Famous people born on 24 April

• Leonardo da VinciItalian Renaissance polymath · 1452–1519
  67 yrs
• Guru NanakFirst Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism · 1469–1539
  70 yrs
• Philippe PétainFrench military and political leader · 1856–1951
  95 yrs
• Carl SpittelerSwiss writer · 1845–1924
  79 yrs
• Philip III of SpainKing of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal · 1578–1621
  42 yrs
• Erich Raeder ↗German admiral · 1876–1960
  84 yrs
• Anthony Trollope ↗English novelist of the Victorian period · 1815–1882
  67 yrs
• Józef Gosławski ↗Polish sculptor and medallic artist · 1908–1963
  54 yrs
• José Antonio Primo de Rivera ↗Spanish politician and founder of Falange Española · 1903–1936
  33 yrs
• Richard Holbrooke ↗American diplomat · 1941–2010
  69 yrs
• Willem de Kooning ↗Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist · 1904–1997
  92 yrs
• Benjamin Lee Whorf ↗American linguist · 1897–1941
  44 yrs
• Robert Penn Warren ↗American poet, novelist, and literary critic · 1905–1989
  84 yrs
• Manuel Ávila Camacho ↗52th President of Mexico · 1897–1955
  58 yrs
• Michael IX Palaiologos ↗Byzantine co-emperor · 1277–1320
  43 yrs
• Richard Donner ↗American film director · 1930–2021
  91 yrs
• Gideon Sundback ↗Swedish-American inventor · 1880–1954
  74 yrs
• Sue Grafton ↗American writer from Kentucky · 1940–2017
  77 yrs
• Thorbjörn Fälldin ↗Swedish 20th century prime minister · 1926–2016
  90 yrs
• Glafcos Clerides ↗Cypriot lawyer and politician (1919–2013), President of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003 · 1919–2013
  94 yrs
• Theodor Körner ↗Soldier, mayor of Vienna, federal president of Austria · 1873–1957
  83 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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