Deaths October 24 | History by KabAstro

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

Danish astronomer (set new standards for astronomical observations), dies in Prague at 54

1649 Ferdinand van Boisschot, Dutch diplomat, jurist and Chancellor of Brabant (1625-49), dies at 79
1655 Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (observed 1st transit of mercury), dies at 63
1667 Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried
1667 Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer, the crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him, dies at 87
1669 William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1679 Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
1708 Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1785 Jean-Jacques Robson, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1789 Joaquín Martínez de Oxinagas, composer, dies at 69
1789 Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68
1799 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 59
1821 Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and patriot, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 81
1842 Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (Supreme Director of Chile 1817-23), dies at 64

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, dies at 70

1860 Élie, Duke Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician (Sainte-Martin-de-Laye, France), dies at 80
1864 James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46
1869 Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, dies at 83
1875 Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1889 Loisa Puget, French composer, dies at 79
1893 Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr, Austrian violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue (Vienna Conservatory, 1851-93), dies at 64
1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
1898 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, dies at 73
1901 Paul Henrion, French composer, dies at 82
1902 Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 69
1912 Louis van Haecke, Belgian chaplain and author (Zeesterre), dies at 83
1913 Isabel Barrows, American editor and penologist (Conference on Negro Question), dies at 68
1915 Désiré Charnay, French traveller and archaeologist, dies at 87
1918 Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1922 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Cadbury), dies at 83
1925 Jindřich Šimon Baar, Czech pastor and writer (Lusy), dies at 56
1929 Moorfield Storey, American lawyer, pacifist, civil rights leader (co-founder of NAACP & president, 1909-29), dies at 84
1929 Peter J. Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People), dies at 74
1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1931 Murray Bisset, South African cricket wicket-keeper and captain (3 Tests, 3 dismissals; Western Province), dies at 55
1935 Abe Landau, American gangster (henchman for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 39
1935 Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], American mobster and bootlegger, murdered on orders of the Commission at 33
1935 Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium), dies at 72
1935 Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, American gangster (accountant for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 44
1938 Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
1940 Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism), dies at 75
1940 Victor Hollaender, German composer, dies at 74
1942 Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (1 Test England 1921, 1 run, 1 catch), dies
1943 Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (Regards et jeux dans l'espace), dies at 31
1944 Lauri Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54

Louis Renault (1877-1944)

French automobile manufacturer (Renault Motor Company), dies at 67 (b. 1877)

1945 Robert Ley, German Nazi politician, commits suicide while awaiting trial at Nuremberg at 55

Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945)

Norwegian Minister of Defense and Prime Minister (1942-45), executed for collaborating with the Nazis at 58

1947 Dudley Digges, Irish actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Invisible Man), dies at 68

Franz Lehár (1870-1948)

Austrian-Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78

1949 Joaquín Nin, Cuban composer and pianist, father of Anaïs Nin, dies at 70
1952 Frederick Jacobi, American composer, dies at 61
1953 Ernest Irving, English composer, dies at 74
1955 Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British Anthropologist (Structural Functionalism and studies of Andaman Islanders and Australian Aborigines), dies at 74
1956 Henry Nicholas Ridley, British botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry), dies at 100
1957 Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 57
1958 Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81

G. E. Moore (1873-1958)

English philosopher (systematic approach to ethical problems), dies at 84

1958 Martin Shaw, English composer, dies at 83
1963 Beverly Wills, American actress (I Married Joan - "Beverly"; Some Like It Hot), dies in a house fire at 30
1966 Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1967 Lyle Latell, American actor (Not of This Earth; Dick Tracy's Dilemma; Sky Dragon), dies of a heart attack at 63
1969 Otto Jochum, German composer, dies at 71
1970 Richard Hofstadter, American historian, dies at 54
1971 Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations), dies at 95
1971 Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies
1971 Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer, cellist and conductor (La Guerre), dies at 73

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

American Baseball HOF second baseman (1st African-American MLB player Brooklyn Dodgers; 6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1955; NL MVP 1949), dies from a heart attack at 53

1973 Jack Iverson, Australian cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 21 wickets, BB 6/27; Victoria CA), dies from suicide at 58
1974 David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist considered one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century (Moscow Conservatory), dies at 66
1975 Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1975 Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian, dies at 87
1976 Richard Sturzenegger, Swiss composer and cellist, dies at 70
1977 Hugo Myrtelius, Swedish conductor, composer, and educator, dies at 85
1980 Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30
1981 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1984 Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66
1984 Walter Woolf King, American stage and screen baritone, character actor (Golden Dawn; A Night at the Opera; Swiss Miss), and actor's agent, dies of a heart attack at 84
1985 Lásló Jósef Bíró, Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen), dies at 86
1985 Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1985 Richie Evans, American auto racer (9 x NASCAR Modified Champion 1973, 78-85), dies in practice accident at 44
1987 Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American illustrator (The New Yorker; Saturday Evening Post; Dithers & Jitters), and painter, dies at 86
1988 Henry Armstrong, American boxer (world featherweight, lightweight, welterweight [19 x title defences] champion), dies at 75
1988 Sumner White, American sailor (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 58

Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991)

