April 24th, 1948

Born on April 24th, 1948

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on April 24th?

April 24th, 2013

A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.

April 24th, 1993

The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.

April 24th, 1990

The Hubble Space Telescope (pictured) was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.

April 24th, 1965

Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.

April 24th, 1944

World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of Santorini.

April 24th, 1933

Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

April 24th, 1932

An estimated 400 ramblers committed a wilful mass trespass of Kinder Scout (pictured) in the Peak District to highlight the denial of access to areas of open country in England.

April 24th, 1922

The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.

April 24th, 1918

First World War: The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux began, which contained the first instance of tanks fighting against each other.

April 24th, 1916

Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.

April 24th, 1915

The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.

April 24th, 1914

The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.

April 24th, 1913

The Woolworth Building in New York City officially opened; at the time, it was the tallest building in the world, with a height of 792 ft (241 m).

April 24th, 1904

Realizing that the Russification of Lithuania was not working, the Russian Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on publications written in Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet.

April 24th, 1866

German composer Max Bruch conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 24th

Born on April 24th, 1948

76

Tomoko Abe

Japanese politician

*April 24th, 1948, Meguro-ku

76

Timothy A. Kinnan

United States general

*April 24th, 1948, Tacoma

62

Kōhei Tsuka

Korean playwright, director and theater director (1948-2010)

*April 24th, 1948, Kaho †July 10th, 2010, Kamogawa

76

Júlia Costa i Coderch

Spanish poet and writer

*April 24th, 1948, Barcelona

76

Eliana Gil

Family and child therapist

*April 24th, 1948, Guayaquil

65

Paul Cellucci

American lawyer and politician (1948–2013)

*April 24th, 1948, Hudson †June 8th, 2013, Hudson

76

Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

Documentary photographer

*April 24th, 1948, Montreal

76

Živko Zalar

Croatian cinematographer

*April 24th, 1948, Zagreb

76

Gregory S. Martin

United States Air Force general

*April 24th, 1948, Fort Myer

76

Bob Beall

American baseball player

*April 24th, 1948, Portland

76

Kenneth Elmer

Canadian middle-distance runner

*April 24th, 1948, Vancouver

76

Saïd Allik

Algerian association football player

*April 24th, 1948, Birkhadem

75

Thomas H. Leonard

British statistician and author (born 1948)

*April 24th, 1948, Devon †December 18th, 2023, Edinburgh

73

Juan Carlos Hase

Argentinian chess player

*April 24th, 1948, Buenos Aires †November 30th, 2021

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 24th?

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

*April 24th, 1940, Corona †May 9th, 2017, Los Angeles

30

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

31

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

77

Josep Borrell

Spanish politician (born 1947)

*April 24th, 1947, La Pobla de Segur

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

75

Peter Friedman

American actor

*April 24th, 1949, New York City

78

Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1946, Amsterdam

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

77

Roger D. Kornberg

American biochemist

*April 24th, 1947, St. Louis

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

81

Ruud Stokvis

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1943, Amsterdam

50

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

90

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

Same year
Born in 1948

69

Ole Thestrup

Danish actor (1948-2018)

*March 12th, 1948, Nibe †February 2nd, 2018, Tuse Næs

46

Maurizio Gucci

Italian businessman (1948-1995)

*September 26th, 1948, Florence †March 27th, 1995, Milan

75

Charles III of the United Kingdom

King of the United Kingdom since 2022

*November 14th, 1948, Buckingham Palace

75

Norbert Lammert

German politician, president of the Bundestag

*November 16th, 1948, Bochum

75

Jon Amiel

English film director

*May 20th, 1948, London

75

Marius Müller-Westernhagen

German actor and musician

*December 6th, 1948, Düsseldorf

75

Richard Simmons

American fitness instructor, actor, and video producer (born 1948)

*July 12th, 1948, New Orleans

75

Laila Dåvøy

Norwegian politician

*August 11th, 1948, Bergen

69

Bernard Bosson

French politician (1948-2017)

*February 25th, 1948, Annecy †May 13th, 2017, 8th arrondissement of Lyon

75

Kathy Bates

American film actress and director

*June 28th, 1948, Memphis

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

71

Robert Trump

US business executive and real estate developer (1948-2020)

*August 26th, 1948, Queens †August 15th, 2020, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

68

Bernie Wrightson

American illustrator

*October 27th, 1948, Baltimore †March 18th, 2017, Austin

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

76

John de Lancie

American actor (born 1948)

*March 20th, 1948, Philadelphia

76

Al Gore

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

*March 31st, 1948, Washington, D.C.

75

Jonathan Hyde

Australian-born English actor

*May 21st, 1948, Brisbane

68

Altamas Kabir

39th Chief Justice of India

*July 19th, 1948, Kolkata †February 19th, 2017, Kolkata

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

68

Carlos Gardini

Argentinian journalist (1948-2017)

*August 26th, 1948, Buenos Aires †March 1st, 2017, Buenos Aires

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Leap year

Yes: 1948 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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