Whose birthday is on May 24th?

Answer 1

• 15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
• 1494 - Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• 1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
• 1544 - William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603)
• 1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
• 1671 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• 1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)
• 1689 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
• 1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
• 1794 - William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866)
• 1803 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
• 1810 - Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
• 1810 - Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
• 1816 - Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
• 1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
• 1830 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
• 1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
• 1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
• 1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
• 1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1868 - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
• 1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
• 1870 - Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
• 1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972)
• 1879 - H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's and founder (d. 1956)
• 1885 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948).
• 1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
• 1887 - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
• 1891 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
• 1895 - Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher (d. 1979)
• 1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
• 1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
• 1900 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
• 1900 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1901 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
• 1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1909 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
• 1911 - Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
• 1914 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
• 1914 - Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007)
• 1916 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
• 1923 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
• 1925 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994)
• 1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
• 1928 - William Trevor, Irish writer
• 1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor