Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 24

Births

• 1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer
• 1836 - Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
• 1885 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
• 1934 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
• 1943 - George Harrison, British singer, guitarist and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 2001) (pictured)

Deaths

• 616 - King Æthelberht of Kent
• 1810 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)
• 1994 - Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)