What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every January birthday · battle January 24 against another date · all rankings
Who shares January 24
Share of the 45 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
Actor
1941 · United States
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 56.5 million records in the US alone, making him one of the best-selling musicians in history.
Irisgerh at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1987 · Uruguay
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest strikers of all time.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1943–1969 · United States
Sharon Marie Tate Polanski was an American actress and model. During the 1960s, she appeared in advertisements and small television roles before appearing in films as well as working as a model.
United Press International (UPI), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1949–1982 · United States
John Adam Belushi was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season.
Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1970 · United States
Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor, director, and producer. His early film roles include the black comedy Serial Mom (1994) and the crime thriller Hackers (1995).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1941 · United States
Dan Shechtman is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.
Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1954 · India
Anil Agarwal, is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of Vedanta Resources Limited. He controls Vedanta Resources through Volcan Investments, a holding vehicle with a 100% stake in the business.
Bluerasberry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1977 · United States
Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from its founding until 2010, when he became an advisor to the company. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service.
The Bui Brothers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · IBM · software
1850–1934 · United States
Charles Ranlett Flint was the founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM. For his financial dealings, he earned the moniker "Father of Trusts".
Bain News Service - Gessford and Van Brunt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1964 · Slovenia
Violeta Bulc is a Slovenian politician who served as the European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2019.
PJakopin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1732–1799 · France
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright and diplomat of the Age of Enlightenment. Best known for his three Figaro plays, at various times in his life he was also a watchmaker, inventor, musician, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary.
After Jean-Marc Nattier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Heinkel · automotive
1888–1958 · Germany
Dr. Ernst Heinkel was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi Party.
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Musician
1712–1786 · Kingdom of Prussia
Frederick II was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
Anton Graff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1961 · Germany
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model. She has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978).
Ivan Bessedin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1986 · Ireland
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British and American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine's Twelve Dreams at New York City's Lincoln Center.
Anjaagnieszka, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1917–2012 · United States
Ernest Borgnine was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows.
Milburn McCarty Public Relations. It was not uncommon for a network, program sponsor or studio to distribute publicity i, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1978 · United States
Kristen Joy Schaal is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Known for her distinctive high-pitched, childlike voice, she voices Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers and voiced Mabel Pines in Gravity Falls.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1862–1937 · United States
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
E. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · United States
Phil LaMarr is an American actor and comedian. He was one of the original featured cast members on the sketch comedy television series Mad TV, where he stayed for five seasons.
Genevieve Marie Pickard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1947 · United States
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Cristiano Sant´Anna, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · Czech Republic
Patrik Schick is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.
Athlete
1952 · France
Raymond Manuel Albert Domenech is a French football manager and former player. He managed the France national team from 2004 to 2010, reaching the 2006 FIFA World Cup final. He was dismissed after their elimination from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, for serious misconduct.
Safia Otokoré, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1776–1822 · Germany
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1950 · France
Daniel Auteuil is a French actor and director who has appeared in a wide range of film genres, including period dramas, romantic comedies, and crime thrillers.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1705–1782 · Papal States
Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, who performed under the stage name Farinelli, was a celebrated Italian castrato singer, composer, and musician. He was a soprano with a range from approximately F3-D6, and is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.
Bartolomeo Nazari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1940 · Germany
Joachim Wilhelm Gauck is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.
EnergieAgentur.NRW, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1748–1806 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Anton Hickel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1989 · South Korea
Ki Sung-yueng is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for K League 1 club Pohang Steelers.
Explicit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1987 · United Kingdom
Wayne Robert Hennessey is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Steindy (talk) 16:09, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1670–1729 · Kingdom of Great Britain
William Congreve was an English playwright, satirist and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is often regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period.
Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive
1947–2012 · Italy
Giorgio Chinaglia was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He grew up and played his early football in Cardiff, Wales, and began his career with Swansea Town in 1964. He later returned to Italy to play for Massese, Internapoli and Lazio in 1969.
Originally uploaded by Gaspo87 (Transferred by Raoli), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1850–1909 · Kingdom of Prussia
Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was the first person to describe the learning curve.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1893–1984 · Soviet Union
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1961 · Germany
Guido Ulrich Buchwald is a German former professional football player. Throughout his career he played as a defender. He is currently director of football of Stuttgarter Kickers.
Actor
1928–2007 · France
Michel Serrault was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1848–1916 · Russian Empire
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was a Russian Realist painter, active in Moscow during Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II's reigns, renowned for his large history pictures. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations.
Karl Fischer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1888–1960 · United States
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.
Max Fenichel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1901–1971 · Soviet Union
Mikhail Ilyich Romm was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He received the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1950.
D. Musikhina-Belova, J. Tolchan, K. Betredinova, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Sodexo
1930–2022 · France
Pierre Bellon was a French billionaire businessman, the founder of Sodexo, a multinational food service and facilities management company.
Entrepreneur
1937–2014 · India
Qimat Rai Gupta was an Indian entrepreneur, founder, former chairman and managing director of Havells, a global electrical company. Gupta was among the 100 richest Indians, and on Forbes list of global billionaires.
Scientist
1828–1898 · Kingdom of Prussia
Ferdinand Julius Cohn was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1978 · Japan
Tomokazu Myojin is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for the Japan national team.
This page lists 45 people born on January 24, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 January 24. Read the full methodology.
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