24 September: today's birthdays

• Pedro Almodóvar - Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film an one for Writing Original Screenplay. He directed Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver
• Edward Bach - English physician and homeopath. He is best known for studying an alternative ​healing method based on flowers, called the Bach flowers
• Girolamo Cardano - Italian mathematician, physician and astrologer
• Konstantin Černenko (Chernenko) - Russian politician. He was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Johan de Witt - Dutch mathematician and statesman
• ​Ginevra Elkann - English-born Italian film producer. She is the granddaughter of Gianni Agnelli
• Francis Scott Fitzgerald - American author and screenwriter. He wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby
• Riccardo Illy - Italian politician and entrepreneur of Hungarian descent. He is the Vice President of Illycaffè, the family company
• Ruhollah Khomeini - Iranian politician and religious leader
• Jiří Kolář -  Czech poet, writer, translator and painter. He is famous for his poems and his collages
• Hans-Jürgen Kreische - Former German soccer player
• Cristián Daniel Ledesma - Argentine soccer player
• Gilles Lipovetsky - French philosopher, writer and sociologist. He wrote L'Ère du vide : essais sur l'individualisme contemporain
• Tamaki Saito - Japanese psychologist
• R.H. Thomson - Canadian actor
• Horace Walpole - English author and politician