History Deaths on October 24

Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)

#Anita_Björk

Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)

#Pierre_Gassendi

Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)

#Maurice_Roy

Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)

#Tycho_Brahe

Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)

#Winton_M._Blount

José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)

#José_Azcona_del_Hoyo

Behçet Kemal Ça?lar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)

#Behçet_Kemal_Ça?lar

Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1980)

#Ricky_Hendrick

George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)

#George_Cadbury

Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)

#Hans_Meerwein

Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)

#Edward_Stanley,_3rd_Earl_of_Derby

Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)

#Gene_Roddenberry

Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)

#Raul_Julia

Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960)

#Margarita_Khemlin

Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)

#Alisher_Saipov

Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967)

#Sansan_Chien

David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)

#David_Oistrakh

Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920)

#Maureen_O'Hara

Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)

#Jean_Titelouze

G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873)

#G._E._Moore

Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (b. 1928)

#Fats_Domino

Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)

#Ernst_Barlach

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)

#Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes

John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)

#John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)

#Jane_Seymour

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)

#Carl_Ditters_von_Dittersdorf

Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (b. 1908)

#Carlo_Abarth

Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)

#Bobby_Vee

Valdemar IV, Danish king (b. 1320)

#Valdemar_IV_of_Denmark

James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920)

#James_Aloysius_Hickey

Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)

#Elias_Boudinot

Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927)

#Robert_Guillaume

Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)

#Nils_Wahlbom

Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923)

#Michael_Beetham

Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)

#Daniel_Webster

John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)

#John_Webb_(architect)

Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912)

#Harry_Hay

Hugh Capet, French king

#Hugh_Capet

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (b. 1582)

#Robert_Bertie,_1st_Earl_of_Lindsey

Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924)

#Ján_Chryzostom_Korec

Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)

#Ana_Bertha_Lepe

Qutuz, Egyptian sultan

#Qutuz

Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)

#Ian_Middleton

Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)

#Désiré_Charnay

Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)

#Richie_Evans

Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (b. 1902)

#Yaroslav_Halan

Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929)

#Girija_Devi

William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)

#William_Prynne

Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660)

#Alessandro_Scarlatti

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980)

#Mbulaeni_Mulaudzi

Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)

#Claire_Windsor

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)

#Hector_de_Saint-Denys_Garneau

Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932)

#Joy_Clements

Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)

#Peggy_Ahern

Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)

#Marcia_Strassman

Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)

#Jackie_Robinson

Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936)

#Jo_Siffert

Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)

#Raffaello_Carboni

Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)

#Vidkun_Quisling

Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)

#Enolia_McMillan

Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (b.1943)

#Tony_Joe_White

Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)

#Rosa_Parks

Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)

#Louis_Renault_(industrialist)

James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)

#James_Carroll_Beckwith

Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)

#Jerzy_Kukuczka

Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870)

#Franz_Lehár

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927)

Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928)

Alvin Wiederspahn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)

Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920)

Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993)

Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)

Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)

Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)

Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)

Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912)

Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)

Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)

Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)

Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)

Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929)

William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)

Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)

Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)

Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)

Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941)

Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)

Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (b. 1918)

Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)

Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1935)

Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (b. 1937)

Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (b. 1919)

Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (b. 1910)

Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926)

Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930)

Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)

Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944)

Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915)

Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1910)

Zdzis?aw ?ygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (b. 1888)

?smail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (b. 1919)

Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)

Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)

Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)

Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)

Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)

Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)

Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)

Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752)

William IV, French nobleman

Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer

Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor