April 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
• 709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
• 1185 – Antoku, 81st emperor of Japan
• 1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
• 1342 – Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
• 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (b. 1577)
• 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
• 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
• 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (b. 1719)
• 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
• 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
• 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
• 1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1944 – William Stephens, American U.S. House of Representative, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
• 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
• 1947 – Hans Biebow, German WWII figure (b. 1902)
• 1957 – Harry McClintock, American country singer and hobo (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1962 – Milt Franklyn, American musician (b. 1897)
• 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
• 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
• 1970 – Otis Spann, American blues pianist (b. 1930)
• 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
• 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
• 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
• 2000 – William Moore, English actor (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Roy Jenson, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2009 – John Michell, British writer (b. 1933)