October 24

October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
• 1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
• 1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
• 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
• 1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
• 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
• 1851 – William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
• 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
• 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph, line across the United States, is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.
• 1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
• 1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
• 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• 1945 – Founding of the United Nations
• 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
• 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
• 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
• 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
• 1973 – Yom Kippur War ends
• 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
• 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
• 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
• 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
• 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
• 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
• 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
• 2000 – Hybrid Theory was released by American rock band Linkin Park. The album is the best selling album in 21st century with 25 million copies.
• 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
• 2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
• 2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
• 2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

Births

• 51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96)
• 1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402)
• 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
• 1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586)
• 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
• 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
• 1710 – Alban Butler, English priest and writer (d. 1773)
• 1713 – Marie Fel, French opera singer (d. 1794)
• 1739 – Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1807)
• 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German author (d. 1839)
• 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
• 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
• 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)
• 1830 – Marianne North, English painter (d. 1890)
• 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American adventurer (d. 1921)
• 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
• 1855 – James S. Sherman, American politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
• 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
• 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969)
• 1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
• 1879 – B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress (d. 1976)
• 1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-Israeli wife of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
• 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
• 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
• 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
• 1904 – Moss Hart, American playwright and director (d. 1961)
• 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bengali activist (d. 1932)
• 1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966)
• 1911 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian archbishop (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Sonny Terry, American harmonica player (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Bob Kane, American writer and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Anne Sharp, Scottish opera singer (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist and illustrator
• 1922 – George Miller, American politician
• 1923 – Robin Day, English journalist (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian-Lebanese singer (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Ieng Sary, co-founder of the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Willie Mabon, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985)
• 1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Kidar Nath Sahani, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
• 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French actor and composer (d. 2001)
• 1928 – George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977)
• 1929 – George Crumb, American composer
• 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
• 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician
• 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang
• 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
• 1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English poet (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Norman Rush, American author
• 1934 – Glen Glenn, American singer
• 1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and educator
• 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1936 – David Nelson, American actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
• 1937 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author (d. 2001)
• 1937 – John Goetz, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Rosaria Piomelli, American architects
• 1937 – Ladislau Biernaski, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishops (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Heribert Offermanns, German chemists
• 1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composers
• 1937 – Petar Stipetić, People of the Croatian War of Independence
• 1938 – Odean Pope, American saxophonist (Catalyst)
• 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist (d. 2013)
• 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
• 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director
• 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher
• 1942 – Ruthann Aron, American politician
• 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster
• 1942 – Don Francis, American epidemiologist
• 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Fernando Vallejo, Colombian film directors
• 1942 – Don Gant, American songwriters (d. 1977)
• 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actresses
• 1942 – Thomas Wyss, Indiana State Senators
• 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian rules footballer
• 1942 – Judy Manning, Members of the Georgia House of Representatives
• 1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler
• 1943 – Corky Siegel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Siegel–Schwall Band)
• 1944 – Ray Downs, American singer and author
• 1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Harper's Bizarre)
• 1945 – Anthony Christian, English painter
• 1945 – Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader
• 1945 – Alan Titus, American opera singer
• 1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
• 1948 – Barry Ryan, English singer-songwriter and photographer
• 1948 – Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1992)
• 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician
• 1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
• 1949 – John Markoff, American journalists
• 1949 – Stan White, American football linebackers
• 1949 – Chester Marcol, American football placekickers
• 1949 – Henry Earl, American Internet personalities
• 1949 – Keith Rowley, Members of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
• 1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
• 1950 – Steven Greenberg, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Lipps Inc.)
• 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
• 1950 – May Pang, American people of Chinese descent
• 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poets
• 1950 – Karen Austin, American film actresses
• 1950 – Iggy Arroyo, Lakas–CMD politicians (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian anthropologists
• 1950 – Pablove Black, Jamaican reggae musicians
• 1950 – Tom Myers, American football safeties
• 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Justicialist Party politicians
• 1951 – Meredith Hunter, American murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor
• 1952 – David Weber, American author
• 1952 – Ángel Torres, Major League Baseball pitchers
• 1952 – Ney Rosauro, Brazilian composer and percussionist
• 1952 – Omar Moreno, Major League Baseball outfielders
• 1952 – Mark Gray, American country singers
• 1952 – Reggie Walton, Major League Baseball player
• 1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Francesco Camaldo, Italian Roman Catholic priests
• 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky, University of chicago alumni
• 1952 – Jane Fancher, American fantasy writers
• 1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
• 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist
• 1953 – Mindy Newell, American author
• 1953 – Mike Papantonio, American lawyer and radio talk show host
• 1953 – Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 – David Wright, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1953 – John Barton, English former professional footballer
