October 24

October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
• 1147 – After a siege of four months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
• 1260 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
• 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
• 1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
• 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
• 1851 – William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
• 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
• 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.
• 1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
• 1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
• 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
• 1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on Britain and the United States of America.
• 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Japanese battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• 1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
• 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
• 1957 – The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
• 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
• 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence).
• 1973 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
• 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
• 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
• 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
• 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
• 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
• 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
• 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
• 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
• 2004 – Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
• 2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
• 2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
• 2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
• 2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.

Births

• 51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96)
• 1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402)
• 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
• 1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586)
• 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723)
• 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1749)
• 1713 – Marie Fel, French soprano (d. 1794)
• 1739 – Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1807)
• 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (d. 1839)
• 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet (d. 1879)
• 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891)
• 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1885)
• 1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890)
• 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (d. 1921)
• 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907)
• 1855 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
• 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
• 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969)
• 1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
• 1879 – B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-Israeli wife of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917)
• 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
• 1891 – Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985)
• 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Marjorie Joyner, American businesswoman (d. 1994)
• 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959)
• 1901 – Hjalmar Mäe, Estonian politician (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
• 1904 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (d. 1961)
• 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932)
• 1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968)
• 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Stella Brooks, American singer (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Joe L. Evins, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Gunter d'Alquen, German journalist and SS officer (d. 1998)
• 1910 – James K. Woolnough, American general (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Yoel Zussman, Polish-Israeli lawyer and judge (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian actor and singer (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Charles Craig Cannon, American colonel (d. 1992)
• 1914 – František Čapek, Czech canoe racer (d. 2008)
• 1914 – Claude B. Duval, American lawyer and politician (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Samuel Karnarvon Asbell, Canadian politician (d. 1965)
• 1914 – Ernesto Segura, Argentinian bishop (d. 1972)
• 1915 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988)
• 1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Marie Foster, American activist (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Doreen Tovey, English author (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (d. 2005)
• 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1922 – George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Robin Day, English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Denise Levertov, English-American poet and critic (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 1924 – John Brereton Barlow, South African cardiologist and physician (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian-Monacan singer (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Willie Mabon, American-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Paul Vaughan, English journalist and radio host
• 1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Kidar Nath Sahani, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
• 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (d. 2013)
• 1928 – George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977)
• 1929 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1929 – George Crumb, American composer and educator
• 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Gustav Ranis, American economist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Jack Angel, American voice actor
• 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
• 1930 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, author, and playwright
• 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician
• 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang
• 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German composer
• 1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Norman Rush, American author and educator
• 1934 – Peter Behn, American voice actor
• 1934 – John G. Cramer, American physicist and author
• 1934 – Ray Drake, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Glen Glenn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1934 – Jean-Baptiste Gourion, Algerian-French bishop (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter
• 1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist, musicologist, and educator
• 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Mark Tully, Indian-English journalist and author
• 1936 – Jüri Arrak, Estonian artist
• 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1936 – David Nelson, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
• 1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer
• 1937 – Barry Davies, English journalist and sportscaster
• 1937 – John Goetz, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Heribert Offermanns, German chemist and academic
• 1937 – Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-American architect and educator
• 1937 – Petar Stipetić, Croatian general
• 1938 – Michael Graydon, English air marshal
• 1938 – Odean Pope, American saxophonist (Catalyst)
• 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1939 – John Adye, English intelligence officer
• 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
• 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer
• 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1940 – David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, English businessman and academic
• 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese priest, 11th Archbishop of Tokyo
• 1942 – Ruthann Aron, American politician
• 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress
• 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian footballer and coach
• 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish journalist and author
• 1942 – Don Francis, American epidemiologist and virologist
• 1942 – Don Gant, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Neon Philharmonic) (d. 1987)
• 1942 – Judy Manning, American politician
• 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Puerto Rician politician, 132nd Mayor of Ponce (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Fernando Vallejo, Colombian biologist and author
• 1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler and manager
• 1943 – Corky Siegel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Siegel–Schwall Band)
• 1944 – Ray Downs, American singer and author
• 1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter
• 1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Harpers Bizarre)
• 1945 – Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader
• 1946 – Keti Chomata, Greek singer and actor (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor and singer
• 1948 – Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player
• 1948 – Barry Ryan, English singer-songwriter
• 1948 – Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1992)
• 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician
• 1949 – Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, Mexican drug lord (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Chester Marcol, American football player
• 1949 – John Markoff, American journalist and author
• 1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
• 1949 – Keith Rowley, Trinidadian politician
• 1949 – Stan White, American football player and sportscaster
• 1950 – Iggy Arroyo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Karen Austin, American actress
• 1950 – Pablove Black, Jamaican singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
• 1950 – Steven Greenberg, American singer-songwriter and producer (Lipps Inc.)
• 1950 – Tom Myers, American football player
• 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Argentinian lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
• 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poet
• 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist
• 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor
• 1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Francesco Camaldo, Italian priest
• 1952 – Jane Fancher, American author and illustrator
• 1952 – Mark Gray, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Exile)
• 1952 – Omar Moreno, Panamanian baseball player
• 1952 – Ney Rosauro, Brazilian drummer and composer
