May 24 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 24, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#101 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 24 birthdays
Charles Lucien Bonaparte · French noble, biologist, politician and art collector1803
Queen Victoria · Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 19011819
Suzanne Lenglen · French tennis player1899
Kazi Nazrul Islam · National poet of Bangladesh1899
Mikhail Sholokhov · Soviet writer1905
Joseph Brodsky · Russian-American poet1940
Bob Dylan · American singer-songwriter1941
Fraser Stoddart · Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design1942
Priscilla Presley · American actress and businesswoman1945
Tansu Çiller · Turkish politician1946
Jim Broadbent · English actor1949
Alfred Molina · British actor1953
Kristin Scott Thomas · British-French actress1960
Michael Chabon · American novelist, short story writer, essayist1963
John C. Reilly · American actor1965
Eric Cantona · French footballer and actor1966
Maia Sandu · President of Moldova since 20201972
Ruslana · Ukrainian singer1973
Tracy McGrady · American basketball player1979
Rodrigo De Paul · Argentine association football player1994
On this day in history
1883New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
1962Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1963United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
1976In a wine competition in Paris (wine bottle pictured), French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones.
1988Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.
1991The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).
2002Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2006An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
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