Today in History
On July 24 in history ..
- 1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
- 1554 - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
- 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland
- 1577 - Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
- 1577 - Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
- 1581 - States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
- 1651 - Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
- 1673 - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
- 1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
- 1692 - French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
- 1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
- 1704 - English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
- 1712 - Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
- 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
- 1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
- 1783 - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
- 1793 - France passes 1st copyright law
- 1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
- 1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
- 1833 - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
- 1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
- 1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
- 1851 - Window tax abolished in Britain
- 1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats
- 1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
- 1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
- 1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
- 1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins
- 1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
- 1883 - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
- 1886 - China takes British protectorate of Burma
- 1893 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
- 1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
- 1902 - Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
- 1905 - Treaty of Björkö: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
- 1908 - John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
- 1909 - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pitts Pirates
- 1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
- 1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
- 1911 - Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
- 1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
- 1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
- 1921 - Belgium's Léon Scieur wins Tour de France
- 1923 - Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
- 1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
- 1929 - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
- 1929 - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
- 1931 - George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
- 1931 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
- 1933 - #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie & #4589 McDowell
- 1933 - German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
- 1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
- 1935 - 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
- 1936 - 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
- 1936 - 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
- 1936 - Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
- 1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
- 1938 - Instant coffee invented
- 1940 - 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
- 1940 - Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
- 1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
- 1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
- 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
- 1942 - Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
- 1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
- 1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
- 1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
- 1944 - US troops land on Tinian
- 1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
- 1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
- 1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
- 1948 - 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
- 1948 - Soviets blockades Berlin from west
- 1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
- 1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
- 1952 - 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
- 1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
- 1952 - Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike
- 1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo of Govt resigns in Indonesia
- 1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
- 1956 - Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
- 1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
- 1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 - 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
- 1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
- 1958 - Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
- 1959 - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
- 1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
- 1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
- 1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
- 1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
- 1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
- 1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1963 - Dutch govt of Marijnen forms
- 1964 - -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
- 1965 - "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
- 1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
- 1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
- 1965 - Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
- 1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
- 1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
- 1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
- 1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
- 1967 - Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Québec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
- 1967 - Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
- 1967 - Norway requests European Common Market membership
- 1967 - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
- 1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
- 1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
- 1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
- 1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
- 1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
- 1970 - Intl Law Tennis Assn institutes 9 point tie break rule
- 1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1972 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
- 1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
- 1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
- 1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
- 1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
- 1976 - John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
- 1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
- 1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
- 1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
- 1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC
- 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
- 1978 - Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
- 1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
- 1979 - Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
- 1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
- 1981 - Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
- 1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs
- 1982 - KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
- 1983 - "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
- 1983 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
- 1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
- 1983 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
- 1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
- 1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
- 1984 - Steve Ballesteros wins British Open
- 1985 - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
- 1986 - SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
- 1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
- 1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- 1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
- 1988 - US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
- 1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
- 1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
- 1991 - Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
- 1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
- 1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
- 1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
- 1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
- 1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
- 1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
- 1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
- 1994 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
- 1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
- 1994 - Asociacón de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
- 1994 - Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
- 1994 - Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
Famous birthdays on July 24 ..
