Notable Deaths on February 24th
February 24th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
616 |
King Ethelbert of Kent |
1525 |
Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier |
1563 |
Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 |
1588 |
Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist |
1642 |
Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 |
1666 |
Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77 |
1674 |
Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616) |
1685 |
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629) |
1686 |
Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 |
1692 |
Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74 |
1704 |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies |
1714 |
Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637) |
1721 |
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648) |
1732 |
Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675) |
1735 |
Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56 |
1777 |
King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714) |
1779 |
Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704) |
1781 |
Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713) |
1784 |
Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65 |
1785 |
Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39 |
1799 |
Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41 |
1799 |
Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 |
1806 |
John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 |
1810 |
Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies |
1812 |
Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61 |
1812 |
Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775) |
1815 |
Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies at 49 |
1825 |
Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies |
1829 |
Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies |
1862 |
Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72 |
1862 |
B.S. Ingemann, Valdemar Sejr |
1874 |
Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49 |
1876 |
Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 |
1876 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809) |
1895 |
Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87 |
1899 |
Charles Nuitter, Dr. Coppelius |
1907 |
Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77 |
1907 |
Archibald Clavering Gunter, A Florida Enchantment |
1908 |
Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66 |
1914 |
Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg |
1919 |
Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41 |
1922 |
Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies |
1924 |
Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87 |
1925 |
Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860) |
1925 |
Hjalmar Branting, |
1925 |
Alois Mrstík, Marysa |
1926 |
Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51 |
1929 |
Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75 |
1929 |
André Messager, The Impossible Mr. Pipelet |
1929 |
Frank Keenan, The Coward |
1930 |
Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74 |
1933 |
Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64 |
1934 |
Sanjugo Naoki, Nangoku taiheiki: zenpen |
1934 |
John J. McGraw, Breaking Into the Big League |
1935 |
Edith Méra, Dream Castle |
1936 |
Kazimierz Justian, O czym sie nie mówi |
1937 |
Humphrey Pearson, Ruggles of Red Gap |
1937 |
George Daly, Excuse My Glove |
1937 |
Guy Standing, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
1938 |
Gustave Le Rouge, Le mystérieux docteur Cornélius |
1941 |
Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 |
1941 |
Wilhelm Klitsch, Der große Kuppler |
1941 |
Emil Zegadlowicz, Zmory |
1941 |
Nat Ross, April Fool |
1944 |
Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80 |
1944 |
Elmer Poggi, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance |
1944 |
Clover Roscoe, Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo |
1945 |
Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament |
1945 |
William Elmer, Carmen |
1946 |
Charles Sheldon, In His Steps |
1946 |
Viggo Cavling, Lydia |
1947 |
Elizabeth Jordan, Make Way for a Lady |
1948 |
Zion Myers, Lucky Dog |
1948 |
Peter Lykke-Seest, Historien om en gut |
1948 |
Lee Baker, Mourning Becomes Electra |
1948 |
Will Irwin, Al Jennings of Oklahoma |
1948 |
Joaquín Coss, The Grey Automobile |
1949 |
Roman Bohnen, The Best Years of Our Lives |
1950 |
Irving Bacheller, Old Shep |
1951 |
Alfred Grünwald, Just a Gigolo |
1952 |
Howard Irving Young, Music in the Air |
1952 |
Arthur Millett, Winds of the Wasteland |
1953 |
Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77 |
1953 |
