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July 24

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Treaty of Lausanne

103 years ago

Born this day

1783

Simón Bolívar

Died aged 47

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Oldest record

828th

Livonian Crusade

event anniversary

Famous births30

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.

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MilitaryDied aged 47

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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.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1803 · 223 yrs

Adolphe Adam

Adolphe Charles Adam (French:; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic.

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MusicDied aged 52

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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.

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ArtDied aged 86

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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…

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LiteratureDied aged 86

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1860 · 166 yrs

Alphonse Mucha

Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech:; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.

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ArtDied aged 78

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1864 · 162 yrs

Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.

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LiteratureDied aged 53

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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.

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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.

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LiteratureWould be 129

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1900 · 126 yrs

Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits.

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LiteratureWould be 126

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1946 · 80 yrs

Gallagher

Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. (July 24, 1946 – November 11, 2022), known simply as Gallagher, was an American comedian known for his prop-based and observational style.

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TelevisionWould be 80

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1949 · 77 yrs

Michael Richards

Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor and comedian. He achieved global recognition for starring as Cosmo Kramer on the NBC television sitcom Seinfeld from 1989 to 1998.

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FilmAge 77

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Famous deaths11

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.

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PoliticsDied aged 79

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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.

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LiteratureWould be 134

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1942 · 84 yrs

Konstantin Balmont

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Бальмонт; 15 June 1867 – 23 December 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1969 · 57 yrs

Witold Gombrowicz

Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.

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LiteratureWould be 122

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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.

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ScienceWould be 135

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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.

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FilmWould be 101

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1986 · 40 yrs

Fritz Albert Lipmann

Fritz Albert Lipmann (German pronunciation:; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (shared with Hans Adolf Krebs).

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ScienceWould be 127

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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.

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LiteratureWould be 122

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2012 · 14 yrs

John Evans Atta Mills

John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012.

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PoliticsWould be 82

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2022 · 4 yrs

David Warner

David Hattersley Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022) was an English actor who portrayed a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, in a career spanning six decades across stage and screen.

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FilmWould be 85

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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.

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SportsWould be 73

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Events5

1198 · 828 yrs

Livonian Crusade

The Livonian crusade consisted of the various military Christianisation campaigns in medieval Livonia – modern Latvia and Estonia – during the Papal-sanctioned Northern Crusades in the 12th–13th century.

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War

1908 · 118 yrs

Young Turk Revolution of 1908

The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; Turkish: Jön Türk Devrimi) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire.

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Politics

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.

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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.

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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.

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