Births on 24 August
2000s
Mildred Maldonado
2001
Mexican rhythmic gymnast
Griffin Gluck
2000
American actor (born 2000)
1900s
Sofia Richie
1998
American model and media personality (born 1998)
Alan Walker
1997
Norwegian DJ and music producer (born 1997)
Karoline Leavitt
1997
White House press secretary (born 1997)
Noah Vonleh
1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Lady Amelia Windsor
1995
British fashion model and relative of the extended Royal family
Kelsey Plum
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Maryna Zanevska
1993
Belgian tennis player (born 1993)
Jemerson
1992
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Enrique Hernández (baseball)
1991
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1991)
Wang Zhen (race walker)
1991
Chinese racewalker (born 1991)
Peter Lanzani
1990
Argentine actor and singer (born 1990)
Reynaldo (footballer, born 1989)
1989
Brazilian footballer
RocÃo Igarzábal
1989
Argentine actress and singer
Rupert Grint
1988
English actor (born 1988)
Brad Hunt (ice hockey)
1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Manu Maʻu
1988
New Zealand and Tonga international rugby league footballer
Maya Yoshida
1988
Japanese footballer (born 1988)
Anže Kopitar
1987
Slovenian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Joseph Akpala
1986
Nigerian footballer (born 1986)
Arian Foster
1986
American football player (born 1986)
Erin Molan
1984
Australian newscaster (born 1983)
Charlie Villanueva
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Yesung
1984
South Korean singer-songwriter (born 1984)
Brett Gardner
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Marcel Goc
1983
German ice hockey player (born 1983)
José Bosingwa
1982
Portuguese footballer (born 1982)
Kim Källström
1982
Swedish footballer (born 1982)
Chad Michael Murray
1981
American actor (born 1981)
Vahur Afanasjev
1979
Estonian writer (1979–2021)
Orlando Engelaar
1979
Dutch retired footballer (born 1979)
Michael Redd
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Derek Morris (ice hockey)
1978
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1978)
DenÃlson (footballer, born 1977)
1977
Brazilian footballer
Robert Enke
1977
German footballer (1977–2009)
Per Gade
1977
Danish footballer
John Green
1977
American author and YouTuber (born 1977)
Jürgen Macho
1977
Austrian footballer and coach
Simon Dennis (rower)
1976
British rower
Alex O'Loughlin
1976
Australian actor (born 1976)
Roberto Colombo (footballer)
1975
Italian footballer (born 1975)
Mark de Vries
1975
Dutch football coach and former player (born 1975)
Jennifer Lien
1974
American actress (born 1974)
Andrew Brunette
1973
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1973)
Dave Chappelle
1973
American comedian and actor (born 1973)
James D'Arcy
1973
English actor and film director (born 1975)
Inge de Bruijn
1973
Dutch former competitive swimmer
Carmine Giovinazzo
1973
American actor
Jean-Luc Brassard
1972
Canadian freestyle skier
Ava DuVernay
1972
American filmmaker (born 1972)
Todd Young
1972
American politician and attorney (born 1972)
Rich Beem
1970
American professional golfer (born 1970)
David Gregory (journalist)
1970
American television journalist and presenter (born 1970)
Tugay KerimoÄŸlu
1970
Turkish footballer and manager
Jans Koerts
1969
Dutch cyclist (born 1969)
Benoît Brunet
1968
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1968)
Shoichi Funaki
1968
Japanese professional wrestler and commentator
Andreas Kisser
1968
Brazilian guitarist (born 1968)
Tim Salmon
1968
American baseball player (born 1968)
Michael Thomas (footballer, born 1967)
1967
English footballer
Marlee Matlin
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Reggie Miller
1965
American basketball player (born 1965)
Brian Rajadurai
1965
Canadian and Sri Lankan cricketer (born 1965)
Éric Bernard
1964
French racing driver (born 1964)
Mark Cerny
1964
American video game designer (born c. 1964)
Salizhan Sharipov
1964
Kyrgyz cosmonaut (born 1964)
John Bush (singer)
1963
American heavy metal singer
Hideo Kojima
1963
Japanese video game designer (born 1963)
Peter Rufai
1963
Nigerian footballer (1963–2025)
Craig Kilborn
1962
American comedian, actor and television host (born 1962)
Emile Roemer
1962
Dutch politician
Jared Harris
1961
British/Irish actor (born 1961)
Cal Ripken Jr.
