Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

Famous Deaths on 24 Oct

1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (b. 1887)
1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1972 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (b. 1919)
1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
1994 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)