Notable Deaths on February 24

Q: Who died on February 24?

Notable people who died on February 24 include: Æthelberht of Kent, Liu Yun, Borrell, Thomas, Charles III of Naples (born 1345).

Q: What is Dinah Shore known for?

Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (born 1916)

95 people 616 – 2025

February 24 has seen 95 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 616 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1994 — Dinah Shore

American actress and singer (born 1916)

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She had a string of eighty charted popular hits, spanning from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television

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Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page.

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She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s

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TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time

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Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, television personality, author, and talk show host

Æthelberht of Kent

Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon…

616

Liu Yun

Chinese governor (jiedushi)

Liu Yun, probably known as Liu Chengyun before 949, referred to in historical sources as the Duke of Xiangyin (湘陰公), was a military governor of the Later Han dynasty during the Five Dynasties period. He was an ethnic…

951

Borrell

bishop of Vic

Borrell was the bishop of Vic from 1010 until 1017. He was elected to replace Arnulf, who had died in battle against the Córdobans, and his episcopate coincided with the renewed colonisation of the west of Catalonia.

1018

Thomas

archbishop of York

Thomas II was a medieval archbishop of York.

1114

Charles III of Naples (born 1345)

Charles III of Naples, also called Charles the Small or Charles of Durazzo, was King of Naples and the titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and also King of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles…

1386

Eberhard I

Duke of Württemberg (born 1445)

Eberhard I of Württemberg also known as Eberhard im Bart was the first Duke of Württemberg. After the death of his older brother in 1459 he became the Count of Württemberg-Urach as Eberhard V. In 1482 he signed the…

1496

Jacques de La Palice

French nobleman and military officer (born 1470)

Jacques de La Palice was a French nobleman and military officer. He was the lord of Chabannes, La Palice, Pacy, Chauverothe, Bort-le-Comte and Héron. In 1511, he received the title of Grand Master of France.

1525

Guillaume Gouffier

seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born c. 1488)

Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet was a French soldier.

1525

Richard de la Pole

last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (born 1480)

Richard de la Pole was a pretender to the English crown. Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England. He lived in exile after many of his relatives…

1525

Properzia de' Rossi

Italian Renaissance sculptor

Properzia de' Rossi was a female Italian Renaissance sculptor and one of only four women to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

1530

Francis

Duke of Guise (born 1519)

François de Lorraine, 2nd Duke of Guise, 1st Prince of Joinville, and 1st Duke of Aumale, was a French general and statesman. A prominent leader during the Italian War of 1551–1559 and French Wars of Religion, he was…

1563

Henry FitzAlan

19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)

Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman, who over his long life assumed a prominent place at the court of all the later Tudor sovereigns.

1580

Johann Weyer

Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)

Johannes Wier was a Dutch physician who was among the first to publish a thorough treatise against the trials and persecution of people accused of witchcraft. His most influential work is De Praestigiis Daemonum et…

1588

Nicholas Lanier

English composer and painter (born 1588)

Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction. He was the court…

1666

Prataprao Gujar

3rd Commander-in-chief of Maratha Confederacy

Prataprao Gujar was a Maratha general who served as the 3rd Senapati of the Maratha Empire during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He commander the Maratha Army until 1674.

1674

Charles Howard

1st Earl of Carlisle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland (born 1629)

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle was an English military leader and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1653 and 1660 and was created Earl of Carlisle in 1661.

1685

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

French composer (born 1643)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his Te Deum H.146, Marche en rondeau. This theme is still used…

1704

Edmund Andros

English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1637)

Sir Edmund Andros was an English army officer and colonial administrator. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other times, Andros served as governor of the…

1714

John Sheffield

1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1648)

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was a British military officer, writer and Tory politician who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his original title,…

1721

Francis Charteris

Scottish soldier (born 1675)

Colonel Francis Charteris, nicknamed "The Rape-Master General", was a Scottish soldier and adventurer who earned a substantial sum of money through gambling and the South Sea Bubble. He was also a serial rapist who was…

1732

Joseph I of Portugal (born 1714)

Dom Joseph I, known as the Reformer, was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Among other activities, he was devoted to hunting and the opera. His government was controlled by Sebastião José de…

1777

Carlo Buonaparte

Corsican lawyer and politician (born 1746)

Carlo Maria Buonaparte, also known as Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Charles-Marie Bonaparte, was a Corsican attorney, nobleman, and official, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte and grandfather of Napoleon…

1785

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German physicist and academic (born 1742)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics. He is remembered for his…

1799

Henry Cavendish

French-English physicist and chemist (born 1731)

Henry Cavendish was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed…

1810

Étienne-Louis Malus

French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)

Étienne-Louis Malus was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician.

