Deaths on 24 September
2000s
Sara Jane Moore
2025
American convicted of presidential assassination attempt (1930–2025)
Pharoah Sanders
2022
American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
Dean Jones (cricketer)
2020
Australian cricketer (1961–2020)
Mel Charles
2016
Welsh footballer
Bill Mollison
2016
Australian scientist (1928–2016)
Bill Nunn
2016
American actor (1953–2016)
Buckwheat Zydeco
2016
American accordionist (1947–2016)
Alan Moore (war artist)
2015
Australian war artist during World War II
Wang Zhongshu
2015
Chinese archaeologist (1925 – 2015)
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
2014
English aristocrat and writer (1920–2014)
Christopher Hogwood
2014
English conductor and musicologist (1941–2014)
Madis Kõiv
2014
Estonian writer, philosopher and physicist
Paul Dietzel
2013
American football player, coach, and administrator (1924–2013)
Margaret Feilman
2013
Australian architect, landscape designer, town planner (1921–2013)
Boris Karvasarsky
2013
Anthony Lawrence (journalist)
2013
British journalist (1912–2013)
Sagadat Nurmagambetov
2013
Soviet-Kazakh general
Paul Oliver (American football)
2013
American football player (1984–2013)
Pierre Adam
2012
French cyclist (1924–2012)
Bruno Bobak
2012
Canadian artist (1923–2012)
Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
2012
Mexican politician
Gennady Yanayev
2010
Vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
Nelly Arcan
2009
Canadian novelist
Oliver Crawford
2008
American screenwriter and author
Irene Dailey
2008
American actress (1920–2008)
Mickey Vernon
2008
American baseball player and manager (1918–2008)
Michael Ferguson (Irish politician)
2006
Irish politician
Phil Latulippe
2006
Françoise Sagan
2004
French writer (1935–2004)
Rosalie Allen
2003
American musician, noted for yodeling
Lyle Bettger
2003
American actor (1915-2003)
Youssouf Togoïmi
2002
Chadian politician (1953–2002)
Mike Webster
2002
American football player (1952–2002)
1900s
Jeff Moss
1998
American composer
Zeki Müren
1996
Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor, and poet (1931–1996)
Barry Bishop (mountaineer)
1994
American mountain climber (1932–1994)
Ian Stuart Donaldson
1993
English neo-Nazi musician (1957–1993)
Bruno Pontecorvo
1993
Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)
Dr. Seuss
1991
American author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
Neil Hamilton (actor)
1984
American actor (1899–1984)
Sarah Churchill (actress)
1982
English actress and dancer (1914–1982)
Józef Nawrot
1982
Polish footballer (1906–1982)
Patsy Kelly
1981
American actress (1910–1981)
Theodor Luts
1980
Estonian film director and cinematographer
James Bassett (author)
1978
American newspaper editor and author
Ida Noddack
1978
German chemist (1896–1978)
Hasso von Manteuffel
1978
German general (1897–1978)
Philip Gbeho
1976
Ghanaian musician and teacher (1904–1976)
Earle Cabell
1975
American politician (1906–1975)
August Kippasto
1973
Estonian wrestler (1887–1973)
Josué de Castro
1973
Brazilian physician (1908–1973)
Charles Reisner
1962
American director and actor (1887–1962)
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
1950
Marchioness of Milford Haven (1863–1950)
Warren William
1948
Broadway and Hollywood actor (1894–1948)
Andrew C. McLaughlin
1947
American historian (1861–1947)
Hans Geiger
1945
German experimental physicist (1882–1945)
Carl Laemmle
1939
German-American film producer (1867–1939)
Charles Tatham (fencer)
1939
American fencer
Lev Schnirelmann
1938
Soviet mathematician (1905–1938)
József Klekl (writer)
1936
Slovene writer, journalist and Roman Catholic priest
Mike Donlin
1933
American baseball player (1878–1933)
A. M. Williamson
1933
American-English author (1858–1933)
William A. MacCorkle
1930
American politician (1857–1930)
Mahidol Adulyadej
1929
Member of the Thai royal family (1892–1929)
Niels Ryberg Finsen
1904
Physician and scientist
1800s
Louis Gerhard De Geer
1896
First Prime Minister of Sweden
Patrick Gilmore
1892
Irish-American composer and bandmaster (1829–1892)
Daniel Harvey Hill
1889
Confederate States Army general (1821–1889)
Charles Leroux
1889
American balloonist and parachutist (1856–1889)
William Debenham
1863
British businessman
Branwell Brontë
1848
British artist (1817–1848)
Pedro I of Brazil
1834
Emperor of Brazil (1822–31) and King of Portugal (1826)
Alexander Radishchev
1802
Russian author (1749–1802)
Before 1800
Bartholomew Teeling
1798
Irish military officer and nationalist
John Keyse Sherwin
1790
English painter
Johann Matthias Hase
1742
German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer
Emperor Reigen
1732
Emperor of Japan from 1663 to 1687
Vincenzo da Filicaja
1707
Italian poet and politician (1642–1707)
Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
1655
Duarte Lobo
1646
Portuguese composer (1565 - 1646)
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
1621
Polish–Lithuanian military leader (c. 1561 – 1621)
Manuel Mendes
1605
Portuguese composer and teacher
Túpac Amaru
1572
Monarch of the Inca state in Peru
Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent
1562
English peer
Albert of Brandenburg
1545
Catholic cardinal (1490–1545)
Paracelsus
1541
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493 – 1541)
Michael Glinski
1534
Eastern European noble
Poliziano
1494
Italian classical scholar and poet (1454-1494)
Erik of Pomerania
1459
King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1381/1382–1459)
Isabeau of Bavaria
1435
Queen of France from 1385 to 1422
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
1275
Anglo-Norman nobleman and soldier
Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres
1270
Stefan the First-Crowned
1228
King of Serbia from 1217 to 1228
Robert of Knaresborough
1218
Yorkshire hermit
Manuel I Komnenos
1180
Byzantine emperor from 1143 to 1180
Agnes of Waiblingen
1143
Duchess of Swabia
Pope Innocent II
1143
Head of the Catholic Church from 1130 to 1143
Welf II, Duke of Bavaria
1120
Duke of Bavaria
Hermann of Reichenau
1054
German 11th-century Benedictine monk
Gao Pian
887
Chinese general, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty
Pepin the Short
768
King of the Franks from 751 to 768
Pope Liberius
366
Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366