On this day: 24 January
Events, births and deaths on 24 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Iris Cummings
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Marvin Minsky
- Deaths · Fredrik Barth
- Deaths · Henry Worsley
100 years ago1926
- Births · Georges Lautner
- Births · Ruth Asawa
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1125 · Deaths · David IV of Georgia
- 1046 · Deaths · Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen
Events · 14
- 914(Julian date)First Fatimid invasion of Egypt — 10th-century invasion of Egypt
- 1848California Gold Rush — gold rush from C.E.1848 until 1855 in California
- 1857University of Calcutta — state public university in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- 1859United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia — 1859–1881 personal union and early form of the modern Romanian state
- 1902Mount Hakkōda disaster — 1902 mountaineering disaster
- 1915Battle of Dogger Bank — naval battle fought in the North Sea on 24 January 1915
- 19391939 Chillán earthquake — January 1939 earthquake in Chile
- 19611961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash — US B-52 accident involving nuclear weapons
- 1966Air India Flight 101 — 1966 plane crash of an Air India Boeing 707 into Mont Blanc, France
- 19771977 Atocha massacre — far-right attack in Madrid, Spain
- 1984Macintosh 128K — first Macintosh computer by Apple
- 2011Domodedovo International Airport bombing — suicide bombing in the international arrival hall of Moscow's busiest airport
- 20242024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash — plane crash in Russia January 24, 2024
- 20262026 West Bandung landslide — Article about landslide in West Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, 2026
Births · 60
- 76(Julian date)Hadrian — 14th Roman Emperor (117–138)
- 1444(Julian date)Galeazzo Maria Sforza — Duke of Milan (1444-1477)
- 1547Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany — Austrian Archduchess, mother of Maria de' Medici (1547-1578)
- 1664John Vanbrugh — English architect and dramatist (1664–1726)
- 1670William Congreve — British writer (1670-1729)
- 1679(Julian date)Christian Wolff — German philosopher (1679–1754)
- 1705Farinelli — Italian singer (1705-1782)
- 1712Frederick II of Prussia — King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786 (1712-1786)
- 1732Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais — French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)
- 1746Gustav III of Sweden — King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792)
- 1749Charles James Fox — British Whig statesman (1749–1806)
- 1776E. T. A. Hoffmann — German writer (1776-1822)
- 1787Christian Ludwig Brehm — German pastor and ornithologist (1787-1864)
- 1821Heungseon Daewongun — Korean regent (1820–1898)
- 1848Vasily Surikov — Russian artist (1848-1916)
- 1850Hermann Ebbinghaus — German psychologist (1850-1909)
- 1862Edith Wharton — American writer and designer (1862–1937)
- 1864Marguerite Durand — French actress and journalist, editor (1864–1936)
- 1886Henry King — American film director (1886–1982)
- 1888Vicki Baum — Austrian writer (1888–1960)
- 1888Ernst Heinkel — aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
- 1891Walter Model — German field marshal (1891-1945)
- 1907Maurice Couve de Murville — 81st Prime Minister of France (1907-1999)
- 1916Rafael Caldera — president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 kai from 1994 to 1999
- 1917Ernest Borgnine — American actor (1917–2012)
Deaths · 60
- 41(Julian date)Caligula — third Roman emperor (37–41)
- 817(Julian date)Stephen IV — pope
- 1046(Julian date)Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen — German noble
- 1125(Julian date)David IV of Georgia — King of Georgia (1073-1125)
- 1336Alfonso IV of Aragon — King of Aragon, Valencia, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica
- 1473(Julian date)Conrad Paumann — German organist, lutenist and composer
- 1595Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria — Austrian archduke (1529-1595)
- 1622Oda Nagamasu — Japanese daimyo who lived from the late Sengoku period through the early Edo period
- 1666Johann Andreas Herbst — German composer
- 1709George Rooke — Royal Navy admiral (1650-1709)
- 1780Hiraga Gennai — Japanese pharmacologist and writer (1728-1780)
- 1877Johann Christian Poggendorff — German physicist (1796–1877)
- 1881James Collinson — British artist (1825-1881)
- 1883Friedrich von Flotow — German composer (1812–1883)
- 1895Lord Randolph Churchill — British politician, father of Winston Churchill (1849-1895)
- 1920Amedeo Modigliani — Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)
- 1920Percy French — Irish composer and artist (1854-1920)
- 1930Rebecca Latimer Felton — American politician (1835-1930)
- 1935John Tait Robertson — Scottish football player and manager (1877-1935)
- 1939Maximilian Bircher-Benner — Swiss physician (1867-1939)
- 1960Edwin Fischer — Swiss conductor and classical pianist (1886-1960)
- 1961Alfred Carlton Gilbert — American athlete, inventor, and businessman (1884-1961)
- 1962André Lhote — French sculptor and painter (1885–1962)
- 1962Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar — Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist (1901–1962)
- 1965Winston Churchill — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
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