American creator of Star Trek, dies of cardiac arrest at 70

1991 Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43
1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies
1992 Laurie Colwin, American author (Happy All the Time), dies at 48
1993 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
1993 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
1993 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
1994 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
1994 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
1994 Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
1995 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
1995 Ronald Selby Wright, Scottish Church of Scotland minister, dies at 87
1996 Arthur Axmann, German Nazi leader (head of the Hitler Youth 1940-45), dies at 83
1996 Bruce Matthews, Australian newspaper executive who worked for Rupert Murdoch, dies at 71 [1]
1996 Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 53
1996 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, British politician and diplomat, dies at 96
1996 Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
1997 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen, longest personal name, dies at possibly 83 (birth date disputed)
1997 Don Messick, American cartoon voice actor (The Flintstones - "Bamm-Bamm"; The Jetsons - "Astro"; Scooby-Doo), dies of stroke complications at 71
1997 Janine Andrade, French classical violinist, dies at 78
1998 Mary Calderone, American physician and founder (planned parenthood), dies at 94
1999 John Chafee, American politician (Senator-R-Rhode Island, 1976-99, Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Rhode Island), dies at 77
2001 Kim Gardner, English rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke), dies of cancer at 53
2001 Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2002 Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 Mary Jeanette "Peggy" Moran, American actress (Double Date, Horror Island), dies from injuries at 84
2002 Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2003 Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2003 Ross Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor], Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K., dies from cancer of the stomach at 70
2003 Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross country skier (Olympic gold 1952, 56, 60), dies in car accident at 78
2004 James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2004 Randy Dorton, American race car engine builder (Director of Engine Operations Hendrick Motorsports; 9 x NASCAR C'ships), dies in a plane crash at 50
2004 Ricky Hendrick, American auto racer and team owner (NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series 1 win, 23 top 10s), dies in plane crash at 24
2005 Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (1986-90), dies at 78
2005 Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2005 Robert Sloman, English screenwriter, dies at 79

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, dies of natural causes at 92

2006 Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
2007 Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2008 Ankie Peypers, Dutch author and poet, dies at 80
2008 Merl Saunders, American Hammond B-3 organ player and pianist (Jerry Garcia Band; Saunders/Garcia), and composer, dies at 74
2008 Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)
2010 Joseph Stein, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 98
2010 Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)

John McCarthy (1927-2011)

American computer scientist (coined the term "artificial intelligence," created the Lisp programming language), dies at 84

2012 Anita Björk, Swedish actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People), dies at 89
2012 Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler (Olympic gold 1984), dies at 55
2012 Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player (6-time Grand Slam singles winner), dies at 94
2013 Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII (portrayed in Band of Brothers), dies at 96
2013 Héctor Quintanar, Mexican composer, dies at 77
2013 [Prabodh] "Manna" Dey, Indian playback singer, music director, and musician, dies at 94
2014 Marcia Strassman, American actress (M*A*S*H; Welcome Back, Kotter - "Julie Kotter"), dies from breast cancer at 66

Maureen O'Hara (1920-2015)

Irish-American actress (Miracle on 34th Street; The Quiet Man; Only The Lonely), and singer, dies at 95

2015 Michael Beetham, British Marshall of the RAF (Falklands War), dies at 92
2016 Bobby Vee [Velline], American pop singer ("Devil Or Angel"; "Take Good Care Of My Baby"), dies at 73
2016 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (2000-2005), dies at 88
2016 Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive, "Spin Me Round"), dies of a cardiac arrest at 57

Fats Domino (1928-2017)

American rhythm & blues piano player, singer, and star of the early rock ’n’ roll era ("Blueberry Hill"; "Blue Monday"; "Walkin' To New Orleans", dies from natural causes at 89

2017 Robert Guillaume [Williams], American actor (Rafiki- The Lion King, Sports Night, Benson, Soap), dies at 89
2018 Darijan Božič, Slovenian composer and conductor, dies at 86
2018 Tony Joe White, American blues and swamp rock singer ("Polk Salad Annie"), and songwriter ("Rainy Night In Georgia"), dies of a heart attack at 75
2018 Wah-Wah Watson [Melvin Ragin], American session guitarist in Motown's Funk Brothers (Temptations - "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"), dies at 67
2020 Kevin McCarra, Scottish sports journalist (The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, The Times), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 62
2021 Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass banjo player (The Osborne Brothers - "Rocky Top"), dies of a stroke at 83
2022 Ashton Carter, American military civilian official (Secretary of Defense, 2015-17), and academic administrator, dies of a heart attack at 68
2022 Leslie Jordan, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Will & Grace - "Beverly"), and writer, dies in a car crash at 67
2022 Tomasz Wójtowicz, Polish volleyball player (Olympic gold 1976; World C'ship gold 1974; Legia Warsaw, Santal Parma) and broadcaster, dies at 69
2023 Anderl Molterer, Austrian alpine skier (Olympic silver Giant slalom, bronze Downhill 1956; Hahnenkamm Race 1959), dies at 92
2023 Richard Roundtree, American actor (Getting Even; Shaft), dies of pancreatic cancer at 81 [1]