On This Day — October 24
4020 noted people were born and 1863 died on October 24 in our archive, including E. T. Whittaker, Françoise Mouly and John Tuzo Wilson.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 24
E. T. Whittaker
1873 – 1956
Françoise Mouly
b. 1955
John Tuzo Wilson
1908 – 1993
Maurice Janet
1888 – 1983
Albert Châtelet
1883 – 1960
Arnold Rosé
1863 – 1946
Barbara Cassin
b. 1947
Carl Anton Bjerknes
1825 – 1903
Carlton M. Caves
b. 1950
Caroline Spurgeon
1869 – 1942
Dominique Baert
b. 1959
Earl A. Powell III
b. 1943
Emmanuelle Pireyre
b. 1969
Eugenie Scott
b. 1945
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
1811 – 1871
Gaspare Ambrosini
1886 – 1985
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
1827 – 1909
Gerald Fitzmaurice
1901 – 1982
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom
1854 – 1907
Hermann Paucker
1822 – 1889
Jakob Engel-Schmidt
b. 1983
Jakob Gadolin
1719 – 1802
James Wuest
b. 1948
Joel Sussman
1910 – 1982
Johan Galtung
1930 – 2024
John T. Noonan
1926 – 2017
Malcolm Turnbull
b. 1954
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
1920 – 1996
Marian Orzechowski
1931 – 2020
Melvin Purvis
1903 – 1960
Neal Blewett
b. 1933
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
1821 – 1896
Philippe Morillon
1935 – 2026
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932 – 2007
Sean C. Solomon
b. 1945
Seth Moulton
b. 1978
Shigeyoshi Matsumae
1901 – 1991
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
b. 1954
Sisir Kumar Mitra
1890 – 1963
Stéphane Mallat
b. 1962
Takeo Kanade
b. 1945
Theodor Stolojan
b. 1943
Achille Jubinal
1810 – 1875
Ahmad Shah III of Pahang
1930 – 2019
Al Feldstein
1925 – 2014
Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov
b. 1958
Alexander Markov
b. 1965
Alexey Kaledin
1861 – 1918
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632 – 1723
Aristide Merloni
1897 – 1970
Arthur Edward Potts
1890 – 1983
Arthur John Holland
1918 – 1989
Aziz Ab'Sáber
1924 – 2012
Catherine Picart
b. 1971
Charles Colbourn
b. 1953
Chu Teh-Chun
1920 – 2014
Chuang Suo-hang
b. 1955
Clarence M. Kelley
1911 – 1997
Dave Meltzer
b. 1959
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
b. 1940
Denise Levertov
1923 – 1997
Dmitry Shuvayev
1854 – 1937
Donald I. Siegel
b. 1947
Doreen Lawrence
b. 1952
Edward Young, Baron Young of Old Windsor
b. 1966
Edwin McClellan
1925 – 2009
Eino Jutikkala
1907 – 2006
Elaine Feinstein
1930 – 2019
Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones
1909 – 1989
Emma Tucker
b. 1966
F. Murray Abraham
b. 1939
Felix Banaszak
b. 1989
Frank H. Brown
1943 – 2017
František Vejdovsky
1849 – 1939
Georg August Wallin
1811 – 1852
George B. Churchill
1866 – 1925
George Crumb
1929 – 2022
George W. Clarke
1852 – 1936
Gernot Blümel
b. 1981
Giuseppe Medici
1907 – 2000
Govindjee
b. 1932
Guyford Stever
1916 – 2010
Helmut Brandt
b. 1950
Henning Schwarz
1928 – 1993
Herbert Diess
b. 1958
Heydar Asadov
b. 1959
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès
1817 – 1880
Horace Plunkett
1854 – 1932
Hubert Aquin
1929 – 1977
Hugo Moser
1924 – 2007
Isko Moreno
b. 1974
James Mackintosh
1765 – 1832
Jeff Merkley
b. 1956
Jeremy Wright
b. 1972
John Brereton Barlow
1924 – 2008
John G. Cramer
b. 1934
John Markoff
b. 1949
John Winfield Bonser
1847 – 1914
Jorge Rodríguez Grossi
b. 1947
Joris Laarman
b. 1979
Józef Lassota
b. 1943
Jürgen Knoblich
b. 1963
Karen Freeman-Wilson
b. 1960
Karl Lueger
1844 – 1910
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
1896 – 1988
Kenkichi Yabashi
1869 – 1927
Kent A. Jordan
b. 1957
Kishore Mahbubani
b. 1948
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
1940 – 2025
Kurt Huber
1893 – 1943
Kuzma Galitsky
1897 – 1973
Kweisi Mfume
b. 1948
Leonidas Dixon Coates, Jr.
