On this day: 24 April
Events, births and deaths on 24 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Tommy Kono
100 years ago1926
- Births · Thorbjörn Fälldin
- Events · Treaty of Berlin (1926)
- Births · Marilyn Erskine
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 17
- 1800Library of Congress — (de facto) national library of the United States of America
- 18371837 Surat fire — 1837 fire in Surat, British India (now within Gujarat, India)
- 1877Tenth Russo-Turkish War — 1877–1878 conflict between the Ottoman and Russian Empires
- 1915Armenian Genocide — systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I implemented by the Ottoman authorities through mass murder
- 1916Easter Rising — armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916
- 1916Proclamation of the Irish Republic — constitution
- 1918Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux — 1918 battle in World War I
- 1926Treaty of Berlin (1926) — 1926 neutrality and non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
- 1944Raid on Santorini — 1944 battle of World War II
- 1965Dominican Civil War — 1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic
- 1970President of the Gambia — position
- 1973
- 1980Operation Eagle Claw — 1980 Delta Force failed operation for rescuing American hostages
- 1987
- 19931993 Bishopsgate bombing — truck bomb attack in London, England which occurred on 24 April 1993
- 20062006 Dahab bombings — three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, in the Sinai Peninsula
- 20132013 Savar building collapse — industrial building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh
Births · 60
- 1533(Julian date)William the Silent — Dutch statesman and revolt leader (1533-1584)
- 1562Xu Guangqi — late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)
- 1581(Julian date)Vincent de Paul — French priest, founder and saint (1581-1660)
- 1815Anthony Trollope — English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
- 1823Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada — President of Mexico (1823-1889)
- 1845Carl Spitteler — Swiss writer (1845–1924)
- 1856Philippe Pétain — French military and political leader (1856–1951)
- 1876Erich Raeder — German admiral (1876–1960)
- 1880Gideon Sundback — Swedish-American inventor (1880-1954)
- 1882Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding — British officer in the Royal Air Force (1882-1970)
- 1889Stafford Cripps — British politician, lawyer and diplomat (1889–1952)
- 1889(Julian date)Lyubov Popova — Russian artist (1889-1924)
- 1897Benjamin Lee Whorf — American linguist (1897–1941)
- 1897Manuel Ávila Camacho — 52th President of Mexico
- 1899Oscar Zariski — American mathematician (1899–1986)
- 1903José Antonio Primo de Rivera — Spanish politician and founder of Falange Española (1903–1936)
- 1904Willem de Kooning — Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)
- 1905Robert Penn Warren — American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
- 1906William Joyce — British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)
- 1908Józef Gosławski — Polish sculptor and medallic artist (1908–1963)
- 1919Glafcos Clerides — Cypriot lawyer and politician (1919–2013), President of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003
- 1926Thorbjörn Fälldin — Swedish 20th century prime minister (1926-2016)
- 1930José Sarney — President of Brazil from 1985 to 1990
- 1930Richard Donner — American film director (1930–2021)
- 1931Bridget Riley — British painter (born 1931)
Deaths · 60
- 624(Julian date)Mellitus — Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of London
- 1288(Julian date)Gertrude of Austria — Austrian noble
- 1338(Julian date)Theodore I — Marquess of Montferrat (1306-1338)
- 1479(Julian date)Jorge Manrique — Spanish poet (1440–1479)
- 1513(Julian date)Şehzade Ahmed — Ottoman Empire prince
- 1617Concino Concini — Marshal of France
- 1622Fidelis of Sigmaringen — Capuchin friar
- 1656Thomas Fincke — Danish mathematician and physician (1561-1656)
- 1731Daniel Defoe — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
- 1791Benjamin Harrison V — American planter and merchant (1726-1791)
- 1794Axel von Fersen the Elder — lantmarskalk or marshal of the diet (1719-1794)
- 1852Vasily Zhukovsky — Russian poet (1783-1852)
- 1891Helmuth von Moltke the Elder — German Field Marshal (1800–1891)
- 1919Zhan Tianyou — Chinese railroad engineer (1861-1919)
- 1924G. Stanley Hall — American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
- 1930Henry Dudeney — puzzlist and mathematical games designer (1857–1930)
- 1931David Kldiashvili — Georgian writer (1862–1931)
- 1935Anastasios Papoulas — Greek general
- 1939Louis Trousselier — French racing cyclist (1881–1939)
- 1941Karin Boye — Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)
- 1942Lucy Maud Montgomery — Canadian writer (1874–1942)
- 1945Ernst-Robert Grawitz — German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945)
- 1947Willa Cather — American writer (1873–1947)
- 1948Jāzeps Vītols — Latvian composer (1863-1948)
- 1954Guy Mairesse — French racing driver
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