• 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky, American theorist and educator
• 1952 – Ángel Torres, Dominican baseball player
• 1952 – Reggie Walton, American baseball player
• 1952 – David Weber, American author
• 1953 – John Barton, English footballer and manager
• 1953 – Charles Colbourn, Canadian computer scientist and mathematician
• 1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
• 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist
• 1953 – Mindy Newell, American nurse and author
• 1953 – Mike Papantonio, American lawyer and radio host
• 1953 – Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Shih Szu, Taiwanese actress
• 1953 – Andrew Turner, English academic and politician
• 1953 – David Wright, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1954 – Doug Davidson, American actor
• 1954 – Thomas Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player (Elán)
• 1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of South Dakota
• 1954 – Brad Sherman, American accountant, lawyer, and politician
• 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 55th Australian Minister for Communications
• 1955 – Katherine Knight, Australian murderer
• 1955 – Cheryl Studer, American soprano
• 1956 – Dale Maharidge, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician
• 1956 – David Stergakos, American-Greek basketball player
• 1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager
• 1957 – John Kassir, American actor
• 1958 – Vincent K. Brooks, American general
• 1958 – Chip Hooper, American tennis player and coach
• 1959 – Dominique Baert, French politician
• 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th Mayor of Bergen
• 1959 – Mike Brewer, American baseball player
• 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer
• 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Brad Johnson, American actor
• 1959 – Dave Meltzer, American journalist and historian
• 1959 – Shawn Moody, American businessman and politician
• 1959 – Ruth Perednik, English-Israeli psychologist and academic
• 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballer and manager
• 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish educator and politician
• 1959 – Anthony Waller, Lebanese-English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver
• 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster
• 1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999)
• 1960 – Wolfgang Güllich, German rock climber (d. 1992)
• 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1960 – BD Wong, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Mary Bono, American politician
• 1961 – Bruce Castor, American lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager
• 1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver
• 1962 – Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player and television host
• 1962 – Ian Dalziel, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – Ted Dekker, Indonesian-American author
• 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, and Snowpony)
• 1962 – Kristen Hall, American singer-songwriter (Sugarland)
• 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician
• 1962 – Roland Königshofer, Austrian cyclist
• 1962 – Gene Larkin, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000)
• 1962 – Mark Miller, American motorcycle racer
• 1962 – Mark Morettini, American actor
• 1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player and coach
• 1963 – Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Giselle Laronde, Trinidadian model, Miss World 1986
• 1963 – Arvind Raghunathan, Indian businessman
• 1964 – Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Linda Ballantyne, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Paul Bonwick, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey player
• 1964 – Doug Lee, American basketball player
• 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Paul Vigay, English computer programmer (d. 2009)
• 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek journalist and politician
• 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
• 1966 – Simon Danczuk, English academic and politician
• 1967 – Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
• 1967 – Esther McVey, English television host and politician
• 1968 – Mark Walton, American voice actor and illustrator
• 1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist and critic
• 1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
• 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, English field hockey player and engineer
• 1970 – Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, and Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
• 1970 – Zensa Raggi, Moroccan-German porn actor and director
• 1970 – Natassa Theodoridou, Greek singer
• 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
• 1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
• 1972 – Raelee Hill, Australian actress
• 1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
• 1972 – Scott Peterson, American murderer
• 1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
• 1972 – Jeremy Wright, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1973 – Madlib, American rapper and producer (Madvillain, Quasimoto, and Lootpack)
• 1973 – Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian author and academic
• 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
• 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and radio host
• 1973 – Pia Guanio, Filipino host and actress
• 1974 – Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer
• 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player
• 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
• 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor
• 1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
• 1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
• 1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
• 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter (Silverchair and Tambalane)
• 1979 – Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – John D. Kobs, American businessman, founded Apartment List
• 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer
• 1980 – Christian Vander, German footballer
• 1980 – Casey Wilson, American actress and screenwriter
• 1981 – Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor and politician
• 1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Jemima Rooper, English actress
• 1981 – Tila Tequila, Singaporean-American model, actress, and singer
• 1982 – Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver
• 1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player
• 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (3LW and The Cheetah Girls)
• 1983 – V V Brown, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
• 1984 – Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
• 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (Sadistic Mika Band)
• 1984 – Lougee Basabas, Filipino singer and host (MOJOFLY)
• 1985 – Robert Cornthwaite, English-Australian footballer
• 1985 – Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014)
• 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
• 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Drake, Canadian rapper and actor (Young Money)
• 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
• 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Charlie White, American figure skater
• 1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Christopher Linke, German race walker
• 1988 – Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer
• 1989 – Felix Kjellberg, Swedish YouTube commentator
• 1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
• 1989 – Eric Hosmer, American baseball player
• 1989 – Richard Kolitsch, German footballer (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
• 1990 – LaMarcus Tinker, American actor, director, and producer
• 1991 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer
• 1991 – Marek Bednar, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1991 – Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player
• 1992 – Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor
• 1993 – Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian race car driver
• 1994 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (f(x) and SM the Ballad)
• 1994 – Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player
• 1996 – Kyla Ross, American gymnast
• 1997 – Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast
• 1997 – Raúl Chávez Sarmiento, Peruvian mathematician

Deaths

• 996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938)
• 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
• 1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark (b. 1320)
• 1537 – Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
• 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)
• 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)
• 1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)
• 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)
• 1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
• 1672 – John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
• 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)
• 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 – James Carroll Beckwith, American painter (b. 1852)
• 1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
• 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Franz Lehár, Slovak composer (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
• 1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher and educator (b. 1873)
• 1960 – Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian pilot and engineer (b. 1924)
• 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
• 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian, author, and educator (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Ingri d'Aulaire, Norwegian-American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
• 2002 – Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)
• 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Keti Chomata, Greek singer and actor (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Manna Dey, Indian singer (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993)
• 2013 – Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Frank Perconte American soldier b. 1917)
• 2014 – Kim Anderzon, Swedish actress (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980)
• 2014 – S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Alvin Wiederspahn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Anthony Mary Claret
  • Luigi Guanella
  • October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964.
• Suez Day (Egypt)
• United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
• World Development Information Day (International)
• World Polio Day (International)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to October 24.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada