Inventors

• 1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
• 217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
• 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome.
• 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dál Riata. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
• 972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
• 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Afonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba.
• 1230 – The Siege of Jaén begins, in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
• 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce.
• 1340 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
• 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
• 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
• 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
• 1535 – The Dominion of Münster, a radical communal Anabaptist state in the independent German city of Münster, is conquered by Franz von Waldeck, the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Münster in a night attack.
• 1571 – Miguel López de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
• 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
• 1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
• 1663 – The Spanish garrison of Évora capitulates, following the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial.
• 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
• 1762 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1793 – The French Constitution of 1793 is formally adopted, although it is effectively suspended by the Committee of Public Safety.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia.
• 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
• 1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
• 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
• 1866 – Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
• 1880 – First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
• 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
• 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1922 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
• 1932 – A bloodless revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
• 1938 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded.
• 1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country’s third prime minister.
• 1940 – World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
• 1943 – US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
• 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase “flying saucer”.
• 1948 – Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
• 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
• 1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
• 1954 – First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
• 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
• 1973 – The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
• 1975 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York’s JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
• 1981 – The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world’s longest bridge span for 17 years.
• 1982 – British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
• 1989 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• 1995 – Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
• 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
• 2010 – At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
• 2010 – Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
• 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
• 2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.

