#WhatDayIsToday??? October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year. Events 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus , the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian , defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. 1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon. 1260 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France ; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself. 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years War . 1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony , returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the lost colonists. 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years War. 1795 – Partitions of Poland : The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is completely divided among Austria , Prussia , and Russia , 1812 – Napoleonic Wars : The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow . 1851 – William Lassell , discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel , orbiting Uranus . 1857 – Sheffield F.C. , the worlds oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield , England . 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph, line across the United States, is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel. 1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina . 1912 – First Balkan War : The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory. 1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro- Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo). 1926 – Harry Houdinis last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit , Michigan . 1929 – Black Thursday stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. 1930 – A bloodless coup détat in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic . Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as provisional president. 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic. 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America. 1944 – World War II : The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 – Founding of the United Nations 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee , naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid. 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe : An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Unions Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence ) 1973 – Yom Kippur War ends 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.) 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union. 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow . After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials. 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio , the Italian stay-behind clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s. 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series. 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/ asteroid mission 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC. 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight . 2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage. 2007 – Change 1 , the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. 2008 – Bloody Friday saw many of the worlds stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. Births 51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96) 1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402) 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539) 1561 – Anthony Babington , English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586) 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723) 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham , English soldier and politician (d. 1749) 1710 – Alban Butler, English priest and writer (d. 1773) 1713 – Marie Fel , French opera singer (d. 1794) 1739 – Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1807) 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel , German author (d. 1839) 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879) 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885) 1830 – Marianne North, English painter (d. 1890) 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor , American adventurer (d. 1921) 1840 – Eliza Pollock , American archer (d. 1919) 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom , Dutch chemist (d. 1907) 1855 – James S. Sherman, American politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel , Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969) 1872 – Peter OConnor , Irish long jumper (d. 1957) 1875 – Konstantin Yuon , Russian painter (d. 1958) 1879 – B. A. Rolfe , American bandleader and producer (d. 1956) 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress (d. 1976) 1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar , Belarusian-Israeli wife of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975) 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969) 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917) 1891 – Rafael Trujillo , Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) 1891 – Brenda Ueland , American journalist (d. 1985) 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987) 1896 – Jack Warner , English actor (d. 1981) 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (d. 1959) 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) 1904 – Moss Hart, American playwright and director (d. 1961) 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bengali activist (d. 1932) 1905 – Fran Zwitter , Slovenian historian (d. 1988) 1906 – Alexander Gelfond , Russian mathematician (d. 1968) 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson , Canadian geologist (d. 1993) 1909 – Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966) 1911 – Paul Grégoire , Canadian archbishop (d. 1993) 1911 – Sonny Terry , American harmonica player (d. 1986) 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (d. 1984) 1915 – Bob Kane , American writer and illustrator (d. 1998) 1915 – Marghanita Laski , English journalist and author (d. 1988) 1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010) 1916 – Anne Sharp, Scottish opera singer (d. 2011) 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer (d. 2008) 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger , French mathematician (d. 1996) 1921 – R. K. Laxman , Indian cartoonist and illustrator 1922 – George Miller, American politician 1923 – Robin Day, English journalist (d. 2000) 1923 – Denise Levertov, English- American poet (d. 1997) 1924 – Mary Lee , American actress and singer (d. 1996) 1925 – Bob Azzam , Egyptian- Lebanese singer (d. 2004) 1925 – Luciano Berio , Italian