On this day: 24 July
Events, births and deaths on 24 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Hulk Hogan
- Deaths · Cleo Laine
- Events · Angara Airlines Flight 2311
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Marni Nixon
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1927 · Deaths · Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1923 · Events · Treaty of Lausanne
- 1929 · Events · Kellogg-Briand pact
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1115 · Deaths · Matilda of Tuscany
Events · 23
- 1132(Julian date)Battle of Nocera — 1132 battle
- 1148(Julian date)Siege of Damascus — 1148 siege during the Second Crusade
- 1411Battle of Harlaw — 1411 clan battle
- 1712Battle of Denain — 1712 battle
- 1783(Julian date)Treaty of Georgievsk — treaty signed by Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire
- 1864Second Battle of Kernstown — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1907Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 — 1907 unequal treaty between the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire regarding the surrender of military and judicial power under the Japanese control
- 1920Battle of Maysalun — 1920 battle
- 1923Treaty of Lausanne — 1923 peace treaty between Turkey and the Allies
- 1929Kellogg-Briand pact — 1928 international agreement
- 1943Bombing of Hamburg in World War II — allied aerial bombing raids in Germany
- 1967Vive le Québec libre — phrase spoken by Charles de Gaulle on July 24, 1967, from the balcony of Montreal City Hall
- 1983Black July — anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka in 1983
- 1987Operation Earnest Will — American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988
- 1987Operation Saegheh — Iranian naval operation in July 1987
- 19981998 United States Capitol shooting — fatal attack in Washington, D.C., US
- 1999Air Fiji Flight 121 — Airplane crash in Fiji 1999
- 2001Bandaranaike Airport attack — 2001 suicide bombing by Tamil separatists in Negombo, Sri Lanka
- 2009Aria Air Flight 1525 — aviation accident
- 2013Santiago de Compostela derailment — 24 July 2013 train derailment that killed 79 people
- 2014Air Algérie Flight 5017 — flight crashed on July 24, 2014
- 20242024 Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash — 2024 aviation accident in Nepal
- 2025Angara Airlines Flight 2311 — 2025 plane crash
Births · 60
- 1720Louisa Ulrika of Prussia — Swedish queen (1720-1782)
- 1725(Julian date)John Newton — Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)
- 1759Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1802-1821)
- 1783Simón Bolívar — Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
- 1802Alexandre Dumas — French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
- 1803Adolphe Adam — French composer (1803–1856)
- 1856Charles Émile Picard — French mathematician (1856-1941)
- 1857Henrik Pontoppidan — Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
- 1857Juan Vicente Gómez — Venezuelan general and dictator (1857-1935)
- 1860Alphonse Mucha — Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
- 1860Princess Charlotte of Prussia — Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1860–1919)
- 1864Frank Wedekind — German playwright (1864-1918)
- 1878Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany — Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957)
- 1880Ernest Bloch — American composer (1880-1959)
- 1886Jun'ichirō Tanizaki — Japanese author (1886–1965)
- 1892Alice Augusta Ball — African American chemist (1892–1916)
- 1895Robert Graves — English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
- 1897Amelia Earhart — American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)
- 1900Zelda Fitzgerald — American writer (1900–1948)
- 1914Frances Oldham Kelsey — Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
- 1916John D. MacDonald — American writer (1916–1986)
- 1920Bella Abzug — American politician (1920-1998)
- 1921Giuseppe Di Stefano — Italian opera singer
- 1931Ermanno Olmi — Italian film director (1931–2018)
- 1936Ruth Buzzi — American actress, comedian, and singer
Deaths · 60
- 759(Julian date)Oswulf — 8th-century Northumbrian monarch
- 1115Matilda of Tuscany — Canossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
- 1129(Julian date)Emperor Shirakawa — Emperor of Japan
- 1198(Julian date)Berthold of Hanover — German bishop (died 1198)
- 1345(Julian date)Jacob van Artevelde — Flemish statesman and political leader (1290-1345)
- 1568Carlos, Prince of Asturias — Prince of Asturias; eldest child of Philip II of Spain
- 1594John Boste — English Catholic martyr (1544-1594)
- 1601Joris Hoefnagel — Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist and draftsman
- 1739Benedetto Marcello — Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher (1686–1739)
- 1862Martin Van Buren — president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
- 1891Hermann Raster — American newspaper editor (1827-1891)
- 1897Lafayette McLaws — Confederate Army general (1821-1897)
- 1900Ferdinand Hamer — Dutch missionary and bishop (1840–1900)
- 1910Arkhip Kuindzhi — Russian landscape painter (1842-1910)
- 1927Ryūnosuke Akutagawa — Japanese writer (1892–1927)
- 1934Hans Hahn — Austrian mathematician (1879–1934)
- 1944Zou Taofen — Chinese journalist (1895–1944)
- 1957Sacha Guitry — French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)
- 1965Constance Bennett — American actress (1904–1965)
- 1969Witold Gombrowicz — Polish writer (1904–1969)
- 1974James Chadwick — English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
- 1980Peter Sellers — British actor and comedian (1925–1980)
- 1983Eberhard Hopf — German mathematician (1902-1983)
- 1986Fritz Albert Lipmann — German-American biochemist
- 1986Qudrat Ullah Shahab — Pakistani diplomat (1917-1986)
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