| 59641 | May.24 | Birth | 1990 – Joey Logano, American race car driver |
| 59642 | May.24 | Birth | 1990 – Yuya Matsushita, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor |
| 59643 | May.24 | Birth | 1991 – Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower |
| 59644 | May.24 | Birth | 1991 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer (Cute and ZYX) |
| 59645 | May.24 | Birth | 1992 – Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer (d. 2014) |
| 59646 | May.24 | Birth | 1992 – Travis T. Flory, American actor |
| 59647 | May.24 | Birth | 1992 – Ryan Leonard, English footballer |
| 59648 | May.24 | Birth | 1993 – Oliver Davis, American actor |
| 59649 | May.24 | Birth | 1993 – Rait-Riivo Laane, Estonian basketball player |
| 59650 | May.24 | Birth | 1994 – Cayden Boyd, American actor |
| 59651 | May.24 | Birth | 1994 – Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer |
| 59652 | May.24 | Birth | 1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein |
| 59653 | May.24 | Birth | 2001 – Darren Espanto, Filipino-Canadian singer |
| 59654 | May.24 | Death | 1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083) |
| 59655 | May.24 | Death | 1201 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179) |
| 59656 | May.24 | Death | 1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297) |
| 59657 | May.24 | Death | 1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335) |
| 59658 | May.24 | Death | 1425 – Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1362) |
| 59659 | May.24 | Death | 1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French commander (b. 1396) |
| 59660 | May.24 | Death | 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473) |
| 59661 | May.24 | Death | 1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563) |
| 59662 | May.24 | Death | 1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561) |
| 59663 | May.24 | Death | 1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553) |
| 59664 | May.24 | Death | 1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682) |
| 59665 | May.24 | Death | 1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) |
| 59666 | May.24 | Death | 1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718) |
| 59667 | May.24 | Death | 1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723) |
| 59668 | May.24 | Death | 1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) |
| 59669 | May.24 | Death | 1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837) |
| 59670 | May.24 | Death | 1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794) |