24 May: today's birthdays

• Jean-Pierre Bacri - French actor and screenwriter born in Algeria
• Jim Broadbent - English actor
• Josif Aleksandrovič Brodskij (Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky) - Russian-born American poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987
• Joseph Brodsky - Anglicized name of Josif Aleksandrovič Brodskij, Russian poet and essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987
• Michael Chabon - American writer. He wrote the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Ricardo Charma Lerma - Colombian soccer player
• Bob Dylan - American musician, composer, singer and poet, born Robert Allen Zimmerman. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature
• Herbie Fields - American musician
• Fabio Fognini - Italian professional tennis player, who gives his best playing on clay courts. He was ranked as the world number 12 by the Association of Tennis Professionals in 2019. He is married to former tennis player Flavia Pennetta
• Adrian Frutiger - Swiss typeface designer. He created the Univers and Frutiger typefaces
• Clark L. Hull - American psychologist
• Susan Isaacs - English psychologist and psychoanalyst
• Henri Michaux - Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter
• Kristin Scott Thomas - English actress
• Vladimír Šmicer - Former Czech soccer player
• Michail Aleksandrovič Šolochov (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov) - Russian novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965
   
• James Fraser Stoddart - Scottish chemist and 2016 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard Feringa
• William Trevor - Irish writer and playwright
• William Whewell - English philosopher