1960
American baseball player (born 1960)
Steve Guttenberg
1958
American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director (born 1958)
Jeffrey Daniel
1957
American dancer and singer-songwriter (born 1955)
Stephen Fry
1957
English actor, comedian and presenter (born 1957)
Gerry Cooney
1956
American boxer (born 1956)
Kevin Dunn
1955
American actor (born 1956)
Mike Huckabee
1955
American politician and diplomat (born 1955)
Alain Daigle
1954
Canadian ice hockey player
Heini Otto
1954
Dutch footballer (born 1954)
Sam Torrance
1953
Scottish professional golfer (born 1953)
Marion Bloem
1952
Dutch writer and director
Linton Kwesi Johnson
1952
Jamaican poet and activist (born 1952)
Danny Joe Brown
1951
American rock singer
Orson Scott Card
1951
American science fiction novelist (born 1951)
Oscar Hijuelos
1951
American novelist
Stephen Paulus
1949
American composer (1949–2014)
Joe Regalbuto
1949
American actor and director (born 1949)
Kim Sung-il (general)
1948
South Korean military commander
Jean-Michel Jarre
1948
French musician (born 1948)
Sauli Niinistö
1948
President of Finland from 2012 to 2024
Alexander McCall Smith
1948
Scottish-Zimbabwean writer and academic
Anne Archer
1947
American actress (born 1947)
Paulo Coelho
1947
Brazilian lyricist and novelist (born 1947)
Roger De Vlaeminck
1947
Belgian cyclist (born 1947)
Joe Manchin
1947
American politician and businessman (born 1947)
Vladimir Masorin
1947
Russian admiral (born 1947)
Ronee Blakley
1945
American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Molly Duncan
1945
Scottish saxophonist (1945–2019)
Ken Hensley
1945
English musician (1945–2020)
Marsha P. Johnson
1945
American LGBTQ activist, sex worker, and performer (1945–1992)
Vince McMahon
1945
American professional wrestling promoter (born 1945)
Bill Goldsworthy
1944
Canadian ice hockey player (1944–1996)
Gregory Jarvis
1944
American engineer and astronaut (1944–1986)
Rocky Johnson
1944
Canadian professional wrestler (1944–2020)
John Cipollina
1943
American guitarist (1943–1989)
Max Cleland
1942
American politician (1942–2021)
Jimmy Soul
1942
American singer (1942–1988)
Karen Uhlenbeck
1942
American mathematician (born 1942)
Hans Peter Korff
1942
German actor (1942–2025)
Alan M. Roberts
1941
Madsen Pirie
1940
British researcher and author (born 1940)
Francine Lalonde
1940
Canadian politician (1940–2014)
Keith Savage (rugby union)
1940
British Lions & England international rugby union player
David Freiberg
1938
American musician (born 1938)
Mason Williams
1938
American musician (born 1938)
Moshood Abiola
1937
Nigerian businessman and politician (1937–1998)
Susan Sheehan
1937
American writer (1937–2026)
A. S. Byatt
1936
British writer (1936–2023)
Kenny Guinn
1936
American politician (1936–2010)
Arthur B. C. Walker Jr.
1936
American physicist and EUV/XUV optics pioneer (1936–2001)
Kenny Baker (English actor)
1934
English actor and musician (1934–2016)
Prince Rupert Loewenstein
1933
Spanish-born German-Bavarian aristocrat (1933–2014)
Robert D. Hales
1932
American businessman and religious leader
Richard Meale
1932
Australian composer
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
1932
English Catholic prelate (1932–2017)
Jackie Brenston
1930
American singer, saxophonist, and pioneer of rock and roll
Roger McCluskey
1930
American racing driver (1930–1993)
Betty Dodson
1929
American sex educator (1929–2020)
Pierre Mazeaud
1929
French jurist, politician and alpinist
Anjali Devi
1927
Indian actress
David Ireland (author)
1927
Australian writer (1927–2022)
Harry Markowitz
1927
American economist and Nobel Laureate (1927–2023)
Nancy Spero
1926
American artist (1926–2009)
Alyn Ainsworth
1924
British singer and conductor (1924–1990)
Louis Teicher
1924
American pianist
Arthur Jensen
1923
American psychologist and writer (1923–2012)
René Lévesque
1922
Premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985
Howard Zinn
1922
American historian and socialist philosopher (1922–2010)
Eric Simms (ornithologist)
1921
English ornithologist
Alex Colville
1920
Canadian artist (1920–2013)
Tosia Altman
1919
Member of the Polish and Jewish resistance movements in World War II
J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist)
1919
American entomologist
Enrique Llanes
1919
Mexican professional wrestler
Niels Viggo Bentzon
1919
Danish composer and pianist
Sikander Bakht
1918
Indian politician (1918–2004)
Wynonie Harris
1915
American blues singer (1915–1969)
James Tiptree Jr.
