People born on December 24

James Prescott Joule

English physicist and brewer (1818-1889)

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist (1798-1855)

Ilham Aliyev

President of Azerbaijan since 2003

Nostradamus

French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)

Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601

Hamid Karzai

President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014

Tarja Halonen

President of Finland from 2000 to 2012

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

10th prime minister of India in 1996, 1998 and from 1999–2004

Ava Gardner

American actress (1922–1990)

Ricky Martin

Puerto Rican singer and actor

Emanuel Lasker

Former World Chess champion (1868–1941)

Dima Bilan

Russian actor and singer-songwriter

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (1837-1898)

Selim III

Ottoman sultan (1761-1808)

Stephenie Meyer

American author