Did you know
With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award.
Famous Birthdays on November 24
1974 — Stephen Merchant
English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
November 24 has 241 recorded notable births across history, from 1273 to 1998. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on November 24
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- 2016 The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war. Source
- 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). Source
- 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. Source
- 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. Source
Did you know
In the 1970–71 NBA season, he was a key player on the team that brought the Bucks their first NBA title.
Did you know
Tom Odell won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2014.
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Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter.
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Maria Amalia of Saxony was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III.
More major people born on November 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1938
Oscar Robertson
American basketball player and sportscaster
Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1990
Tom Odell
English singer-songwriter
Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. His debut EP, Songs from Another Love, was released in 2012, earning him a BRITs Critics' Choice Award.
1941
Donald "Duck" Dunn
American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2012)
Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records.
1724
Maria Amalia of Saxony (died 1760)
Maria Amalia of Saxony was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III. Previously, she had been Queen of Naples and Sicily since marrying Charles on 19 June 1738.
1912
Teddy Wilson
American pianist and educator (died 1986)
Theodore Shaw Wilson was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow as "the definitive swing pianist", Wilson's piano style was gentle, elegant, and virtuosic.
1967
Jon Hein
American radio personality
Jon Hein is an American radio personality and former webmaster. He created the website jumptheshark.com and works for The Howard Stern Show.
1894
Herbert Sutcliffe
English cricketer and businessman (died 1978)
Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars.
1910
Larry Siemering
American football player and coach (died 2009)
Lawrence Edwin Siemering was an American football player and coach.
1895
Esther Applin
American geologist and paleontologist (died 1972)
Esther Applin was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley.
1932
Fred Titmus
English cricketer and coach (died 2011)
Frederick John Titmus was an English cricketer, whose first-class career, mostly for Middlesex with a short stint for Surrey, spanned five decades. He was the fourth man after W.G.
1930
Bob Friend
American baseball player and politician (died 2019)
Robert Bartmess Friend was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between 1951 and 1966, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1954
Clem Burke
American drummer (died 2025)
Clement Anthony Burke was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie.
1935
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain (died 2020)
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa was a Bahraini politician and member of the Al Khalifa royal family who served as the Prime Minister of Bahrain from 10 January 1970 until his death in 2020.
1784
Zachary Taylor
American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850.
1964
Garret Dillahunt
American actor
Garret Lee Dillahunt is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award…
1881
Ye Gongchuo
Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (died 1968)
Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron.
1887
Raoul Paoli
French boxer and rower (died 1960)
Jacques Marie Lucien Raoul Simonpaoli was a French athlete, boxer, wrestler, rower and actor. Aged 12, he served as a coxswain in the French coxed pair and won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
1859
Cass Gilbert
American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (died 1934)
Cass Gilbert was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court Building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West…
1961
Arundhati Roy
Indian writer and activist
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.