February 24 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 24, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#316 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 24 birthdays
Winslow Homer · American landscape painter1836
Chester W. Nimitz · United States Navy fleet admiral1885
Abe Vigoda · American actor1921
Bettino Craxi · Italian politician1934
Bingu wa Mutharika · Malawi politician and economist1934
Joe Lieberman · American politician1942
David J. Wineland · American physicist1944
Edward James Olmos · American actor1947
Sid Meier · Canadian-American game programmer and designer1954
Steve Jobs · American entrepreneur1955
Alain Prost · French racing driver1955
Judith Butler · American feminist gender studies philosopher1956
Erna Solberg · Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 20211961
Hansi Flick · German association football player and manager1965
Billy Zane · American actor1966
Brian Schmidt · American-born Australian astrophysicist1967
Mitch Hedberg · American stand-up comedian1968
Gillian Flynn · American author and critic1971
Yuval Noah Harari · Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers1976
Floyd Mayweather Jr. · American boxer1977
On this day in history
1803In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional for the first time, forming the basis of judicial review in the United States.
1868Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
1943World War II: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa, ended with the Allied forces suffering heavy losses.
1978Five men disappeared after attending a college basketball game in Chico, California; the bodies of four of them were discovered months later.
1983A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
2006Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in an attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2008Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He would remain as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
2015A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
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