Gerd von Rundstedt, Triumph of the Will |
1954 |
Ferenc Herczeg, Erotikon |
1954 |
Wilfred Roberts, The Light That Failed |
1955 |
Julie Herne, The Snow Bride |
1955 |
Alfred Grasso, The Miracle Man |
1955 |
Alfed Grasso, For Those We Love |
1956 |
Victor de Cottens, Trois cents à l'heure |
1956 |
Marian Richman, Little Boy with a Big Horn |
1957 |
Memo Benassi, Everybody's Woman |
1957 |
Ruth Blair, His Promise |
1958 |
Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86 |
1958 |
Gaston Ravel, Le rosaire |
1958 |
Abe Lefton, The Old Corral |
1960 |
Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66 |
1960 |
Karin Appelberg-Sandberg, När Bengt och Anders bytte hustrur |
1960 |
Jean Binet, L'oasis dans la tourmente |
1960 |
Kira Andronikashvili, Caucasian Love |
1962 |
Pete Peterson, Mighty Joe Young |
1962 |
Lev Shvarts, The Stone Flower |
1963 |
Camillo Kossuth, Maresi |
1964 |
Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76 |
1964 |
Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73 |
1964 |
Frank Conroy, The Naked City |
1966 |
Ernst Nadherny, Senso |
1967 |
Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60 |
1969 |
Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61 |
1969 |
Frances White, Milk |
1970 |
Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73 |
1973 |
Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73 |
1975 |
Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79 |
1976 |
Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82 |
1976 |
H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69 |
1976 |
Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85 |
1978 |
Franco Arcalli, Last Tango in Paris |
1980 |
Devulapalli Venkata Krishna Sastri, Malliswari |
1982 |
Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71 |
1982 |
Benjamin Spikes, Road to Perdition |
1982 |
Frances MacInerney, Waterloo Bridge |
1982 |
Alma Lawton, Mary Poppins |
1983 |
Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90 |
1984 |
Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59 |
1984 |
Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912) |
1984 |
Lech Badkowski, Robotnicy '80 |
1984 |
Ernst Hofbauer, The School Girls |
1984 |
Linda Wiser, Death in the Family |
1984 |
Al Horwits, In Cold Blood |
1984 |
Frans Halsema, Naakt over de schutting |
1985 |
Joseph C. Wright, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1985 |
Hal C. Kern, Gone with the Wind |
1985 |
Jerzy Kreczmar, Góry o zmierzchu |
1985 |
Jeffrey Dell, Man in a Cocked Hat |
1986 |
Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81 |
1986 |
Bill Hickman, The French Connection |
1986 |
Tommy Douglas, The Great Debate |
1986 |
Norbert Faulkner, Lady with Red Hair |
1987 |
Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940) |
1987 |
William Kaplan, The Exorcist |
1987 |
Ole Lytken, Baronessen fra benzintanken |
1988 |
Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96 |
1988 |
László Virány, Az okos mama |
1988 |
Marion Claire, Make a Wish |
1988 |
Timothy Scott, A Chorus Line |
1988 |
Memphis Slim, Ray |
1989 |
Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894) |
1989 |
William Shull, Dumbo |
1990 |
Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61 |
1990 |
Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
1990 |
Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 |
1990 |
Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45 |
1990 |
Malcolm S. Forbes, Malcolm Forbes: High Flying Millionaire |
1990 |
Jure Kastelan, Brod |
1990 |
Shingo Kanemoto, Kaibutsu-kun: Suna Majin wo Yattsukero no Maki/Kaibutsu-kun to Haniwa Kaijin no Maki |
1990 |
Johnnie Ray, Shutter Island |
1990 |
Tony Conigliaro, Locker Room Follies |
1990 |
Krunoslav Quien, Kaya |
1991 |
George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71 |
1991 |
Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74 |
1991 |
Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68 |
1991 |
Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64 |
1991 |
Jean Rogers, Flash Gordon |
1991 |
John Daly, Episode dated 29 March 1964 |
1991 |
George Gobel, The Hollywood Squares |
1991 |
Héctor Rial, Micaela |
1991 |
Webb Pierce, The Help |
1991 |
Lina Volonghi, A Difficult Life |
1991 |
Marcella Markham, General Hospital |
1992 |
Kay Loring, dies after long illness |
1992 |
Al Fats Edwards, Unsere tollen Tanten in der Südsee |
1992 |
Arnee Nocks, The Soupy Sales Show |
1992 |
Doreen Montgomery, The Man in Grey |
1992 |
Gilbert D. Marchant, The Terminator |
1993 |
Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies |
1993 |
Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917) |
1993 |
Bobby Moore, Up the Hammers |
1993 |
Danny Gallivan, The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck |
1993 |
Samuel Dos Santos, The Grand Moment |
