June 24 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 24, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#193 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 24 birthdays
Henry Ward Beecher · American clergyman and activist1813
Ambrose Bierce · American editorialist1842
Victor Hess · Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate1883
Jack Dempsey · American boxer1895
Juan Manuel Fangio · Argentine racing driver1911
Ernesto Sabato · Argentine writer, painter and physicist1911
Fred Hoyle · British astronomer1915
Martin Lewis Perl · American scientist1927
Carolyn S. Shoemaker · American astronomer, researcher and university teacher1929
Paul L. Smith · American actor1936
Julia Kristeva · Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic1941
Peter Weller · American actor1947
William E. Moerner · Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist1953
Tommy Lister Jr. · American actor and wrestler1958
Claudia Sheinbaum · President of Mexico since 20241962
Mindy Kaling · American actress, writer, and comedian1979
Minka Kelly · American actress1980
Solange Knowles · American singer, songwriter, and actress1986
Lionel Messi · Argentine association football player1987
David Alaba · Austrian footballer1992
On this day in history
1937The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, of the North Carolina class, were respectively ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
1957In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
2004In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2010Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.
1932A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri dynasty.
1939The first of the Thai cultural mandates was issued, officially changing the country's name from Siam to Thailand.
1940Second World War: The British Army carried out Operation Collar, its first commando raid into German-occupied France.
1947Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
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