- 1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
- 1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
- 1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
- 1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
- 1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
- 1783 - Simón Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
- 1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
- 1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
- 1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
- 1802 - Alexandre Dumas Père, France, author (3 Musketeers)
- 1802 - Ira Aldridge, famous African
- 1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Si j'était roi)
- 1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
- 1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
- 1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
- 1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
- 1826 - Francisco S López, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
- 1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
- 1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
- 1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
- 1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
- 1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
- 1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
- 1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
- 1864 - B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)
- 1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
- 1865 - Frank Wedekind, writer
- 1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
- 1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist
- 1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper
- 1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
- 1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
- 1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
- 1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
- 1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
- 1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
- 1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
- 1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
- 1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
- 1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
- 1898 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
- 1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
- 1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
- 1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
- 1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
- 1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
- 1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
- 1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
- 1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
- 1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
- 1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
- 1913 - George H Brown, film producer
- 1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
- 1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
- 1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
- 1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
- 1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
- 1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
- 1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
- 1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
- 1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
- 1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
- 1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller
- 1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
- 1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
- 1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF Calif, composer/violinist (Paganini)
- 1920 - Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
- 1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)
- 1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
- 1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
- 1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
- 1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
- 1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
- 1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
- 1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
- 1926 - Hans-Günther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
- 1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
- 1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
- 1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer
- 1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
- 1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
- 1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
- 1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
- 1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
- 1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
- 1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
- 1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
- 1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
- 1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
- 1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
- 1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
- 1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
- 1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
- 1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
- 1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
- 1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
- 1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
- 1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
- 1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect
- 1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
- 1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
- 1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
- 1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
- 1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
- 1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
- 1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
- 1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
- 1942 - Chris Sarandon, WV, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
- 1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
- 1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
- 1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
- 1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
- 1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
- 1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
- 1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
- 1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
- 1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
- 1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic
- 1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
- 1947 - Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi)
- 1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
- 1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
- 1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
- 1949 - Michael Richards, LA Calif, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
- 1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
- 1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
- 1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
- 1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
- 1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
- 1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
- 1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
- 1953 - Julian Brazier, MP
- 1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
- 1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
- 1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
- 1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
- 1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
- 1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
- 1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
- 1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
- 1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
- 1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
- 1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
- 1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
- 1963 - Kadeem Hardison, NYC, actor (Dwayne-Different World)
- 1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
- 1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
- 1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside CA, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
- 1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
- 1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
- 1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
- 1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis TN, catcher (Cin Reds)
- 1965 - Kadeem Hardison, actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
- 1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
- 1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
- 1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Phila Eagles)
- 1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
- 1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
- 1969 - Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
- 1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
- 1970 - Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
- 1970 - Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
- 1970 - Stephanie Adams, NJ, playmate (Nov, 1992)
- 1973 - Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
- 1974 - Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Ill, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
- 1975 - Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
- 1976 - Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
- 1976 - Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
- 1976 - Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
- 1977 - Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
- 1977 - Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
- 1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)
- 1987 - Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
- 1990 - Evan James Springsteen, LA Calif, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
- 1993 - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
Famous deaths on July 24 ..
- 1345 - Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
- 1652 - Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
- 1704 - István Gyöngyösi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemény), dies in battle
- 1712 - Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
- 1739 - Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
- 1756 - George Vertue, engraver, dies
- 1758 - John Dyer, poet, dies
- 1809 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
- 1812 - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
- 1819 - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
- 1826 - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
- 1831 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
- 1837 - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
- 1842 - John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
- 1846 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
- 1846 - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
- 1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
- 1865 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
- 1868 - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
- 1876 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
- 1883 - Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
- 1900 - Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
- 1931 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
- 1933 - Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
- 1936 - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
- 1944 - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
- 1947 - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
- 1950 - Robert W Lehnhoff, [Executioner of Groningen], SS führer, executed
- 1954 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
- 1957 - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
- 1960 - Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
- 1960 - Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
- 1962 - Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
- 1964 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
- 1965 - Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
- 1965 - Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
- 1966 - Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
- 1967 - Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
- 1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
- 1971 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
- 1972 - Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
- 1973 - Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
- 1974 - Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
- 1974 - Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
- 1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
- 1979 - Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
- 1980 - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
- 1986 - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
- 1986 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36), dies
- 1989 - Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
- 1990 - Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
- 1991 - Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
- 1991 - Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
- 1991 - Karl Ellis, dies at 41
- 1992 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
- 1992 - Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
- 1992 - Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
- 1993 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
- 1993 - Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
- 1993 - Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
- 1994 - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
- 1994 - Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
- 1995 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
- 1995 - Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
- 1995 - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
- 1995 - Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
- 1996 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
- 1996 - Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
- 1996 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
- 1996 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
- 1997 - Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
- 1997 - William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
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