The Birthday Gazette

Born on November 24

November 24 birthdays & history

If you were born on November 24, you share a birthday with Baruch Spinoza, Zachary Taylor and Dale Carnegie. November 24 babies are Sagittarius, with topaz as their birthstone and the chrysanthemum as their birth flower. November 24 is the 329th day of the year in leap years (328th in other years).

Famous people born on November 24

  • 1632Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar
  • 1784Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States
  • 1888Dale Carnegie, American author and educator
  • 1864Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator
  • 1961Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
  • 1826Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author
  • 1954Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1713Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman
  • 1926Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1925Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on November 24

  • 380Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
  • 1642Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
  • 1859British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
  • 1877Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
  • 1918The Podgorica Assembly convened in Montenegro, with the intention of uniting with the Kingdom of Serbia.
  • 1925The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
  • 1935The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
  • 1962The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
  • 1969Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.
  • 1991Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.
  • 2009The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania.
  • 2022Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.

Also observed on November 24

  • Evolution Day (International observance)
  • Lachit Divas (Assam)
  • Teachers' Day (Turkey)

Questions, answered

What star sign is November 24?

People born on November 24 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is topaz and their birth flower is the chrysanthemum.

Which famous people were born on November 24?

Baruch Spinoza (1632), Zachary Taylor (1784), Dale Carnegie (1888), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Arundhati Roy (1961), Carlo Collodi (1826) were all born on November 24.

What happened on November 24 in history?

Among other things: in 1991, Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44; in 2009, The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, was launched in Bucharest, Romania; in 2022, Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.

Can I get a newspaper front page from November 24?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any November 24 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “November 24”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.