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He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v
Notable Deaths on January 24
67 people
41 – 2025
January 24 has seen 67 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 41 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1993 — Thurgood Marshall
American lawyer and jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (born 1908)
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A staunch liberal, he frequently dissented as the Court became increasingly conservative.
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Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991
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Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967
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Before his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought for civil rights, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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Pope Stephen IV was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from June 816 to his death on 24 January 817. Stephen belonged to a noble Roman family. In October 816, he crowned Louis the Pious as emperor at…
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1046
David IV, also known as David IV the Builder, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125.
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1125
Alfonso IV, called the Kind, was King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1327 to his death. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens, and Duchy of Neopatria into the Crown of Aragon.
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1336
10th Earl of Arundel, English commander (born 1306)
Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey was an English nobleman and medieval military leader and distinguished admiral. Arundel was one of the wealthiest nobles, and most loyal noble retainer of the…
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1376
German organist and composer (born 1410)
Conrad Paumann was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the early Renaissance. Born blind, he became one of the most talented musicians of the 15th century, and his performances created a sensation wherever he…
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1473
Florentine painter (born 1482)
Franciabigio was an Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance. His true name may have been Francesco di Cristofano; he is also referred to as either Marcantonio Franciabigio or Francia Bigio.
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1525
Archduke of Austria (born 1529)
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria was ruler of Further Austria and Imperial Count of Tyrol since 1564. The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he first married Philippine Welser, and later Anna Caterina Gonzaga.…
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1595
English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1572)
Sir Samuel Argall was an English sea captain, navigator, and Deputy-Governour of Virginia, an English colony.
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1626
Swiss pastor and politician (born 1596)
Jörg Jenatsch, also called Jürg or Georg Jenatsch, was a Swiss political leader during the Thirty Years' War, one of the most striking figures in the troubled history of the Grisons in the 17th century.
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1639
German composer and theorist (born 1588)
Johann Andreas Herbst was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in importing the grand Venetian style and…
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1666
English admiral and politician (born 1650)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rooke was an Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Solebay and again at the Battle of Schooneveld during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. As a…
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1709
German physicist and journalist (born 1796)
Johann Christian Poggendorff was a German physicist born in Hamburg. Poggendorff is best known for his work related to electricity and magnetism, most notably the electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm…
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1877
English painter (born 1825)
James Collinson was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. Collinson was known for the paintings,The Renunciation of St Elizabeth of Hungary, To Let and For Sale.…
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1881
German composer (born 1812)
Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.
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1883
English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1849)
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was a British aristocrat and politician. He was a Tory radical who coined the term "Tory democracy" and participated in the creation of the "National Union of the Conservative…
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1895
Irish songwriter, entertainer and artist (born 1854)
William Percy French was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter.
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1920
Italian painter and sculptor (born 1884)
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elongation of faces,…
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1920
Swiss physician, created Muesli (born 1867)
Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, M.D. was a Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist credited for popularizing muesli and raw food vegetarianism.
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1939
South African politician (born 1877)
Morris Alexander was a South African lawyer and politician who was a leading figure of Cape Town's Jewish community. He is best known for his successful campaign to have Yiddish recognized as a European language by…
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1946
Swiss pianist and conductor (born 1886)
Edwin Fischer was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century.
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1960
American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (born 1884)
Alfred Carlton Gilbert was an American inventor, athlete, magician, toy maker and businessman. As the founder of A. C. Gilbert Company, Gilbert was known for inventing the Erector Set and American Flyer Trains.
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1961
French sculptor and painter (born 1885)
André Lhote was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
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1962
Turkish author, poet, and scholar (born 1901)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic…
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1962
English statesman, soldier, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For…
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1965
Indian physicist and academic (born 1909)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata…
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1966
American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (born 1891)
Caresse Crosby was an American publisher and writer. Time called her the "literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris." As an American patron of the arts, she and her second husband, Harry…
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1970
1971
American actor (born 1896)
Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish was an American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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1973
American comedian (born 1902)
Larry Fine was an American actor, comedian and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges and was often called "The Middle Stooge".
