Deaths on 24 January
2000s
Iris Cummings
2025
American swimmer and aviator (b. 1920–d. 2025)
Rosemary Bryant Mariner
2019
Pioneer female US Naval Aviator (1953–2019)
Mark E. Smith
2018
English singer (1957–2018)
Helena Kmieć
2017
Polish missionary (1991–2017)
Butch Trucks
2017
American drummer (1947–2017)
Fredrik Barth
2016
Norwegian anthropologist (1928–2016)
Marvin Minsky
2016
American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)
Henry Worsley (explorer)
2016
British explorer and British Army officer
Otto Carius
2015
German tank commander
Shulamit Aloni
2014
Israeli politician (1927–2014)
Rafael Pineda Ponce
2014
Honduran politician
Bernd Eichinger
2011
German film producer, screenwriter, and director (1949– 2011)
Pernell Roberts
2010
American actor (1928–2010)
Usha Narayanan
2008
10th First Lady of India (1922 – 2008)
Krystyna Feldman
2007
Polish actress (1916–2007)
İsmail Cem
2007
Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author (1940–2007)
Guadalupe Larriva
2007
Ecuadorian politician (1956–2007)
Emiliano Mercado del Toro
2007
Puerto Rican supercentenarian (1891–2007)
Schafik Hándal
2006
Salvadoran politician and guerrilla leader (1930–2006)
Leônidas (footballer, born 1913)
2004
Brazilian footballer and commentator (1913–2004)
Gianni Agnelli
2003
Italian businessman (1921–2003)
Elie Hobeika
2002
Lebanese politician and militia commander
Gaffar Okkan
2001
Turkish police chief
1900s
Gustav Ernesaks
1993
Estonian composer and choir conductor
Thurgood Marshall
1993
US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
Uğur Mumcu
1993
Turkish investigator, journalist who was killed by bomb in his car (1942-1993)
Ken Darby
1992
American composer (1909–1992)
Jack Schaefer
1991
American writer (1907–1991)
Madge Bellamy
1990
American actress (1899–1990)
Ted Bundy
1989
American serial killer (1946–1989)
Werner Fenchel
1988
German mathematician (1905–1988)
L. Ron Hubbard
1986
American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
Gordon MacRae
1986
American actor, singer, and television and radio host (1921–1986)
George Cukor
1983
American film director and producer (1899–1983)
Alfredo Ovando
1982
President of Bolivia (1965–1966, 1969–1970)
Larry Fine
1975
American comedian and actor (1902–1975)
J. Carrol Naish
1973
American actor (1896–1973)
Bill W.
1971
Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (1895–1971)
Caresse Crosby
1970
Socialite and inventor (1892–1970)
Homi J. Bhabha
1966
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
Winston Churchill
1965
British statesman and writer (1874–1965)
André Lhote
1962
French sculptor and painter (1885–1962)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
1962
Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist (1901–1962)
Alfred Carlton Gilbert
1961
American inventor and athlete (1884–1961)
Edwin Fischer
1960
Swiss musician (1886–1960)
Morris Alexander
1946
South African Jewish politician (1877–1946)
Maximilian Bircher-Benner
1939
Swiss physician (1867–1939)
Percy French
1920
Irish composer and artist
Amedeo Modigliani
1920
Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)
1800s
Lord Randolph Churchill
1895
British politician (1849–1895)
Friedrich von Flotow
1883
German composer (1812–1883)
James Collinson
1881
English painter
Johann Christian Poggendorff
1877
German physicist (1796–1877)
Before 1800
George Rooke
1709
Royal Navy officer and politician (1650–1709)
Johann Andreas Herbst
1666
German composer (1588–1666)
Jörg Jenatsch
1639
Swiss political leader (1596–1639)
Samuel Argall
1626
16/17th-century English naval officer and colonial official in Virginia
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria
1595
Archduke of Further Austria from 1564 to 1595
Franciabigio
1525
Italian painter (1482–1525)
Conrad Paumann
1473
German organist, lutenist and composer
Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel
1376
14th-century English nobleman and military leader
Alfonso IV of Aragon
1336
King of Aragon from 1327 to 1336
David IV
1125
King of Georgia from 1089 to 1125
Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen
1046
Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia
Liu Jishu
901
Pope Stephen IV
817
Head of the Catholic Church from 816 to 817
AD 41
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