24 November: today's birthdays

• Johann Ludwig Burckhardt - Swiss explorer and orientalist
• Carlo Collodi - Italian writer and journalist, born Carlo Lorenzini. He is the author of The Adventures of Pinocchio
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, born Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa. He is best-known for his advertising posters
• Colin Hanks - American actor, He is the son of American actor Tom Hanks
• Katherine Heigl - American actress. She played Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens in the TV series Grey's Anatomy
• Emir Kusturica - Serbian film director, musician and screenwriter
• Philip Massinger - English dramatist. He wrote A New Way to Pay Old Debts and The City Madam
• Stephen Merchant - English author, film director, actor and comedian, born Stephen James Merchant. He collaborated with English comedian Ricky Gervais
• Claudio Naranjo - Chilean psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and anthropologist
• Arundhati Roy - Indian writer. Her most famous novel is The God of Small Things
• Baruch Spinoza - Dutch-born philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent‎. He is considered the precursor of the Enlightenment
• Julieta Venegas - American singer and musician of Mexican descent. She sings in Spanish