Famous Deaths Happened In December - 24
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
0427 On this day in history death of archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
1069 Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies on December - 24.
1257 On December - 24 death of john I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
1380 On December - 24 john von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies
1453 On this day in history john Dunstable, English composer, dies
1524 On this day in history vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55
1541 On December - 24 andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61
1548 On December - 24 maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies
1660 On December - 24 mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29
1707 Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 on this day in history.
1813 On this day in history death of empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1823 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68 on December - 24.
1862 Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84 on December - 24.
1863 On this day in history w M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52
1865 Death of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793) on this day in history.
1868 On this day in history death of adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
1869 On December - 24 edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55
1872 Death of William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820) on December - 24.
1873 Death of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795) on this day in history.
1885 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 on December - 24.
1889 Death of Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819) on this day in history.
1898 On December - 24 eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41
1904 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55 on this day in history.
1907 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies on this day in history.
1908 On December - 24 francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
1909 On December - 24 nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80
1914 On this day in history death of john Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
1930 On this day in history eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
1932 On December - 24 eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60
1935 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 on December - 24.
1938 On this day in history death of bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
1941 On this day in history death of siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
1942 Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.
1944 On December - 24 joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66
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