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April 24, 1947

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Notable Births

Josep Borrell

1947Josep Borrell, Spanish engineer and politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament[†]

Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician who served as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from 2018 to 2019.

João Braz de Aviz

1947João Braz de Aviz, Brazilian cardinal[†]

João Braz de Aviz is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from 2011 to 2025. He began his career working for twenty years as a parish priest and seminary teacher. He became a bishop in 1994 and was bishop of Ponta Grossa from 1998 to 2002, archbishop of Maringá from 2002 to 2004, and archbishop of Brasília from 2004 to 2011.

Claude Dubois

1947Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Claude André Dubois is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

1947Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician[†]

Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill CBE is a British Labour peer. She was appointed as a life peer in 2006 after practising as a solicitor in personal injury, trade union and employment law.

Roger D. Kornberg

1947Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."

Notable Deaths

Willa Cather

1947Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1873)[†]

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.