Deaths on 24 April
2000s
Roy Phillips
2025
British musician (1941–2025)
Bob Cole (sportscaster)
2024
Canadian sportscaster (1933–2024)
Terry Hill
2024
Australian rugby league footballer (1972–2024)
Donald Payne Jr.
2024
American politician (1958–2024)
Mike Pinder
2024
British musician (1941–2024)
Death of Wang Xiaolong
2023
Chinese coast guard (1995–2023)
Andrew Woolfolk
2022
American saxophonist (1950–2022)
Robert M. Pirsig
2017
American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
Tommy Kono
2016
American weightlifter (1930–2016)
Władysław Bartoszewski
2015
Polish politician and activist (1922–2015)
Hans Hollein
2014
Austrian architect and designer (1934–2014)
Sandy Jardine
2014
Scottish professional footballer
Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy
2014
Indian politician (1968–2014)
Tadeusz Różewicz
2014
Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator (1921–2014)
Sathya Sai Baba
2011
Indian Godman (1926–2011)
Jimmy Giuffre
2008
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (1921–2008)
Brian Labone
2006
English footballer (1940–2006)
Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)
2006
Hasidic rabbi
Ezer Weizman
2005
President of Israel from 1993 to 2000
Fei Xiaotong
2005
Chinese anthropologist and political figure (1910–2005)
José Giovanni
2004
French writer, filmmaker and criminal (1923-2004)
Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
2004
American businesswoman (1908–2004)
Nüzhet Gökdoğan
2003
Turkish astronomer and mathematician (1910–2003)
Lucien Wercollier
2002
Luxembourgish sculptor
Josef Peters (racing driver)
2001
German racing driver (1914–2001)
Johnny Valentine
2001
American professional wrestler (1928–2001)
1900s
Allan Francovich
1997
American film producer
Pat Paulsen
1997
American comedian and satirist (1927–1997)
Eugene Stoner
1997
American firearms designer (1922–1997)
Lodewijk Bruckman
1995
Dutch painter
Oliver Tambo
1993
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (1917–1993)
Tran Duc Thao
1993
Phenomenology and Marxist philosophy
Wallis Simpson
1986
Wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (1896–1986)
Rafael Pérez y Pérez
1984
Spanish writer (1891–1984)
Erol Güngör
1983
Turkish social psychologist (1938–1983)
Rolf Stommelen
1983
German racing driver (1943–1983)
Ville Ritola
1982
Finnish long-distance runner (1896–1982)
Alejo Carpentier
1980
Cuban novelist (1904–1980)
Mark Tobey
1976
American painter
Bud Abbott
1974
American comedian and actor (1897–1974)
Fernando Amorsolo
1972
Filipino painter
Otis Spann
1970
American blues pianist (c.1924–1970)
Walter Tewksbury
1968
American track and field athlete
Vladimir Komarov
1967
Soviet test pilot (1927–1967)
Robert Richards (Australian politician)
1967
Australian politician (1885–1967)
Simon Chikovani
1966
Georgian poet
Louise Dresser
1965
American actress (1878–1965)
Gerhard Domagk
1964
German bacteriologist (1895–1964)
Milt Franklyn
1962
American composer and arranger (1897–1962)
Lee Moran
1961
American actor
Max von Laue
1960
German physicist (1879–1960)
Guy Mairesse
1954
French racing driver (1910–1954)
Jāzeps Vītols
1948
Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic
Willa Cather
1947
American writer (1873–1947)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
1945
German Nazi physician and SS-Obergruppenführer (1899–1945)
Charles Jordan (magician)
1944
Lucy Maud Montgomery
1942
Canadian novelist (1874–1942)
Karin Boye
1941
Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)
Louis Trousselier
1939
French cyclist
George Grey Barnard
1938
American sculptor (1863–1938)
Anastasios Papoulas
1935
Greek general
David Kldiashvili
1931
G. Stanley Hall
1924
American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
1800s
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
1891
German field marshal (1800–1891)
Zulma Carraud
1889
French author
Vasily Zhukovsky
1852
Russian poet (1783–1852)
Before 1800
Axel von Fersen the Elder
1794
18th-century Swedish lantmarskalk or marshal of the diet
Eleazar Wheelock
1779
American Congregational minister, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College
Anton thor Helle
1748
Baltic German clergyman, linguist and Bible translator (1683–1748)
Daniel Defoe
1731
English writer, merchant and spy (1660–1731)
Johannes Zollikofer
1692
Swiss reformed vicar
Thomas Fincke
1656
Danish mathematician and physicist (1561–1656)
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
1622
Capuchin friar and saint (1577–1622)
Concino Concini
1617
Italian politician (1569–1617)
Şehzade Ahmed (son of Bayezid II)
1513
Ottoman prince (c. 1466 – 1513)
Jorge Manrique
1479
Spanish poet
Theodore I, Marquis of Montferrat
1338
Greek ruler of Italian polity (c. 1290–1338)
Gertrude of Austria
1288
13th-century German duchess
Petronille de Chemillé
1149
French abbess
Mellitus
624
Archbishop of Canterbury from 619 to 624, Christian saint