Famous Deaths on January 24

Caligula (12-41 AD)

3rd Roman Emperor (37-41 AD) who was known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, assassinated at 28 by Praetorian Guards

772 Stephen III/IV, Catholic Pope (768-72), dies. (b. 720)
817 Stefanus IV, Pope (816-17), dies
1125 David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1336 Alfonso IV, the Benignant, King of Aragon (1327-36), dies at 36
1376 Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason
1595 Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Governor of Bohemia, dies at 65
1619 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator against the rule of James I of England, dies at 54
1626 Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer, dies at 45
1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated
1666 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer, dies at 77
1678 Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
1709 George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1728 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer, 55
1769 François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1805 Giacomo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1812 Eligio Celestino, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 72
1824 Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 66
1848 Horace Wells, American dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia), commits suicide after committing a crime under the influence of chloroform at 33
1851 Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian opera composer and conductor (La Vestale), dies at 76
1856 Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1860 James Pollard Espy, American meteorologist (Philosophy of Storms), dies at 74
1862 James McIntosh, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at about 33
1864 Otto Jonas Lindblad, Swedish composer (Kungssången - Royal Anthem), dies at 54
1864 Stephen Gardner Champlin, brigadier general (Union), dies at about 36
1874 Adam Black, Scottish politician and publisher (A & C Black), dies at 89
1877 Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1880 José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet, dies at 28
1882 Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 Friedrich von Flotow, German composer, dies at 70
1884 Johann Christian Gebauer, Danish composer, dies at 75
1885 Martin Delany, African-American abolitionist and physician (1st African American major in US Army), dies at 72
1894 Constance Fenimore Woolson, American writer (Jupiter Lights), dies falls to her death in Venice at 53
1895 Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (chancellor of the Exchequer, father of Winston Churchill), dies at 45
1901 Simon Hassler, German-American composer, dies at 68
1904 Franz Coenen, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 77
1911 Carl Eilhardt, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
1911 David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1912 James Allen, English writer (As a Man Thinketh), dies at 47
1913 Gustav Luders, German-American conductor and stage musical composer (The Prince of Pilsen), dies at 47
1918 George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1924 Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, dies at 29
1924 Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet & politician, dies at 80

Wilfred Baddeley (1872-1929)

British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), dies at 57

1929 Willem Royaards, Dutch theater director (Adam in Ballingschap), dies at 62
1930 Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer and politician (first woman to serve as U.S. Senator (Georgia)), dies at 94 [1]
1932 Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1932 Paul Warburg, German-American investment banker who influenced and encouraged the design of the Federal Reserve, dies at 63
1939 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, dies at 71
1940 Emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52
1941 Tommy Bond, Irish baseball pitcher and right fielder (Triple Crown 1877; Boston Red Caps; first man born in Ireland to play MLB), dies at 84
1943 John Burns, British minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
1947 Felix Timmermans, Flemish painter and illustrator (Pallieter), dies at 60
1948 Arthur Liebehenschel, Polish Commandant at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, executed for war crimes at 48
1948 Maria Mandel, Austrian official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, executed for war crimes at 36
1950 Bull Montana [Luigi Montagna], Italian actor (Brass Buttons, Victory, The Son of the Sheik), dies from coronary thrombosis at 62
1953 Ben Taylor, American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (Indianapolis ABCs) and manager (Washington Potomacs, Baltimore Black Sox), dies of pneumonia at 64
1953 Mike Jacobs, American boxing promoter (Twentieth Century Sporting Club - Joe Louis' promoter; 3 x $1m fights), dies at 72

Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953)

German field marshal during World War II (Commander-in-Chief in the West), dies of heart failure at 77

1955 Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1957 Daniel Taylor, cricketer (bro of Herbie, 2 Tests for S Af 1914), dies
1960 Edwin Fischer, Swiss concert pianist and conductor, dies at 73
1960 John Miljan, American actor (The Ten Commandments, Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox), dies at 67

Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)

American athlete, inventor, and businessman (invented the Erector Set), dies at 76

1961 Willem van Eysinga, Dutch jurist and diplomat (Paris Peace Conference), dies at 82
1962 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish poet, novelist, recognized as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature (A Mind at Peace, The Time Regulation Institute), dies of a heart attack at 60
1962 Stanley Lord, Captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster, dies at 84
1962 Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62
1964 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, dies at 71

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II, and writer (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953), dies of a stroke at 90

1966 Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist, dies at 56
1967 Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49
1969 Pauline Hall, Norwegian composer, dies at 78
1969 Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 72
1970 Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1970 James "Shep" Shepherd, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Heartbeats - "One Thousand Miles"; Shep & Limelites - "Daddy's Home"), beaten to death in a robbery at 34
1971 Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1972 Jerome Cowan, American actor (Blondie, Tab Hunter Show), dies at 74
1973 Alan Lisette, New Zealand cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956), dies at 53
1973 J. Carrol Naish, American actor (Sahara; A Medal for Benny), dies of emphysema at 77
1975 Erich Kempka, German chauffeur to Adolf Hitler, dies at 64
1975 Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 72
1978 Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1979 Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
1979 Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
1980 Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (Spiders), dies at 92
1982 Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)

George Cukor (1899-1983)

American film director (My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story, The Wizard of Oz), dies of a stroke and a heart attack at 83