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1975
Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (born 1918)
Alfredo Ovando Candia was a Bolivian military officer and political leader who served as the 48th president of Bolivia from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970. During his first term, he shared power with René Barrientos as…
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1982
American director and producer (born 1899)
George Dewey Cukor was an American film director and producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's head of production, assigned…
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1983
American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (born 1911)
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored the pseudoscientific book Dianetics:…
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1986
American actor and singer (born 1921)
Albert Gordon MacRae was an American actor, singer, and television and radio host. He appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956), and played the leading…
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1986
German-Danish mathematician and academic (born 1905)
Moritz Werner Fenchel was a German-Danish mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to optimization theory. Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory…
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1988
1989
American actress (born 1899)
Madge Bellamy was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy's career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.
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1990
American journalist and author (born 1907)
Jack Warner Schaefer was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, and the 1964 children's book…
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1991
1992
Estonian composer and conductor (born 1908)
Gustav Ernesaks was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor.
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1993
Turkish investigative journalist (born 1942)
Uğur Mumcu was a Turkish investigative journalist for the daily Cumhuriyet. He was assassinated by a bomb placed in his car outside his home.
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1993
Turkish police chief (born 1952)
Ali Gaffar Okkan was a Turkish police chief who was assassinated in an ambush in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey.
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2001
Lebanese commander and politician (born 1956)
Elie Hobeika was a Lebanese militia commander in the Lebanese Forces militia during the Lebanese Civil War and one of Bachir Gemayel's close confidants. He became infamous for his overseeing of the 1982 Sabra and…
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2002
Italian businessman (born 1921)
Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, nicknamed L'Avvocato, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its…
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2003
2004
Salvadoran politician (born 1930)
Schafik Jorge Hándal Hándal was a Salvadoran politician.
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2006
2007
Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1940)
İsmail Cem was a Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author and journalist who served as the Minister of Culture of Turkey from July 7 to October 26, 1995, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey…
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2007
Ecuadorian academic and politician (born 1956)
Guadalupe Larriva was an Ecuadorian politician.
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2007
Puerto Rican-American soldier (born 1891)
Emiliano Mercado del Toro was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian and military veteran who was, at age 115, the world's oldest person following the death of 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden on December 11, 2006, until his own…
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2007
Burmese-born First Lady of India (born 1922)
Usha Narayanan, born Tint Tint, was the First Lady of India from 1997 to 2002. She was married to K. R. Narayanan, the tenth President of India. Usha Narayanan was India's second foreign-born first lady after Janaki…
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2008
American actor (born 1928)
Pernell Elven Roberts Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor, activist, and singer. In addition to guest-starring in over 60 television series, he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest…
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2010
German director and producer (born 1949)
Bernd Eichinger was a German film producer, screenwriter, and director.
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2011
Israeli lawyer and politician, 11th Israeli Minister of Education (born 1928)
Shulamit Aloni was an Israeli politician. She founded the progressive Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party, Leader of the Opposition from 1988 to 1990, and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993. In…
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2014
Honduran academic and politician (born 1930)
Rafael Pineda Ponce was a Honduran professor and politician in the Liberal Party of Honduras and President of the National Congress of Honduras from 1998 to 2002.
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2014
German lieutenant and pharmacist (born 1922)
Otto Carius was a German tank commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He fought on the Eastern Front in 1943 and 1944 and on the Western Front in 1945. Carius is considered a "panzer ace", some sources credited…
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2015
German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (born 1928)
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and…
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2016
American computer scientist and academic (born 1927)
Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky…
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2016
English colonel and explorer (born 1960)
Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.
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2016
Polish Roman Catholic missionary (born 1991)
Helena Agnieszka Kmieć was a Polish Catholic missionary who was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit. In May 2024, her sainthood cause was opened and she was named a Servant of God.
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2017
American drummer (born 1947)
Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born and raised…
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2017
British singer-songwriter (born 1957)
Mark Edward Smith was an English singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall. Smith formed the band after attending the Sex Pistols' 20 July 1976…
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2018
American United States Naval Aviator (born 1953)
Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was an American pilot and one of the first six women to earn their wings as a United States Naval Aviator in 1974. She was the first female military pilot to fly a tactical jet and the…
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2019
American swimmer and aviator (born 1920)
Iris Cummings, also known by her married name Iris Critchell, was an American aviator and competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. After an active athletic…
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2025
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Who died on January 24?
Thurgood Marshall — US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
FeaturedThurgood Marshall
Death year1993
Known forHe was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice
Deaths on this date67 (41 – 2025)
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