24 April: today's birthdays

• Edmund Cartwright - English pastor and inventor. He invented the power loom
• Kelly Clarkson - American singer and songwriter
• Willem de Kooning - Dutch painter
• Lajos Détári - Hungarian soccer coach and former player
• Jean-Paul Gaultier - French fashion designer

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• Joe Henderson - American saxophonist
• Djimon Hounsou - Beninese-born American actor and dancer
• Rula Jebreal - Israeli Arab journalist and novelist  
• Jure Košir - Former Slovenian alpine skier
• Derek Luke - American actor
• Shirley MacLaine - American actress, born Shirley MacLean Beaty. She won an Oscar in 1984, for her performance in the film Terms of Endearment, co-starrring Jack Nicholson. She is the sister of Warren Beatty
• Carl Spitteler - Swiss poet
  
• Barbra Streisand -

  American singer, actress and film director, born Barbara Joan Streisand. She won an Oscar for Best Actress, in 1969, for her performance in Funny Girl and an Oscar for Best Song in 1977 for Evergreen, theme song from the  film A Star Is Born.

• Gideon Sundbäck - Swedish-American electrical engineer noted for having made several developed the zipper
• Anthony Trollope - English novelist
• Jan Vertonghen - Belgian professional footballer, born Jan Bert Lieve Vertonghen