Historical Deaths for Tomorrow

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - December 24, 2024

1987 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68

1945 Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67

1453 John Dunstable, English composer, dies

1974 Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70

1862 Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84

1961 Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76

1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un R‚alisme Socialiste), dies at 85

1994 Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78

1930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67

1994 John Keith Wright, English Asst Sect of State (1971-84), dies at 66

1979 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55

1996 Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47

1932 Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60

1707 No‰l Coypel, French painter, dies at 78

1995 Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59

1997 James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67

1942 Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists

1952 Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58

1944 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66

1930 Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56

1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55

1984 Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61

1823 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68

1975 Otto AP FЃrst von Bismarck-Sch”nhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78

1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81

1980 Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73

1898 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41

1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46

1548 Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies

1997 Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57

1980 Karl D”nitz, German great admiral/FЃhrer (1945), dies at 89

1994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82

1966 Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69

1992 Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies

1997 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77

1907 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies

1957 Norma Talmadge, US actress (sign on bay), dies at 60

1993 Yen Chia-kan, PM/Pres of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies

1660 Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29

1994 John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47

1997 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69

1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85

1069 Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies

1984 Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53

1994 Julie Haydon, [Donella Donaldson], US actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84

1954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 of Russian Roulette

1993 Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95

1995 Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76

1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80

1935 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50

1979 Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/sect-gen NATO, dies at 82

1986 Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75

1977 Harri‰t Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66

1972 Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79

1524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55

1996 Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies

1996 Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77

1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57

1541 Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61

1380 John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies

1942 Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80

1863 W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52

1972 Ernst Kreuder, writer, dies at 69

1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79

1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65

1992 Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64

1955 Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67

1994 Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74

1975 Bernard Herrmann, US movie composer, dies at 64

1994 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65

1942 K Balmont, writer, dies at 75

1908 Fran‡ois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80

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