Notable Deaths on April 24th
April 24th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
624 |
Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury |
709 |
Wilfrid, English bishop and saint, dies at about 76 |
729 |
Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89 |
1077 |
Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies |
1185 |
Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns |
1338 |
Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291) |
1530 |
Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies |
1617 |
Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered |
1622 |
Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577) |
1656 |
Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) |
1731 |
Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 |
1731 |
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe |
1736 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663) |
1758 |
Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41 |
1776 |
Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84 |
1776 |
Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49 |
1779 |
Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711) |
1824 |
Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 |
1827 |
Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82 |
1848 |
Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69 |
1850 |
Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 |
1852 |
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783) |
1855 |
Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75 |
1875 |
Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58 |
1883 |
Jules Sandeau, Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier |
1891 |
Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies |
1900 |
George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 |
1904 |
Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77 |
1904 |
William Pittenger, The General |
1912 |
Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81 |
1917 |
Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies |
1917 |
Oskar Blumenthal, Im weißen Rössl - Wehe Du singst! |
1919 |
Nella Bergen, The Summer Girl |
1920 |
Fritz Sterler, The General's Children |
1922 |
Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53 |
1924 |
George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies |
1924 |
G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844) |
1927 |
Robert Steidl, Auf der Radrennbahn in Friedenau |
1928 |
Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72 |
1928 |
Ferdinand Hummel, Schwert und Herd |
1928 |
Erwin Kopp, Tischlein deck dich, Eselein streck dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack |
1931 |
Davit Kldiashvili, Samanishvilis dedinatsvali |
1934 |
Emile Chautard, The Blind Sculptor |
1935 |
Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80 |
1936 |
Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73 |
1936 |
Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51 |
1936 |
Emil Artur Longen, Pokusení paní Antonie |
1937 |
Lucy Beaumont, The Crowd |
1937 |
Colin Chase, The Range War |
1938 |
George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863) |
1939 |
John Foulds, composer, dies at 58 |
1939 |
John Foulds, Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen |
1940 |
S.S. Simon, The Barker |
1940 |
Mrs. Norman T. Chaney, Railroadin' |
1942 |
Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900) |
1942 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables), dies at 67 |
1942 |
Leonid Kulik, Russian Minerologist (Tunguska meteor site) dies of typhus in a Nazi prison camp at 58 |
1942 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea |
1942 |
Mike Behegan, Block-Heads |
1942 |
Mario Giannini, L'ebbrezza del cielo |
1943 |
Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63 |
1944 |
William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859) |
1944 |
George Ferguson, The Bruiser |
1945 |
Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47 |
1945 |
Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61 |
1945 |
Marian Kiernicki, Vampires of Warsaw |
1945 |
Hubert Bath, The 39 Steps |
1945 |
Sidney Algier, A Shriek in the Night |
1946 |
Alina Gryficz-Mielewska, Lokaj |
1946 |
William Gillis, When Paris Green Saw Red |
1947 |
Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873) |
