Famous Deaths on 24 Feb

Famous Deaths on 24 Feb

1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1799 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)
1810 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (b. 1754)
1856 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1929 - André Messager, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1953 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
1970 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1982 - Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (b. 1910)
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
1990 - Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)
1991 - Webb Pierce, American music singer (b. 1921)
1991 - George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
1991 - John Daly, South African game show host (b. 1914)
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1993 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
1994 - Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
1994 - Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
1998 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
616 - King Ethelbert of Kent