January 24 - Deaths

Deaths

• 41 – Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
• 772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
• 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• 1125 – David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
• 1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
• 1376 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
• 1473 – Conrad Paumann, German composer
• 1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
• 1626 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
• 1639 – Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
• 1666 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
• 1709 – George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
• 1769 – François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
• 1856 – Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
• 1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
• 1882 – Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
• 1883 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
• 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
• 1911 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
• 1918 – George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
• 1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1924 – Anna Bayerová, Czech physician (b. 1853)
• 1924 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
• 1932 – Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
• 1936 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
• 1939 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
• 1943 – John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
• 1948 – Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
• 1955 – Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
• 1955 – Henry Potter, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Arthur Murray Chisholm, author of Western fiction (b. 1872)
• 1960 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and inventor (b. 1884)
• 1962 – André Lhote, French painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
• 1970 – Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
• 1971 – William Griffith "Bill" Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
• 1975 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (b. 1887)
• 1982 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
• 1983 – George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
• 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
• 1986 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1989 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
• 1990 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1991 – John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
• 1992 – Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Yves Navarre, French writer (b. 1940)
• 1998 – Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2002 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
• 2007 – Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
• 2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest military veteran (b. 1891)
• 2008 – Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
• 2009 – Gérard Blanc, French singer (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Reg Gutteridge, British boxing journalist (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Gerardo Ortega, Filipino Journalist and Environmentalist (b. 1963)
• 2012 – James Farentino, American actor (b. 1938)