Skip to main content
MetaHistoryBook
Browse
Today
Discover
Create
Language
English
Cymraeg
Loading…
On this day · February 24
← February 23
Today
February 25 →
Born
(60)
Winslow Homer
1836
Charles Le Brun
1619
Ibn Battuta
1304
Billy Zane
1966
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1463
Arrigo Boito
1842
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
1885
Emmanuelle Riva
1927
Irène Némirovsky
1903
Gillian Flynn
1971
Mattia Preti
1613
Phutthaloetla Naphalai
1768
Judith Butler
1956
Johan Christian Dahl
1788
Yuval Noah Harari
1976
Teófilo Braga
1843
Zdzisław Beksiński
1929
Rupert Holmes
1947
Vladimir Bartol
1903
Ida Matton
1863
Alain Mabanckou
1966
George Moore
1852
Etel Adnan
1925
Richard Hamilton
1922
John Burgoyne
1722
Jiří Trnka
1912
Vincent Voiture
1597
Grant Allen
1848
August Derleth
1909
Alexandre-François Desportes
1661
Laila Lalami
1968
Ryhor Baradulin
1935
William Dobson
1610
Karolina Světlá
1830
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
1595
Pablo Milanés
1943
Wilhelm Grimm
1786
Hafiz Ibrahim
1872
Rainbow Rowell
1973
José Mauro de baskonseloz
1920
Teodor Currentzis
1972
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
1909
Herman Teirlinck
1879
Donato Creti
1671
Henry Kirke Brown
1814
Abdulla Shaig
1881
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
1942
Nino Camardo
1949
Conn Iggulden
1971
Sveinbjörn Egilsson
1791
Emma Lampert Cooper
1855
Kent Haruf
1943
Friedrich Spielhagen
1829
Ali bey Huseynzade
1864
Phil Knight
1938
Jacqueline Roque
1926
Bartolomeo Altomonte
1694
Steve McCurry
1950
Inger Alfvén
1940
Kasi Lemmons
1961
Died
(60)
Robert Fulton
1815
Octavia E. Butler
2006
Jules Lefebvre
1911
Uwe Johnson
1984
Clive Cussler
2020
Osman Hamdi Bey
1910
Mikhail Naimy
1988
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1799
Katherine Johnson
2020
Philippe Jaccottet
2021
Juraj Jakubisko
2023
Chao Yuen Ren
1982
Ladislav Mňačko
1994
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
1862
Harold Ramis
2014
Dániel Berzsenyi
1836
Alberto Sordi
2003
Jacobus van Looy
1930
Hu Shih
1962
Don Knotts
2006
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
1936
Hans Bellmer
1975
Utagawa Toyokuni I
1825
Brian Stableford
2024
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier
1734
Nicola Marschall
1917
Ferenc Herczeg
1954
Charles-Auguste Lebourg
1906
Miriam Tlali
2017
Carlos Páez Vilaró
2014
Martin Esslin
2002
István Csukás
2020
Jan Otčenášek
1979
Ennin
864
Alma Thomas
1978
György Bessenyei
1811
Kume Kunitake
1931
Goyō Hashiguchi
1921
Alexander von Kotzebue
1889
Fanny Cornforth
1909
Marie-Anne Collot
1821
Oskar Loerke
1941
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
1721
Mary H. Eastman
1887
James Pryde
1941
Gustave Le Rouge
1938
Bertrice Small
2015
Jure Kaštelan
1990
Henrik Sørensen
1962
Carl Johann Lemoch
1910
Sofia Okunevska
1926
Alexis Hunter
2014
Farideh Lashai
2013
Sanjugo Naoki
1934
Alexandre Guiraud
1847
Josep Anselm Clavé
1874
Anita Snellman
2006
Irakli Charkviani
2006
Getulio Alviani
2018
Ren Hang
2017
Works published or unveiled
(6)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
1871
Killing Commendatore
2017
Taking Off
1971
Domestic Disturbance
1969
Oppression and Liberty
1955
Marchal de Calvi's tomb
1874