Who Was Born Today – April 24 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on April 24 | ||
1620 | John Graunt, statistician, founder of demography. | |
1743 | Edmund Cartwright, English parson who invented the power loom. | |
1766 | Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer’s Almanac. | |
1769 | Arthur Wellesley, general during the Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Wellington. | |
1815 | Anthony Trollope, British novelist. | |
1856 | Henri Philippe Pétain, French Marshall, WWI hero, Nazi collaborator. | |
1900 | Elizabeth Goudge, English author. | |
1904 | Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter. | |
1905 | Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America’s first poet laureate. | |
1906 | William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw,’ British traitor, Nazi propagandist. |