b. 1907
Lesia Dychko
b. 1939
Luciano Berio
1925 – 2003
Luther Cressman
1897 – 1994
Léopold Victor Delisle
1826 – 1910
Maarten van Rossem
b. 1943
Maido Pajo
b. 1950
Margaret Levyns
1890 – 1975
Marika Lichter
b. 1949
Mark Robert Drouin
1903 – 1963
Mark Shevelev
1904 – 1991
Martin Baron
b. 1954
Mary Paley Marshall
1850 – 1944
María Teresa Belandria
b. 1963
Meelis Friedenthal
b. 1973
Mellis Napier
1882 – 1976
Merval Pereira
b. 1949
Michał Połuboczek
b. 1982
Mikhail Alekseyev
1949 – 2014
Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet
1942 – 2019
Nadezhda Troyan
1921 – 2011
Natallia Pyatkievich
b. 1972
Nikolai Menshutkin
1842 – 1907
Nikolai Plotnikov
1897 – 1979
Nikolai Severtzov
1827 – 1885
Norman Kwong
1929 – 2016
Nuno Krus Abecasis
1929 – 1999
Oku Mumeo
1895 – 1997
Ola Bratteli
1946 – 2015
Oreste Piccioni
1915 – 2002
Paul Viollet
1840 – 1914
Philippe Kieffer
1899 – 1962
Pin Malakul
1903 – 1995
Pär Holmgren
b. 1964
R. K. Laxman
1924 – 2015
Rafael Alvira
1942 – 2024
Rafael Hernández Colón
1936 – 2019
Raquel Gil Montero
b. 1962
Robert Mundell
1932 – 2021
Roman Abramovich
b. 1966
Sharof Rashidov
1917 – 1983
Silvia Intxaurrondo
b. 1979
Sir Nugent Everard, 1st Baronet
1849 – 1929
Sofia Samatar
b. 1971
Sos Sargsyan
1929 – 2013
Stephen R. Bloom
b. 1942
Steven J. Dick
b. 1949
Susan D. Shaw
1943 – 2022
Sybil Thorndike
1882 – 1976
Takashi Gojobori
b. 1951
Thanasis Apartis
1899 – 1972
Thomas Mulcair
b. 1954
Thomas Strong
1861 – 1944
Tony Podesta
b. 1943
Vicente Reyes
1835 – 1918
Viktor Prokopenko
1944 – 2007
Vincent Chauvet
b. 1987
Vishnu Madhav Ghatage
1908 – 1991
Wang Jianlin
b. 1954
Willem Sandberg
1897 – 1984
William Brantley Aycock
1915 – 2015
William Edwin Minshall, Jr.
