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September 24

5 births · 6 deaths · 2 events

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1239

Second Council of Nicaea

1239 years ago

Born this day

1896

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Would be 130

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1239th

Second Council of Nicaea

event anniversary

Famous births5

1501 · 525 yrs

Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano (Italian:; also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher,…

ScienceWould be 525

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1884 · 142 yrs

İsmet İnönü

Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its prime minister three times: from 1923 to 1924, 1925 to 1937, and 1961 to 1965.

PoliticsWould be 142

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1896 · 130 yrs

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

LiteratureWould be 130

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1905 · 121 yrs

Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor.

TechnologyWould be 121

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1961 · 65 yrs

Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation:; born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

LiteratureAge 65

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Famous deaths6

1557 · 469 yrs

Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French maritime explorer from Brittany.

ExplorationWould be 534

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1834 · 192 yrs

Pedro I of Brazil

Dom Pedro I (12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834), known in Brazil and in Portugal as "the Liberator" (Portuguese: o Libertador) or "the Soldier King" (o Rei Soldado) in Portugal, was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 (under the name of Pedro I) and King of Portugal in 1826 (under…

RoyaltyWould be 227

Photo: Simplício Rodrigues de Sá · Public domain

1978 · 48 yrs

Manne Siegbahn

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish:; 3 December 1886 – 24 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."

ScienceWould be 139

1991 · 35 yrs

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel ( sooss GHY-zəl, zoyss -⁠; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr.

LiteratureWould be 122

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2003 · 23 yrs

Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies.

ScienceWould be 90

Photo: Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH · CC0

2004 · 22 yrs

Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan (French:; born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters.

LiteratureWould be 91

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Events2

787 · 1239 yrs

Second Council of Nicaea

The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. In addition, it is also recognized as such by Old Catholics and others.

Politics

2015 · 11 yrs

2015 Mina stampede

On 24 September 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history.

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