Deaths on 24 October
2000s
Sirikit
2025
Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016
Amir Abdur-Rahim
2024
American basketball player and coach (1981–2024)
Abdelaziz Barrada
2024
Footballer (1989–2024)
Jeri Taylor
2024
American screenwriter (1938–2024)
Leslie Jordan
2022
American actor, comedian, writer and singer (1955–2022)
James Michael Tyler
2021
American actor (1962–2021)
Tony Joe White
2018
American singer-songwriter and musician (1943–2018)
Fats Domino
2017
American pianist and singer (1928–2017)
Robert Guillaume
2017
American actor (1927–2017)
Girija Devi
2017
Indian classical singer (1929–2017)
Bobby Vee
2016
American singer (1943–2016)
Jorge Batlle
2016
38th President of Uruguay (2000–2005)
Michael Beetham
2015
Marshal of the Royal Air Force (1923–2015)
Alvin Bronstein
2015
American lawyer (1928–2015)
Margarita Khemlin
2015
Ján Chryzostom Korec
2015
Slovak Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic cardinal (1924–2015)
Maureen O'Hara
2015
Irish and American actress (1920–2015)
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
2014
South African middle-distance runner
S. S. Rajendran
2014
Indian actor and politician (1928–2014)
Marcia Strassman
2014
American actress and singer (1948–2014)
Antonia Bird
2013
Film director
Brooke Greenberg
2013
First documented case of neotenic complex syndrome (1993–2013)
Ana Bertha Lepe
2013
Mexican actress and model
Lew Mayne
2013
American football player (1920–2013)
Peggy Ahern
2012
American child actress (1917–2012)
Anita Björk
2012
Swedish actress
Jeff Blatnick
2012
American wrestler (1957–2012)
Bill Dees
2012
American musician and songwriter
Margaret Osborne duPont
2012
American tennis player
Sansan Chien
2011
American classical composer
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
2011
American scientist (1927–2011)
Mike Esposito (comics)
2010
American comic book artist (1927–2010)
Lamont Johnson
2010
American actor
Joseph Stein
2010
American dramatist
Moshe Cotel
2008
American pianist and composer (1943-2008)
Petr Eben
2007
Czech composer (1929–2007)
Ian Middleton
2007
New Zealand author
Alisher Saipov
2007
Anne Weale
2007
British writer (1929–2007)
Enolia McMillan
2006
First female head of NAACP (1904–2006)
W. Montgomery Watt
2006
Scottish historian and orientalist (1909–2006)
Joy Clements
2005
American soprano (1932–2005)
José Azcona del Hoyo
2005
President of Honduras from 1986 to 1990
Mokarrameh Ghanbari
2005
Iranian female artist (1928–2005)
Immanuel C. Y. Hsu
2005
Chinese-American Sinologist and historian (1923-2005)
Rosa Parks
2005
American civil rights activist (1913–2005)
Robert Sloman
2005
British screenwriter and actor (1926–2005)
Randy Dorton
2004
American racing engine builder
Ricky Hendrick
2004
American racing driver and executive (1980–2004)
James Aloysius Hickey
2004
American Christian leader (1920–2004)
Maaja Ranniku
2004
Estonian chess player
Winton M. Blount
2002
American industrialist and postmaster general (1921–2002)
Hernán Gaviria
2002
Colombian footballer (1969-2002)
Harry Hay
2002
American gay rights activist (1912–2002)
Peggy Moran
2002
American actress (1918–2002)
Kathleen Ankers
2001
American scenic designer Married Victor Allan (Somoggi) Daughter Victoria
Wolf Rüdiger Hess
2001
German architect
Jaromil Jireš
2001
Czech film director and screenwriter (1935–2001)
1900s
Berthe Qvistgaard
1999
Danish actress (1910–1999)
Don Messick
1997
American voice actor (1926–1997)
Yannis Hotzeas
1994
Greek communist
Raul Julia
1994
Puerto Rican actor (1940–1994)
Heinz Kubsch
1993
German footballer
Laurie Colwin
1992
American novelist (1944–1992)
Gene Roddenberry
1991
American screenwriter and producer (1921–1991)
Ismat Chughtai
1991
Indian Urdu writer and filmmaker (1915–1991)
Jerzy Kukuczka
1989
Polish alpine and high-altitude climber
Richie Evans
1985
American racing driver (1941–1985)
Maurice Roy
1985
20th-century Canadian Catholic cardinal
Chiang Wen-yeh
1983
Taiwanese composer
Carlo Abarth
1979
Italian automobile designer (1908–1979)
İsmail Erez
1975
Turkish diplomat
Zdzisław Żygulski (literary historian)
1975
Polish literary historian and Germanist
David Oistrakh
1974
Soviet violinist (1908–1974)
Jackie Robinson
1972
American baseball player (1919–1972)
Claire Windsor
1972
American actress (1892–1972)
Carl Ruggles
1971
American composer (1876–1971)
Jo Siffert
1971
Swiss racing driver (1936–1971)
Chuck Hughes
1971
American football player (1943–1971)
Richard Hofstadter
1970
American historian and public intellectual (1916–1970)
Behçet Kemal Çağlar
1969
Musical artist
Sofya Yanovskaya
1966
Russian mathematician (1896-1966)
Hans Meerwein
1965
German chemist (1879–1965)
Toni Kinshofer
1964
Yevgeny Ostashev
1960
Russian engineer
G. E. Moore
1958
English philosopher (1873–1958)
Yaroslav Halan
1949
Ukrainian Soviet journalist and playwright (1902–1949)
Franz Lehár
1948
Austro-Hungarian composer (1870–1948)
Frederic L. Paxson
1948
Vidkun Quisling
1945
Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)
Louis Renault (industrialist)
1944
French industrialist (1877–1944)
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
1943
French Canadian poet, writer, letter writer and essayist (1912–1943)
Ernst Barlach
1938
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
Nils Wahlbom
1937
Swedish actor
Dutch Schultz
1935
American mobster (1901–1935)
George Cadbury
1922
British businessman
James Carroll Beckwith
1917
American painter (1852–1917)
Désiré Charnay
1915
French archaeologist and explorer (1828–1915)
1800s
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1898
French painter (1824–1898)
Raffaello Carboni
1875
Italian composer and author
Daniel Webster
1852
American lawyer and statesman (1782–1852)
Israel Bissell
1824
American patriot (1752–1823)
Elias Boudinot
1821
American politician, Founding Father of the United States (1740-1821)
Before 1800
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1799
Austrian composer (1739–1799)
William Bartram (North Carolina politician)
1770
American scientist (1711–1770)
Alessandro Scarlatti
1725
Italian Baroque composer (1660–1725)
John Webb (architect)
1672
English architect and scholar
William Prynne
1669
English lawyer, author and politician (1600–1669)
Pierre Gassendi
1655
French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (1592–1655)
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
1642
English peer, soldier and courtier
Jean Titelouze
1633
French Catholic priest and composer
Tycho Brahe
1601
Danish astronomer (1546–1601)
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
1572
English nobleman and politician (1509–1572)
Jane Seymour
1537
Queen of England from 1536 to 1537
Valdemar IV of Denmark
1375
King of Denmark from 1340 to 1375
Qutuz
1260
Sultan of Egypt from 1259 to 1260
William IV, Count of Nevers
1168
Jocelin of Soissons
1152
French theologian
Hugh Capet
996
King of the Franks from 987 to 996
Li Yu (Later Tang)
935