List of Famous people born on July 24th
Lowry Mays
Lester Lowry Mays is the founder and former chairman of Clear Channel Communications.
Daniel Wende
Daniel Wende is a German pair skater. With Maylin Wende, he is the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard bronze medalist, the 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist, and a two-time German national champion. They have competed twice at the Winter Olympics and have placed as high as sixth at the European Championships.
Gustav Andreas Tammann
Gustav Andreas Tammann was a German astronomer and academic. He served as director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel; as a member of the European Space Agency Space Telescope Advisory Team, and as Member of Council of the European Southern Observatory. His research interests include supernovae and the extragalactic distance scale. Tammann was a former President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Galaxies.
Reynoud Diederik Jacob van Reede, 7th Earl of Athlone
Reynoud Diederik Jacob van Reede, 7th Earl of Athlone, son of the 5th Earl of Athlone, succeeded his brother as Earl of Athlone on 5 December 1810.
John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill.
Frances Franklin O'Halloran
Edwin Ray Ulyate
John Hope Sandilands
Jo Eisinger
Jo Eisinger (1909–1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s. He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs, Gilda (1946) and Night and the City (1950).