September 24 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 24, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#26 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 24 birthdays
Mikhail Ostrogradsky · Ukrainian mathematician1801
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz · Swiss writer1878
İsmet İnönü · 2nd President of the Republic of Turkey1884
André Frédéric Cournand · French physiologist1895
F. Scott Fitzgerald · American writer1896
Howard Florey · Australian pathologist1898
Severo Ochoa · Spanish physician1905
Saizo Saito · Japanese association football player1908
Konstantin Chernenko · General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union1911
John Young · American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer1930
Jim Henson · American puppeteer1936
Linda McCartney · American photographer, musician and animal rights activist1941
Antonio Tabucchi · Italian writer and literary scholar1943
Phil Hartman · Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter1948
Brad Bird · American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer1957
Kevin Sorbo · American actor1958
Stephanie McMahon · American professional wrestler and executive1976
John Arne Riise · Norwegian association football player1980
Dharius · Mexican rapper1984
Birgit Sarrap · Estonian singer1988
On this day in history
1789The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices at six.
1869Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
2019The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that advice given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Queen Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.
2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.
1957President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1975Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
1993Norodom Sihanouk became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.
2005Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
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