1911 – 1990
William Orange
1833 – 1916
Wolfgang Hackbusch
b. 1948
Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz
b. 1953
Yaqub Eyyubov
b. 1945
Zhu Dexi
1920 – 1992
Ziyafat Asgarov
b. 1963
Zoran Radojičić
b. 1963
Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf
1951 – 1999
Abel Antón
b. 1962
Adolf von Heinleth
1823 – 1895
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
b. 1983
Afke Schaart
b. 1973
Alan Hirsch
b. 1959
Albert Smith White
1803 – 1864
Aleksandr Artemyev
1820 – 1874
Aleksey Isayev
1908 – 1971
Alenka Sottler
b. 1958
Alexandra David-Néel
1868 – 1969
Alexei Byalynitsky-Birulya
1864 – 1937
Alfred Touny
1886 – 1944
Allen Knutson
b. 1969
Amatuni Vartapetyan
1900 – 1938
Amina Salum Ali
b. 1956
Andrea Horwath
b. 1962
Andrea Zryd
b. 1975
Andrew Turner
b. 1953
… and 3,820 more
Died on October 24
Louis Renault
1877 – 1944
Paul Appell
1855 – 1930
Anna Balletbò i Puig
1943 – 2025
Ash Carter
1954 – 2022
Carmen Alborch
1947 – 2018
Caroline Spurgeon
1869 – 1942
Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
1809 – 1886
Gladwyn Jebb
1900 – 1996
Helmut Zilk
1927 – 2008
Henri Pirenne
1862 – 1935
James MacCullagh
1809 – 1847
John McCarthy
1927 – 2011
John R. Klauder
1932 – 2024
Ludwik Finkel
1858 – 1930
Marcella Boveri
1863 – 1950
Mary Calderone
1904 – 1998
Maurice Roy
1905 – 1985
Milomir Kovac
1962 – 2022
Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
1941 – 2024
Pierre Weiss
1865 – 1940
Richard C. Banks
1931 – 2021
Sofya Yanovskaya
1896 – 1966
Tycho Brahe
1546 – 1601
Wilhelm Klemm
1896 – 1985
Abulfaz Garayev
1885 – 1952
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
1868 – 1927
Alexander Shelepin
1918 – 1994
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
1881 – 1955
Anthony Mary Claret
1807 – 1870
Ardalion Ignatyev
1930 – 1998
Beryl Beaurepaire
1923 – 2018
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
1926 – 2016
Bradley Winslow
1831 – 1914
Carlo Salotti
1870 – 1947
Charles F. D. Belden
1870 – 1931
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
1754 – 1787
Christian Falster
1690 – 1752
Christine Stix-Hackl
1957 – 2018
Daniel Webster
1782 – 1852
David Oistrakh
1908 – 1974
Dimitri Amilakhvari
1906 – 1942
Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris
1859 – 1935
Edward Ross Roybal
1916 – 2005
Elmer Bragg Adams
1842 – 1916
Eugène Gley
1857 – 1930
Franklin Carmichael
1890 – 1945
G. E. Moore
1873 – 1958
Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake
1881 – 1964
George Somerset, 3rd Baron Raglan
1857 – 1921
Georges Frêche
1938 – 2010
Gerald Verner White
1879 – 1948
Gilbert Greenall, 1st Baron Daresbury
1867 – 1938
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
1916 – 1989
Hans Albert
1921 – 2023
Hans Meerwein
1879 – 1965
Henry Nicholas Ridley
1855 – 1956
Henry Spelman
1564 – 1641
Herbert Baldus
1899 – 1970
Ivan Goremykin
1839 – 1917
James Aloysius Hickey
1920 – 2004
Janusz Brzozowski
1935 – 2019
Jo Grimond
1913 – 1993
John Chafee
1922 – 1999
John W. Barker
1933 – 2019
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez
1927 – 2016
Jose Sebastian Laboa
1923 – 2002
José García Santesmases
1907 – 1989
Katayama Tōkuma
1854 – 1917
Keith Hunter
1951 – 2018
Kurt Daluege
1897 – 1946
Lavon Rydleŭski
1903 – 1953
Leif Bjørnø
1937 – 2015
Leo Friedlander
1888 – 1966
Leo Hepp
1907 – 1987
Marthe Condat
1886 – 1939
Michael Beetham
1923 – 2015
Mikhail Rusakov
1892 – 1963
Moorfield Storey
1845 – 1929
Morio Kita
1927 – 2011
Oskar Amberg
1878 – 1963
Petr Eben
1929 – 2007
Petrus Johannes Blok
1855 – 1929
Pierre Gassendi
1592 – 1655
Richard Roundtree
1942 – 2023
Ronnie Selby Wright
1908 – 1995
Rosa Parks
1913 – 2005
Rustem Vambery
1872 – 1948
Sandra Pizzarello
1933 – 2021
Sirikit
1932 – 2025
Vidkun Quisling
1887 – 1945
Wanda Półtawska
1921 – 2023
William A. Noyes
1857 – 1941
Willis H. Shapley
1917 – 2005
Yekaterina Furtseva
1910 – 1974
Élie, duc Decazes
1780 – 1860
Émile Servais
1847 – 1928
Étienne Hubert de Cambacérès
1756 – 1818
Abraham Scultetus
1566 – 1625
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban
1900 – 1976
Aleksandr Potapov
1818 – 1886
Alexander Graham Christie
1880 – 1964
Alexander von Stieglitz
1814 – 1884
Alister Murdoch
1912 – 1984
Andrew W. Lewis
1943 – 2017
Anita Björk
1923 – 2012
Ann Hasseltine Judson
1789 – 1826
Anna Letenská
1904 – 1942
Antonio Berlese
1863 – 1927
Arthur Peel
1829 – 1912
Artur Axmann
1913 – 1996
Behçet Kemal Çağlar
1908 – 1969
Benito Vergara
1934 – 2015
Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Jr.