1947 |
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! |
1948 |
Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84 |
1948 |
Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65 |
1948 |
Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54 |
1948 |
Rosita Marstini, The Big Parade |
1948 |
Leslie Fuller, Boys Will Be Girls |
1948 |
Manuel M. Ponce, Nightcrawler |
1949 |
Monroe Bennett, The Garden of Allah |
1951 |
Walter Rodgers, The Fifth Wheel |
1951 |
A.H. Woods, Lonely Wives |
1951 |
R.H. Bassett, Gone with the Wind |
1952 |
Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 |
1952 |
Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82 |
1952 |
Jaromír John, Vychovatel |
1954 |
Jerry Horwin, Stormy Weather |
1955 |
Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79 |
1955 |
Hannes Schneider, White Ecstasy |
1955 |
Alfred Polgar, The Burning Secret |
1955 |
W.L. Heywood, Sex |
1956 |
Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72 |
1956 |
Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85 |
1956 |
Yuri Yekelchik, Spring |
1956 |
Henry Stephenson, Mutiny on the Bounty |
1957 |
Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84 |
1957 |
George McGonigle, One Man's Journey |
1957 |
Harry McClintock, O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1958 |
Art Wilson, Queen Christina |
1959 |
Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72 |
1959 |
Paul Sarauw, Hans Onsdagsveninde |
1959 |
Giovanni Tomatis, Cabiria |
1959 |
Lillian Castle, Lightning Triggers |
1960 |
John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84 |
1960 |
Maude Allen, Adventures of Red Ryder |
1960 |
Jan Musch, Dood water |
1961 |
Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72 |
1961 |
Lee Moran, Too Many Burglars |
1961 |
Lillian Snyder, Hearts of Love |
1961 |
Alfred Williams, Rango |
1961 |
Arthur J. Beckhard, Curly Top |
1962 |
Fred Frame, The Crowd Roars |
1963 |
Claude Orval, Les détectives du dimanche |
1964 |
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895) |
1965 |
Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86 |
1965 |
Louise Dresser, The Scarlet Empress |
1967 |
Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48 |
1967 |
Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), dies in Soyuz 1 at 40 |
1967 |
Fred C. Newmeyer, Safety Last! |
1968 |
Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62 |
1968 |
Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45 |
1974 |
Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78 |
1975 |
William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67 |
1976 |
Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85 |
1977 |
Bernhard Thieme, Das hölzerne Kälbchen |
1978 |
Viktor Gehring, Der Dorfkaplan |
1979 |
John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72 |
1979 |
Jan Lustig, The Story of Three Loves |
1979 |
Jerrold Bernstein, Ride Lonesome |
1979 |
Leopold Ludwig, Der Freischütz |
1980 |
Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75 |
1980 |
Jim Mills, The Galaxy Gift |
1980 |
Jeanne Martel, Orphan of the Pecos |
1981 |
Otto Arneth, A Heart's Foul Play |
1982 |
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen, Altid ballade |
1982 |
Jack Painter, Atomic Lady |
1982 |
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raízes do Brazil - Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda |
1982 |
Boris Andreyev, The Sword and the Dragon |
1983 |
Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943) |
1983 |
Jim Mundy, Save the Tiger |
1983 |
Jimmy Mundy, Hollywood Canteen |
1983 |
Rolf Stommelen, Le Mans |
1984 |
Eijirô Yanagi, Red Beard |
1984 |
Nicholas Bird, Leave It to Me |
1984 |
Fern Aalbu, Young Man of Manhattan |
1985 |
Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80 |
1985 |
Sergei Yutkevich, Othello |
1985 |
Dee Green, Brideless Groom |
1985 |
Moe Weise, Invitation to Ruin |
1986 |
Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], British King Edward VIII abdicated for her, dies at 89 |
1986 |
Bill Edrich, cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies |
1986 |
Sue Mitobe, Red Beard |
1986 |
Éva Kelemen, A két Bajthay |
1986 |
José Bianco, Las ratas |
1986 |
Duchess of Windsor, A King's Story |
1986 |
Marius Raichi, 1918 |
1986 |
Gerardo Guerrieri, Bicycle Thieves |
1987 |
Mary Kennedy, A Double-barreled Courtship |
