October 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938)
• 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
• 1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark, (b. 1320)
• 1537 – Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
• 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
• 1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
• 1672 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian author (b. 1817)
• 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, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian (b. 1888)
• 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian archbishop (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Winton M. Blount, American politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Herman Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American archbishop (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and scriptwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American director (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Peter Wright, English footballer (b. 1934)