1817 – 1891
Bernardo O'Higgins
1778 – 1842
Bill Chadwick
1915 – 2009
Caleb Bragg
1885 – 1943
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1739 – 1799
Charles Barnes
1901 – 1998
Charles DuVal Roberts
1873 – 1966
Charles Lecocq
1832 – 1918
Charles Van Wyck
1824 – 1895
Charles Victor Daremberg
1817 – 1872
Christian Dior
1905 – 1957
Christian Ingerslev Baastrup
1885 – 1950
Christiane Collange
1930 – 2023
Christine Teusch
1888 – 1968
Claire Windsor
1892 – 1972
David Bushmich
1902 – 1995
David Levi
1816 – 1898
Dióscoro Puebla
1831 – 1901
Donald Sadler
1908 – 1987
Désiré Charnay
1828 – 1915
Eckhart Schmidt
1938 – 2024
Edith Head
1897 – 1981
Eduard von Heuss
1808 – 1880
Edward St John
1916 – 1994
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
1509 – 1572
Edwin E. Willis
1904 – 1972
Elie Carafoli
1901 – 1983
Ellen Prince
1944 – 2010
Enolia McMillan
1904 – 2006
Ernest (Jean Baptiste) Rupin
1845 – 1909
Ernst Barlach
1870 – 1938
Eugène Claudius-Petit
1907 – 1989
Eugênio Gudin Filho
1886 – 1986
Ferdinand Küchler
1867 – 1937
Flora Ruchat-Roncati
1937 – 2012
Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau
1814 – 1852
Franz Lehár
1870 – 1948
François d'O
1551 – 1594
François-Jean de Chastellux
1734 – 1788
Frederick Crace Calvert
1819 – 1873
Frederick Field
1871 – 1945
G. F. Gorringe
1868 – 1945
Gaetano de Lai
1853 – 1928
Gamini Dissanayake
1942 – 1994
Gene Roddenberry
1921 – 1991
George Bliss
1813 – 1868
George Child Villiers, 6th Earl of Jersey
1808 – 1859
George Montaigne
1569 – 1628
George Thomas Barnes
1833 – 1901
George Wallis
1811 – 1891
Ginette Harrison
1958 – 1999
Giuseppe Firrao il Vecchio
1670 – 1744
Gladys Boyd
1893 – 1970
Glenn Barr
1932 – 2017
Ham Tae-young
1872 – 1964
Hanan Rubin
1908 – 1962
Harold Fawcus
1876 – 1947
Harold Huskilson
1920 – 2011
Harry Smith
1873 – 1928
Heinrich Hilgenreiner
1870 – 1954
Heinz Günther Hüsch
1929 – 2023
Helen Thompson Gaige
1890 – 1976
Helmut Wendelborn
1926 – 2003
Henry Fetherstonhaugh
1754 – 1846
Hideyoshi Arimatsu
1863 – 1927
Horace M. Hale
1833 – 1901
Horatio R. Rogers
1900 – 1958
Howard Mowll
1890 – 1958
Hugh Lennox Bond
1828 – 1893
Hyman Minsky
1919 – 1996
I. V. Sasi
1948 – 2017
Isao Imai
1914 – 2004
Ismat Chughtai
1911 – 1991
Israel Shatzman
1934 – 2017
J. Calvin Giddings
1930 – 1996
J. Edwin Ellerbe
1867 – 1917
J. William Middendorf II
1924 – 2025
Jackie Robinson
1919 – 1972
Jacksel M. Broughton
1925 – 2014
Jadwiga Barańska
1935 – 2024
James Granville Johnson
1855 – 1936
James Scollay Whitney
1811 – 1878
James Wickersham
1857 – 1939
James Williams Adams
1839 – 1903
Jerzy Kukuczka
1948 – 1989
Johan Wollebæk
1875 – 1940
Johann Christian Friedrich Steudel
1779 – 1837
Johann Joseph von Prechtl
1778 – 1854
… and 1,663 more