December 24: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is December 24th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on December 24th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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December 24th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

December 24th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (Cassiopeia 1 and Dieppe), was born on December 24, 1903.

Hungarian-American film director Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, White Christmas and Yankee Doodle Dandy) was born on December 24, 1886.

Italian- American composer ("Lullaby of Broadway," "On the Atcheson Topeka and Santa Fe," "That's Amore," "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" and "You'll Never Know") and Academy Award winner (2935, 1943 and 1946) Salvatore Antonio (Harry Warren) Guaragna was born on December 24, 1893.

December 24, 1945 Nicholas Meyer, director, Star Trek II Wrath of Khan, playwright, director: Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, Company Business, Time After Time; playwright: Sommersby, Start Trek 4: The Voyage Home, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Invasion of the Bee Girls; director: Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, The Deceivers, Volunteers, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Day After

German composer Franz Waxman ("A Day at the Races") was born on December 24, 1906.

December 24th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Erhard Keller, German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist (1968 and 1972), was born on December 24, 1944.

Eddie Pope, American soccer player and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on December 24, 1973.

December 24th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

British poet and author Matthew Arnold (Culture and Anarchy and Dover Beach) was born on December 24, 1822.