St. John 24.

# John ( b. and d. Torgau, 24 June 1484 ).

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

The Executive Order was amended by President John F. Kennedy, per Executive Order 11046 dated 24 August 1962, to expand the authorization to include those serving with friendly forces.

Desmond John Morris FZS, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist.

* John Darwin, rector of Elston ( 28 September 1730 – 24 May 1805 )

On 24 December 1943, Tribune published, under the authorship of " John Freeman " – possibly in reference to the British politician – the short essay " Can Socialists Be Happy?

* Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean, London, John Murray, 11 November 2010, hardback, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-7195-6707-0, New Haven, Yale University Press, 24 May 2011, hardback, 470 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-17264-5

* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )

The newly hailed " James Brown Band " debuted at the Apollo Theater on April 24, 1959, opening for Little Willie John.

* Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist ( Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec ) June 24.

John Henry Newton ( July 24, 1725December 21, 1807 ) was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman.

The war went very badly, and when the British burned the capitol building on August 24, 1814, Madison removed John Armstrong as Secretary of War and turned to Monroe for help, appointing him Secretary of War on September 27.

In 1845, he sent diplomat John Slidell to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico for $ 24 – 30 million.

On the basis of the account in Luke, the Catholic calendar placed the feast of John the Baptist on June 24, six months before Christmas.

# John Brown Abbott ( November 29, 1831 – May 24, 1839 )

John Harrison ( 24 March 1693 – 24 March 1776 ) was a self-educated English carpenter and later a clockmaker.

John ( 24 December 1166 – 18 / 19 October 1216 ), also known as John Lackland ( Norman French: Johan sanz Terre ), was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death.

John was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine on 24 December 1166.

Lee Harvey Oswald ( October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963 ) was, according to four government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

* Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean, London, John Murray, 11 November 2010, hardback, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-7195-6707-0, New Haven, Yale University Press, 24 May 2011, hardback, 470 pages, ISBN 978-0-300-17264-5

Captain Harry Stafford found four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies ( who became club president ), each willing to invest £ 500 in return for a direct interest in running the club and who subsequently changed the name ; on 24 April 1902, Manchester United was officially born.

* April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist

* January 24 – Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer and playwright

* July 24 – William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager ( d. 1937 )

* January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* June 24 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, poet and possibly playwright ( b. 1550 )

* November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright and author ( d. 1924 )

This meant that the playwright had to construct the play so that its " virtual " time would not exceed 24 hours, that it would be restricted to a single setting, and that there would be no subplots.

Moss Hart ( October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961 ) was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.

Howard Zinn ( August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010 ) was an American academic historian, author, playwright, and social activist.

* Frances Hodgson Burnett ( November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924 ) was an English – American playwright and author.

Earl Derr Biggers ( August 24, 1884 – April 5, 1933 ) was an American novelist and playwright.

After Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009.

* July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, playwright and novelist

* 24 Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.

Eric Bogosian ( born April 24, 1953 ) is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.

Robert Marion " Young Bob " La Follette, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – February 24, 1953 ) was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.

William Hooker Gillette ( July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937 ) was an American actor, playwright and stage-manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Georges Dor ( March 10, 1931-July 24, 2001 ) was a Québécois author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director.

Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace ( 1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932 ) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals.

Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 — December 13, 1996 ), born as Wan Jiabao ( T: 萬家寶, S: 万家宝, P: Wàn Jiābǎo ), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

* 24 September-Françoise Sagan, playwright, novelist and screenwriter ( born 1935 ).

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind ( Hanover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918 ), usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright.

Mara Elizabeth Wilson ( born July 24, 1987 ) is an American former child actress and playwright, known for her roles as a child star, particularly in Mrs. Doubtfire ( 1993 ), Miracle on 34th Street ( 1994 ), Matilda ( 1996 ), and Thomas and the Magic Railroad ( 2000 ).