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February 24

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1955

Steve Jobs

Would be 71

Oldest record

563rd

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

birth anniversary

Famous births8

1463 · 563 yrs

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher.

PhilosophyWould be 563

Photo: Cristofano dell'Altissimo · Public domain

1500 · 526 yrs

Charles V

Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (as Charles I) from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516 to 1554, and also Lord of the Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy (as Charles II) from 1506 to 1555.

RoyaltyWould be 526

Photo: Attributed to Titian · Public domain

1536 · 490 yrs

Clement VIII

Pope Clement VIII (Latin: Clemens VIII; Italian: Clemente VIII; 24 February 1536 – 3 March 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 30 January 1592 to his death in March 1605.

ReligionWould be 490

Photo: Giuseppe Cesari · Public domain

1873 · 153 yrs

Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso (25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic tenor, who sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.

MusicWould be 153

Photo: Copyright by Laveccha Studio, Chicago (no. 3). · Public domain

1955 · 71 yrs

Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple who introduced the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone.

TechnologyWould be 71

Photo: Matthew Yohe · CC BY-SA 3.0

1956 · 70 yrs

Judith Butler

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.

PhilosophyAge 70

Photo: Miquel Taverna · CC BY-SA 4.0

1961 · 65 yrs

Erna Solberg

Erna Solberg (Norwegian:; born 24 February 1961) is a Norwegian politician and was the Leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2025. She served as the prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021, and as the leader of the Conservative Party from 2004 to 2026.

PoliticsAge 65

Photo: European People's Party · CC BY 2.0

1976 · 50 yrs

Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

LiteratureAge 50

Photo: Martin Kraft · CC BY-SA 4.0

Famous deaths4

1799 · 227 yrs

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (German:; 1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics.

ScienceWould be 284

Photo: After Johann Ludwig Strecker · Public domain

1810 · 216 yrs

Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish ( KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air".

ScienceWould be 294

Photo: George Wilson · Public domain

1983 · 43 yrs

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

LiteratureWould be 115

Photo: Orlando Fernandez, World Telegram staff photographer · Public domain

2020 · 6 yrs

Katherine Johnson

Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman, previously Goble; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

ScienceWould be 108

Photo: NASA · Public domain

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