1994 |
Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76 |
1994 |
Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80 |
1994 |
Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87 |
1994 |
Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83 |
1994 |
Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96 |
1994 |
Kay Young, In Which We Serve |
1994 |
Dimitar Griva, Hitar Petar |
1994 |
Ladislav Mnacko, Jak chutná smrt |
1994 |
Dinah Shore, Fun & Fancy Free |
1994 |
Jean Sablon, Chocolat |
1994 |
Daniel Chapman, Philadelphia |
1994 |
Frank Geraci, The Hard Way |
1995 |
Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89 |
1995 |
Claude Massot, Kabloonak |
1995 |
Tatsumi Kumashiro, Love Letter |
1995 |
Hans Hessling, Die Soldaten |
1995 |
Vivian Mallah, Beauty on Parade |
1995 |
Sherry Moreland, Rocketship X-M |
1995 |
Rudolf Hausner, Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel - Adolf Hitler |
1996 |
Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82 |
1996 |
Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday |
1996 |
James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95 |
1996 |
Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71 |
1996 |
Aleksei Fomkin, Gostya iz budushchego |
1996 |
Rebecca Burritt, Caddyshack |
1996 |
Olle Granberg, Our Boy |
1997 |
Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69 |
1997 |
Ester de Abreu, As Aventuras de Um Detetive Português |
1997 |
Kenny Graham, NBComics #1 |
1997 |
Charles Toogood, Crazylegs |
1997 |
Tony Williams, 'Round Midnight |
1997 |
Isabelle Lucas, Outland |
1998 |
Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92 |
1998 |
Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921) |
1998 |
Miff Görling, The Poor Millionaire |
1998 |
Erma E. Levin, Kramer vs. Kramer |
1998 |
Geoffrey Bush, The Albatross |
1998 |
Lalita Pawar, Anand |
1998 |
Antonio Prohias, Spy vs. Spy |
1998 |
Henny Youngman, Goodfellas |
1998 |
Milicent Patrick, White Savages |
1998 |
Wanda Jakubowska, Ostatni etap |
1998 |
Elinor Field, The Jungle Goddess |
1999 |
Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936) |
1999 |
Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916) |
1999 |
Cecile Kramer, Buffalo Bill |
1999 |
Derek Nimmo, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing |
1999 |
Anthony Nutting, Lawrence of Arabia |
1999 |
Andre Dubus, In the Bedroom |
1999 |
Biki, Catene invisibili |
2000 |
Rosalind Keith, Criminals of the Air |
2001 |
Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916) |
2001 |
Desmond Leslie, Stranger at My Door |
2001 |
Terry Liebling, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back |
2001 |
Josep Maria Bardagí, La Marató 2000 |
2001 |
Chuck Keehne, Mary Poppins |
2002 |
Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932) |
2002 |
Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912) |
2002 |
David Hawkins, The Beginning or the End |
2002 |
Harry Murray, The House of Scandal |
2002 |
Mel Stewart, Bride of Re-Animator |
2002 |
Pyotr Vasilevskiy, Rogatyy bastion |
2002 |
Joe Karnes, The Harvey Girls |
2002 |
Karl Chambers, Toomorrow |
2002 |
Martin Esslin, Shades: Three Plays by Samuel Beckett |
2002 |
Edalene Stohr, Modern Homemakers |
2002 |
Earl Parker, Terror House |
2002 |
Leo Ornstein, Do Not Go Gently |
2002 |
Arthur Lyman, Ocean's Eleven |
2003 |
John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912) |
2003 |
Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951) |
2003 |
Albert Hibbs, Episode #9.18 |
2003 |
Adeline Craig, Annie Oakley |
2003 |
Alberto Sordi, Il marchese del Grillo |
2003 |
Bernard Loiseau, Episode dated 26 November 2000 |
2003 |
Imogene Lynn, Li'l Abner |
2003 |
Susan Johnson, Sister Act |
2003 |
Walter Scharf, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
2004 |
John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915) |
2004 |
Neale Clark, Matewan |
2004 |
Pete Cera, High Hopes: The Anatomy of a Winner |
2004 |
Lowell Manfull, On the Yard |
2004 |
Karel Vrtiska, When the Cat Comes |
2004 |
Aurora Molina, Nazarin |
2004 |
Estelle Axton, Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story |
2004 |
A.C. Reed, Festival Express |
2004 |
Leonid Gubanov, Kazaki |
2004 |
Alvino Rey, Alvino Rey and His Orchestra |
2004 |
Janusz Mirczewski, Westerplatte |
2004 |
John Randolph, Serpico |
2005 |
Rolf Illig, Waller's Last Trip |
2005 |
Kari Kuoppa, Jaakko Ilkka |
2005 |
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, Episode dated 21 October 2003 |
2005 |
András Kozák, The Red and the White |
2005 |
Robin Jenkins, The Cyborg Cometh |
2005 |
Goldie Hill, Episode #1.11 |
2005 |
Leonard Miall, The Way We Went Wild |
2005 |
Joanne Brough, This Is Kate Bennett... |
2005 |
Nikolai Prokopovich, Neispravimyy lgun |
2006 |
Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947) |
2006 |
Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924) |
2006 |
John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947) |
2006 |
Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925) |
2006 |
Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924) |
2006 |
Alf Marholm, Gesang für die Gerechten |
2006 |
Clelia Bernacchi, Arcane Sorcerer |
2006 |
Jacques-Paul Bertrand, The Servant |
2006 |
Octavia Butler, Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon |
2006 |
Don Knotts, Pleasantville |
2006 |
Mamoru Sasaki, The Ceremony |
2006 |
Danny Perasa, Danny & Annie |
2006 |
Dennis Weaver, Duel |
2006 |
Cléa Simões, Woman on Top |
2007 |
Bruce Bennett, American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), dies from complications of a broken hip at 100 |
2007 |
Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932) |
2007 |
Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935) |
2007 |
Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982) |
2007 |
George Preas, 1964 NFL Championship Game |
2007 |
Bruce Bennett, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
2007 |
Lamar Lundy, No Place to Hide |
2007 |
Ferenc Havas, Nem szoktam hazudni |
2007 |
Brett Mycles, Storm Fighter |
2008 |
Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947) |
2008 |
Doris Shoumaker, Another Chance |
2008 |
June Myung Nam, The Iron Giant |
2008 |
Phil Bodner, Bullets Over Broadway |
2008 |
Larry Norman, A Thief in the Night |
2008 |
Philip Hammond, The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark |
2008 |
Günther Rücker, First Spaceship on Venus |
2009 |
Harold Pullian, Rovin' Tumbleweeds |
2009 |
Jean Battersby, Personal Column |
2009 |
Ed Cray, Mr. Id |
2009 |
Ben Rombouts, Will to Die |
2009 |
Pearl Lang, Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed |
2009 |
Wlodzimierz Midak, Rezerwat |
2009 |
Edward Judd, First Men in the Moon |
2009 |
Svatopluk Havelka, The Ear |
2010 |
Simon Leadley, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
2010 |
Keis Maes, Under the Volcano |
2010 |
Richard Payne, King of the Bootleggers |
2010 |
Dawn Brancheau, Eddie and Greg Meet Jungle Jack |
2010 |
C.R. Johnson, The Crash Reel |
2011 |
Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929) |
2011 |
Venkata Ramana Mullapoodi, Sri Rama Rajyam |
2011 |
Elaine Haslett, Elmer the Aeronaut |
2011 |
Rosario Liberatore, Episode #1.9 |
2012 |
Jan Berenstain, American author dies from a stroke at 88 |
2012 |
Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer, dies at 92 |
2012 |
Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker, dies from cancer at 77 |
2012 |
Benedict Freedman, American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92 |
2012 |
Milt Hamerman, Buried Alive |
2012 |
Pery Ribeiro, Vanished |
2012 |
Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree |
2012 |
Benedict Freedman, Mayberry Goes Hollywood |
2012 |
Bernard Ebbinghouse, Girly |
2012 |
Theodore Mann, Al Lewis: Forever Grandpa |
2012 |
Andrey Benkendorf, Banditskiy Peterburg: Zhurnalist |
2012 |
Terry Mathews, New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles |
2012 |
Gary La Vigne, Bonnybridge/Robert Taylor Incident/Painless Penny |
2013 |
Roy Brown, Ford Edsel |
2013 |
Dorothy DeBolt, Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] |
2013 |
John Driftmier, Dangerous Flights |
2013 |
Ib Hansen, Epidemic |
2013 |
Ingrid Backlin, 100 dragspel och en flicka |
2013 |
Michael Lenz, Das Vermächtnis |
2013 |
Denis Forman, Sir Denis Forman |
2013 |
Ralph Hotere, Mauri |
2013 |
Larry Marks, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead |
2014 |
Harold Ramis, American actor & director, dies from vasculitis at 69 |
2014 |
Franny Beecher, The Pied Piper of Cleveland: A Day in the Life of a Famous Disc Jockey |
2014 |
Dusan Trifuncevic, Hajde da se volimo |
2014 |
Günter Reisch, Die Verlobte |
2014 |
Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day |
2014 |
Wolfgang Koszics, |
2014 |
Anna Reynolds, L'ajo nell'imbarazzo |
2014 |
Carlos Páez Vilaró, Candombe |
2015 |
Mirjana Puhar, The Girl Who's a Player |
2015 |
Maurice Hurley, Heart of Glory |
2015 |
Robert Belfour, NASCAR: The IMAX Experience |
2015 |
Richard Taylor, Australia Will Be There |
2015 |
Aleksandr Shein, Ekipazh |
2015 |
Dori Maynard, Ethnic Media |
2015 |
Donald Keough, The Journey |
2017 |
Alan Colmes of 'Hannity & Colmes' dies aged 66: Associated Press |
2017 |
Fritz Koenig, sculptor whose art withstood 9/11 attacks, dies aged 92 |
2017 |
Bernie Custis, first black pro football quarterback, dies aged 88 |
2018 |
Nanette Fabray, TV Star of the '50s and '60s, Dies at 97 |
2018 |
The Real Thing's Eddy Amoo dies aged 74 |
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