Famous Deaths on February 24

1721 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, dies at 56
1777 Joseph, King of Portugal (1750-77), dies at 62
1779 Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (editor of Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon), dies at 74
1781 Edward Capell, English critic, dies at 67
1784 Anton Laube, Bohemian composer, dies at 65
1785 Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican attorney and father of emperor Napoleon, dies at 39
1799 Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer (types of Lichtenberg), dies at 56
1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 Henry Cavendish, British physicist and chemist (discovery of hydrogen), dies at 78
1812 Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1812 Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (Polarization of light), dies at 36

Robert Fulton

1815 Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), dies of tuberculosis at 49

1822 Thomas Coutts, Anglo-Scottish banker (Coutts & Co.), dies at 86
1825 Thomas Bowdler, British physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), dies at 70
1829 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1862 Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1865 Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, dies at 23
1874 Anselmo Clavé, Spanish politician and composer, dies at 49
1876 Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 Ignaz Lachner, German composer, dies at 87
1907 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, dies at 77
1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, Ukrainian composer, dies at 66
1914 Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1915 Amanda Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist, dies at 78
1919 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 Dmitri B. Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 Edmond Picard, French-Belgian lawyer and writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1925 Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 André Charles Prosper Messager, French organist, composer and conductor (Les Deux Pigeons, Véronique), dies at 75
1930 Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer and painter (Death of My Cat), dies at 74
1933 Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
1941 Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1942 Anton Drexler, German politician and founder of the German Worker's Party, dies at 57
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1947 Pierre Janet, French psychologist and neurologist (contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour), dies at 87
1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1964 Frank Conroy, British actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 Franz Waxman [Wachsmann], German-American film score composer (Rebecca; Sunset Boulevard; A Place In The Sun), dies of cancer at 60
1969 Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 Conrad Nagel, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Celebrity Time), dies at 72
1973 Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 Charles Wilfred Orr, English pianist and composer (settings of A.E. Housman poems), dies at 82
1976 H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 Julian Rivero, American actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1984 Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1984 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex), dies at 71

Tommy Douglas

1986 Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81

1987 Jim Connors, American Legendary Radio personality, dies in a car crash at 46
1988 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1988 Memphis Slim [John Len Chatman], American blues musician ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), dies at 72
1988 Uno "Miff" Görling, Swedish jazz trombonist, arranger, bandleader, and composer, dies at 78
1990 Johnnie Ray, American singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61

Malcolm Forbes

1990 Malcolm Forbes, American publisher of Forbes Magazine, dies of a heart attack at 70

1990 Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italy (1978-85), dies at 93
1990 Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 Webb Pierce, American honky-tonk country singer-songwriter, and guitarist ("In The Jailhouse Now"; "Wondering"; "There Stands The Glass"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 64
1991 Héctor Rial, Spanish soccer striker (Real Madrid, 5 straight Euro Cup C'ships 1956-60), dies at 62
1992 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 Bobby Moore, English football defender (108 caps; captain World Cup 1966; West Ham United), dies of bowel & liver cancer at 51
1993 Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster, dies at 75

Dinah Shore

1994 Dinah Shore, American singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet), actress and TV personality (Dinah Shore Show, Nabisco DS Championship), dies of ovarian cancer at 76

1994 Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 Jean Sablon, French singer-songwriter, dies at 87
1994 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
1994 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
1995 Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas, Canadian-born British actress and singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please), dies at 91
1998 Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader, dies at 82
2001 Claude Shannon, American mathematician and information theorist (A Mathematical Theory of Communication), dies at 84
2002 Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2003 Walter Scharf, American film composer, dies at 92
2004 John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), dies at 88
2004 Alvino Rey, American orchestra leader (King Family), dies at 95
2006 Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 Don Knotts, American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company), died of lung cancer at 81
2006 John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 Dennis Weaver, American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered), dies at 81
2007 Bruce Bennett, American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), dies from complications of a broken hip at 100
2007 Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2008 Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?), dies at 60
2008 Philip Bodner, American jazz clarinetist and studio musician (also played flute, oboe, saxophone, piccolo, and English horn), dies at 90
2011 Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
2012 Jan Berenstain [Janice Marian Grant], American author (The Berenstain Bears), dies from a stroke at 88
2012 István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian classical and electronic music composer(La Tourangelle; Winthrop), educator (McGill; Queens (Ontario) Universities), and writer (Alternative Voices), dies at 92
2012 Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker, dies from cancer at 77
2012 Benedict Freedman, American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92
2014 Harold Ramis, American actor & director, dies from vasculitis at 69
2016 Nabil Maleh, Syrian film director and writer, dies at 79
2016 Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer of classical music, dies at 78
2017 Faye Glenn Abdellah, American pioneer in nursing research and US government official (health services), dies at 97

Sridevi Kapoor

2018 Sridevi Kapoor [Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan], Indian actress and film producer referred to as Indian cinema's "first female superstar" (Himmatwala, Solva Sawan), drowns at 54

2018 Durward Knowles, Bahamas yachtsman (Olympic gold, Star class 1968), dies at 100
2019 Li Xueqin, Chinese eminent historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer, dies at 85
2019 Malcolm "Mac" Wiseman, American bluegrass singer, dies at 93
2019 Margaret Scott, South-African ballet dancer and founder (Australian Ballet School), dies at 96
2020 Katherine Johnson, American NASA mathematician (portrayed in film Hidden Figures), dies at 101
2020 Don Furner, Australian rugby league forward (1 Test) and coach (Australia 15 Tests; Eastern Suburbs, Canberra Raiders), dies at 87
2020 Jan Kowalczyk, Polish equestrian rider (Olympics gold show jumping individual; silver team 1980), dies at 78
2020 Jahn Teigen, Norwegian pop-rock singer (Popol Ace; Eurovison Song Contest, 1978, 1982 & 1983), dies at 70
2021 Gary Halpin, Irish rugby union prop (11 caps; Wanderers F.C, Leinster, London Irish, Harlequins), dies at 55
2021 Tom Foley, Irish racehorse trainer (trainer Danoli, "the People's Champion"), dies from cancer at 74
2021 Atsushi Miyagi, Japanese tennis player (US Open doubles 1955 [with Kosei Kamo] first Japanese players to win a Grand Slam event), dies at 89
2021 Peter Ostroushko, American fiddler, mandolin player, and composer (A Prairie Home Companion), dies of heart failure at 67

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