1986 Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (Olympic silver 1984), dies of undiagnosed Marfan syndrome at 31
1986 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel), dies of pneumonia at 64
1986 L. Ron Hubbard, American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and founder of the Scientology cult, dies at 74
1988 Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 George Knudson, Canadian golfer (8 PGA Tour titles; Masters 1969 runner-up), dies of lung cancer at 51

Ted Bundy (1946-1989)

American serial killer of up to 100 women during the 1970s, executed by electric chair in Florida at 42

1990 Madge Bellamy, American actress, dies of heart failure at 90
1991 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), dies after his second stroke at 70
1991 Jack Schaefer, American author (Shane), dies at 83
1991 John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1991 Lawrence Lott, American actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
1992 Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
1992 John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
1992 Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1992 Tina Chow, model, dies of AIDs at 41

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

1st African American supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84

1993 Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies at 50
1994 Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48
1994 Yves Navarre, French writer (Le Jardin d'acclimatation), dies at 53
1995 David Cole, American songwriter ( C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat"), and record producer (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown), dies at 32
1995 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
1995 Victor Reinganum, English artist and illustrator, dies at 87
1995 Wim Sinnige, Dutch politician (PvdA) (Amsterdam Alderman of Finance, 1973-80), and arts administrator, dies at 60
1996 Sandor Iharos, Hungarian runner, dies at 65
1997 Callum Alexander MacDonald, Scottish historian, dies of cancer at 49
1998 Jay Monahan, husband of Katie Couric, dies of cancer at 42
1998 Justin Tubb, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 62
1998 Walter Bishop, Jr, American bebop jazz pianist, music theorist, and educator, dies of a heart attack at 70
2000 Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2001 Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist, dies at 78
2002 Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
2002 Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane), dies at 81
2002 Peter Gzowski 'Mr Canada', Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, dies of emphysema at 67
2003 (Giovanni) "Gianni"Agnelli, Italian industrialist, executive (President of Fiat Automobiles, 1966-96), and Italian Senator-for-life (1991-), dies of prostate cancer at 81
2003 Lucien Blackwell, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania), dies at 71
2004 Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
2005 June Bronhill, Australian stage and opera singer, dies at 75
2005 Robert Stevens Baker, American organist, composer, and educator (Union Theological Seminary, 1961-72; Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, 1973-75), dies at 88
2005 Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2006 Chris Penn, American actor (The Wild Life), dies at 40
2006 Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers and actor (The Five Heartbeats), dies of pneumonia and complications from a stroke at 91
2006 Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
2007 Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007, dies at 115
2007 Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007 Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2008 J. Robert Hooper, American politician, dies at 71
2008 Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2009 Diane Holland, British actress and dancer (Crossroads - "Sarah"; Hi-de-Hi! - "Yvonne"), dies of bronchial pneumonia at 78
2009 Gérard Blanc, French pop singer ("Une Autre Histoire"), dies at 61
2009 Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009 Leonard Gaskin, American jazz bassist (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), dies at 88
2009 Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2010 Pernell Roberts, American actor (Bonanza- "Adam"; Trapper John, M.D.), dies at 81
2011 Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director, dies at 61
2011 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian khayal (romance) and devotional (bhajan and abhangsad) singer, dies at 88
2011 Peter Paul Zahl, German left-wing writer and printer (shot two police officers), dies at 66
2012 James Farentino, American actor (The Final Countdown; Dynasty; Mary), dies of heart failure at 73
2012 Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83
2012 Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director (The Travelling Players, Eternity and a Day), dies at 76
2015 Joe Franklin, American radio host, TV personality and New York institution (The Joe Franklin Show), dies of prostate cancer at 88
2015 Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (Olympic bronze men's singles 1976; World C'ship bronze 1974) and painter, dies of a heart attack at 65

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

American artificial intelligence computer scientist (MIT), dies at 88

2016 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), dies at 86
2017 Butch Trucks, American rock drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), dies at 69
2018 Jack Ketchum [Dallas William Mayr], American horror fiction author (Off Season, Red, The Woman), dies of cancer at 71
2018 Mark E. Smith, British rock vocalist (The Fall, The Post-Nearly Man), dies after a long illness at 60
2020 Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (Olympic gold coxless four 1952), dies at 90
2020 Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine soccer striker and manager (12 caps; Racing Club de Avellaneda), dies at 92
2020 Pete Stark, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1973-2013), dies at 88
2020 Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch soccer left winger or forward (46 caps; Anderlecht), dies of progressive muscular atrophy at 72
2021 George Armstrong, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame centre (Stanley Cup 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs; 7 x NHL All Star), dies from heart complications at 90
2021 Gunnel Lindblom, Swedish actress (Hunger, Virgin Spring), dies at 89
2021 Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, Icelandic soccer defender (34 caps; Celtic, Tulsa Roughnecks, Hannover 96, Motherwell), dies from COVID-19 at 70
2022 Aftab Baloch, Pakistan cricket batsman (2 Tests; 7th player to pass the 400 first class run milestone, 428 for Sind 1974), dies at 68
2022 Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast (Olympic gold rings 2000, silver 1996; World C'ship gold rings 2002), dies from COVID-19 at 51
2023 Duncan Pugh, Australian bobsledder (Olympics, 2010), and school teacher, dies of a brain aneurysm at 48
2023 Lance Kerwin, American actor (James at 15; Salem's Lot; Enemy Mine; Outbreak), dies at 62 [1]