Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 24

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Births

• AD 76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
• 1862 - Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937) (pictured)
• 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer
• 1943 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)

Deaths

• AD 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. AD 12)
• 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
• 1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
• 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)