Deaths on 24 August
2000s
Christoph Daum
2024
German football manager (1953–2024)
Bray Wyatt
2023
American professional wrestler (1987–2023)
Charlie Watts
2021
British drummer (1941–2021)
Gail Sheehy
2020
American writer
Jay Thomas
2017
American actor (1948–2017)
Walter Scheel
2016
President of Germany from 1974 to 1979
Charlie Coffey
2015
American football player and coach (1934–2015)
Joseph F. Traub
2015
American computer scientist
Justin Wilson (racing driver)
2015
British racing driver (1978–2015)
Richard Attenborough
2014
British actor and director (1923–2014)
Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
2014
Brazilian businessman (1928–2014)
Gerry Baker
2013
American soccer player
Nílton de Sordi
2013
Brazilian footballer (1931–2013)
Julie Harris
2013
American actress (1925–2013)
Muriel Siebert
2013
American businesswoman
Dadullah (Pakistani Taliban)
2012
Pakistani Taliban leader
Pauli Ellefsen
2012
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1981–1985)
Steve Franken
2012
American actor (1932–2012)
Félix (footballer)
2012
Brazilian footballer (1937–2012)
Seyhan Erözçelik
2011
Turkish poet
Mike Flanagan (baseball)
2011
American baseball player (1951–2011)
Satoshi Kon
2010
Japanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010)
Andrée Boucher
2007
Canadian politician (1937–2007)
Aaron Russo
2007
American film producer (1943–2007)
Rocco Petrone
2006
American NASA official (1926–2006)
Léopold Simoneau
2006
Canadian opera singer
Jamshed Ansari
2005
Pakistani actor
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
2004
Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926–2004)
Wilfred Thesiger
2003
British military officer, explorer, and writer
Nikolay Guryanov
2002
Jane Greer
2001
American actress (1924–2001)
Roman Matsov
2001
Soviet and Estonian conductor (1917–2001)
Andy Hug
2000
Swiss karateka and kickboxer
1900s
Mary Jane Croft
1999
American actress (1916–1999)
Alexandre Lagoya
1999
French guitarist and composer (1929–1999)
E. G. Marshall
1998
American actor (1914–1998)
Luigi Villoresi
1997
Italian racing driver (1909–1997)
André Donner
1992
Dutch jurist
Bernard Castro
1991
American inventor (1904–1991)
Sergei Dovlatov
1990
Soviet journalist and writer (1941–1990)
Gely Abdel Rahman
1990
Sudanese poet
Malcolm Kirk
1987
English professional wrestler & rugby league player (1935–1987)
Paul Creston
1985
American classical composer (1906–1985)
Kalevi Kotkas
1983
Estonian-born Finnish track and field athlete
Scott Nearing
1983
American economist, pacifist, and homesteader (1883–1983)
Félix-Antoine Savard
1982
Canadian priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist
Yootha Joyce
1980
British actress (1927–1980)
Hanna Reitsch
1979
German aviator and test pilot
Louis Prima
1978
American musician (1910–1978)
Buddy O'Connor
1977
Canadian ice hockey player (1916–1977)
Alexander de Seversky
1974
Russian-American aviation pioneer
Henry J. Kaiser
1967
American industrialist (1882–1967)
Paul Henry (painter)
1958
Irish artist (1876–1958)
Ronald Knox
1957
English Catholic priest and author (1888–1957)
Kenji Mizoguchi
1956
Japanese filmmaker (1898–1956)
Getúlio Vargas
1954
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
James Clark McReynolds
1946
US Supreme Court justice from 1914 to 1941
Antonio Alice
1943
Argentine painter
Ettore Muti
1943
Italian politician (1902–1943)
Simone Weil
1943
French philosopher (1909–1943)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
1940
German electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1940)
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1939
American painter
Kate M. Gordon
1932
American suffragist (1861–1932)
Tom Norman
1930
19th and 20th-century English businessman and showman (1860 – 1930)
Kate Douglas Wiggin
1923
American writer (1856–1923)
1800s
Albert F. Mummery
1895
English mountaineer and author (1855–1895)
Rudolf Clausius
1888
German physicist and mathematician (1822–1888)
Theodore Hook
1841
English writer
John Ordronaux (privateer)
1841
French-born privateer and businessman (1778–1841)
Ferenc Kölcsey
1838
Hungarian politician and writer (1790–1838)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
1832
French physicist and engineer (1796–1832)
Richard Weymouth
1832
John William Polidori
1821
English writer and physician (1795-1821)
James Carr (Massachusetts politician)
1818
American politician
Peggy Shippen
1804
Second wife of British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold
Before 1800
Thomas Alcock (priest)
1798
Kosmas the Aetolian
1779
Monk in the Greek Orthodox Church
Thomas Chatterton
1770
English medieval-style poet (1752–1770)
Ewald Christian von Kleist
1759
German poet and noble
John Owen (theologian)
1683
English theologian (1616–1683)
Thomas Blood
1680
Anglo-Irish army officer (1618–1680)
Ferdinand Bol
1680
Dutch painter (1616-1680)
Jean François Paul de Gondi
1679
French Catholic cardinal (1613–1679)
Nicholas Stone
1647
English sculptor and architect (c. 1586–1647)
Rose of Lima
1617
Peruvian saint (1586–1617)
Thomas Digges
1595
English mathematician and astronomer
Gaspard II de Coligny
1572
French nobleman and Admiral of France, leader of the Huguenots (1519–1572)
Charles de Téligny
1572
French soldier and diplomat
Gasparo Contarini
1542
Italian diplomat, cardinal and Bishop of Belluno
Parmigianino
1540
Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (1503–1540)
Cecily of York
1507
English princess (1469–1507)
Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania
1497
Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania
1372
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
1313
Holy Roman Emperor from 1312 to 1313
Eustace the Monk
1217
Medieval French monk-turned-outlaw
Magnus Barefoot
1103
King of Norway from 1093 to 1103
Michael V Kalaphates
1042
Byzantine emperor from 1041 to 1042
Zhang Ye (Later Shu)
948
Chinese official and general (died 948)
Empress Dowager Liu (Later Jin)
942
Doulu Ge
927
Wei Yue
927
Guthred
895
King of Northumbria
Emperor Saga
842
Emperor of Japan from 809 to 823
Fu Youyi
691
Chinese chancellor of the Tang dynasty