On this day | April 24th

On this day: April 24th

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1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Ancient Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).

1183 BC Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.

1547 Battle of Mühlberg. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.

1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France the Dauphin of France, Francis II of France, at Notre-Dame de Paris.

1704 The first regular newspaper in Thirteen Colonies, ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published.

1793 French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.

1800 The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of United States Congress".

1837 The 1837 Surat fire city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses.

1877 Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.

1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

1895 Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop ''Spray''.

1913 The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.

1914 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of Introduction to quantum mechanics, is presented to the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.

1915 The arrest of Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

1916 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken .

1918 World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IV tanks meet three German A7Vs.

1922 The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield wireless station in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

1924 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).

1926 The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

1932 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.

1933 Nazi Germany begins its Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany by shutting down the Corporations of Jehovah's Witnesses office in Magdeburg.

1944 World War II: The Special Boat Service launches a Raid on Santorini in Greece.

1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1955 The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

1957 Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of United Nations Emergency Force peacekeepers to the region.

1963 Marriage of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

1965 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch (politician).

1967 Astronaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".

1970 China launches ''Dong Fang Hong I'', becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.

1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President of the Gambia.

1979 – Blair Peach, a British activist, died after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front (UK) election meeting in Southall, London.

1980 Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle program ''Space Shuttle Discovery''.

1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

1993 An Provisional Irish Republican Army 1993 Bishopsgate bombing of London.

1994 A Douglas DC-3 1994 South Pacific Airmotive DC-3 crash in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.

1996 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

2004 The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi # Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2012) 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

2005 Cardinal (Catholicism) Joseph Ratzinger is Papal inauguration as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

2006 2006 Dahab bombings in the Egyptian Resort town of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.

2011 WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.

2013 A Rana Plaza collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

2013 April 2013 Bachu unrest in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

1086 Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1157)

1492 Sabina of Bavaria, Duchess of Württemberg, Bavarian duchess and noblewoman (d. 1564)

1532 Thomas Lucy, English politician (d. 1600)

1533 William I of Orange, founding father of the Netherlands (d. 1584)

1538 Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1587)

1545 Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, English Earl (d. 1581)

1562 Xu Guangqi, Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, scholar and lay Catholic leader (d. 1633)

1581 Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660)

1608 Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)

1620 John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674)

1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780)

1718 Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator (d. 1784)

1743 Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (d. 1823)

1784 Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1860)

1815 Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1882)

1823 Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (d. 1889)

1829 Luisa Cappiani, Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (d. 1919)

1845 Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1924)

1856 Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)

1860 Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d. 1935)

1862 Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist (d. 1957)

1868 Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer (d. 1944)

1876 Erich Raeder, German admiral (d. 1960)

1878 Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter (d. 1958)

1879 Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984)

1880 Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954)

1880 Josef Müller (entomologist), Croatian entomologist (d. 1964)

1882 Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)

1885 Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper (d. 1962)

1885 Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer (d. 1961)

1887 Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (d. 1931)

1888 Pe Maung Tin, Myanmar-based scholar and educator (d. 1973)

1889 Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952)

1889 Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic (d. 1924)

1897 Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (d. 1955)

1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941)

1899 Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)

1900 Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (d. 1984)

1903 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange Española y de las JONS (d. 1936)

1904 Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)

1905 Al Bates, American long jumper (d. 1999)

1905 Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1989)

1906 William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster (d. 1946)

1906 Mimi Smith, English nurse (d. 1991)

1907 Gabriel Figueroa, Mexican cinematographer (d. 1997)

1908 Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)

1908 Inga Gentzel, Swedish runner (d. 1991)

1908 Józef Gosławski (sculptor), Polish sculptor (d. 1963)

1912 Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower (d. 1994)

1913 Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)

1914 William Castle, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1914 Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1991)

1914 Justin Wilson (chef), American chef and author (d. 2001)

1916 Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2002)

1919 David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)

1919 Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (d. 2013)

1920 Gino Valenzano, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)

1922 Marc-Adélard Tremblay, Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)

1923 Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)

1923 Doris Burn, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)

1924 Clement Freud, German-English radio host, academic, and politician (d. 2009)

1924 Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer (d. 2002)

1925 Franco Leccese, Italian sprinter (d. 1992)

1926 Marilyn Erskine, American actress

1926 Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish farmer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)

1927 Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish runner and politician, List of Ministers for Energy of Luxembourg (d. 1992)

1928 Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2020)

1928 Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (d. 2008)

1928 Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (d. 2012)

