Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 24

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[edit] Births

• 1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
• 1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
• 1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (pictured) (d. 1901)
• 1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
• 1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
• 1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer

[edit] Deaths

• 1351 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco
• 1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer (b. 1473)
• 1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist, writer, and publisher (b. 1805)
• 1959 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1974 - Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (b. 1899)
• 1999 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)

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