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In a career spanning 65 years, he worked in over 300 films, holding the record for starring in the highest number of hit films in Hindi cinema.
Notable Deaths on November 24
2025 — Dharmendra
Indian actor (born 1935)
November 24 has 115 recorded notable deaths across history, from 654 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
115 source records
654 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on November 24
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2016 The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war. Source
- 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). Source
- 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. Source
- 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. Source
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Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia.
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Goo Hara was a member of the K-pop girl group Kara, and had also appeared in television dramas including City Hunter (2011).
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George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s.
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Barbara Taylor Bradford's debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
More major people who died on November 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1982
Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (born 1936)
Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995).
2019
Goo Hara
South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)
Goo Hara, also known mononymously as Hara, was a South Korean singer and actress. She was a member of the K-pop girl group Kara, and had also appeared in television dramas including City Hunter (2011).
1980
George Raft
American actor and dancer (born 1901)
George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s.
2024
Barbara Taylor Bradford
British novelist (born 1933)
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American best-selling novelist. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
1990
Dodie Smith
English author and playwright (born 1896)
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
1948
Anna Jarvis
American founder of Mother's Day (born 1864)
Anna Maria Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day in the United States.
1990
Fred Shero
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)
Frederick Alexander Shero was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager.
1583
René de Birague
French cardinal (born 1506)
René de Birague was an Italian then French noble, lieutenant-general, chancellor and cardinal during the latter Italian Wars and the French Wars of Religion.
1072
Bagrat IV of Georgia (born 1018)
Bagrat IV, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1027 to 1072.
1920
Alexandru Macedonski
Romanian author and poet (born 1854)
Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement…
1530
Mingyi Nyo
Burmese ruler (born 1459)
Mingyi Nyo, was the founder of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar).
1468
Jean de Dunois
French soldier (born 1402)
Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois, known as the "Bastard of Orléans" or simply Jean de Dunois, was a French military leader during the Hundred Years' War who participated in military campaigns with Joan of Arc.
2008
Cecil H. Underwood
American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922)
Cecil Harland Underwood was an American politician who served as the 25th and 32nd governor of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961, and again from 1997 to 2001.
1890
August Belmont
German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (born 1816)
August Belmont Sr. was a German-American financier, diplomat, and Democratic Party politician.
2006
Juice Leskinen
Finnish singer-songwriter (born 1950)
Juhani Juice Leskinen, better known as Juice Leskinen was one of the most important and successful Finnish singer-songwriters of the late 20th century.
1997
Barbara
French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1930)
Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odesa, Ukraine.
2009
Abe Pollin
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1923)
Abraham J. Pollin was a real estate developer, professional sports team owner, and philanthropist in the Washington metropolitan area.
1675
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Indian guru (born 1621)
Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and was the leader of Sikhs from 1664 until his beheading in 1675.
1326
Hugh Despenser the Younger
English courtier (born 1296)
Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser was an English nobleman and royal favourite.