October 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 996 – King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)
• 1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
• 1375 – King Valdemar IV of Denmark (b. c.1320)
• 1537 – Jane Seymour, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
• 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. c.1508)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
• 1669 – William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
• 1672 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
• 1708 – Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
• 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer (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, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
• 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American organized crie figure (b. 1902)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French car manufacturer (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1958 – George Edward Moore, British philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 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 literary historian (b. 1888)
• 1985 – Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek Marxist theoretician (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
• 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1920)
• 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran statesman (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Robert Sloman, British television writer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese intellectual and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)