇺🇸
deceasedEntrepreneur and inventor · 1955–2011
Days lived
20,677
Terry Winograd🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1946
Days alive
21,550
Tina Frank🇦🇹
Austrian graphic designer and artist · b. 1970
Days alive
12,784
Tony Holiday🇩🇪
deceasedGerman pop singer and songwriter (1951–1990) · 1951–1990
Days lived
14,235
Trace Cyrus🇺🇸
singer · b. 1989
Days alive
5,844
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
55,571
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
44,249
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
41,597
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
41,260
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
George Polley🇺🇸
American urban climber · b. 1898
Days alive
39,135
Fee Plumley🇬🇧
artist · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Shaherose Charania🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Miguel Pérez de los Mozos🇪🇸
Ceo, economist · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Shrikrishna Raut
Marathi poet · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Eduardo Hernández Martínez🇸🇻
Salvadoran footballer · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Diane Pozefsky🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Clifford Swann🇦🇺
Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Keith Padgett🇬🇧
Falkland Islands politician · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
David Segal🇺🇸
newspaper columnist · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Giovanny Ramos🇻🇪
Venezuelan athlete · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
Rebecca W. Keller🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
38,040
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Alice Herz-Sommer🇮🇱
deceasedmusician · 1903–2014
Days lived
40,267
Johannes Heesters🇦🇹
deceasedDutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011) · 1903–2011
Days lived
39,466
Pete Briggs🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1904
Days alive
36,945
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
63,242
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Kanzi🇺🇸
Bonobo · b. 1980
Days alive
8,885
Tilikum🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1981–2017
Days lived
12,796
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,415
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,112
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
60,685
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
51,127
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
50,093
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
49,727
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
47,171
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
45,823
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
666,622
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
146,136
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
70,154
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
50,823
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
29,175
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
26,718
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
24,628
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
22,605
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
24,065
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
17,487
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
12,025
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
10,842
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
10,137
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,450
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,407
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
9,186