January 24

2024 Calendar

January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year (342 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

41 – Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 721)
817 - Pope Stephen IV (b. 770)
863 - Charles of Provence (b. 845)
1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1125 – King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1349 - Luchino Visconti, Regent of Milan (b. 1287)
1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1813 - Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (b. 1746)
1861 - Robert P. Letcher, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1879 - Heinrich Geissler, inventor (b. 1815)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)

1901 – 2000

1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1918 - George Arthur Crump, American architect (b. 1871)
1919 - Ismail Qemali, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1844)
1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
1924 – Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1924 - Anna Bayerova, Czech physician (b. 1853)
1930 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (b. 1835)
1937 - Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia (b. 1862)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician (b. 1867)
1948 - Maria Mandl, Austrian concentration camp overseer and convicted Nazi war criminal (b. 1912)
1955 - Henry Potter, American golfer (b. 1881)
1955 - Ira Hayes, American marine (b. 1923)
1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Turkish writer (b. 1901)
1965 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)
1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1971 - Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-German actress (b. 1887)
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candia, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1992 - Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
1993 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
1993 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)

From 2001

2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman and auto executive (b. 1921)
2004 – Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (b. 1891)
2009 – Kay Yow, American basketball coach (b. 1942)
2011 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian musician (b. 1922)
2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie director and producer (b. 1949)
2012 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2012 – James Farentino, American actor (b. 1938)
2012 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1930)
2014 - Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (b. 1922)
2015 - Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (b. 1927)
2015 - Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (b. 1949)
2015 - Link Byfield, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher (b. 1951)
2015 - Joe Franklin, American television and radio host (b. 1926)
2015 - Julio Canessa, Chilean diplomat and general (b. 1925)
2015 - Frances Lennon, British artist (b. 1912)
2016 - Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
2016 - Fredrik Barth, Norwegian social anthropologist (b. 1928)
2016 - Forouzan, Iranian actress (b. 1937)
2016 - Marvin Minsky, American scientist (b. 1927)
2016 - Henry Worsley, English adventurer (b. 1960)
2017 - Fred André, Dutch footballer (b. 1941)
2017 - Chuck Canfield, American businessman and politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Carlos Verdejo, Chilean footballer (b. 1934)
2017 - Chuck Weyant, American racing driver (b. 1923)
2017 - Butch Trucks, American drummer (b. 1947)
2017 - Robert Folsom, American politician (b. 1927)
2017 - Gil Ray, American drummer (b. 1956)
2018 - Marcos Carvajal, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1984)
2018 - Gonzalo Facio Segreda, Costa Rican politician (b. 1918)
2018 - Renaud Gagneux, French composer (b. 1947)
2018 - Jack Ketchum, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1946)
2018 - Mark E. Smith, English singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – A. M. Cassandre, Ukrainian-born French artist (d. 1968)
1901 - Mikhail Romm, Soviet-Russian film director (d. 1971)
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (d. 1999)
1910 – Doris Haddock (Granny D), American political activist (d. 2010)
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
1915 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
1916 - Arnoldo Foa, Italian actor and director (d. 2014)
1916 – Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
1916 - Gene Mako, Hungarian-American tennis player (d. 2013)
1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (d. 2012)
1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist (d. 2009)
1920 - Jerry Maren, American actor
1922 - Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1925 - Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1925 - Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013)
1926 – Georges Lautner, French movie director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1928 – Desmond Morris, British zoologist, publicist and artist
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1931 - Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
1935 - Bamber Gascoigne, British actor and broadcaster
1940 – Joachim Gauck, German pastor, activist, publicist and former President of Germany
1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter
1941 – Dan Shechtman, Israeli scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1941 - Aaron Neville, American musician
1942 - Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (d. 2008)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian director, screenwriter and politician
1943 – Peter Struck, German politician (d. 2012)
1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress (d. 1969)
1944 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1947 – Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and singer
1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1950 - Gennifer Flowers, American actress

1951 – 1975

1951 - Mike Thompson, American politician
1952 - Raymond Domenech, French football coach
1953 - Moon Jae-in, South Korean lawyer and President of South Korea
1953 - Matthew Wilder, American singer-songwriter
1955 - Jim Montgomery, American swimmer
1957 - Mark Eaton, American basketball player
1957 – Adrian Edmondson, English comedian
1958 – Jools Holland, English pianist, bandleader and television presenter
1959 – Vic Reeves, English comedian
1959 - Michel Preud'Homme, Belgian footballer
1961 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer
1961 – Natassja Kinski, German-born actress
1965 - Andreu Buenafuerte, Spanish humorist
1966 - Shaun Donovan, American politician
1966 - Julie Dreyfus, French actress
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
1971 - Cory Bailey, American baseball player

From 1976

1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1977 – Kensuke Kita, Japanese guitarist
1977 - Michelle Hunziker, Swiss television presenter, singer and model
1978 - Kristen Schaal, American actress
1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
1979 - Nik Wallenda, American acrobat and daredevil
1979 - Leandro Desabato, Argentine footballer
1980 - Rebecca Romero, English track cyclist and rower
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1981 – Michael Wolf, German ice hockey player
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1982 - Claudia Heill, Austrian judoka (d. 2011)
1983 – Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 – Scott Speed, American racing driver
1983 - Diane Birch, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1983 - Davide Blondini, Italian footballer
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 - Wietold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (d. 2007)
1986 – Mischa Barton, English-born actress
1986 - Michael Kightly, English footballer
1987 - Wayne Hennessey, Welsh footballer
1987 – Luis Suarez, Uruguayan footballer
1988 - DaJuan Summers, American basketball player
1988 – Jade Ewen, English singer
1989 – Ki Sung-Yueng, South Korean footballer
1989 - Samba Diakité, Malian footballer
1989 - Calvin Goldspink, English actor and singer
1989 - Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
1990 - Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter
1992 - Becky Downie, British gymnast
1993 - Tanja Frank, Austrian sailor
1995 - Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
1997 - Dylan Riley Snyder, American actor, singer and dancer
2012 - Princess Athena of Denmark

Deaths

Observances

Feast Day of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholicism)
Unification Day (Romania)