August 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
• 1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)
• 1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
• 1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. c.1170)
• 1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
• 1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
• 1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:

• Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
• Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
• Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (b. c.1535)

• 1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
• 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
• 1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and agitator (b. 1614)
• 1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
• 1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
• 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
• 1779 – Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
• 1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
• 1818 – James Carr, U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)
• 1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
• 1841 – John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (b. 1778)
• 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
• 1895 – Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
• 1930 – Tom Norman, English freak showman (b. 1860)
• 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
• 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress, survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, died of radiation poisoning (b. 1909)
• 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
• 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
• 1958 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
• 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
• 1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (b. 1930)
• 1974 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
• 1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Scott Nearing, American writer, educator and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
• 1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
• 1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
• 1997 – Werner Abrolat, German actor (b. 1924)
• 1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Andy Hug, Swiss karateka and kickbox champion (b. 1964)
• 2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese film director (b. 1963)