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Cited as the "first female superstar" of Indian cinema, she was the recipient of various accolades, including a National Film Award, Seven Filmfare Awards, Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, a Kerala State Film Award, and a Nandi Award.
Notable Deaths on February 24
2018 — Sridevi
Indian actress (born 1963)
February 24 has 95 recorded notable deaths across history, from 616 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
95 source records
616 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on February 24
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- 1826 The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War. Source
- 1946 Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina. Source
- 1812 Treaty of Paris between Napoleon and Frederick William III of Prussia against Russia is signed. Source
- 1831 The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West. Source
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Harold Ramis's film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films.
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Dinah Shore became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success.
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Dennis Weaver starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.
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The major source of his wealth was the Golconda mines, the only supplier of diamonds in the world at that time.
More major people who died on February 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2014
Harold Ramis
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
1994
Dinah Shore
American actress and singer (born 1916)
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, television personality, author, and talk show host.
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.
1967
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.
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.
1876
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.
1953
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.
1825
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, and for publishing other editions…
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.
1994
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.
2014
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.
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.
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.
2020
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.
1496
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.
1925
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.
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.
1990
Tony Conigliaro
American baseball player (born 1945)
Anthony Richard Conigliaro, nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox and California Angels (1971).
2025
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.