composer (d. 2003) 1925 – Ieng Sary, co-founder of the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013) 1925 – Willie Mabon , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985) 1926 – Rafael Azcona , Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008) 1926 – Kidar Nath Sahani, Indian politician (d. 2012) 1926 – Y. A. Tittle , American football player 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud , French actor and composer (d. 2001) 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992) 1927 – Barbara Robinson (d. 2013) 1928 – George Bullard , American baseball player (d. 2002) 1929 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977) 1929 – George Crumb, American composer 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre , English wife of William Douglas- Home (d. 2012) 1929 – Yordan Radichkov , Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004) 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959) 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer 1932 – Stephen Covey , American author and educator (d. 2012) 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) 1932 – Adrian Mitchell , English poet (d. 2008) 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate 1933 – Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000) 1933 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995) 1933 – Norman Rush , American author 1934 – Glen Glenn, American singer 1934 – Jean-Baptiste Gourion , French Benedictine (d. 2005) 1934 – Peter Behn , American voice actor 1934 – John G. Cramer , American physicist 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American film actor (d. 2009) 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer , American country songwriter 1934 – Ray Drake, English footballer (d. 2013) 1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and educator 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013) 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins , American singer and guitarist (d. 2013) 1936 – David Nelson , American actor and director (d. 2011) 1936 – Bill Wyman , English singer- songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wymans Rhythm Kings ) 1937 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess , German author (d. 2001) 1937 – John Goetz, American professional baseball player (d. 2008) 1937 – Rosaria Piomelli , American architect 1937 – Ladislau Biernaski, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2012) 1937 – Heribert Offermanns , German chemist 1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria , Spanish composer 1937 – Petar Stipetić, Croatian military personality 1938 – Odean Pope , American saxophonist (Catalyst ) 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist (d. 2013) 1939 – F. Murray Abraham , American actor 1940 – Martin Campbell , New Zealand director 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012) 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher 1942 – Ruthann Aron , American politician 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster 1942 – Don Francis , American epidemiologist 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago , Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2004) 1942 – Fernando Vallejo , Colombian film director 1942 – Don Gant , American songwriters (d. 1977) 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian rules footballer 1942 – Judy Manning , American politician (Georgia House of Representatives) 1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish- American wrestler 1943 – Corky Siegel, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Siegel–Schwall Band ) 1944 – Ray Downs , American singer and author 1944 – Viktor Prokopenko , Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2007) 1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Harpers Bizarre ) 1945 – Anthony Christian , English painter 1945 – Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader 1945 – Alan Titus , American opera singer 1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (d. 1993) 1947 – Kevin Kline , American actor 1948 – Barry Ryan, English singer- songwriter and photographer 1948 – Paul Ryan , English singer- songwriter and producer (d. 1992) 1948 – Kweisi Mfume , American politician 1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer 1949 – John Markoff, American journalist 1949 – Stan White, American football linebacker 1949 – Chester Marcol , American football placekicker 1949 – Henry Earl, American Internet personality 1949 – Keith Rowley , Member of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago 1950 – Rawly Eastwick , American baseball player 1950 – Steven Greenberg, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Lipps Inc. ) 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poet 1950 – Karen Austin, American film actress 1950 – Iggy Arroyo , Filipino politician (d. 2012) 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola , Austrian anthropologist 1950 – Pablove Black , Jamaican reggae musician 1950 – Tom Myers, American football safety 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Justicialist Party politician 1951 – Meredith Hunter , American murder victim (d. 1969) 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor 1952 – David Weber , American author 1952 – Ángel Torres, American baseball player 1952 – Ney Rosauro, Brazilian composer and percussionist 1952 – Omar Moreno, American baseball player 1952 – Mark Gray, American country singer 1952 – Reggie Walton , American baseball player 1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian politician 1952 – Francesco Camaldo , Italian Roman Catholic priest 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky , University of Chicago alumni 1952 – Jane Fancher , American fantasy writer 1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist 1953 – Mindy Newell , American author 1953 – Mike Papantonio, American lawyer and radio talk show host 1953 – Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player 1953 – David Wright , English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1953 – John Barton, English former professional footballer 1953 – Charles Colbourn, Canadian computer scientist 1953 – Shih Szu , Taiwanese film actor 1954 – Doug Davidson, American actor 1954 – Thomas Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician 1954 – Jožo Ráž , Slovak singer- songwriter and bass player (Elán) 1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of South Dakota 1954 – Brad Sherman , American politician 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician 1955 – Katherine Knight , Australian murderer 1955 – Cheryl Studer , American