January 24
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)