The 328th day of the year, the 329th in a leap year
Born on 24 November
Every 24 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 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 November in any year.
Which weekday 24 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 24 November falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 24 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,767 babies were born on 24 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 323rd 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Baruch Spinoza | 1632–1677 | Dutch philosopher |
| Zachary Taylor | 1784–1850 | president of the United States from 1849 to 1850 |
| Dale Carnegie | 1888–1955 | American writer and lecturer |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864–1901 | French painter and illustrator |
| Arundhati Roy | 1961– | Indian novelist, essayist, and activist |
| Alexander Suvorov | 1730–1800 | Russian marshal |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826–1890 | Italian writer |
| Ted Bundy | 1946–1989 | American serial killer |
| Emir Kusturica | 1954– | Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician |
| Laurence Sterne | 1713–1768 | Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric |
| Simon van der Meer | 1925–2011 | Dutch physicist |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | 1926–2024 | Chinese-American physicist |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849–1924 | English-American playwright and author |
| Erich von Manstein | 1887–1973 | German field marshal |
| Katherine Heigl | 1978– | American actress |
| Billy Connolly | 1942– | Scottish actor and comedian |
| Scott Joplin | 1868–1917 | American composer and pianist |
| Alben W. Barkley | 1877–1956 | vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 |
Died on 24 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Freddie Mercury | 1946–1991 | British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen |
| Georges Clemenceau | 1841–1929 | Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and from 1917 to 1920 |
| Diego Rivera | 1886–1957 | Mexican muralist |
| John Rawls | 1921–2002 | American philosopher |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | 1939–1963 | American former Marine, named by the Warren Commission as John F. Kennedy's assassin |
| John Knox | 1514–1572 | Scottish clergyman, writer and historian |
| Dharmendra | 1935–2025 | Indian actor and politician |
| Comte de Lautréamont | 1846–1870 | Uruguayan-born French poet |
| Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | 1864–1958 | lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom |
| Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden | 1688–1741 | queen regnant of Sweden from 1718 to 1720; died 24 November in the Julian calendar, which is 5 December in the Gregorian |
| William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | 1779–1848 | British politician |
| Jimmy Cliff | 1944–2025 | Jamaican musician |
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