Births on June 24

• 1210 – Count Floris IV of Holland (d. 1234)
• 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1308)
• 1254 – Floris V, Count of Holland (d. 1296)
• 1257 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, English nobleman (probable; d. 1331)
• 1314 – Philippa of Hainault Queen of England (d. 1369)
• 1322 – Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (d. 1406)
• 1343 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
• 1360 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general
• 1386 – John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (d. 1456)
• 1465 – Isabella del Balzo, Queen Consort of Naples (d. 1533)
• 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, Polish-German priest and reformer (d. 1558)
• 1485 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1555)
• 1499 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and the Protestant Reformer (d. 1570)
• 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian and scholar (d. 1605)
• 1532 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1588)
• 1532 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1573)
• 1535 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573)
• 1546 – Robert Persons, English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (d. 1610)
• 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler (d. 1675)
• 1591 – Mustafa I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1639)
• 1614 – John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
• 1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (d. 1680)
• 1661 – Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyō (d. 1730)
• 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742)
• 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German-Lutheran clergyman and scholar (d. 1757)
• 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss author and theorist (d. 1748)
• 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, French philosopher and author (d. 1771)
• 1753 – William Hull, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan Territory (d. 1825)
• 1755 – Anacharsis Cloots, Prussian-French activist (d. 1794)
• 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (d. 1846)
• 1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834)
• 1774 – Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentinian commander and politician, 5th Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
• 1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
• 1777 – John Ross, Scottish commander and explorer (d. 1856)
• 1782 – Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (d. 1847)
• 1783 – Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist and geographer (d. 1850)
• 1784 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (d. 1853)
• 1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864)
• 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician and psychologist (d. 1878)
• 1797 – John Hughes, Irish-American archbishop (d. 1864)
• 1797 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish geologist and explorer (d. 1873)
• 1804 – Stephan Endlicher, Austrian botanist, numismatist, and sinologist (d. 1849)
• 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
• 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1889)
• 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and reformer (d. 1887)
• 1813 – Francis Boott, American composer (d. 1904)
• 1821 – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian physician and politician (d. 1890)
• 1826 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (d. 1898)
• 1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902)
• 1838 – Jan Matejko, Polish painter (d. 1893)
• 1839 – Gustavus Franklin Swift, American businessman (d. 1903)
• 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
• 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian priest and historian (d. 1901)
• 1850 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan (d. 1916)
• 1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)
• 1854 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (d. 1923)
• 1856 – Henry Chapman Mercer, American archaeologist and author (d. 1930)
• 1858 – Hastings Rashdall, English historian, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1924)
• 1865 – Robert Henri, American painter and educator (d. 1929)
• 1867 – Ruth Randall Edström, American educator and activist (d. 1944)
• 1869 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)
• 1872 – Frank Crowninshield, American journalist and art and theatre critic (d. 1947)
• 1875 – Forrest Reid, Irish novelist, literary critic and translator (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Oswald Veblen, American mathematician and academic (g. 1960)
• 1880 – João Cândido Felisberto, Brazilian revolutionary and sailor (d. 1969)
• 1881 – George Shiels, Irish-Canadian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1949)
• 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1953)
• 1882 – Carl Diem, German businessman (d. 1962)
• 1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
• 1883 – Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (d.1942)
• 1883 – Jean Metzinger, French artist (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Arthur L. Newton, American runner (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Frank Verner, American runner (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Frank Waller, American runner (d. 1941)
• 1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975)
• 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1958)
• 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
• 1901 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (d. 2001)
• 1901 – Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
• 1904 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)
• 1905 – Fred Alderman, American sprinter (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Willard Maas, American poet and educator (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
• 1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1978)
• 1909 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Betty Cavanna, American author (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Portia White, Canadian opera singer (d. 1968)
• 1912 – Brian Johnston, English sportscaster and author (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Mary Wesley, English author (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001)
• 1916 – William B. Saxbe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 70th United States Attorney General (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (d. 2017)
• 1917 – David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Lucy Jarvis, American television producer (d. 2020)
• 1917 – Ramblin’ Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean businessman and politician, Singaporean Minister for Education (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Al Molinaro, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Gerhard Sommer, German soldier
• 1922 – Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (d. 2015)
• 1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Richard Timberlake, American economist
• 1923 – Margaret Olley, Australian painter and philanthropist (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Ogden Reid, American politician (d. 2019)
• 1927 – Fernand Dumont, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (d. 1997)
• 1927 – James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
• 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Donald Gordon, South African businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
• 1930 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American publisher (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer and architect (d. 2015)
• 1932 – David McTaggart, Canadian-Italian environmentalist (d. 2001)
• 1933 – Sam Jones, American basketball player and coach
• 1933 – Ngina Kenyatta, 1st First Lady of Kenya
• 1934 – Ferdinand Biwersi, German footballer and referee (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1934 – Gloria Christian, Italian singer
• 1935 – Terry Riley, American composer and educator
• 1935 – Jean Milesi, French racing cyclist
• 1935 – Charlie Dees, American baseball player
• 1937 – Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
• 1938 – Lawrence Block, American author
• 1938 – Abulfaz Elchibey, 1st democratically elected Azerbaijani president (d. 2000)
• 1938 – Ken Gray, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Brigitte Fontaine, French singer
• 1940 – Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
• 1941 – Erkin Koray, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
• 1941 – Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer
• 1942 – Arthur Brown, English rock singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Michele Lee, American actress and singer
• 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean engineer and politician, 32nd President of Chile
• 1942 – Colin Groves, Australian academician and educator
• 1943 – Birgit Grodal, Danish economist and academic (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1944 – Kathryn Lasky, American author
• 1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (d. 1983)
• 1945 – Colin Blunstone, English singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1945 – George Pataki, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of New York
• 1945 – Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player
• 1946 – David Collenette, Canadian civil servant and politician, 32nd Canadian Minister of National Defence
• 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1946 – Robert Reich, American economist and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
• 1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef, author, and television personality (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor and director
• 1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player and songwriter
• 1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1949 – Betty Jackson, English fashion designer
• 1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress
• 1950 – Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish-born English photographer (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d. 2015)
• 1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American author
• 1951 – Raelene Boyle, Australian sprinter
• 1951 – Charles Sturridge, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Dianna Melrose, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Tanzania
• 1952 – Bob Neill, English lawyer and politician
• 1953 – William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1953 – Michael Tuck, Australian footballer and coach
• 1955 – Chris Higgins, English geneticist and academic
• 1955 – Edmund Malura, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Loren Roberts, American golfer
• 1956 – Owen Paterson, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1957 – Mark Parkinson, American lawyer and politician, 45th Governor of Kansas
• 1958 – Jean Charest, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• 1958 – Silvio Mondinelli, Italian mountaineer
• 1958 – John Tortorella, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Andy McCluskey, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1960 – Elish Angiolini, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
• 1960 – Siedah Garrett, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1960 – Karin Pilsäter, Swedish accountant and politician
• 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Dennis Danell, American singer and guitarist (d. 2000)
• 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor
• 1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Ralph E. Reed, Jr., American journalist and activist
• 1961 – Curt Smith, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1963 – Yuri Kasparyan, Russian guitarist
• 1963 – Preki, Serbian-American soccer player and coach
• 1963 – Mike Wieringo, American author and illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1964 – Jean-Luc Delarue, French television host and producer (d. 2012)
• 1964 – Kathryn Parminter, Baroness Parminter, English politician
• 1964 – Gary Suter, American ice hockey player and scout
• 1965 – Claude Bourbonnais, Canadian race car driver
• 1965 – Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 – Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer, composer and musician
• 1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1967 – Janez Lapajne, Slovenian director and producer
• 1967 – John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2012)
• 1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
• 1972 – Denis Žvegelj, Slovenian rower
• 1973 – Alexis Gauthier, French chef
• 1973 – Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Dan Byles, English sailor, rower, and politician
• 1974 – Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
• 1975 – Marek Malík, Czech ice hockey player
• 1975 – Federico Pucciariello, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Brock Olivo, American football player and coach
• 1977 – Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player and manager
• 1977 – Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Luis García, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
• 1978 – Ariel Pink, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
• 1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
• 1979 – Petra Němcová, Czech model and philanthropist
• 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Nina Dübbers, German tennis player
• 1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
• 1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer
• 1982 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
• 1983 – Gianni Munari, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Gard Nilssen, Norwegian drummer
• 1983 – David Shillington, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer
• 1984 – J.J. Redick, American basketball player
• 1984 – Johanna Welin, Swedish-born German wheelchair basketball player
• 1985 – Diego Alves Carreira, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Tom Kennedy, English footballer
• 1985 – Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
• 1985 – Nate Myles, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 – Vernon Philander, South African cricketer
• 1985 – Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese model
• 1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer
• 1986 – Phil Hughes, American baseball player
• 1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player
• 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 – Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder
• 1988 – Micah Richards, English footballer
• 1989 – Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner
• 1990 – Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
• 1991 – Yasmin Paige, English actress
• 1991 – Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – David Alaba, Austrian footballer
• 1996 – Duki, Argentinian rapper

