Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 24

Births

• 1725 - John Newton English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
• 1783 - Simón Bolívar, (pictured) South American liberator (d. 1830)
• 1878 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (d. 1957)
• 1895 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
• 1963 - Karl Malone, American basketball player
• 1964 - Barry Bonds, baseball player
• 1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
• 1975 - Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
• 1982 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
• 1990 - Daveigh Chase, American actress

Deaths

• 1862 - Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)

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