Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 24

Births

• 1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
• 1905 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989) (pictured)
• 1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
• 1940 - Sue Grafton, American author (d. 2017)
• 1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress
• 1996 - Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player and cricketer

Deaths

• 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
• 1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
• 1974 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
• 2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)