1987 |
Agustín Irusta, The Other One |
1987 |
Jörgen Barwe, Anita: Swedish Nymphet |
1987 |
Henry Murdoch, Return of the Plainsman |
1988 |
E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies |
1988 |
Leonid Rakhmanov, Baltic Deputy |
1988 |
Germaine Delbat, Oscar |
1988 |
Clifford D. Simak, The Duplicate Man |
1989 |
Alfred Milotte, Beaver Valley |
1989 |
Lee Roberts, Blazing the Overland Trail |
1989 |
Robert Allen, Drawing Account |
1989 |
Mickey Finn, Taras Bulba |
1989 |
Clyde Geronimi, Cinderella |
1990 |
Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies |
1990 |
Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies |
1990 |
Ruth Moody, Garrison Keillor's Independence Day Special: A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood |
1990 |
Joseph Leberman, Third Rail |
1990 |
Endel Pärn, Varastati Vana Toomas |
1990 |
John Sherrod, Die Hard |
1990 |
Phil Dike, Fantasia |
1990 |
Tom Rolfing, Another World |
1991 |
J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies |
1991 |
Clive Trenchard, The Treasure of Jamaica Reef |
1991 |
József Máriáss, Episode #1.82 |
1991 |
Christopher Rage, My Masters |
1991 |
Edward K. Dodds, European Vacation |
1991 |
Nikita Mikhaylovsky, Love and Lies |
1992 |
Nils Åsblom, Spekulationer |
1992 |
Ilse Künkele, Der Attentäter |
1992 |
Desmond Gill, Stormy Monday |
1992 |
Wolfram Schaerf, Der spanische Bürgerkrieg |
1993 |
Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 |
1993 |
Roman Toporow, Berlin Express |
1993 |
Walter Varndal, Der Hochzeitsgast |
1993 |
Ian Jacob, Beginning of the End |
1993 |
Andon Pano, Tana |
1993 |
Elena Dimitrova, Barierata |
1993 |
Gustl Bayrhammer, Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter |
1993 |
Hanna Bielska, Rola |
1994 |
Christopher Lance, The Young & the Hung |
1994 |
Wanda Fernandes, Ela E os Homens |
1994 |
Margot Trooger, Pippi Longstocking |
1995 |
Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77 |
1995 |
Johannes Ott, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse |
1995 |
Ronald Alexander, Billie |
1995 |
Ron Alexander, 60 Cycles |
1995 |
Marie Epstein, Ballerina |
1995 |
Mel Pape, Caddyshack |
1995 |
Lou Ambers, The Crowd Roars |
1995 |
Suzanne Nivette, Rouge et noir |
1995 |
Iosif Kheifits, The Lady with the Dog |
1996 |
Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62 |
1996 |
Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies |
1996 |
Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83 |
1996 |
Preston Lockwood, Time Bandits |
1996 |
Donald Cammell, Performance |
1997 |
Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69 |
1997 |
Charles Frank, Disobedient |
1997 |
Karel Prior, Nationaal songfestival |
1997 |
Mike Raven, Crucible of Terror |
1997 |
Santos Liszko, Land der Väter, Land der Söhne |
1997 |
Pat Paulsen, Pat Paulsen for President |
1998 |
Ivan Danilov, Laughter and Grief by the White Sea |
1998 |
Christiane Rochefort, The Truth |
1998 |
Mel Powell, A Song Is Born |
1998 |
Frederic Downs, Days of Our Lives |
1998 |
Leslie Stevens, Return to the Blue Lagoon |
1999 |
Arthur Boyd, Arthur Boyd: A Man in Two Worlds |
1999 |
Nanabhai Bhatt, Bhootnath |
1999 |
Carl Saxe, What's Up, Doc? |
1999 |
Carl Sklover, Meet Danny Wilson |
2000 |
Rhodie Cogan, Catspaw |
2000 |
Norman Tyrrell, Shut Out the Night |
2000 |
William Moore, Black Jack |
2000 |
Susan Stephen, Cocktails in the Kitchen |
2000 |
Ulla Isaksson, The Virgin Spring |
2000 |
Sidney Peterson, The Lead Shoes |
2001 |
Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915) |
2001 |
Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922) |
2001 |
Johan Thiersen, Bedroom Mazurka |
2001 |
R.O. Raimela, Suomi maksaa |
2001 |
Johnny Valentine, WCW Worldwide Wrestling |
2001 |
Al Hibbler, Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story |
2001 |
John Kuharek, Men Who Brought the Dawn |
2001 |
Majda Potokar, Wild Growth |
2002 |
Milton Weinstein, General Motors 50th Anniversary Show |
2002 |
Glenn Leigh Marshall, Raging Bull |
2002 |
Robert McQueeney, Pilot |
2002 |
Donald Barton, Buck Fever |
2003 |
Robert Suhosky, The House Where Evil Dwells |
2003 |
Gary Sperling, Great Minds Think for Themselves |
2003 |
Guy Mountfort, Expedition to Bulgaria |
2003 |
Edwin S. Marks, Being Elmo |
2003 |
Albert Narkiewicz, Wielki Szu |
2004 |
Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906) |
