Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 24

Births

 * 1632 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
 * 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850) (pictured)
 * 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
 * 1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
 * 1925 - William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
 * 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)

Deaths

 * 1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
 * 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
 * 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
 * 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)