The 175th day of the year, the 176th in a leap year
Born on 24 June
Every 24 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Cancer, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CancerWater, cardinal, ruled by the Moon.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 24 June in any year.
Which weekday 24 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 24 June falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 24 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,829 babies were born on 24 June in each year of the twenty, making it the 136th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 24 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Lionel Messi | 1987– | Argentine association football player |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842–1914 | American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist |
| Claudia Sheinbaum | 1962– | president of Mexico since 2024 |
| Victor Hess | 1883–1964 | Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate |
| Juan Manuel Fangio | 1911–1995 | Argentine racing driver |
| Julia Kristeva | 1941– | Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic |
| Martin Lewis Perl | 1927–2014 | American scientist |
| Ernesto Sabato | 1911–2011 | Argentine writer, painter and physicist |
| Fred Hoyle | 1915–2001 | British astronomer |
| David Alaba | 1992– | Austrian footballer |
| Jan Matejko | 1838–1893 | Polish painter |
| Jeff Beck | 1944–2023 | English guitarist |
| Shunsuke Nakamura | 1978– | Japanese association football player |
| Juan Román Riquelme | 1978– | Argentine association football player |
| Claude Chabrol | 1930–2010 | French film director |
| William E. Moerner | 1953– | Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist |
| Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 1850–1916 | British Army officer and colonial administrator |
| Darwin Núñez | 1999– | Uruguayan association football player |
Died on 24 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland | 1837–1908 | President of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897 |
| Lucrezia Borgia | 1480–1519 | Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio |
| Benigno Aquino III | 1960–2021 | president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016 |
| Hongwu Emperor | 1328–1398 | founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty; ruled 1368–1398 |
| Eli Wallach | 1915–2014 | American actor |
| V. V. Giri | 1894–1980 | Indian politician and 4th president of India |
| Carlos Gardel | 1890–1935 | French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor |
| Walther Rathenau | 1867–1922 | German businessman, writer, art collector and politician |
| Jackie Gleason | 1916–1987 | American comedian and actor |
| Emilio Colombo | 1920–2013 | Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972 |
| Chris Benoit | 1967–2007 | Canadian professional wrestler and murderer |
| Edith Södergran | 1892–1923 | Finland Swedish poet and writer |
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