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Rodney James Alcala, also known as John Berger and John Burger, was an American serial killer and convicted sex offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979.
Notable Deaths on July 24
2021 — Rodney Alcala
American serial killer (born 1943)
July 24 has 81 recorded notable deaths across history, from 759 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
81 source records
759 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on July 24
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- 1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. Source
- 1847 After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Source
- 1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. Source
- 1929 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers). Source
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Hemsley also won an NAACP Image Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series or Special in 1982.
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In 1979 he became Britain's first £1 million player following his transfer from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest.
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Orleans is an American pop rock band formed in 1972 in Woodstock, New York, by John Hall, Larry Hoppen, and Wells Kelly.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators.
More major people who died on July 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2012
Sherman Hemsley
American actor and singer (born 1938)
Sherman Alexander Hemsley was an American actor and comedian. He was known for his roles as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons (1975–1985), Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC…
2023
Trevor Francis
Britain's first "£1 million football player" (born 1954)
Trevor John Francis was an English footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in England, the United States, Italy, Scotland and Australia.
2012
Larry Hoppen
American singer and guitarist (born 1951)
Orleans is an American pop rock band formed in 1972 in Woodstock, New York, by John Hall, Larry Hoppen, and Wells Kelly.
1991
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.
1965
Constance Bennett
American actress and producer (born 1904)
Constance Campbell Bennett was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
1851
Matooskie
First Nations woman
Matooskie, also known as Anne "Nancy" McKenzie, was a First Nations woman of the Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né) nation in Canada.
2012
John Atta Mills
Ghanaian lawyer and politician, President of Ghana (born 1944)
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012.
1957
Sacha Guitry
French actor and director (born 1885)
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre.
1891
Hermann Raster
German-American journalist and politician (born 1827)
Hermann Raster was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely circulated newspaper in the German…
2000
Ahmad Shamloo
Iranian poet and journalist (born 1925)
Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran.
1685
Ivan Ančić
Croatian Franciscan and religious writer (born 1624)
Ivan Ančić was a Croatian Franciscan priest and religious writer in the Catholic Revival tradition.
2016
Marni Nixon
American actress and singer (born 1930)
Margaret Nixon McEathron, known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in musical films.
2025
Cleo Laine
English singer and actress (born 1927)
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth was a British singer and actress known for her scat singing. She was the wife of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec and singer Jacqui Dankworth.
2025
Hulk Hogan
American professional wrestler and actor (born 1953)
Terry Gene Bollea, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler and media personality.
1568
Carlos
Prince of Asturias (born 1545)
Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Philip II of Spain. His mother was Maria Manuela of Portugal, daughter of John III of Portugal.
1997
Saw Maung
Burmese general and politician, seventh Prime Minister of Burma (born 1928)
Saw Maung was a Burmese military leader and statesman who served as Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and Prime Minister of Burma from 1988 until 1992, when he was deposed by rival generals…
2007
Albert Ellis
American psychologist and author (born 1913)
Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT).
1974
James Chadwick
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S.
2013
Pius Langa
South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1939)
Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB was Chief Justice of South Africa from June 2005 to October 2009.