Famous Personalities Born In August - 24
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy was born on this day in history.
1113 On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1210 Floris IV, Count of Holland was born on this day in history.
1358 On August - 24 birth of king John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) was born on August - 24.
1420 Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) was born on this day in history.
1531 Ercole Bottrigari, composer was born on August - 24.
1552 On this day in history birth of lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1579 John Amner, composer was born on this day in history.
1580 John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654) was born on August - 24.
1591 Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized) was born on August - 24.
1635 On this day in history birth of peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 On this day in history birth of alessandro Marcello, composer
1683 Meinrad Spiess, composer was born on August - 24.
1694 Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] was born on this day in history.
1707 On August - 24 birth of selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer was born on this day in history.
1725 On this day in history birth of johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1733 David Traugott Nicolai, composer was born on August - 24.
1750 On August - 24 birth of letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 On this day in history birth of sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade was born on August - 24.
1772 On August - 24 birth of willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40)
1772 King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840) was born on this day in history.
1787 James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea) was born on August - 24.
1808 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army) was born on this day in history.
1808 On August - 24 birth of thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1816 On August - 24 birth of daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1817 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS] was born on August - 24.
1817 On this day in history birth of aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1820 On this day in history birth of jacopo Tomadini, composer
1821 On this day in history birth of emmanuele Muzio, composer
1827 On August - 24 birth of walter Husted Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867