24 October Deaths

October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

935 – Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor
996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938)
1152 – Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer
1168 – William IV, Count of Nevers (b.c. 1130)
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 admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)
1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)
1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)
1642 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (b. 1582)
1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)
1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
1672 – John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660)
1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)
1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1824 – Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752)
1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
1917 – James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
1937 – Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
1944 – Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)
1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
1948 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873)
1960 – Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)
1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
1965 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
1969 – Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)
1970 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936)
1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)
1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1975 – İsmail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (b. 1919)
1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (b. 1888)
1979 – Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (b. 1908)
1983 – Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1910)
1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)
1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
1991 – Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1992 – Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944)
1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930)
1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926)
1999 – Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (b. 1910)
2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (b. 1919)
2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (b. 1937)
2001 – Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2002 – Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
2002 – Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912)
2002 – Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1980)
2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920)
2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941)
2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932)
2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and 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 screenwriter (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 organist and 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 – Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2010 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)
2010 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912)
2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967)
2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)
2012 – Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)
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)
2013 – Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)
2013 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993)
2013 – Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)
2013 – Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
2013 – Frank Perconte American soldier b. 1917)
2014 – Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980)
2014 – S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
2014 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2014 – Alvin Wiederspahn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015 – Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923)
2015 – Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928)
2015 – Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960)
2015 – Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924)
2015 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920)
2016 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)
2016 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927)

Source: wikipedia