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July 24

9 births · 6 deaths · 3 events

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Event anniversary

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Treaty of Lausanne

103 years ago

Born this day

1783

Simón Bolívar

Would be 243

Oldest record

243rd

Simón Bolívar

birth anniversary

Famous births9

1783 · 243 yrs

Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire.

MilitaryWould be 243

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1802 · 224 yrs

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.

LiteratureWould be 224

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1844 · 182 yrs

Ilya Repin

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century.

ArtWould be 182

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1857 · 169 yrs

Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish:; 24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but…

LiteratureWould be 169

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1895 · 131 yrs

Robert Graves

Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), whose second name is sometimes given as von Ranke, was an English poet, novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.

LiteratureWould be 131

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1897 · 129 yrs

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart ( AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight. In 1928, she was the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane.

LiteratureWould be 129

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1957 · 69 yrs

Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician who has served as the second president of Uzbekistan since 2016. A member of the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the third prime minister under President Islam Karimov from 2003 to 2016.

PoliticsAge 69

Photo: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan · CC BY-SA 4.0

1969 · 57 yrs

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and businesswoman. Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of her time, credited with breaking barriers for Latino Americans in Hollywood and helping propel the Latin pop movement in music.

MusicAge 57

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1981 · 45 yrs

Nayib Bukele

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician who has served as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 2019. In 1999, Bukele established an advertising company and worked at another owned by his father, Armando Bukele Kattán.

PoliticsAge 45

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Famous deaths6

1862 · 164 yrs

Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. He co-founded the Democratic Party with Andrew Jackson and became Jackson's vice president from 1833 to 1837.

PoliticsWould be 243

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1927 · 99 yrs

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; Japanese pronunciation:, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.

LiteratureWould be 134

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1974 · 52 yrs

James Chadwick

Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts.

ScienceWould be 134

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1980 · 46 yrs

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence with his performances on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show.

FilmWould be 101

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1991 · 35 yrs

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.

LiteratureWould be 122

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2025 · 1 yrs

Hulk Hogan

Terry Gene Bollea (August 11, 1953 – July 24, 2025), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler and media personality.

SportsWould be 73

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Events3

1923 · 103 yrs

Treaty of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne; Turkish: Lozan Antlaşması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 and signed in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923.

Politics

2013 · 13 yrs

Santiago de Compostela derailment

On 24 July 2013, an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Of the 178 people injured, the final number of deaths had reached 78.

Disaster

2014 · 12 yrs

Air Algérie Flight 5017

Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014.

Disaster

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