Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

Famous Deaths on 24 Nov

1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1920 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
1993 - Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)