Notable Deaths on October 24

Q: Who died on October 24?

Notable people who died on October 24 include: Li Yu, Hugh Capet, Jocelin of Soissons, William IV, Qutuz.

Q: What is Fats Domino known for?

Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (born 1928)

120 people 935 – 2025

October 24 has seen 120 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 935 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2017 — Fats Domino

American pianist and singer-songwriter (born 1928)

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His first single "The Fat Man" is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies

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One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records

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Born in New Orleans to a French Creole family, Domino signed to Imperial Records in 1949

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Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits

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By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.

Li Yu

Chinese official and chancellor

Li Yu (李愚), courtesy name Zihui (子晦), known in his youth as Li Yanping (李晏平), was a Chinese essayist, historian, and politician of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period states Later Liang and Later Tang, serving as…

935

Hugh Capet

French king

Hugh Capet was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxony, he was elected as the successor of…

996

Jocelin of Soissons

French theologian, philosopher and composer

Jocelin of Soissons was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the Codex Calixtinus. He was teaching at the…

1152

William IV

Count of Nevers, French nobleman

William IV, was count of Nevers, Auxerre, and Tonnerre from 1161 until his death.

1168

Qutuz

Egyptian sultan

Sayf ad-Din Qutuz, also romanized as Kutuz or Kotuz and fully al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Sayf ad-Dīn Quṭuz, was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. He reigned as Sultan for less than a year, from 1259 until his assassination in 1260,…

1260

Valdemar IV

Danish king (born 1320)

Valdemar IV Atterdag (the Restorer), Valdemar Christoffersen or Waldemar (c. 1320 – 24 October 1375) was King of Denmark from 1340 to 1375. He is best known for reunifying Denmark after the kingdom had effectively…

1375

Jane Seymour

English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1508)

Jane Seymour was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who…

1537

Edward Stanley

3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1508)

Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby was an English nobleman and politician. He succeeded his father as Lord of Mann until his death, and then was succeeded by his son.

1572

Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer and alchemist (born 1546)

Tycho Brahe, generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations which helped to turn astronomy into the first modern science and…

1601

Jean Titelouze

French organist and composer (born 1562/3)

Jean (Jehan) Titelouze was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the…

1633

Robert Bertie

1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (born 1582)

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, 16 December 1582 – 24 October 1642, was an English peer, naval officer, soldier and courtier.

1642

Pierre Gassendi

French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1592)

Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of…

1655

William Prynne

English lawyer and author (born 1600)

William Prynne, an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645). His views were…

1669

John Webb

English architect and scholar (born 1611)

John Webb was an English architect and scholar, who collaborated on some works with Inigo Jones.

1672

Alessandro Scarlatti

Italian composer and educator (born 1660)

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan School of opera.

1725

William Bartram

American scientist and politician (born 1711)

Colonel William Bartram was an American scientist and politician in the Province of North Carolina. He was a Quaker and the uncle of the naturalist of the same name.

1770

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Austrian violinist and composer (born 1739)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. His best-known works include the German singspiel Doktor und Apotheker and a number of programmatic…

1799

Elias Boudinot

American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (born 1740)

Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary…

1821

Israel Bissell

American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (born 1752)

Israel Bissell, also spelled Bissel, was a patriot post rider who delivered mail between Boston, Massachusetts and New York.

1824

Daniel Webster

American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (born 1782)

Daniel Webster was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry…

1852

Raffaello Carboni

Italian-Australian author and poet (born 1817)

Raffaello Carboni was an Italian writer, composer and interpreter who wrote a book on the Eureka Stockade which he witnessed while living in Australia. Although only a spectator at the Eureka Rebellion he was charged…

1875

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

French painter and illustrator (born 1824)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work…

1898

Désiré Charnay

French archaeologist and photographer (born 1828)

Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.

1915

James Carroll Beckwith

American painter and academic (born 1852)

James Carroll Beckwith was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure in American art.

1917

George Cadbury

English businessman (born 1839)

George Cadbury was an English Quaker businessman and social reformer who expanded his father's Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company in Britain.

1922

Dutch Schultz

American mob boss (born 1902)

Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers…

1935

Nils Wahlbom

Swedish actor (born 1886)

Nils Wahlbom was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in around forty films including The Women Around Larsson (1934).

1937

Ernst Barlach

German sculptor and playwright (born 1870)

Ernst Heinrich Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change…

1938

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Canadian poet and painter (born 1912)

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was a Canadian poet, writer, letter writer, and essayist, who "was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s". He is mainly recognized for his literary…

1943

Louis Renault

French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (born 1877)

Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry.

1944

Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (born 1887)

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

1945

Franz Lehár

Austrian-Hungarian composer (born 1870)

Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.