1812

Robert Fulton

American engineer (born 1765)

Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat. In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson…

1815

Thomas Bowdler

English physician and philanthropist (born 1754)

Thomas Bowdler was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. The two sought a version they saw…

1825

Nikolai Lobachevsky

Russian mathematician and academic (born 1792)

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet…

1856

Joseph Jenkins Roberts

American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (born 1809)

Joseph Jenkins Roberts was an African American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence,…

1876

Shiranui Kōemon

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (born 1825)

Shiranui Kōemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kikuchi, Higo Province. He was the sport's 11th yokozuna. He gives his name to one of the two styles for the yokozuna's in-ring ceremony, although the…

1879

Osman Hamdi Bey

Turkish archaeologist and painter (born 1842)

Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father…

1910

Joshua Chamberlain

American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (born 1828)

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer,…

1914

Hjalmar Branting

Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)

Karl Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden on three occasions from 1920 to 1925. From 1907 until his death in 1925, Branting led the Social Democratic Party (SAP),…

1925

Edward Marshall Hall

English lawyer and politician (born 1858)

Sir Edward Marshall Hall, was an English barrister who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of notorious murders and became known as "The Great Defender".

1927

André Messager

French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1853)

André Charles Prosper Messager was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux…

1929

Hermann von Ihering

German-Brazilian zoologist (born 1850)

Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering was a German Brazilian doctor, professor and ornithologist. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.

1930

Robert La Follette Jr.

American politician, senator of Wisconsin (born 1895)

Robert Marion La Follette Jr. was an American politician who served as United States senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947. A member of the La Follette family, he was often referred to by the nickname "Young Bob" to…

1953

Gerd von Rundstedt

German field marshal (born 1875)

Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany and Oberbefehlshaber West during World War II. At the end of the war, aged 69, with over 52 years of service, he was…

1953

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (born 1886)

Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the State of…

1967

Conrad Nagel

American actor (born 1897)

John Conrad Nagel was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Honorary Academy Award in 1940, and three stars…

1970

Margaret Leech

American historian and author (born 1895)

Margaret Kernochan Leech, also known as Margaret Pulitzer, was an American historian and fiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for History both in 1942 and in 1960.

1974

Hans Bellmer

German artist (born 1902)

Hans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and…

1975

Nikolai Bulganin

Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1895)

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. He also served as Minister of Defense, following service in the Red Army during World War II.

1975

Alma Thomas

American painter and educator (born 1891)

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be…

1978

Virginia Bruce

American actress (born 1910)

Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.

1982

Rukmini Devi Arundale

Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (born 1904)

Rukmini Devi Arundale was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam, and an activist for animal welfare.

1986

Tommy Douglas

Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1904)

Thomas Clement Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was…

1986

Tony Conigliaro

American baseball player (born 1945)

Anthony Richard Conigliaro, nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere,…

1990

Malcolm Forbes

American sergeant and publisher (born 1917)

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American businessman and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He represented Somerset County in the New…

1990

Sandro Pertini

Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (born 1896)

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian politician, socialist, partisan and journalist who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.

1990

Johnnie Ray

American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927)

John Alvin Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced…

1990

John Daly

American journalist and game show host (born 1914)

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly was an American journalist, host, CBS radio and television personality, ABC News executive, TV anchor, and game show host, best known for his work on the CBS panel game show What's My…

1991

George Gobel

American actor (born 1919)

George Leslie Goebel was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. He was best known as the star of his own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from 1954 to 1959 and on CBS from 1959…

1991

Webb Pierce

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)

Michael Webb Pierce was an American country music vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number-one hits than any other country and western performer during…

1991

Danny Gallivan

Canadian sportscaster (born 1917)

Daniel Leo Gallivan was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster.

1993

Bobby Moore

English footballer and manager (born 1941)

Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore was an English professional footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years, and was the captain of the England national team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He is…

1993

Jean Sablon

French singer and actor (born 1906)

Jean Sablon was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and American names, he was the first to use…

1994

Antonio Prohías

Cuban-American cartoonist (born 1921)

Antonio Prohías was a Cuban-American cartoonist. He was the creator of the satirical comic strip Spy vs. Spy, which he illustrated for Mad magazine from 1961 to 1987.

1998

Henny Youngman

English-American comedian and violinist (born 1906)

Henry "Henny" Youngman was an American comedian and musician famous for his mastery of the "one-liner", his best known being "Take my wife... please".

1998

Andre Dubus

American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (born 1936)

Andre Jules Dubus II was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.

1999

Theodore Marier

American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (born 1912)

Theodore Norbert Marier was a church musician, educator, arranger and scholar of Gregorian Chant. He founded St. Paul's Choir School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, and served as the second president of the Church…

2001

Claude Shannon

American mathematician, cryptographer, and engineer (born 1916)

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man who laid the…

2001

Leo Ornstein

Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1893)

Leo Ornstein was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre…

2002

John Randolph

American actor (born 1915)

Emanuel Hirsch Cohen, better known by the stage name John Randolph, was an American film, television and stage actor.

2004

Coşkun Kırca

Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician (born 1927)

Coşkun Kırca was a Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician. He served as the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995. He was at first a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP), then of the Republican…

2005

Octavia E. Butler

American author and educator (born 1947)

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction…

2006

Don Knotts

American actor and comedian (born 1924)

Jesse Donald Knotts was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, for which he earned five Emmy Awards. He also played…

2006

John Martin

Canadian broadcaster, co-founded MuchMusic (born 1947)

John Martin was a Canadian broadcaster, credited with "almost single-handedly" creating music television in Canada.