2004 |
Tom Carter Jr., Body for Hire: Bodyguard Training Videos |
2004 |
Richard Svare, Onassis: The Richest Man in the World |
2004 |
Joe Ferrante, The Rare Breed |
2004 |
Frankie Scott, The Overnight |
2004 |
Ashley N. Lance, The Keeper |
2004 |
José Giovanni, The Hole |
2004 |
Othman Abdul Menem, El-Bahr Bi-Yedhak Ley |
2004 |
Robert McBain, A Fish Called Wanda |
2004 |
Mahmoud Moursy, Last Night |
2004 |
Ben Ross, Marilyn Monroe: Still Life |
2004 |
Vladimir Bychkov, Rusalochka |
2005 |
Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924) |
2005 |
Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910) |
2005 |
Howard Benedict, Moon Shot |
2005 |
Niyazi Er, Kanli Nigar |
2005 |
Ubo Groenier, Per ongeluk |
2005 |
John Dodds, Legends of the Fall |
2005 |
Francis Bay, Lize Marke: Internationaal |
2005 |
Antonín Novotný, V tom domecku pod Emauzy |
2005 |
Arkadiy Vayner, Vizit k Minotavru |
2005 |
Adelle August, Julesburg |
2005 |
Jack Gleason, Private Benjamin |
2005 |
Ebbe Kløvedal Reich, Del 1 |
2005 |
Gus Wing, Navy Seals |
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) |
2006 |
Laszlo Jenei, Freedom's Fury |
2006 |
Peter Ellis, Natural Born Killer |
2006 |
Sibby Sisti, The Natural |
2006 |
Erik Bergman, Osa IX Elämän näyttämöitä 1958-1966 |
2006 |
Erik Bergman, Stella Polaris |
2006 |
Gary Gillingham, Hellboy |
2006 |
Helena Rosenkranz, Kehraus |
2006 |
Anthony Papafio, Sanders of the River |
2006 |
Bonnie Owens, The Sapphires |
2007 |
Lawson J. Deming, Sir Graves Ghastly Presents |
2007 |
József Madaras, The Red and the White |
2007 |
Roy Jenson, Chinatown |
2007 |
Yanis Chimaras, Rosa Campos, provinciana |
2008 |
Charles O. Lynch, Chapter II |
2008 |
Jimmy Giuffre, The Wild One |
2008 |
Fedor Skubonja, Crvena zastava - Krusevac |
2008 |
James Day, Myrna Loy |
2008 |
Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, Real TV |
2008 |
Tristram Cary, The Ladykillers |
2008 |
Margit Seeber, Gipfelkreuz |
2008 |
Tom Shaw, The Dead |
2009 |
John Michell, British writer, (b. 1933) |
2009 |
Sixto Palavecino, La savia del algarrobo |
2009 |
Hubert Fabian Kulterer, Before Sunrise |
2009 |
John Michell, Much Ado About Something |
2009 |
Bernard Haller, For intérieur |
2010 |
Wojciech Siemion, Niezawodny system |
2010 |
Alberto Mariscal, Todo por nada |
2010 |
Bo Hansson, Agent 0,5 och Kvarten - fattaruväl! |
2011 |
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, spiritual figure (b. 1926) |
2011 |
Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944) |
2011 |
Sathya Sai Baba, Balu |
2011 |
Nancy Klein, 300 |
2011 |
Madame Nhu, America's Mandarin: 1954-1963 |
2011 |
Marie-France Pisier, Love on the Run |
2011 |
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Brother Bear |
2011 |
Marvin Eisenman, Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend |
2012 |
Jack Lynn, Yentl |
2012 |
William Chapman, The Hard-Boiled Canary |
2012 |
Michael French, Pretty Woman |
2012 |
Beverly Setlowe, Too Young to Die? |
2012 |
Seiki Tsuchida, Under the Same Moon |
2012 |
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 |
2012 |
Ubaldo De Lío, Invasion |
2012 |
Travis Walters, Dunny |
2012 |
C. Lindsay Workman, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear |
2012 |
Wim Hoddes, Turkish Delight |
2013 |
Laurie Kay, Africa Express |
2013 |
Larry Felser, O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose |
2014 |
Hans Hollein, The Venice Project |
2014 |
Ricardo Bauleo, The Curious Dr. Humpp |
2014 |
Konstantin Orbelyan, Road to the Stage |
2014 |
Danny Skundric, Batman |
2014 |
Philip Lejeune, |
2014 |
Constantsa Tirtseu, Gnev |
2014 |
Jane Peter, Chez bompa lawijt |
2014 |
Tadeusz Rózewicz, Opadly liscie z drzew |
2015 |
Fred Rai, Wer zweimal stirbt |
2015 |
Sid Tepper, Blue Hawaii |
2015 |
Marisa Eve Girawong, |
2015 |
Val E. Lewton, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows |
2015 |
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Les difficiles débuts de la Résistance (1939-1941) |
2015 |
Katy Jones, The Mark of Cain |
2015 |
Andrew Dow, Record Breaking Steam Trains |
2016 |
Crime writer Michelle McNamara, wife of Patton Oswalt, dies aged 46 |
2017 |
USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus dies aged 67 |
2017 |
Charlie Murphy, Chappelle's Show star, dies aged 57 |
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