Famous People Born on May 24
Famous people born on May 24 include Bob Dylan (1941), Queen Victoria (1819) and Joseph Brodsky (1940).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Bob Dylan
Blowin' in the Wind, Nobel Prize in Literature
Queen Victoria
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Joseph Brodsky
Russian poet (1940–1996)
Mikhail Sholokhov
Russian writer (1905–1984)
Jean-Paul Marat
French political theorist (1743–1793)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Physicist and engineer (1686–1736)
Eric Cantona
French actor and footballer (born 1966)
Tansu Çiller
Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996
William Gilbert
English physician and natural philosopher (1544?-1603)
John C. Reilly
American actor (born 1965)
Germanicus
Roman general (15 BC–19 AD)
Priscilla Presley
American businesswoman and actress (born 1945)
Suzanne Lenglen
French tennis player (1899–1938)
Walter Baade
German astronomer (1893–1960)
Jim Broadbent
British actor (born 1949)
Kristin Scott Thomas
English actress (born 1960)
Alfred Molina
British actor (born 1953)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentric model of the solar system
Duke Ellington
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Tina Turner
Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023)
Harold Wilson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1964–1970, 1974–1976)
Luis de Góngora
Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561–1627)
John Foster Dulles
American politician and diplomat (1888–1959)
David I of Scotland
King of Alba from 1124 to 1153
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
British field marshal (1883–1950)
Taejo of Joseon
King of Joseon from 1392 to 1398
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
German composer and writer (1797–1848)
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
Robert Ritter von Greim
German field marshal (1892–1945)
Sources
- May 24 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Bob Dylan — Wikipedia
- Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
- Nicolaus Copernicus — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths