Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 24

Births

 * AD 15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 69)
 * 1717 - Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
 * 1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
 * 1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
 * 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
 * 1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
 * 1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
 * 1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
 * 1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
 * 1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
 * 1946  - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
 * 1949 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director

Deaths

 * 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
 * 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
 * 1834 - Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (pictured) (b. 1798)
 * 1991 - Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)
 * 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)