1948

Frederic L. Paxson

American historian and author (born 1877)

Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian. He also served as the President of Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a…

1948

Yaroslav Halan

Ukrainian playwright and publicist (born 1902)

Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist.

1949

G. E. Moore

English philosopher and academic (born 1873)

George Edward Moore was an English philosopher who, alongside Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege, was an initiator of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasising the idealism…

1958

Yevgeny Ostashev

the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin Prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (born 1924)

Yevgeny Ilyich Ostashev was a combat engineer, test pilot of rocket and space technology, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, head of the 1st control polygon NIIP-5 (Baikonur), Lenin Prize…

1960

Toni Kinshofer

German mountaineer (born 1931)

Toni Kinshofer was a German mountaineer.

1964

Hans Meerwein

German chemist (born 1879)

Hans Meerwein was a German chemist. Several reactions and reagents bear his name, most notably the Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction, the Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, the Meerwein arylation reaction, and Meerwein's…

1965

Sofya Yanovskaya

Russian mathematician and historian (born 1896)

Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya was a Soviet mathematician, philosopher and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. She is best known for her efforts in…

1966

Behçet Kemal Çağlar

Turkish poet and politician (born 1908)

Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.

1969

Richard Hofstadter

American historian and author (born 1916)

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to…

1970

Carl Ruggles

American composer (born 1876)

Carl Ruggles was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow composer and musicologist Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. His method of atonal…

1971

Jo Siffert

Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (born 1936)

Joseph "Jo" Siffert was a Swiss racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1962 to 1971. Siffert won two Formula One Grands Prix across 10 seasons.

1971

Chuck Hughes

NFL player died during a game (born 1943)

Charles Frederick Hughes was an American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1967 to 1971 with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions. He is known for being the only…

1971

Jackie Robinson

American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1919)

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first…

1972

Claire Windsor

American actress (born 1892)

Claire Windsor was an American film actress of the silent screen era.

1972

David Oistrakh

Ukrainian violinist (born 1908)

David Fyodorovich Oistrakh was a Soviet Russian violinist, violist, and conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).

1974

İsmail Erez

Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (born 1919)

İsmail Erez was a Turkish diplomat who held several high-ranking posts in the Turkish Foreign Service.

1975

Zdzisław Żygulski

Polish historian, author, and academic (born 1888)

Zdzisław Żygulski was a Polish literary historian and Germanist. He was a professor at the universities of Łódź and Wrocław. An expert of German literature of 18th–19th century and antique drama, he published, with…

1975

Carlo Abarth

Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (born 1908)

Carlo Abarth, born Karl Albert Abarth, was an Italian automobile designer.

1979

Jiang Wen-Ye

Taiwanese composer and educator (born 1910)

Chiang Wen-yeh or Jiang Wenye was a Taiwan-born composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. He was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan and died in Beijing. While often known in the West by renditions of his…

1983

Richie Evans

American race car driver (born 1941)

Richard Ernest Evans, was an American racing driver who won nine NASCAR National Modified Championships, including eight in a row from 1978 to 1985. The International Motorsports Hall of Fame lists this achievement as…

1985

Maurice Roy

Canadian cardinal (born 1905)

Maurice Roy was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

1985

Jerzy Kukuczka

Polish mountaineer (born 1948)

Józef Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history. In 1987, he became the second man to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in the world, a feat known as the…

1989

Gene Roddenberry

American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (born 1921)

Eugene "Gene" Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los…

1991

Ismat Chughtai

Indian author and screenwriter (born 1915)

Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility,…

1991

Laurie Colwin

American novelist and short story writer (born 1944)

Laurie Colwin was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals of New York society and her food columns in Gourmet…

1992

Heinz Kubsch

German footballer (born 1930)

Heinz Kubsch was a German football goalkeeper.

1993

Yannis Hotzeas

Greek theoretician and author (born 1930)

Yannis Hotzeas was a Greek communist, Marxist theoretician and one of the principal founders of the Greek Marxist-Leninist movement.

1994

Raul Julia

Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (born 1940)

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor and humanitarian. He was best known for his intense and varied roles on stage and screen. He started his career in the Public Theater before transitioning to…

1994

Don Messick

American voice actor and singer (born 1926)

Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones; Astro in The…

1997

Berthe Qvistgaard

Danish actress (born 1910)

Berthe Qvistgaard was a Danish stage and film actress, and winner of the prestigious Tagea Brandt Rejselegat award in 1965.

1999

Kathleen Ankers

American actress and set designer (born 1919)

Kathleen Ankers was an American scenic designer, best known for her work on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.

2001

Wolf Rüdiger Hess

German author and critic (born 1937)

Wolf Rüdiger Hess was a German architect, the only son of Rudolf Hess and Ilse Hess.

