Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 24
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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)