Famous people born on 24 March

• Dario FoItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist · 1926–2016
  90 yrs
• Harry HoudiniHungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer · 1874–1926
  52 yrs
• Joseph PriestleyEnglish chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist · 1733–1804
  70 yrs
• Steve McQueenAmerican actor · 1930–1980
  50 yrs
• Peter DebyeDutch-American physicist and physical chemist · 1884–1966
  82 yrs
• William MorrisTextile designer, artist, writer, printer · 1834–1896
  62 yrs
• Georg Philipp TelemannGerman composer · 1681–1767
  86 yrs
• Adolf ButenandtGerman biochemist · 1903–1995
  91 yrs
• Wilhelm ReichAustrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist · 1897–1957
  60 yrs
• Vasily Smyslov ↗Soviet chess grandmaster · 1921–2010
  89 yrs
• John Kendrew ↗English biochemist and crystallographer · 1917–1997
  80 yrs
• Luigi Einaudi ↗(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 · 1874–1961
  87 yrs
• Walter Baade ↗German astronomer · 1893–1960
  67 yrs
• Josef Stefan ↗Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet · 1835–1893
  57 yrs
• R. Lee Ermey ↗American actor and soldier · 1944–2018
  74 yrs
• Tirso de Molina ↗Spanish writer · 1583–1648
  64 yrs
• Joseph Barbera ↗American animator and cartoonist · 1911–2006
  95 yrs
• Shigeo Yaegashi ↗Japanese association football player · 1933–2011
  78 yrs
• Michiel de Ruyter ↗Dutch admiral · 1607–1676
  69 yrs
• David Dacko ↗Former President of the Central African Republic (1960–1966) and (1979-1981), lived · 1930–2003
  73 yrs
• Joseph Liouville ↗French mathematician and engineer · 1809–1882
  73 yrs
• Mariano José de Larra ↗Spanish romantic writer · 1809–1837
  27 yrs
• Roscoe Arbuckle ↗American actor, director and comedian · 1887–1933
  46 yrs
• Sergey Vavilov ↗Soviet physicist · 1891–1951
  59 yrs
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti ↗American artist, writer and activist · 1919–2021
  101 yrs
• Ub Iwerks ↗American animator and special effects pioneer · 1901–1971
  70 yrs
• Martin Walser ↗German writer · 1927–2023
  96 yrs
• Edmond Becquerel ↗French physicist · 1820–1891
  71 yrs
• Olive Schreiner ↗South African author and pacifist · 1855–1920
  65 yrs
• Vasily Dzhugashvili ↗Soviet general and son of Joseph Stalin · 1921–1962
  40 yrs
• Sophie Blanchard ↗French aeronaut · 1778–1819
  41 yrs
• Antonio Rosmini ↗Italian philosopher and priest · 1797–1855
  58 yrs
• John Wesley Powell ↗American geologist · 1834–1902
  68 yrs
• Matilda Joslyn Gage ↗American writer, Native American civil rights activist, abolitionist, freethinker · 1826–1898
  71 yrs
• Jerzy Kukuczka ↗Polish alpine and high-altitude climber · 1948–1989
  41 yrs
• Pierre Sanfourche-Laporte ↗French lawyer · 1774–1856
  82 yrs
• Al-Zamakhshari ↗Persian scholar · 1075–1144
  69 yrs
• Curtis Hanson ↗American filmmaker · 1945–2016
  71 yrs

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