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On this day: December 24

What happened in the Turkic world on December 24? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.

Births

  1. 1761 Selim III 28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1789–1807)
  2. 1885 Yakov Melkumov Soviet military commander (1885–1962)
  3. 1921 Ziya Bunyadov Azerbaijani historian (1921-1997)
  4. 1946 Leonid Filatov Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, publicist (1946–2003)
  5. 1961 Ilham Aliyev President of Azerbaijan since 2003
  6. 1978 Yıldıray Baştürk Turkish association football player (born 1978)
  7. 1984 Burak Özçivit Turkish actor and fashion model (born 1984)
  8. 1989 Muminjon Abdullaev Olympic wrestler

Deaths

  1. 1927 Vladimir Bekhterev Russian neurologist
  2. 1946 Sadig Dadashov Azerbaijani architect (1905–1946)
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Source: Wikidata and Wikipedia. Names link to the Wikipedia article.

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