• 1953 – Charles Colbourn, Canadian computer scientist
• 1953 – Shih Szu, Taiwanese film actors
• 1953 – Billy Thomas, Herndon to drummer
• 1954 – Doug Davidson, American actor
• 1954 – Thomas Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player (Elán)
• 1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of South Dakota
• 1954 – Brad Sherman, American politician
• 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician
• 1955 – Katherine Knight, Australian murderer
• 1955 – Cheryl Studer, American soprano
• 1956 – Dale Maharidge, American author
• 1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician
• 1956 – David Stergakos, Greek-American basketball player
• 1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager
• 1957 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian
• 1958 – Vincent K. Brooks, American general
• 1958 – Chip Hooper, American tennis player
• 1959 – Anthony Waller, Lebanese director
• 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarists (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Dave Meltzer, American journalists
• 1959 – Brad Johnson, American film actors
• 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian Christians
• 1959 – Shawn Moody, Maine gubernatorial candidates
• 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese composers
• 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer
• 1959 – Mike Brewer, Major League Baseball right fielders
• 1959 – Dominique Baert, Members of the National Assembly of France
• 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish women in politics
• 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballers
• 1959 – Anthony Waller, British film directors
• 1959 – Ruth Perednik, Israeli psychologists
• 1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver
• 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
• 1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and comedian (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1960 – BD Wong, American actor
• 1961 – Mary Bono Mack, American politician
• 1961 – Bruce Castor American lawyer and politician
• 1961 – Dave Meltzer, American journalist
• 1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver
• 1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player
• 1962 – Ted Dekker, American thriller writers
• 1962 – Gene Larkin, American Roman Catholics
• 1962 – Jonathan Davies, Great Britain national rugby league team players
• 1962 – Mark Morettini, American film actors
• 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician
• 1962 – Mark Miller, American motorcycle racers
• 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballers (d. 2000)
• 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass guitarists
• 1962 – Roland Königshofer, Austrian cyclists
• 1962 – Rik Daniëls, Flemish television directors
• 1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballers
• 1962 – Kristen Hall, American country singer-songwriters
• 1962 – Ian Dalziel, English footballers
• 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
• 1963 – Mark Grant, American television sports announcers
• 1963 – Giselle Laronde, Miss World 1986 delegates
• 1963 – Arvind Raghunathan, American people of Indian descent
• 1964 – Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Paul Bonwick, Canadian politician
• 1964 – Doug Lee, American basketball player
• 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey goaltenders
• 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyers
• 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian football managers
• 1964 – Paul Vigay, British computer programmers (d. 2009)
• 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek politician
• 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
• 1967 – Ian Bishop, Trinidadian-Tobagonian cricketer
• 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
• 1968 – Mark Walton, American voice actor
• 1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
• 1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
• 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, English engineer
• 1970 – Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Synthetic Flying Machine, and Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
• 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
• 1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
• 1972 – Raelee Hill, Australian actress
• 1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
• 1972 – Scott Peterson, American murderer
• 1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
• 1973 – Madlib, American rapper and producer (Madvillain, Quasimoto, and Lootpack)
• 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
• 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
• 1973 – Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
• 1974 – Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer
• 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player
• 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
• 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor
• 1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
• 1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
• 1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
• 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter (Silverchair and Tambalane)
• 1980 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer (The Blizzards)
• 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer
• 1980 – Christian Vander, German footballer
• 1980 – Casey Wilson, American actress
• 1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Jemima Rooper, English actress
• 1981 – Tila Tequila, American model, actress, and singer
• 1982 – Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver
• 1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player
• 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer (3LW and The Cheetah Girls)
• 1983 – V V Brown, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Hernán Garin, Argentine footballer
• 1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
• 1984 – Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
• 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (Sadistic Mika Band)
• 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
• 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Drake, Canadian actor and rapper
• 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
• 1987 – Charlie White, American ice dancer
• 1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Christopher Linke, German racewalkers
• 1988 – Demont Mitchell, Bahamas international footballers
• 1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
• 1989 – Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress
• 1990 – LaMarcus Tinker, American actor
• 1993 – Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian racing driver
• 1994 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer and actress (f(x))

Deaths

• 996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938)
• 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
• 1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark, (b. 1320)
• 1537 – Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
• 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)
• 1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
• 1672 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian author (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
• 1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
• 1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
• 1969 – Meredith Hunter, American murder victim (d. 1951)
• 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Don Gant, American songwriters (b. 1942)
• 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian archbishop (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Robin Day, English journalist (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Bob Kane, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and comedian (b. 1960)
• 2000 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballers (b. 1962)
• 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Winton M. Blount, American politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Herman Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American archbishop (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and scriptwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)
• 2008 – John Goetz, American professional baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarists (b. 1959)
• 2009 – Paul Vigay, British computer programmers (b. 1964)
• 2010 – Mike Esposito, American illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American director (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (b. 1967)
• 2011 – David Nelson, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Anne Sharp, Scottish opera singer (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Peter Wright, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Iggy Arroyo, Lakas–CMD politicians (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Ladislau Biernaski, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishops (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anthony Mary Claret
  • October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964.
• Suez Day (Egypt)
• United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
• World Development Information Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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