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Today in History August 24
Step back in time and explore significant historical events, notable births, and memorable deaths that occurred on this day throughout history.
- 2023 Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking inter...
- 2020 Erin O'Toole is elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2017 The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.
- 2016 An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
- 2016 Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.
- 2001 Mildred Maldonado, Mexican rhythmic gymnast
- 2000 Griffin Gluck, American actor
- 1998 Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality
- 1997 Alan Walker, British-Norwegian DJ and record producer
- 1997 Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
- 2024 Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager (born 1953)
- 2023 Bray Wyatt, American wrestler (born 1987)
- 2021 Charlie Watts, English musician (born 1941)
- 2020 Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist, and lecturer (born 1936)
- 2017 Jay Thomas, American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host (born 1948)
All 1,061 Celebrities (A-Z)
Browse our complete directory of notable personalities organized alphabetically. From A-list celebrities to historical icons, find detailed profiles of the world's most influential individuals.
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Abani, ChrisAbbey, EdwardAbe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAbramović, MarinaAbécassis, ÉlietteAchebe, ChinuaAdams, JohnAdams, John QuincyAdams, ScottAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAiken, JoanAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexandria, NanaAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAljechin, AlexanderAllende, IsabelAlmodóvar, PedroAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAnand, ViswanathanAndersen, Hans ChristianAnderton, JimAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnguissola, SofonisbaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAparicio, YalitzaArchimedesAristotleArjun, SaraArmani, GiorgioAronian, LevonArp, JeanArthur, Chester A.Arudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Audubon, John JamesAusten, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Babbage, CharlesBach, Johann SebastianBacon, FrancisBad BunnyBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBamonte, PerryBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBardem, JavierBardot, BrigitteBaring-Gould, SabineBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBasquiat, Jean-MichelBaudelaire, CharlesBaulieu, Étienne-ÉmileBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBeliavsky, AlexanderBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBellucci, MonicaBelmondo, Jean-PaulBelmondo, StefaniaBenigni, RobertoBergman, IngridBerners-Lee, TimBernini, Gian LorenzoBerry, HalleBetancourt, ÍngridBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBiden, JoeBieber, JustinBiffle, GregBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBinoche, JulietteBisciotti, SteveBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlanchett, CateBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBlunt, EmilyBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBoseman, ChadwickBosworth, KateBotticelli, SandroBotvinnik, MikhailBouin, JeanBouraoui, NinaBourgeois, LouiseBouvard, PhilippeBowie, DavidBrahms, JohannesBraque, GeorgesBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronstein, DavidBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrown, Millie BobbyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeLe Brun, Élisabeth VigéeBruni, CarlaBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBruyère, RobinBrynner, YulBrâncuși, ConstantinBuchanan, JamesBuckley, JessieBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailVan Buren, MartinBurroughs, JordanBusfield, TimothyBush, George H. W.Bush, George W.Bush, KateByatt, A.S.Byrne, RoseByron, Lord
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Caesar, JuliusCampbell, Mattdel Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCapablanca, Jose RaulCaravaggioCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCarter, JimmyCartland, BarbaraCaruana, FabianoCash, JohnnyCashman, NellieCassatt, MaryCather, WillaChagall, MarcChalamet, TimothéeChampollion, Jean-FrançoisChan, GemmaChan, JackieChaplin, OonaCharles, RayCharrier, JacquesChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitCheadle, DonChekhov, AntonCheney, DickCheung, MaggieChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, FrédéricChopin, KateChung, ClarissaChurchill, WinstonCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneClark, LygiaClaudel, CamilleCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCleveland, GroverClinton, BillClooney, GeorgeCoben, HarlanCocker, JoeCocteau, JeanCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherCombs, SeanComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCoolidge, CalvinCortázar, JulioCotillard, MarionCourbet, GustaveCramling, PiaCrick, FrancisCrosby, BingCruz, AngieCruz, PenélopeCurie, MarieCusk, RachelCézanne, Paul
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d'Alpuget, BlancheDafoe, WillemDalí, SalvadorDangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDavid Friedrich, CasparDavies, RickDay-Lewis, DanielDean, JamesDee, GerryDegas, EdgarDelpy, JulieDeneuve, CatherineDennis, DukeDevi, MahaswetaDiCaprio, LeonardoDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, Assiado Amaral, TarsilaDomínguez, LeinierDostoevsky, FyodorDoucet, JulieDrakeDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, Carlosdu Châtelet, ÉmilieDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDunaway, FayeDuVernay, AvaDylan, BobDürer, Albrecht