Deaths on June 24

• 994 – Abu Isa al-Warraq, Arab scholar (b. 889)
• 1046 – Jeongjong II, Korean ruler (b. 1018)
• 1088 – William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman nobleman
• 1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English commander (b. 1291)
• 1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)
• 1398 – Hongwu, Chinese emperor (b. 1328)
• 1439 – Frederick IV, duke of Austria (b. 1382)
• 1503 – Reginald Bray, English architect and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1440)
• 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1480)
• 1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1489)
• 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English courtier, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1550)
• 1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580)
• 1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
• 1766 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1678)
• 1778 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist and academic (b. 1714)
• 1803 – Matthew Thornton, Irish-American judge and politician (b. 1714)
• 1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1734)
• 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
• 1902 – George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (b. 1856)
• 1908 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
• 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1849)
• 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1867)
• 1931 – Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 1932 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
• 1943 – Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (b. 1870)
• 1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
• 1962 – Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist and music critic (b. 1906)
• 1964 – Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1892)
• 1968 – Tony Hancock, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
• 1976 – Minor White, American photographer, critic, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1978 – Robert Charroux, French author and critic (b. 1909)
• 1980 – V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (b. 1894)
• 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (b. 1962)
• 1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney Morissette v. United States (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
• 2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (b. 1973)
• 2002 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player and coach (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Gad Beck, German author and educator (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (b. 1932)
• 2013 – William Hathaway, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Alan Myers, American drummer (b. 1955)
• 2014 – John Clement, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Olga Kotelko, Canadian runner and softball player (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan journalist, lawyer, and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
• 2015 – Mario Biaggi, American police officer, politician and criminal (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Marva Collins, American author and educator (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Susan Ahn Cuddy, American lieutenant (b. 1915)
• 2019 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances on June 24

• Army Day or Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
• Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
• Christian feast day:
  • María Guadalupe García Zavala
  • Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
  • June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil)
• Discovery Day, observed on the nearest Monday to June 24 (Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Earliest day on which Armed Forces Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Saturday in June. (United Kingdom)
• Earliest day on which Inventors’ and Rationalizers’ Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Saturday in June. (Russia)
• Earliest day on which Mother’s Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in June. (Kenya)
• Earliest day on which Youth Day can fall, while Jun 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in June. (Ukraine, Belarus)
• Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)
• St John’s Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations (although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, see June 20) (Roman Catholic Church, Europe), and its related observances:
  • Enyovden (Bulgaria)
  • Jaanipäev (Estonia)
  • Jāņi (Latvia)
  • Jónsmessa (Iceland)
  • Midsummer Day (England)
  • Saint Jonas’ Festival or Joninės (Lithuania)
  • Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (Quebec)
  • Sânziene (western Carpathian Mountains of Romania)
  • Wattah Wattah Festival (Philippines)
• Fors Fortuna, ancient Roman festival to Fortuna