2006

Dennis Weaver

American actor, director, and producer (born 1924)

Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous…

2006

Bruce Bennett

American shot putter and actor (born 1906)

Bruce Bennett was an American film and television actor who was a college athlete in football and in intercollegiate and international track-and-field competitions. In 1928, he won the silver medal for the shot put at…

2007

Damien Nash

American football player (born 1982)

Damien Darnell Nash was an American professional football running back who played for the Tennessee Titans and Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He died after the 2006 season, his only season with…

2007

Larry Norman

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)

Larry David Norman was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Christian rock music and released more than 100 albums.

2008

Dawn Brancheau

senior animal trainer at SeaWorld (born 1969)

Dawn Therese Brancheau was an American animal trainer at SeaWorld. She worked with orcas at SeaWorld Orlando for fifteen years, including a leading role in revamping the Shamu show, and was SeaWorld's poster girl. She…

2010

Anant Pai

Indian author and illustrator (born 1929)

Anant Pai, popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics. He is most famous as the creator of two comic book series viz. Amar Chitra Katha, which retold traditional Indian…

2011

Agnes Allen

American baseball player and therapist (born 1930)

Agnes Lorraine "Aggie" Allen was a pitcher and outfielder who played from 1950 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 120 lb, she batted and threw…

2012

Oliver Wrong

English nephrologist and academic (born 1925)

Professor Oliver Murray Wrong was an eminent academic nephrologist and one of the founders of the speciality in the United Kingdom. From a background as a "salt and water" physician, he made detailed clinical…

2012

Virgil Johnson

American singer (born 1935)

The Velvets were an American doo-wop group from Odessa, Texas, United States. They were formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson, a high-school English teacher, with four of his students. Roy Orbison heard the group and signed…

2013

Con Martin

Irish footballer and manager (born 1923)

Cornelius Joseph Martin was an Irish footballer. Martin initially played Gaelic football for the Dublin county team before switching codes and embarking on a successful soccer career, playing for, among others,…

2013

Franny Beecher

American guitarist (born 1921)

Francis Eugene Beecher was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated elements of jazz. He composed the classics "Blue…

2014

Alexis Hunter

New Zealand-English painter and photographer (born 1948)

Alexis Jan Atthill Hunter was a New Zealand painter and photographer, who used feminist theory in her work. She lived and worked in London UK, and Beaurainville France. Hunter was also a member of the Stuckism…

2014

Carlos Páez Vilaró

Uruguayan painter and sculptor (born 1923)

Carlos Páez Vilaró was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force…

2014

Harold Ramis

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)

Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote…

2014

Mefodiy

Ukrainian metropolitan (born 1949)

Metropolitan Mefodiy was the Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

2015

Rakhat Aliyev

Kazakh politician and diplomat (born 1962)

Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev was a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015. Austrian legal…

2015

Peter Kenilorea

Solomon Islands politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (born 1943)

Sir Peter Kenilorea was a Solomon Islander politician, officially styled The Rt Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He was the first prime minister of an independent Solomon…

2016

Nabil Maleh

Syrian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)

Nabil Maleh was a Syrian film director, screenwriter, producer, painter and poet; he is thought to be a father of Syrian cinema. Nabil has published more than 1,000 articles, short stories, essays and poems. He is the…

2016

George C. Nichopoulos

American soldier and physician (born 1927)

George Constantine Nichopoulos, also known as Dr. Nick, was an American physician of Greek descent. He was Elvis Presley's personal physician and was controversial due to the singer's abuse of prescription drugs. The…

2016

Sridevi

Indian actress (born 1963)

Sridevi Kapoor, known mononymously as Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. Cited as the "first female superstar" of Indian cinema, she was the…

2018

Haukur Hilmarsson

Icelandic political activist and internationalist volunteer fighter (born 1986)

Haukur Hilmarsson was an Icelandic political activist. He played a crucial role in initiating a movement for the rights of refugees in Iceland. He rose to prominence during the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests…

2018

Katherine Johnson

American physicist and mathematician (born 1918)

Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.…

2020

Ronald Pickup

English actor (born 1940)

Ronald Alfred Pickup was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in Doctor Who. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific stage star and an…

2021

Edith Roger

Norwegian dancer and choreographer (born 1922)

Edith Roger was a Norwegian dancer, choreographer, and stage director.

2023

Kumar Shahani

Indian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)

Kumar Shahani was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990). His films won the Filmfare Critics Award for…

2024

Roberta Flack

American singer and pianist (born 1937)

Roberta Cleopatra Flack was an American singer and pianist known for her emotive, genre-blending ballads that spanned R&B, jazz, folk, and pop and contributed to the birth of the quiet storm radio format. Her commercial…

2025

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Known forBorn in Winchester, Tennessee and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era

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Russo-Ukrainian War: Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wikipedia →

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Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace the Pakatan Harapan government, which triggered the 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis. Wikipedia →

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Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashes, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport. Wikipedia →

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