Happy Birthday September 24

English novelist Horace Walpole was born in London on September 24, 1717. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and his wife Catherine.  His 1764 The Castle of Otranto is considered to be the first Gothic novel, a genre of literature which combines parts of both horror and romance.

American fiction writer F, Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. He was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed, Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star-Bangled Banner," but was referred to by the familiar moniker Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald coined the phrase "Jazz Age" with his 1922 book Tales of the Jazz Age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's first son  Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, He died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three. He had one other son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower,  who served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Dwight D. Eisenhower with his wife Mamie and infant son Icky

For more September 24th anniversaries, including the first flight in an airship, the  opening of Barcelona FC’s Camp Nou stadium and the launch of the first consumer internet service check out OnThatDay.