1929 Dr. Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)

1930 Jerome Callet, American instrument designer, educator, and author (d. 2019)

1930 Richard Donner, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2021)

1930 José Sarney, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 31st President of Brazil

1931 Abdelhamid Kermali, Algerian footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1931 Bridget Riley, English painter and illustrator

1934 Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (d. 2015)

1934 Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer

1936 David Crombie, Canadian educator and politician, 56th Mayor of Toronto

1936 Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)

1937 Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2001)

1940 Sue Grafton, American author (d. 2017)

1941 Richard Holbrooke, American journalist, banker, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2010)

1941 John Williams (guitarist), Australian-English guitarist and composer

1942 Richard M. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Chicago

1942 Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, activist, and producer

1943 Richard Sterban, American country and gospel bass singer

1943 Gordon West, English footballer (d. 2012)

1944 Peter Cresswell (judge), English judge

1944 Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect

1944 Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer

1945 Doug Clifford, American drummer and songwriter

1946 Doug Christie (lawyer), Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2013)

1946 Phil Robertson, American hunter and television personality

1947 Josep Borrell, Spanish engineer and politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament

1947 João Braz de Aviz, Brazilian cardinal

1947 Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician

1947 Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate

1948 Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2013)

1948 Eliana Gil, Ecuadorian-American psychiatrist, therapist, and author

1949 Eddie Hart (athlete), American sprinter

1949 Véronique Sanson, French singer-songwriter and producer

1950 Rob Hyman, American singer-songwriter and musician

1951 Ron Arad (industrial designer), Israeli architect and academic

1951 Christian Bobin, French author and poet (d. 2022)

1951 Nigel Harrison, English bass player and songwriter

1951 Enda Kenny, Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach

1952 Jean Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer

1952 Ralph Winter (producer), American film producer

1953 Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer

1954 Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist, activist, and convicted murderer

1954 Jack Blades, American singer-songwriter and bass player

1955 Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician

1955 John de Mol Jr., Dutch businessman, co-founded Endemol

1955 Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste

1955 Margaret Moran, British politician and criminal

1955 Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (d. 1992)

1955 Michael O'Keefe, American actor

1955 Bill Osborne, New Zealand rugby player

1956 James A. Winnefeld, Jr., American admiral

1957 Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-English businessman and politician

1958 Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick, English police officer and politician

1959 Paula Yates, British-Australian television host and author (d. 2000)

1961 Andrew Murrison, English physician and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy

1962 Clemens Binninger, German politician

1962 Stuart Pearce, English footballer, coach, and manager

1962 Steve Roach (rugby league), Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster

1963 Paula Frazer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 Billy Gould, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

1963 Mano Solo, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010)

1964 Helga Arendt, German sprinter (d. 2013)

1964 Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian, actor, and producer

1964 Djimon Hounsou, Beninese-American actor and producer

1964 Witold Smorawiński, Polish guitarist, composer, and educator

1965 Jeff Jackson (ice hockey, born 1965), Canadian ice hockey player and manager

1966 Pierre Brassard, Canadian comedian and actor

1966 Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer, coach, and manager

1966 David Usher, English-Canadian singer-songwriter

1967 Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player

1967 Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan-American baseball player and coach

1968 Aidan Gillen, Irish actor

1968 Todd Jones, American baseball player

1968 Roxanna Panufnik, English composer

1968 Hashim Thaçi, Kosovan soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Kosovo

1969 Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer

1969 Rory McCann, Scottish actor

1969 Eilidh Whiteford, Scottish academic and politician

1970 Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

1971 Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lankan cricketer and umpire

1971 Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972 Robert Douglas (footballer), Scottish footballer

1972 Chipper Jones, American baseball player

1972 Jure Košir, Slovenian skier and singer

1973 Gabby Logan, English gymnast, television and radio host

1973 Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter and producer

1973 Brian Marshall, American bass player and songwriter

1973 Eric Snow, American basketball player and coach

1973 Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer

1973 Toomas Tohver, Estonian footballer

1973 Lee Westwood, English golfer

1974 Eric Kripke, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1974 Stephen Wiltshire, English illustrator

1975 Marte Mjøs Persen, Norwegian politician

1975 Dejan Savić, Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player

1976 Hedda Berntsen, Norwegian skier

1976 Steve Finnan, Irish international footballer

1976 Frédéric Niemeyer, Canadian tennis player and coach

1977 Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

1977 Diego Placente, Argentine footballer

1978 Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer

1980 Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer

1980 Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player (d. 2008)

1981 Taylor Dent, American tennis player

1981 Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese swimmer

1982 Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter, talk show host

1982 David Oliver (hurdler), American hurdler

1982 Simon Tischer, German volleyball player

1983 Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete

1985 Mike Rodgers, American sprinter

1986 Aaron Cunningham, American baseball player

1987 Ben Howard, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1987 Kris Letang, Canadian ice hockey player

1987 Rein Taaramäe, Estonian cyclist

1987 Jan Vertonghen, Belgian international footballer

1987 Varun Dhawan, Indian actor

1989 Elīna Babkina, Latvian basketball player

1989 David Boudia, American diver

1989 Taja Mohorčič, Slovenian tennis player

1990 Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress

1990 Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player

1991 Sigrid Agren, French-Swedish model

1991 Morgan Ciprès, French figure skater

1991 Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish footballer

1992 Joe Keery, American actor

1992 Laura Kenny, English cyclist

1992 Jack Quaid, American actor

1993 Ben Davies (footballer, born 1993), Welsh international footballer

1994 Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor

1994 Caspar Lee, British-South African YouTuber

1995 Kehlani, American singer-songwriter

1996 Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player

1997 Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer

1997 Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player

1998 Ryan Newman (actress), American actress

1999 Jerry Jeudy, American football player

2002 Olivia Gadecki, Australian tennis player

624 Mellitus, saint and archbishop of Canterbury

1149 Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault

1288 Gertrude of Austria (b. 1226)

1338 Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1291)

1479 Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440)

1513 Şehzade Ahmet, Ottoman prince (b. 1465)

1617 Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)

1622 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (b. 1577)

1656 Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)

1692 Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (b. 1633)

1731 Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)

1748 Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)

1779 Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)

1794 Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)

1852 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)

1889 Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)

1891 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)

1924 G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)

1931 David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)

1935 Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)

1938 George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)

1939 Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)

1941 Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)

1942 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

1944 Charles Jordan (magician), American magician (b. 1888)

1945 Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)

1947 Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)

1948 Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)

1954 Guy Mairesse, French racing driver (b. 1910)

1960 Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1879)

1961 Lee Moran, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1888)

1962 Milt Franklyn, American composer (b. 1897)

1964 Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)

1965 Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)

1966 Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)

1967 Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (b. 1927)

1967 Robert Richards (Australian politician), Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885)

1968 Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)

1970 Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)

1972 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)

1974 Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1897)

1976 Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)

1980 Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)

1982 Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)

1983 Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)

1983 Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (b. 1943)

1984 Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)

1986 Wallis Simpson, American socialite, Duchess of Windsor (b. 1896)

1993 Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and activist (b. 1917)

1993 Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917)

1995 Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903)

1997 Allan Francovich, American director and producer (b. 1941)

1997 Pat Paulsen, American comedian and activist (b. 1927)

1997 Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the ArmaLite AR-15 (b. 1922)

2001 Josef Peters (racing driver), German racing driver (b. 1914)

2001 Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (b. 1928)

2002 Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (b. 1908)

2003 Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1910)

2004 José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and producer (b. 1923)

2004 Estée Lauder (businesswoman), American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1906)

2005 Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)

2005 Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910)

2006 Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)

2006 Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar), Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914)

2008 Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921)

2011 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)

2014 Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (b. 1934)

2014 Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)

2014 Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1968)

2014 Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921)

2015 Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish journalist and politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland) (b. 1922)

2016 Tommy Kono, American weightlifter and coach (b. 1930)

2017 Robert Pirsig, American author and philosopher (b. 1928)

2022 Andrew Woolfolk, American saxophonist (b. 1950)

2024 Bob Cole (sportscaster), Canadian sports announcer (b. 1933)

2024 Terry Hill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1972)

2024 Donald Payne Jr., American politician (b. 1958)

2024 Mike Pinder, British musician (b. 1941)

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, France)

Christian feast day:

- Benedict Menni

- Diarmait ua Tigernáin

- Dyfnan

- Ecgberht of Ripon

- Fidelis of Sigmaringen

- Gregory of Elvira

- Ivo of Ramsey

- Johann Walter (Lutheran)

- Mary of Clopas

- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

- Mellitus

- Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur

- Salome (disciple)

- Wilfrid (Church of England)

- William Firmatus

- April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Concord Day (Niger)

Democracy Day (Nepal)

Fashion Revolution Day, and its related observances:

- Labour Day # Bangladesh (Bangladesh, proposed)

National Panchayati Raj Day (India)

Republic Day (The Gambia)

World Day for Laboratory Animals

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