1915
American sci-fi writer (1915–1987)
Charles Snead Houston
1913
American mountain climber (1913–2009)
Ronnie Grieveson
1909
South African cricketer (1909–1998)
Shivaram Rajguru
1908
Indian anti-colonial revolutionary and independence activist (1908–1931)
Bruno Giacometti
1907
Swiss architect (1907–2012)
Arthur Crudup
1905
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1905–1974)
Siaka Stevens
1905
Leader of Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1985
Mary Burchell
1904
British novelist, campaigner for Jewish refugees (1904–1986)
Karl Hanke
1903
German Nazi, Gauleiter, last Reichsführer-SS (1903–1945)
Fernand Braudel
1902
French historian and leader of the Annales School (1902–1985)
Carlo Gambino
1902
American mobster (1902–1976)
Preston Foster
1900
American actor and singer (1900–1970)
1800s
Jorge Luis Borges
1899
Argentine writer (1899–1986)
Albert Claude
1899
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Malcolm Cowley
1898
American writer (1898–1989)
Fred Rose (songwriter)
1897
American music producer, publisher and songwriter (1898–1954)
Richard Cushing
1895
American Catholic cardinal
Haim Ernst Wertheimer
1893
Israeli biochemist (1893–1978)
Duke Kahanamoku
1890
Hawaiian surfer (1890–1968)
Jean Rhys
1890
British novelist (1890–1979)
Valentine Baker (pilot)
1888
British Armed Forces pilot
Harry Hooper
1887
American baseball player (1887–1974)
Earl Derr Biggers
1884
American novelist and playwright
Max Beerbohm
1872
English writer and caricaturist (1872–1956)
Ferdinand I of Romania
1865
King of Romania from 1914 to 1927
Dragutin Lerman
1863
Croatian explorer
Zonia Baber
1862
American geologist and geographer
David Bowman (politician)
1860
Australian politician
Agnes Marshall
1852
English cookery writer (1852–1905)
Tom Kendall
1851
Australian cricketer
James Calhoun (soldier)
1845
American soldier (1845–1876)
Boyd Dunlop Morehead
1843
Australian politician (1843–1905)
Théodore Dubois
1837
French composer and organist (1837–1924)
Antonio Stoppani
1824
Italian priest and scientist (1824–1891)
Before 1800
James Weddell
1787
British sailor, navigator, seal hunter and polar explorer
William I of the Netherlands
1772
King of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1840
William Wilberforce
1759
English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1758
Hereditary Princess of Denmark and Norway
Alaungpaya
1714
Founder of the Konbaung Empire
Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet
1684
Scottish military officer and politician
Peder Griffenfeld
1635
Danish statesman
Philip Henry
1631
English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist
Robert Herrick (poet)
1591
English poet and cleric (1591–1674)
John Taylor (poet)
1578
English poet (1578–1653)
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
1561
English sailor, politician, and courtier (1561–1626)
Sophia Brahe
1556
Danish horticulturalist
Lavinia Fontana
1552
Italian artist (1552–1614)
Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen
1510
16th-century German noblewoman
John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony
1498
Hereditary Prince of Saxony
Thomas Rotherham
1423
Archbishop of York from 1480 to 1500
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
1393
Duke of Brittany from 1457 to 1458
John I of Castile
1358
King of Castile and León from 1379 to 1390
Alexander II of Scotland
1198
King of Alba from 1214 to 1249
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
1113
Count of Anjou (1129–1151), Duke of Normandy (1144–1151)
Fujiwara no Genshi
1016
Empress consort of Japan