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Eco, UmbertoEddo-Lodge, ReniEdison, ThomasEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEisenhower, Dwight D.El Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalElba, IdrisEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEmin, TraceyEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErnst, MaxErpenbeck, JennyEsaki, LeoEscobar, PabloEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvert, ChrisEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Fabian, LaraFaithfull, MarianneFaraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFedoseev, VladimirFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFerrat, JeanFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFielding, HelenFiennes, RalphFillmore, MillardFine, AnneFirouzja, AlirezaFischer, BirgitFischer, BobbyFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonda, JaneFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorFord, Gerald R.Ford, HarrisonFord, HarrisonForna, AminattaFrank, AnneFrankenthaler, HelenFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreeman, MorganFreud, LucianFreud, SigmundFrey, JacobFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGanguly, Surya ShekharGarbo, GretaGarcía Bernal, GaelGarcía Márquez, GabrielGardner, AvaGarfield, James A.Gary, RomainGates, BillGauguin, PaulGautier, ThéophileGehry, FrankGeisenberger, NatalieGeller, EfimGenet, JeanGentileschi, ArtemisiaGerwig, GretaGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGiacometti, AlbertoGibaGilbert, MelissaGiri, AnishGlaser, NikkiGleeson, SineadGodard, Jean-Lucvon Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGordon-Levitt, JosephGosling, RyanGotthelf, JeremiasDe Goya, FranciscoGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrant, Ulysses S.Grass, GünterGreen, EvaGreenberg, IsabelGreene, PeterGreenwell, GarthGrint, RupertGrischuk, AlexanderGrisham, JohnGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuitry, SachaGujrathi, ViditGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanks, TomHanyu, YuzuruHao, WangHarding, Warren G.Hardy, ThomasHarikrishna, PentalaHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHarrison, BenjaminHarrison, William HenryHashmi, ZarinaHawke, MayaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHayek, SalmaHayes, Rutherford B.Hayworth, RitaHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHepburn, AudreyHepworth, BarbaraHernández, JoséHertz, HeinrichHerzog, WernerHesse, HermannHiggins Clark, MaryHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHiroshige, UtagawaHokusai, KatsushikaHolan, VladimirHolzer, Jennyvan den Hoogenband, PieterHoover, HerbertHopkins, AnthonyHopper, EdwardHopper, GraceHosseini, ShahabHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoward, Elizabeth JaneHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHumpy, KoneruHuppert, IsabelleHusain, M. F.Hutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Jackson, AndrewJackson, MichaelJacobsen, Jens PeterJames, EttaJames, HenryJames, KiraniJames, MarlonJefferson, ThomasJelloun, Tahar BenJensen, CarstenJiles, PauletteJingjing, GuoJobs, SteveJohnson, AndrewJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, MichaelJohnson, ShawnJoly, EvaJoyce, JamesJoyner, FlorenceJoyner-Kersee, JackieJr., Martin Luther King
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Kaas, PatriciaKabakov, IlyaKabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKandinsky, WassilyKang, HanKang-ho, SongKanno, YokoKapoor, AnilKapoor, AnishKapuscinski, RyszardKarjakin, SergeyKarpov, AnatolyKarunatilaka, ShehanKasparov, GarryKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeating, RonanKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKennedy, John F.Kenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKeres, PaulKertész, ImreKhan, AamirKidman, NicoleKiefer, AnselmKikuchi, RinkoKim, ChloeKinsella, SophieKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKlee, PaulKlimt, GustavKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKollwitz, Käthede Kooning, WillemKorchnoi, ViktorKorneliussen, NiviaqKosteniuk, AlexandraKramnik, VladimirKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKurosawa, AkiraKusama, YayoiKuti, Fela
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Labisse, FélixLagerkvist, PärLagerlöf, SelmaLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLarson, BrieLasker, EmanuelLatynina, LarisaLau, AndyLauper, CindyLaurent, MélanieLavoisier, AntoineLeavitt, KarolineLedecky, KatieLedger, HeathLee, BruceLee, Min JinLeko, Peterde Lempicka, TamaraLennon, JohnLennox, CharlotteLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, GongLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLiren, DingLispector, ClariceLiu, LucyLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLoren, SofiaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, ValeriaLutikov, Anatoly
