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October 24, 1999 John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77 October 24, 1998 Dr. Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94 October 24, 1997 Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62 October 24, 1996 Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83 October 24, 1996 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 October 24, 1996 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96 October 24, 1996 Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87 October 24, 1996 Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55 October 24, 1995 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 October 24, 1995 Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87 October 24, 1994 Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies October 24, 1994 Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered October 24, 1994 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54 October 24, 1993 Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39 October 24, 1993 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49 October 24, 1993 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 October 24, 1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies October 24, 1992 Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48 October 24, 1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 October 24, 1991 Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43 October 24, 1987 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 October 24, 1984 Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66 October 24, 1984 Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85 October 24, 1983 Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35 October 24, 1982 James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58 October 24, 1981 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25 October 24, 1980 Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30 October 24, 1976 Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70 October 24, 1975 Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris October 24, 1974 David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65 October 24, 1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane, actor (voice of Mr. Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72 October 24, 1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies at 53 October 24, 1971 Carl Ruggles, U.S. composer (Evocations), dies at 95 October 24, 1971 Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies October 24, 1971 Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer and conductor (Guerre), dies at 73 October 24, 1970 Richard Hofstadter, U.S. historian, dies at 54 October 24, 1969 Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71 October 24, 1967 Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63 October 24, 1963 Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29 October 24, 1961 Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39), dies at 73 October 24, 1958 Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81 October 24, 1958 Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83 October 24, 1958 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 October 24, 1957 Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy October 24, 1953 Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74 October 24, 1952 Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61 October 24, 1949 Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70 October 24, 1948 Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78 October 24, 1945 Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide October 24, 1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58 October 24, 1944 Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54 October 24, 1941 Sandor Remenyik, [Vegvari], Hungarian poet (Campfire), dies at 51 October 24, 1940 Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74 October 24, 1938 Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68 October 24, 1935 Henri Pirenne, historian (Lesson villes ouch moyen-age), dies at 73 October 24, 1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26 October 24, 1929 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74 October 24, 1925 Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56 October 24, 1918 Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86 October 24, 1912 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 October 24, 1902 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69 October 24, 1901 Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82 October 24, 1898 Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Pantheon), dies at 73 October 24, 1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 October 24, 1864 James Jay Archer, U.S. Conf brig-general, dies in battle at 46 October 24, 1860 Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 October 24, 1852 Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 October 24, 1799 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 October 24, 1789 Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69 October 24, 1789 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 October 24, 1785 Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64 October 24, 1679 Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66 October 24, 1667 Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried October 24, 1655 Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 October 24, 1649 Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Netherlands diplomat, dies at about 89 October 24, 1601 Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 October 24, 1579 Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51 October 24, 1537 Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies October 24, 1521 Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57 October 24, 996 Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58 |