soprano 1956 – Dale Maharidge , American author 1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician 1956 – David Stergakos, Greek- American basketball player 1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German- American baseball player and manager 1957 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian 1958 – Vincent K. Brooks , American general 1958 – Chip Hooper, American tennis player 1959 – Anthony Waller , Lebanese director 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (d. 2009) 1959 – Dave Meltzer, American journalist 1959 – Brad Johnson , American film actors 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian Christian 1959 – Shawn Moody , Maine gubernatorial candidate 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese composer 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer 1959 – Mike Brewer, American baseball right fielder 1959 – Dominique Baert , Members of the National Assembly of France 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen , Danish politician 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballer 1959 – Anthony Waller , British film director 1959 – Ruth Perednik , Israeli psychologists 1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch , Australian golfer 1960 – Jaime Garzón , Colombian journalist, lawyer, and comedian (d. 1999) 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock , German race car driver 1960 – BD Wong , American actor 1961 – Mary Bono Mack , American politician 1961 – Bruce Castor American lawyer and politician 1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver 1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player 1962 – Ted Dekker , American thriller writer 1962 – Gene Larkin, American Roman Catholic 1962 – Jonathan Davies , Great Britain national rugby league team player 1962 – Mark Morettini, American film actor 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician 1962 – Mark Miller, American motorcycle racer 1962 – Gibby Mbasela , Zambian footballers (d. 2000) 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass guitarist 1962 – Roland Königshofer, Austrian cyclist 1962 – Rik Daniëls, Flemish television director 1962 – Yves Bertucci , French footballer 1962 – Kristen Hall, American country singer-songwriter 1962 – Ian Dalziel, English footballer 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer 1963 – Mark Grant, American television sports announcer 1963 – Giselle Laronde, Miss World 1986 delegate 1963 – Arvind Raghunathan , Indian financier 1964 – Rosana Arbelo , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1964 – Paul Bonwick , Canadian politician 1964 – Doug Lee , American basketball player 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey goaltender 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer , American lawyer 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian football manager 1964 – Paul Vigay , British computer programmers (d. 2009) 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek politician 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician 1967 – Ian Bishop, Trinidadian- Tobagonian cricketer 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress 1968 – Mark Walton , American voice actor 1968 – Robert Wilonsky , American journalist 1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter , English engineer 1970 – Jeff Mangum , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, Synthetic Flying Machine, and Major Organ and the Adding Machine ) 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress 1971 – Dervla Kirwan , Irish actress 1972 – Raelee Hill , Australian actress 1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress 1972 – Scott Peterson , American murderer 1972 – Pat Williams , American football player 1973 – Madlib, American rapper and producer ( Madvillain , Quasimoto, and Lootpack) 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist 1973 – Jackie McNamara , Scottish footballer 1973 – Laura Veirs , American singer-songwriter 1973 – Jeff Wilson , New Zealand rugby player and cricketer 1974 – Gábor Babos , Hungarian footballer 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player 1974 – Jamal Mayers , Canadian ice hockey player 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013) 1976 – Matteo Mazzantini , Italian rugby player 1976 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor 1976 – Petar Stoychev , Bulgarian swimmer 1977 – Iván Kaviedes , Ecuadoran footballer 1978 – Carlos Edwards , Trinidadian footballer 1978 – James Hopes , Australian cricketer 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter (Silverchair and Tambalane ) 1979 – Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player 1980 – Monica , American singer- songwriter, producer, and actress 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer 1980 – Niall Breslin , Irish singer- songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer (The Blizzards ) 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer 1980 – Christian Vander , German footballer 1980 – Casey Wilson , American actress 1980 – John D. Kobs , American entrepreneur 1981 – Sebastián Bueno , Argentine footballer 1981 – Jemima Rooper, English actress 1981 – Tila Tequila, American model, actress, and singer 1982 – Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver 1982 – Macay McBride , American baseball player 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer (3LW and The Cheetah Girls) 1983 – V V Brown, English singer- songwriter and producer 1983 – Hernán Garin , Argentine footballer 1983 – Brian Vickers , American race car driver 1984 – Felicia Chin , Singaporean actress 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player 1984 – Kaela Kimura , Japanese singer-songwriter (Sadistic Mika Band ) 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer 1985 – Oscar Wendt , Swedish footballer 1986 – Drake, Canadian actor and rapper 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer 1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor 1987 – Charlie White, American ice dancer 1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player 1988 – Christopher Linke , German racewalker 1988 – Demont Mitchell , Bahamas international footballer 1989 – Anderson Conceição , Brazilian footballer 1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTube personality 1989 – Shenae Grimes , Canadian actress 1989 – Eliza Taylor-Cotter , Australian actress 1990 – LaMarcus Tinker, American actor 1991 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian football striker 1991 – Marek Bednar , Slovak ice hockey player 1991 – Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player 1993 – Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian racing driver 1994 – Krystal Jung, American- South Korean singer and actress ( f (x) ) 1994 – Tereza Martincová , Czech tennis player 1997 – Raúl Chávez Sarmiento , Peruvian scientist Deaths 996 – Hugh Capet, French king (b. 938) 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan 1375 – Valdemar IV of Denmark , (b. 1320) 1537 – Jane Seymour , English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508) 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508) 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546) 1655 – Pierre Gassendi , French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592) 1669 – William Prynne , English lawyer and author (b. 1600) 1672 – John Webb, English architect (b. 1611) 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660) 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Austrian composer (b. 1739) 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) 1852 – Daniel Webster , American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782) 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian author (b. 1817) 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter (b. 1824) 1915 – Désiré Charnay , French archaeologist (b. 1828) 1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839) 1935 – Dutch Schultz , American mobster (b. 1902) 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870) 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912) 1944 – Louis Renault, French businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877) 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1887) 1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870) 1948 – Frederic L. Paxson , American historian (b. 1877) 1958 – G. E. Moore , English philosopher (b. 1873) 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931) 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896) 1970 – Richard Hofstadter , American historian (b. 1916) 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876) 1971 – Jo Siffert , Swiss race car driver (b. 1936) 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919) 1972 – Claire Windsor , American actress (b. 1897) 1974 – David Oistrakh , Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908) 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian (b. 1888) 1977 – Don Gant , American songwriters (b. 1942) 1980 – Ingri Parin dAulaire , American childrens author and illustrator (b. 1904) 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941) 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian archbishop (b. 1905) 1988 – Marghanita Laski , English journalist and author (b. 1915) 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948) 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921) 1992 – Paul Ryan , English singer- songwriter and producer (b. 1948) 1993 – Heinz Kubsch , German footballer (b. 1930) 1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf and The Sparrows) (b. 1946) 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas , Greek theoretician (b. 1930) 1994 – Raúl Juliá , Puerto Rican actor (b. 1940) 1996 – Mary Lee , American actress and singer (b. 1924) 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger , French mathematician (b. 1920) 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926) 1997 – Denise Levertov, English- American poet (b. 1923) 1999 – Jaime Garzón , Colombian journalist, lawyer, and comedian (b. 1960) 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (b. 1919) 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess , German author (b. 1937) 2002 – Winton M. Blount , American politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) 2002 – Herman Gaviria , Colombian footballer (b. 1969) 2002 – Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912) 2003 – Luciano Berio , Italian composer (b. 1925) 2004 – Rafael Cordero Santiago , Mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico (b. 1942) 2004 – Randy Dorton , American engineer (b. 1954) 2004 – Ricky Hendrick , American race car driver (b. 1980) 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey , American archbishop (b. 1920) 2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941) 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano (b. 1932) 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo , Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926) 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari , Iranian painter (b. 1928) 2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923) 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913) 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and scriptwriter (b. 1926) 2006 – Enolia McMillan , American educator and activist (b. 1904) 2006 – William Montgomery Watt , Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909) 2007 – Petr Eben , Czech composer (b. 1929) 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928) 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981) 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929) 2007 – Viktor Prokopenko , Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1944) 2008 – Moshe Cotel , American pianist and composer (b. 1943) 2008 – John Goetz, American professional baseball player (b. 1937) 2008 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer (b. 1919) 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarists (b. 1959) 2010 – Mike Esposito, American illustrator (b. 1927) 2010 – Lamont Johnson , American director (b. 1922) 2010 – Joseph Stein , American playwright (b. 1912) 2010 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (b. 1915) 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer (b. 1967) 2011 – David Nelson , American actor and director (b. 1936) 2011 – Anne Sharp, Scottish opera singer (b. 1916) 2012 – Anita Björk , Swedish actress (b. 1923) 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957) 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer- songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont , American tennis player (b. 1918) 2012 – Peter Wright , English footballer (b. 1934) 2012 – Ladislau Biernaski, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishops (b. 1937) Holidays and observances Christian Feast Day: Anthony Mary Claret October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from United Kingdom in 1964. Suez Day (Egypt) United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations ( International) World Development Information Day (International) World Polio Day, Every year on 24 October, people around the world shine a spotlight on the importance of global eradication.
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