On this day: 24 October
Events, births and deaths on 24 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Sirikit
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Jorge Batlle Ibáñez
- Deaths · Bobby Vee
- Events · 2016 Quetta police station attack
100 years ago1926
- Births · Rafael Azcona
- Births · Y. A. Tittle
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 996 · Deaths · Hugh Capet of France
- 1023 · Deaths · Kou Zhun
Events · 26
- 1596Second Spanish Armada — fleet of Spanish ships, intended to attack England in 1596
- 1648Peace of Westphalia — peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
- 1789Brabant Revolution — armed insurrection that occurred in the Austrian Netherlands
- 1795Third Partition of Poland — historical event
- 1796Battle of Schliengen — 1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1812Battle of Maloyaroslavets — 1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
- 1813Treaty of Gulistan — truce agreement signed on October 24, 1813, between the Russian Empire and the Khajar state
- 1857Sheffield F.C. — association football club in Dronfield, England
- 1871Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 — racial massacre on October 24, 1871, in Los Angeles, California
- 1886Normanton Incident — 1886 sinking of a British ship off Japan and resulting backlash
- 1894Battle of Jiuliancheng — 1894 battle of the First Sino-Japanese War
- 1909Racconigi Agreement — treaty
- 1912Battle of Kirk Kilisse — 1912 First Balkan War battle
- 1917Battle of Caporetto — 1917 battle of World War I
- 1918Battle of Vittorio Veneto — 1918 battle
- 1929Wall Street crash of 1929 — major American stock market crash
- 1930Brazilian Military Junta of 1930 — military triumvirate that ruled Brazil in 1930 after the overthrow of President Washington Luís
- 1945United Nations — global international and intergovernmental organization
- 1947United Air Lines Flight 608 — an airplane that crashed in 1947 in Garfield County, Utah, United States
- 1950Battle of Chamdo — 1950 military campaign by China to retake region in Tibet
- 1960Nedelin catastrophe — fatal Soviet launch pad disaster
- 1964Zambia — country at the crossroads of Central and Southern Africa
- 19751975 Icelandic women's strike — women's strike in Iceland on 24 October 1975
- 20032003 Afro-Asian Games — multi-sport event held in Hyderabad, India 2003
- 2004Battle of the Buffet — association football match
- 20162016 Quetta police station attack — 2016 terrorist attack in Quetta, Pakistan
Births · 60
- 51(Julian date)Domitian — 11th Roman Emperor (81–96)
- 1503Isabella of Portugal — 16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain (1503-1539)
- 1632Antonie van Leeuwenhoek — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
- 1775Bahadur Shah Zafar — 18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
- 1798Massimo d'Azeglio — Italian statesman, novelist and painter (1798–1866)
- 1804Wilhelm Eduard Weber — German physicist (1804–1891)
- 1811Ferdinand Hiller — German composer and conductor (1811–1885)
- 1830Marianne North — English philanthropist, painter, biologist and botanical artist (1830-1890)
- 1855James S. Sherman — American politician and Vice President of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (1855–1912)
- 1868Alexandra David-Néel — French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
- 1886Sergo Ordzhonikidze — Soviet politician (1886-1937)
- 1886Delmira Agustini — Uruguayan modernist poet
- 1887Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg — Queen consort of Spain (1887-1969)
- 1891Rafael Trujillo — President of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)
- 1898Peng Dehuai — Chinese military leader, Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1898–1974)
- 1913Tito Gobbi — Italian opera singer (1913–1984)
- 1914Lakshmi Sahgal — officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India
- 1915Bob Kane — American comic book artist, the co-creator of Batman (1915-1998)
- 1923Denise Levertov — British-American poet (1923-1997)
- 1925Luciano Berio — Italian composer (1925–2003)
- 1925Ieng Sary — Cambodian politician (1925-2013)
- 1927Gilbert Bécaud — French singer, composer, pianist and actor (1927–2001)
- 1927Jean-Claude Pascal — French comedian and singer
- 1930Johan Galtung — Norwegian sociologist and peace scholar
- 1931Sofia Gubaidulina — Soviet and Russian composer (1931–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 996(Julian date)Hugh Capet of France — King of the Franks
- 1260(Julian date)Qutuz — 3rd Sultan of the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate (r. 1259–1260)
- 1375Valdemar IV of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1537(Julian date)Jane Seymour — third wife of Henry VIII of England
- 1601Tycho Brahe — Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
- 1655Pierre Gassendi — French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
- 1799Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf — Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist
- 1852Daniel Webster — 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782–1852)
- 1898Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — French artist best known for his mural painting (1824–1898)
- 1915Désiré Charnay — French archaeologist and photographer (1828–1915)
- 1918Daniel Burley Woolfall — President of FIFA from 1906 to 1918
- 1935Dutch Schultz — American mobster in the 1920s and 1930s
- 1938Ernst Barlach — German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
- 1944Louis Renault — French industrialist
- 1945Vidkun Quisling — Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)
- 1948Franz Lehár — Komárom-born Austrian music composer (1870–1948)
- 1949Yaroslav Halan — Ukrainian Soviet journalist and playwright (1902–1949)
- 1958G. E. Moore — English philosopher (1873–1958)
- 1966Sofya Yanovskaya — Russian mathematician (1896–1966)
- 1970Richard Hofstadter — American historian and public intellectual (1916–1970)
- 1971Joseph Siffert — Swiss racecar and motorcycle driver (1936-1971)
- 1972Jackie Robinson — American baseball player (1919–1972)
- 1972Claire Windsor — American actress (1892-1972)
- 1974David Oistrakh — Soviet violinist (1908-1974)
- 1979Carlo Abarth — Automobile engineer, designer and racecar driver (1908-1979)
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