Birthday twins
April 24 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, entrepreneurs and athletes, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1949 · Taiwan
$6Bolder estimate, as of 2021 · Bloomberg
Taiwanese businessman (born 1949)
Reported estimate as of 2021: $6B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every April birthday · battle April 24 against another date · all rankings
The April 24 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1939 · Italy
$4.7Bolder estimate, as of July 2024 · Forbes
Giuseppe De'Longhi is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the president of De'Longhi.
Mikhail Kozlovsky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1942 · United States
$390Molder estimate, as of 2016 · Forbes
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, author, and filmmaker.
NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares April 24
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Inventor
1452–1519 · Republic of Florence
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
Attributed to Francesco Melzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1992 · United States
Joseph David Keery, also known by his musical stage name Djo, is an American actor, singer, musician, and songwriter. He rose to international prominence for his role as Steve Harrington in the sci-fi horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1934 · United States
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears.
movie studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1982 · United States
Kelly Brianne, known professionally as Kelly Clarkson, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality.
Stephen Schester/Carlin Leslie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1947 · United States
Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Рустем Кадыров, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1845–1924 · Switzerland
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.
A. B. Lagrelius & Westphal, Stockholm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1983 · United States
Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and former executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz.
TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1952 · France
Jean Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer.
Netaction, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Endemol · media
1955 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Johannes Hendrikus Hubert "John" de Mol Jr. is a Dutch media proprietor. De Mol is one of the men behind production companies Endemol and Talpa.
Entrepreneur
1972 · Russia
God Semenovich Nisanov is a Russian-Azerbaijani billionaire property developer and co-owner of the Kievskaya Ploshchad. In 2023, Forbes ranked Nisanov as the 1027th wealthiest person globally, with a net worth of $2.9 billion, placing him 43rd in the Russian ranking.
Г.Нисанов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1880–1954 · Sweden
Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundbäck was a Swedish-American electrical engineer, who is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1825–1894 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Michael Ballantyne was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction, who wrote more than a hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist: he exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.
Melsenbach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
April 24 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1964 · Benin
Djimon Gaston Hounsou is a Beninese-American actor. He began his career appearing in music videos and made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing (1990).
Djimon_hounsou_kimora_lee_simmons_push_premiere.jpg: Anthony Citrano derivative work: B3t (talk), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1856–1951 · France
Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French military officer who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the Axis-collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.
Imprimerie Draeger à Montrouge en région parisienne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1968 · Ireland
Aidan Murphy, known professionally as Aidan Gillen, is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of three Irish Film & Television Awards and has been nominated for a British Academy Television Award, a British Independent Film Award, a Tony Award, and a Drama Desk Award.
Aidan Gillen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1987 · India
Varun Dhawan is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. One of India's highest-paid actors, he has been featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list in the 2010s. He starred in 11 consecutive box-office successes between 2012 and 2018.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1469–1539
Gurū Nānak, also known as Bābā Nānak, was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
Amritpal Singh Mann. Painted by Jaimal Singh Naqqash (1860–1916), Mehtab Singh Naqqash (1871–1940), and Hukum Singh., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · United States
Cedric Antonio Kyles, better known by his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and television host.
Alexander Vaughn, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · Australia
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 121 weeks, and was ranked world No. 5 in doubles.
Rob Keating from Canberra, Australia, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1930–2021 · United States
Richard Donner was an American filmmaker. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters", Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s.
Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1876–1960 · Germany
Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II and was convicted of war crimes after the war. He attained the highest possible naval rank, that of grand admiral, in 1939.
Athlete
1993 · United Kingdom
Benjamin Thomas Davies is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a left-back and centre-back for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and captains the Wales national team. He is also a member of the Football Association of Wales Council.
Steindy (talk) 16:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1987 · Belgium
Jan Bert Lieve Vertonghen is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Mainly a centre-back, he also played as a left-back.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1815–1882 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now.
C. E. Fry & Son, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1904–1997 · United States
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
Antony di Gesu, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1903–1936 · Spain
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquis of Estella GE, often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish national syndicalist politician who founded the Falange Española, later Falange Española de las JONS.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1966 · Italy
Alessandro "Billy" Costacurta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Widely regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, due to his defensive skills and spending his entire career at one single club.
F1fans, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1940–2017 · United States
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W.
Mark Coggins from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1976 · Ireland
Stephen John Finnan is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is the only player to have played in the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA Intertoto Cup, Premier League, all three levels of the Football League, and non-League.
Alii h at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1941–2010 · United States
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author.
U.S. State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1905–1989 · United States
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Ephemera, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1947 · Spain
Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 to 2024.
Unión Europea en Perú from Lima, Perú, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1930 · Brazil
José Sarney de Araújo Costa is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and writer who served as the 31st president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990. He briefly served as the 20th vice president of Brazil for a month between March and April 1985.
Politician
1982 · Belarus
Maria Kalesnikava is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus.
Grunpfnul, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1897–1941 · United States
Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for his advocacy of linguistic relativity. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.
Bachrach Studios, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1981 · Japan
Marcus Túlio Tanaka is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Born in Brazil, he represented Japan at international level.
Neier, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1957 · Albania
Bamir Myrteza Topi is an Albanian diplomat and politician who served as President of Albania from 2007 to 2012.
Lorenza e Vincenzo Iaconianni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Japan
Yuki Kobayashi is a Japanese footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Singapore Premier League club Tampines Rovers.
Entrepreneur
1922–2009 · Italy
Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi, was an Italian politician, businesswoman, and writer. Involved in Italian politics for over twenty years, she was the first woman to be appointed Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Creator
1909–1987 · Germany
Bernhard Klemens Maria Hoffbauer Pius Grzimek was a German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West Germany. During the Third Reich, he served as a veterinarian in the army.
Metzger, Jack, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1965 · United States
Natalie Ann Jaresko is an American-born former U.S. State Department official and Ukrainian investment banker who served as Ukraine's Minister of Finance from December 2014 until April 2016.
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1961 · Japan
Tetsuya Totsuka is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.
This page lists 50 people born on April 24, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of July 2024. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 24. Read the full methodology.
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