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Births On This Day,
June, 24

  • 1987 Lionel Messi

    Argentine footballer

  • 1978 Juan Román Riquelme

    Argentine footballer

  • 1895 Jack Dempsey

    American boxer

  • 1850 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

    English field marshal

  • 1533 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 24

  • 2000 Rodrigo

    Argentinian singer-songwriter

  • 1987 Jackie Gleason

    American actor, singer

  • 1908 Grover Cleveland

    American lawyer, politician, 22nd President of the United States

  • 1604 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

    English courtier

  • 1398 Hongwu Emperor of China

    Founder of the Ming Dynasty

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