Did you know
Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974.
Notable Deaths on March 24
2016 — Johan Cruyff
Dutch footballer (born 1947)
March 24 has 107 recorded notable deaths across history, from 809 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
107 source records
809 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on March 24
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1854 President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela. Source
- 1982 Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law. Source
- 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. Source
- 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka. Source
Did you know
Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage television series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played secret agents.
Did you know
In 1980, Romero was fatally shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass.
Did you know
In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
Did you know
Alice Guy-Blaché's first film was La Fée aux Choux, and her last was Tarnished Reputations (1920).
More major people who died on March 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2010
Robert Culp
American actor (born 1930)
Robert Martin Culp was an American actor and screenwriter widely known for his work in television.
1980
Óscar Romero
Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador; he served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and…
1984
Sam Jaffe
American actor (born 1891)
Shalom "Sam" Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, mathematician, musician, and engineer.
1968
Alice Guy-Blaché
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873)
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film.
1455
Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)
Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455.
2020
Manu Dibango
Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933)
Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music.
1869
Antoine-Henri Jomini
French-Russian general (born 1779)
Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war.
1999
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
German politician (born 1902)
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock, was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League, a position…
1684
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch painter (born 1629)
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St.
832
Wulfred
archbishop of Canterbury
Wulfred was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Nothing is known of his life prior to 803, when he attended a church council, but he was probably a nobleman from Middlesex.
2015
notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
Maria Friderike Radner was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts. She studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.
2013
Inge Lønning
Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)
Inge Johan Lønning was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway. As an academic, he was Professor of Theology and Rector of the University of Oslo during the term 1985–1992.
1926
Phan Châu Trinh
Vietnamese activist (born 1872)
Phan Châu Trinh, courtesy name Tử Cán (梓幹), pen name Tây Hồ (西湖) or Hi Mã (希馬), was an early 20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and reformer. He sought to end France's colonial occupation of Vietnam.
1993
John Hersey
American journalist and author (born 1914)
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction…
2009
Gábor Ocskay
Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Gábor Ocskay Jr. was a Hungarian ice hockey player. As the center of the first line, he played a huge part in his national team's promotion to the 2009 World Championship.
1995
Joseph Needham
English historian and academic (born 1900)
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication…
2003
Hans Hermann Groër
Austrian cardinal (born 1919)
Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër, OSB was an Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995 and became a cardinal in 1988.
1909
John Millington Synge
Irish playwright and poet (born 1871)
Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklores.
1956
E. T. Whittaker
British mathematician and physicist (born 1873)
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science.