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMachiavelli, NiccolòMadison, JamesMaduro, NicolásMagritte, ReneMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMalek, RamiMallarmé, StéphaneMamdani, ZohranMamedyarov, ShakhriyarMandela, NelsonManet, ÉdouardManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMartinez, OlivierMatesis, PavlosMathieu, NicolasMathis, JohnnyMatisse, HenriMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMaxwell, James ClerkMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbappé, KylianMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMcFadden, FreidaMcKinley, WilliamMebarak, ShakiraMehretu, JulieMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMenchik, VeraMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMendoza, FernandoMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMerlant, NoémieMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMifune, ToshiroMiller, ArthurMin-sik, ChoiMinxia, WuMirren, HelenMiró, JoanMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMitchell, JoanMiura, ShionMiyazaki, HayaoMiłosz, CzesławModigliani, AmedeoMoir, ScottMondrian, PietMonet, ClaudeMonroe, JamesMontale, EugenioMoore, HenryMoore, JulianneMoore, SherroneMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorisot, BertheMorphy, PaulMorrison, ToniMortensen, ViggoMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMuchá, AlphonseMunaweera, NayomiMunch, EdvardMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusah, YunusMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMutu, WangechiMuzichuk, MariyaMuzychuk, AnnaMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Nabokov, VladimirNaguib, MahfouzNaidu, SarojiniNaipaul, V. S.Nakamura, HikaruNarayan, R.K.Navara, DavidNayeri, DinaNDiaye, MarieNelson, PrinceNenaNepomniachtchi, IanNeruda, PabloNeuman, AndrésNewton, Isaacvan Niekerk, WaydeNietzsche, FriedrichNightingale, FlorenceNin, AnaïsNixon, RichardNobel, AlfredNoem, KristiNoemí, DaríoNoguchi, IsamuNolan, ChristopherNorris, LandoNunn, JohnNurmi, PaavoNyong'o, Lupita
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanParadis, VanessaPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPatel, DevPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPeltz, NicolaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetrosian, TigranPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPierce, FranklinPincent, MatthewPissarro, CamillePitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolgar, JudithPolk, JamesPollock, JacksonPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPonomariov, RuslanPorter, ColePorter, MaxPortman, NataliePresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Radcliffe, DanielRadjabov, TeimourRahim, TaharRai, AishwaryaRankine, ClaudiaRaphaelRapport, RichardRea, ChrisReade, CharlesReagan, RonaldRedgrave, SteveReeves, KeanuReiche, AriannaReiner, RobRembrandtRenoir, Pierre-AugusteRenó, JeanReonaReyes, DoloresRichard, LittleRichards-Ross, SanyaRichter, Gerhardvan Rijn, RembrandtRiley, BridgetRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRist, José Antonio KastRivera, DiegoRivera, MarianRivers, PhilipRobinson, BettyRockwell, NormanRodin, AugusteRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, TheodoreRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRubinstein, AkibaRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRukh Khan, ShahRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRyder, WinonaRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSaldana, ZoeSalih, TayebSanada, HiroyukiSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchiele, EgonSchiller, FriedrichSchlossberg, TatianaSchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSeahorn, RheaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeberg, JeanSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSeles, MonicaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliSeurat, GeorgesShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaShankland, SamuelSharif, OmarSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShogdzhiev, RomanShort, NigelShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSignac, PaulSigurdsson, SjonSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSinger Sargent, JohnSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSklenar, BrandonSlimani, LeilaSmart, ElizabethSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSmyslov, VassilySnow, C. P.So, WesleySocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSong, Kang-hoSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpassky, BorisSpears, BritneySpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStefanova, AntoanetaSteinfeld, HaileeSteinitz, WilhelmStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStone, SharonStorm, TheodorStorrie, ConnorStreep, MerylStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSwinton, TildaSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Taft, William HowardTagawa, Cary-HiroyukiTagore, RabindranathTaimanov, MarkTaro Greenfeld, KarlTauber-Arp, SophieTaylor, BrandonTaylor, ZacharyTegnér, EsaiasTell, DianeTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanTheron, CharlizeThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTitianTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTomlin, MikeTopalov, Veselindel Toro, BenicioTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrouillot, ÉvelyneTrudeau, JustinTruman, Harry S.Trump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTurner, WilliamTutu, DesmondTwain, MarkTyler, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWaititi, TaikaWaits, TomWalcott, DerekWaldheim, KurtWalker, AliceWalker, KaraWalls, JeannetteWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, DenzelWashington, GeorgeWatanabe, KenWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWatts, NaomiWeisz, RachelWeiwei, AiWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWestinghouse, GeorgeWhitaker, ForestWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWhittingham, KyleWilde, OscarWilliams, GrantWilliams, HudsonWilliams, MichelleWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWilson, WoodrowWinehouse, AmyWinslet, KateWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWood, GrantWoods, TigerWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWou-Ki, ZaoWu, Chien-ShiungWurtzel, ElizabethWłodarczyk, Anita