April 24th, 1950

Born on April 24th, 1950

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1950

73

Rob Hyman

American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, accordion player, producer, arranger and recording studio owner

*April 24th, 1950, Meriden

73

Jerzy Kryszak

Polish actor

*April 24th, 1950, Kalisz

73

Vadim Brodski

Ukrainian musician

*April 24th, 1950, Kyiv

73

James Lau

Hong Kong civil servant

*April 24th, 1950, British Hong Kong

73

Helmut Rau

German politician

*April 24th, 1950, Tübingen

73

Anita Lochner

American actor and voice actor

*April 24th, 1950, Frankfurt

73

Rafael González

Chilean footballer

*April 24th, 1950, Chile

68

Enrique Verástegui

Peruvian poet (1950-2018)

*April 24th, 1950, Lima †July 27th, 2018, Lima

73

Joan Saura i Laporta

Spanish politician

*April 24th, 1950, Barcelona

73

Henryk Maculewicz

Polish footballer

*April 24th, 1950, Grudza

73

Sue Newman

Australian squash player

*April 24th, 1950, Sydney

73

Lyudmila Porubayko

Swimmer

*April 24th, 1950, Krasnodar

73

António Bento Bembe

Angolan politician

*April 24th, 1950, Cabinda

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

43

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

29

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

30

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

81

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

74

Peter Friedman

American actor

*April 24th, 1949, New York City

72

Enda Kenny

13th Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017

*April 24th, 1951, Castlebar

40

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

59

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

76

Josep Borrell

Spanish politician (born 1947)

*April 24th, 1947, La Pobla de Segur

71

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Fashion designer

*April 24th, 1952, Bagneux

44

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

55

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

35

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

49

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

37

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

28

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

49

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

77

Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1946, Amsterdam

25

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

Same year
Born in 1950

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

73

Annette Badland

English actress

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

73

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

74

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

73

Øivind Blunck

Norwegian actor and comedian

*December 28th, 1950, Norway

73

Wayne Eagling

Canadian ballet dancer

*November 27th, 1950, Montreal

74

Peter Funke

German historian of classical antiquity

*March 18th, 1950, Rheine

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

70

Jóhannes Eðvaldsson

Icelandic football player (1950-2021)

*September 3rd, 1950, Reykjavík †January 24th, 2021, Glasgow

74

Ade Chandra

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1950, Jakarta

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

73

Harriet Walter

British actress

*September 24th, 1950, London

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

73

Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

74

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

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Born on April 24th, 1950
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1950 is a normal year and no leap year.

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