24 January: today's birthdays

• Daniel Auteuil - French actor born in Algiers. He was married to French actress  Emmanuelle Béart
• Mischa Barton - English actress and fashion model
• John Belushi - American actor, comedian, and musician of Albanian descent. He starred in Animal House and The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis
• Ernest Borgnine - American actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1955
• Maria Elena Boschi - Italian lawyer and politician, currently serving as Minister for Constitutional Reforms and Relations with the Parliament
• William Congreve - English playwright and poet. He wrote the plays The Old Bachelor and The Way of the World
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - French dramatist, poet and musician
• Hermann Ebbinghaus - German psychologist
• Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann - German author, composer and jurist, better known as E.T.A. Hoffmann
• Michelle Hunziker - Swiss-Italian television hostess and actress
• Nastassja Kinski - Belgian actress
• Matthew Lillard - American actor
• Adaílton Martins Bolzan - Brazilian soccer player
• Oskar Morgenstern - German economist born in Austria
• Michail Romm (Mikhail Romm) - Soviet film director
• Michel Serrault - French actor and comedian
• Luis Suárez - Uruguayan footballer 
• Sharon Tate - American actress, born  Sharon Marie Tate. She was murdered by criminal and cult leader Charles Manson. At the time, she was pregnant by film director Roman Polanski
• John Vanbrugh - English architect and dramatist
  
• Edith Wharton - American novelist and short story writer. She wrote The Age of Innocence
• Christian Wolff - German philosopher