2001

Jaromil Jireš

Czech director and screenwriter (born 1935)

Jaromil Jireš was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He was associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement.

2001

Winton M. Blount

American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (born 1921)

Winton Malcolm Blount, known as Red Blount, was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the United States Postmaster General from January 22, 1969, to January 1, 1972. He founded and served as the chief…

2002

Hernán Gaviria

Colombian footballer (born 1969)

Hernán Gaviria Carvajal was a Colombian footballer, who played as a central midfielder.

2002

Harry Hay

English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (born 1912)

Henry Hay Jr. was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He cofounded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely…

2002

Peggy Moran

American actress and singer (born 1918)

Peggy Moran was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943.

2002

Randy Dorton

American engineer (born 1954)

Randall Alexander Dorton was the Director of Engine Operations and lead engine builder for Hendrick Motorsports. With Dorton, the team won nine NASCAR championships.

2004

Ricky Hendrick

American race car driver and businessman (born 1980)

Joseph Riddick "Ricky" Hendrick IV was an American stock car racing driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a NASCAR team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on…

2004

James Aloysius Hickey

American cardinal (born 1920)

James Aloysius Hickey was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Washington from 1980 to 2000, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988. Hickey previously served as Bishop of Cleveland from 1974 to…

2004

Maaja Ranniku

Estonian chess player (born 1941)

Maaja Ranniku was an Estonian chess player.

2004

Joy Clements

American soprano and actress (born 1932)

Joy Clements was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan…

2005

José Azcona del Hoyo

Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)

José Simón Azcona del Hoyo was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH). He was born in La Ceiba in Honduras.

2005

Mokarrameh Ghanbari

Iranian painter (born 1928)

Mokarrameh Ghanbari was an Iranian self-taught painter who won several international art awards. She started painting at the age of 61 in 1991.

2005

Immanuel C. Y. Hsu

Chinese sinologist and scholar (born 1923)

Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

2005

Rosa Parks

American civil rights activist (born 1913)

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which…

2005

Robert Sloman

English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)

Robert Sloman was an English screenwriter and actor who later worked at The Sunday Times circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best known for his work on British television.

2005

Enolia McMillan

American educator and activist (born 1904)

Enolia Pettigen McMillan was an American educator, civil rights activist, and community leader. She was the first female national president of the NAACP.

2006

William Montgomery Watt

Scottish historian and scholar (born 1909)

William Montgomery Watt was a Scottish historian and orientalist. An Anglican priest, Watt served as Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1979 and was also a prominent…

2006

Petr Eben

Czech organist and composer (born 1929)

Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.

2007

Ian Middleton

New Zealand author (born 1928)

Ian Middleton was a New Zealand novelist, who made a particular mark with his books set in post-Second World War Japan. Born in New Plymouth, he was the younger brother of noted New Zealand short story writer O. E.…

2007

Alisher Saipov

Kyrgyzstan journalist (born 1981)

Alisher Saipov was a Kyrgyzstani journalist of Uzbek ethnic origin and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Siyosat of the country's ethnic Uzbek minority, which reported on human rights abuses in neighboring Uzbekistan.…

2007

Anne Weale

English journalist and author (born 1929)

Jay Blakeney was a British writer and newspaper reporter, well known as a romance novelist under the pen names Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 books for Mills & Boon from 1955 to 2002. She died on 24…

2007

Moshe Cotel

American pianist and composer (born 1943)

Moshe (Morris) Cotel was a pianist and composer whose music was strongly influenced by his Jewish roots. Cotel moved from his Jewish roots to focus on music for most of his life, and received his rabbinic ordination and…

2008

Mike Esposito

American author and illustrator (born 1927)

Michael "Mike" Esposito, who sometimes used the pseudonyms Mickey Demeo, Mickey Dee, Michael Dee, and Joe Gaudioso, was an American comic book artist whose work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and others spanned the 1950s…

2010

Lamont Johnson

American actor, director, and producer (born 1922)

Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. was an American actor and film director who appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.

2010

Joseph Stein

American author and playwright (born 1912)

Joseph Stein was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.

2010

Sansan Chien

Taiwanese composer and educator (born 1967)

Sansan Chien was a Taiwanese composer of contemporary classical music. Chien was well known in Taiwan for her teaching of music theory and composition.

2011

John McCarthy

American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (born 1927)

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in…

2011

Peggy Ahern

American actress (born 1917)

Peggy Lenore Ahearn Blaylock, known professionally as Peggy Ahern, was an American actress best known for her appearance in eight of the Our Gang series of films released between 1924 and 1927. The Our Gang series,…

2012

Anita Björk

Swedish actress (born 1923)

Anita Björk was a Swedish actress.

