24 February: today's birthdays

• Arrigo Boito - Italian composer, librettist and poet. He wrote and composed the opera Mefistofele
• David Diop - French writer of Senegalese descent. He won the Premio Strega Europeo in 2019 with the book Frère d'âme
• Alessandro Gassman - Italian actor. He is the son of Italian actor and film director Vittorio Gassman.
• Richard Hamilton - English painter
• Steve Jobs - American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc., born Steven Paul Jobs
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. - American professional boxer, born Floyd Joy Sinclair
   
• Steve McCurry - American photojournalist
• Thomas Newcomen - English blacksmith and inventor
• Łukasz Owsian - Polish professional racing cyclist
• Hermann Paasche - German statistician and politician
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Italian Renaissance philosopher, born Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia. He wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man, which places the man in the centre of the universe
• Carlos Prats - Chilean politician
• Alain Prost - French racing driver
• Michael Radford - English film director and screenwriter born in India
• Brian Schmidt - American-born Australian astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2011