Famous people born on 24 July

• Simón BolívarVenezuelan statesman and military officer · 1783–1830
  47 yrs
• Alexandre DumasFrench writer and dramatist · 1802–1870
  68 yrs
• Amelia EarhartAmerican aviation pioneer and author · 1897–1939
  41 yrs
• Henrik PontoppidanDanish writer, Nobel Laureate · 1857–1943
  86 yrs
• Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-BukhārīPersian Islamic scholar · AD 810–870
  60 yrs
• Nikolay ChernyshevskyRussian writer and nihilist philosopher · 1828–1889
  61 yrs
• Robert GravesEnglish poet and novelist · 1895–1985
  90 yrs
• Alphonse MuchaCzech painter, illustrator and graphic artist · 1860–1939
  78 yrs
• Adolphe Adam ↗French composer · 1803–1856
  52 yrs
• Frank Wedekind ↗German playwright · 1864–1918
  53 yrs
• Gallagher ↗American stand-up comedian · 1946–2022
  76 yrs
• Zelda Fitzgerald ↗American writer · 1900–1948
  47 yrs
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ↗Japanese author · 1886–1965
  79 yrs
• Bella Abzug ↗American politician · 1920–1998
  77 yrs
• Eugène François Vidocq ↗French criminal and criminalist · 1775–1857
  81 yrs
• Francisco Solano López ↗2nd president of Paraguay · 1826–1870
  43 yrs
• Alice Augusta Ball ↗African American chemist · 1892–1916
  24 yrs
• Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ↗Duke of Nassau (1839–1866), later Grand Duke of Luxembourg · 1817–1905
  88 yrs
• Ruth Buzzi ↗American actress, comedian, and singer · 1936–2025
  88 yrs
• Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia ↗King of Sardinia · 1759–1824
  64 yrs
• Charles Émile Picard ↗French mathematician · 1856–1941
  85 yrs
• Hermann of Reichenau ↗German 11th-century Benedictine monk · 1013–1054
  41 yrs
• Anton Arensky ↗Russian composer, pianist and professor of music · 1861–1906
  44 yrs
• Emperor Gaozong of Tang ↗Emperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) · AD 628–683
  55 yrs
• Ermanno Olmi ↗Italian film director · 1931–2018
  86 yrs
• Princess Charlotte of Prussia ↗Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen · 1860–1919
  59 yrs
• Juan Vicente Gómez ↗Venezuelan general and dictator · 1857–1935
  78 yrs
• Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov ↗Soviet admiral · 1904–1974
  70 yrs
• Frances Oldham Kelsey ↗Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist · 1914–2015
  101 yrs
• Giuseppe Di Stefano ↗Italian opera singer · 1921–2008
  86 yrs
• Louisa Ulrika of Prussia ↗Swedish queen · 1720–1782
  61 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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