* May 24 – Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer

Mönchengladbach is home of the football club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Formula One race car drivers Nick Heidfeld and Heinz-Harald Frentzen, author / cartoonist Walter Moers, cabaret artist Volker Pispers, and the philosopher Hans Jonas.

* In the young-adult fantasy book Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures by German novelist and cartoonist Walter Moers, Homunculi are hybrid life forms created out of a giant viscous liquid containing various animal cells.

Walter Moers held odd jobs after leaving school before starting a commercial apprenticeship.

Walter Moers is said to avoid publicity and very rarely gives interviews or allows himself to be photographed.

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The characters of Käpt ' n Blaubär, his grandchildren, and Hein Blöd were created by Walter Moers and made popular by Moers ' book, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear and Blaubär's appearance on Die Sendung mit der Maus.

* Walter Bar ( born 1938 ), Swiss fencer

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

* Walter E. Boomer ( born 1938 ), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

* Walter Orange ( vocals, drums ) – born December 10, 1946, Florida.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Their son Walter was born in 1868, their daughters Elizabeth in 1871 and Emma in 1873.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary ( née Sheedy ) and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, a stockbroker.

In 1938 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg ) a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in " Stalin's secret service.

An example of the abandonment of mixed race children in the 1920s is given in a report by Walter Baldwin Spencer that many mixed-descent children born during construction of The Ghan railway were abandoned at early ages with no one to provide for them.

Timothy Walter " Tim " Burton ( born August 25, 1958 ) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist.

Tony and Mary owned a cucumber farm in Canning, Ontario where Walter Gretzky was born and raised and where he met Wayne's mother, Phyllis Hockin.

Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne.

Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916.

Walter Gilbert ( born March 21, 1932 ) is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.

* June 9 – Walter Besant, English writer ( born 1836 )

* September 21 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man, last living man born in 1896 ( d. 2011 )

* Walter Nash, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born in the town.

* Walter Block ( born 1941 ), American economist, author

Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale ( born January 5, 1928 ) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States ( 1977 – 1981 ) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 – 1976 ).

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope ( née Cowan ), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister.

Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

Owen was probably born in about 1400, and may have gone to war in the service of Henry V's steward Sir Walter Hungerford in 1421 in France.

Thomas Cromwell was born around 1485 in Putney, Surrey, the son of Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith, fuller, and cloth merchant, and owner of both a hostelry and a brewery.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

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* October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor ( b. 1899 )

* February 24 – WWI: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

* November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect ( d. 1937 )

* March 24 – Walter Bagehot, British businessman, essayist and journalist ( b. 1826 )

* September 24 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1968 )

* January 24 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated ; the murderers are captured July 17.

* March 24 – Walter Parr, British preacher ( b. 1871 )

* December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler ( b. 1385 )

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

* Gordon Fuller, Walter L Wilson, Henry C Miller, ( 1982 ) College Algebra, 5th edition, page 24, Brooks / Cole Publishing, Monterey California ISBN 0-534-01138-1.

In an international design competition conducted by the Department of Home Affairs, on 24 May 1911, the design by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was chosen for the city, and in 1913 Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction and construction began.

Walter Burley Griffin ( born November 24, 1876 and died February 11, 1937 ) was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city.

Walter was drafted into the armed forces in 1942, however, the end of the war found 24 year old Fritz in a Prisoner of War camp in Máramarossziget in which he played with Hungarian and Slovakian guards.

The four men were condemned, Walter on 24 May and the others on 25 May and immediately beheaded in ' front of the castle '.

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Gary Richard Burghoff ( born May 24, 1943 ) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene " Radar " O ' Reilly in the M * A * S * H movie and TV series.

Walter Bower ( or Bowmaker ) ( 1385 – 24 December 1449 ), Scottish chronicler, was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian.

The 14th-century canon and historian Walter of Guisborough gives it as 1129, but a charter of confirmation from Pope Calixtus dates to the period of his pontificate between 1119 – 24.

Originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on 23 May 2000, it transferred to Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on 24 October 2000.

Walter Bagehot ( " Badgett "; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877 ) was a British businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.

* July 24, 1942, small group session with Buck Clayton, Count Basie, and his rhythm section ( Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones ) recording " Royal Garden Blues " and " Sugar Blues "