October 24 Deaths |
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| October 24th, 2007 (October 24 2007) | Death | Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (born in 1929) | |
| October 24th, 2007 (October 24 2007) | Death | Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist | |
| October 24th, 2007 (October 24 2007) | Death | Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (born in 1928) | |
| October 24th, 2006 (October 24 2006) | Death | Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (born in 1904) | |
| October 24th, 2006 (October 24 2006) | Death | William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (born in 1909) | |
| October 24th, 2005 (October 24 2005) | Death | Jose Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (born in 1926) | |
| October 24th, 2005 (October 24 2005) | Death | Robert Sloman, writer (born in 1926) | |
| October 24th, 2005 (October 24 2005) | Death | Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born in 1913) | |
| October 24th, 2005 (October 24 2005) | Death | Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (born in 1923) | |
| October 24th, 2005 (October 24 2005) | Death | Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (born in 1928) | |
| October 24th, 2004 (October 24 2004) | Death | Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (born in 1954) | |
| October 24th, 2004 (October 24 2004) | Death | Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (born in 1980) | |
| October 24th, 2004 (October 24 2004) | Death | James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (born in 1920) | |
| October 24th, 2003 (October 24 2003) | Death | Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (born in 1958) | Johnny Cash Quotes |
| October 24th, 2002 (October 24 2002) | Death | Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (born in 1969) | |
| October 24th, 2002 (October 24 2002) | Death | Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (born in 1921) | |
| October 24th, 2002 (October 24 2002) | Death | Harry Hay, American activist (born in 1912) | |
| October 24th, 2001 (October 24 2001) | Death | Wolf Rudiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (born in 1937) | |
| October 24th, 1997 (October 24 1997) | Death | Don Messick, American voice actor (born in 1926) | |
| October 24th, 1994 (October 24 1994) | Death | Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (born in 1940) | |
| October 24th, 1991 (October 24 1991) | Death | Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (born in 1921) | Gene Roddenberry Quotes |
| October 24th, 1985 (October 24 1985) | Death | Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (born in 1905) | |
| October 24th, 1975 (October 24 1975) | Death | Zdzislaw Zygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (born in 1888) | |
| October 24th, 1974 (October 24 1974) | Death | David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (born in 1908) | |
| October 24th, 1972 (October 24 1972) | Death | Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (born in 1919) | |
| October 24th, 1972 (October 24 1972) | Death | Claire Windsor, American actress (born in 1897) | |
| October 24th, 1971 (October 24 1971) | Death | Carl Ruggles, American composer (born in 1876) | |
| October 24th, 1966 (October 24 1966) | Death | Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (born in 1896) | |
| October 24th, 1957 (October 24 1957) | Death | Christian Dior, French fashion designer (born in 1905) | |
| October 24th, 1948 (October 24 1948) | Death | Franz Lehar, Austrian composer (born in 1870) | |
| October 24th, 1945 (October 24 1945) | Death | Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician and convicted traitor, by execution (born in 1887) | |
| October 24th, 1944 (October 24 1944) | Death | Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (born in 1877) | |
| October 24th, 1943 (October 24 1943) | Death | Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (born in 1912) | |
| October 24th, 1938 (October 24 1938) | Death | Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (born in 1870) | |
| October 24th, 1935 (October 24 1935) | Death | Dutch Schultz, American gangster (born in 1902) | |
| October 24th, 1922 (October 24 1922) | Death | George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (born in 1839) | |
| October 24th, 1915 (October 24 1915) | Death | Desire Charnay, French archaeologist (born in 1828) | |
| October 24th, 1912 (October 24 1912) | Death | Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (born in 1842) | |
| October 24th, 1898 (October 24 1898) | Death | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (born in 1824) | |
| October 24th, 1852 (October 24 1852) | Death | Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (born in 1782) | Daniel Webster Quotes |
| October 24th, 1821 (October 24 1821) | Death | Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (born in 1740) | |
| October 24th, 1799 (October 24 1799) | Death | Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (born in 1739) | |
| October 24th, 1725 (October 24 1725) | Death | Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (born in 1660) | |
| October 24th, 1708 (October 24 1708) | Death | Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician | |
| October 24th, 1672 (October 24 1672) | Death | John Webb, English architect (born in 1611) | |
| October 24th, 1669 (October 24 1669) | Death | William Prynne, English Puritan leader (born in 1600) | |
| October 24th, 1655 (October 24 1655) | Death | Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (born in 1592) | Philo Quotes |
| October 24th, 1601 (October 24 1601) | Death | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (born in 1546) | |
| October 24th, 1572 (October 24 1572) | Death | Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508) | |
| October 24th, 1537 (October 24 1537) | Death | Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
| October 24th, 1375 (October 24 1375) | Death | King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320) | |
| October 24th, 1260 (October 24 1260) | Death | Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt | |
| October 24th, 0996 (October 24 0996) | Death | King Hugh Capet of France (born in 938) | |
