Famous Deaths on 24 Dec

Famous Deaths on 24 Dec

1257 - John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
1453 - John Dunstaple, English composer (bc. 1390)
1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469)
1660 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
1707 - Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628)
1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (b. 1811)
1865 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
1868 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
1872 - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
1873 - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795)
1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
1898 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)
1914 - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
1935 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
1941 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
1942 - François Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (b. 1881)
1957 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
1965 - William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
1972 - Gisela Richter, British art historian (b. 1882)
1972 - Melville Ruick, American actor (b. 1898)
1975 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)
1976 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
1977 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917)
1980 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
1980 - Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891)
1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
1984 - Peter Lawford, British actor (b. 1923)
1985 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (b. 1904)
1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911)
1987 - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
1990 - Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945)
1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)
1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (b. 1898)
1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
1994 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
1997 - Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
2000 - John Cooper, English race car designer (b. 1923)
2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
2002 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)
2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
2006 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
2006 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
2006 - Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
2007 - Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (b. 1951)
2007 - Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. 1939)
427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775)