2012

Jeff Blatnick

American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1957)

Jeffrey Carl Blatnick was an American super heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and sports commentator. He won NCAA Division II heavyweight wrestling championships in 1978 and 1979 and won the Olympic gold medal in…

2012

Bill Dees

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)

William Marvin Dees was an American musician known for his songwriting collaborations with singer Roy Orbison.

2012

Margaret Osborne duPont

American tennis player (born 1918)

Margaret Osborne duPont was a world No. 1 American female tennis player.

2012

Antonia Bird

English director and producer (born 1951)

Antonia Jane Bird, FRSA was an English producer and director of television drama and feature films.

2013

Brooke Greenberg

American girl with a rare genetic disorder (born 1993)

Brooke Megan Greenberg was an American who became famous for being the first documented case of neotenic complex syndrome. Throughout her life of 20 years, she remained physically and cognitively similar to a toddler…

2013

Ana Bertha Lepe

Mexican model and actress (born 1934)

Ana Bertha Lepe Jiménez was a Mexican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. In 1953 she was crowned Miss México and the third runner-up at the Miss Universe 1953.

2013

Lew Mayne

American football player and coach (born 1920)

Lewis Elwood "Mickey" Mayne was an American football halfback who played three seasons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) between 1946 and 1948. Mayne played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cleveland Browns and…

2013

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

South African runner (born 1980)

Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi OIB was a South African middle-distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres.

2014

S. S. Rajendran

Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1928)

Sedapatti Suryanarayana Rajendran, also known by his initials SSR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer and politician who worked in Tamil theatre and cinema. He is also referred to as Latchiya Nadigar.

2014

Marcia Strassman

American actress and singer (born 1948)

Marcia Ann Strassman was an American actress and singer. She had roles on the TV programs Welcome Back, Kotter and M*A*S*H, as well as in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.

2014

Michael Beetham

English commander and pilot (born 1923)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael James Beetham, was a Second World War bomber pilot and a high-ranking commander in the Royal Air Force from the 1960s to the 1980s. As Chief of the Air Staff during the…

2015

Alvin Bronstein

American lawyer and academic (born 1928)

Alvin J. Bronstein was an American lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. According to his ACLU biography, 'he has argued numerous…

2015

Margarita Khemlin

Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (born 1960)

Margarita Khemlin was a Jewish-Ukrainian novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel Klotsvog.

2015

Ján Chryzostom Korec

Slovak cardinal (born 1924)

Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951.

2015

Maureen O'Hara

Irish-American actress and singer (born 1920)

Maureen O'Hara was an Irish and American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in…

2015

Bobby Vee

American pop singer (born 1943)

Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart…

2016

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez

Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (born 1927)

Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was an Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party, he previously served as National Representative from 1959…

2016

Robert Guillaume

American actor (born 1927)

Robert Guillaume was an American actor and singer. He played Benson DuBois in the ABC television series Soap and its spin-off, Benson. He also voiced the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, and played Isaac Jaffe in Aaron…

2017

Girija Devi

Indian classical singer (born 1929)

Girija Devi was an Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas. She performed classical and light classical music and helped elevate the profile of thumri. She was dubbed as the 'Queen of Thumri' for her…

2017

Tony Joe White

American singer/songwriter (born 1943)

Tony Joe White, nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular…

2018

James Michael Tyler

American actor (born 1962)

James Michael Tyler was an American actor best known for portraying Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends. Prior to acting, he was an assistant film editor and production assistant. His early works included being the…

2021

Leslie Jordan

American actor, writer, and singer (born 1955)

Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, several characters in the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The…

2022

Amir Abdur-Rahim

American basketball player and coach (born 1981)

Amir Abdur-Rahim was an American basketball coach and player who was the head coach of the South Florida Bulls men's basketball team. Prior to coaching at USF, he was the head coach at Kennesaw State from 2019 to 2023,…

2024

Abdelaziz Barrada

Moroccan footballer (born 1989)

Abdelaziz Barrada, sometimes known as Abdel, was a professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he represented Morocco at international level.

2024

Jeri Taylor

American screenwriter (born 1938)

Jeri Cecile Suer, known professionally as Jeri Taylor, was an American television scriptwriter and producer who wrote many episodes of the Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager series.

2024

Sirikit

Queen Mother of Thailand (born 1932)

Sirikit was Queen of Thailand from 28 April 1950 to 13 October 2016 as the wife of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

2025

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Fats Domino — American pianist and singer (1928–2017)

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Known forOne of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records

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The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic. Wikipedia →

2016

A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board. Wikipedia →

2016

Three heavily armed terrorists from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province open fire on and eventually suicide bomb a police training centre in Balochistan, Pakistan, killing at least 59 cadets and injuring more than 165 others. Wikipedia →

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