Died On December 24th
Discover the most famous people who died on December 24. The list includes people like Vasco da Gama, John Muir, M. G. Ramachandran, Harold Pinter, Samuel P. Huntington. Famous personalities featured on this list, include actors, composers, novelists and political leaders and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Vasco da Gama1469 AD, Portuguese
Explorer
Karl Dönitz16 September 1891, German
Naval Officer
M. G. Ramachandran17 January 1917, Indian
Actor, Politician
Jack Klugman27 April 1922, American
Actor
John Muir21 April 1838, American, Scottish
Naturalist
Peter Lawford07 September 1923, British, American
Actor
Bill Bowerman19 February 1911, American
Co-founder of Nike, Inc.
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith19 July 1904, American
Last Descendant of Abraham Lincoln
William Makepeace Thackeray18 July 1811, Indian, British
Author & Novelist
William M. Branham06 April 1909, American
American Christian minister
Samuel P. Huntington18 April 1927, American
Johns Hopkins19 May 1795, American
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Nick Massi19 September 1927, American
Guitarist
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Charles Durning28 February 1923, American
Actor
Rick Parfitt12 October 1948, British
Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Toshiro Mifune01 April 1920, Chinese, Japanese
Actor, Film producer, Film actor
Bernard Herrmann29 June 1911, American
Composer, Conductor, Film score composer
Rossano Brazzi18 September 1916, Italian
Actor, Film director, Singer
John Osborne12 December 1929, British
Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer
François Darlan07 August 1881, French
Politician, Military personnel
Empress Go-Sakuramachi23 September 1740, Japanese
Monarch
Richard Adams09 May 1920, British
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Author, Science
Peyo25 June 1928, Belgian
Comics artist, Screenwriter, Cartoonist
Ai Iijima31 October 1972, Japanese
Adult Film Star, AV idol, Seiyū, Tarento, Glamor
Rafael Caldera24 January 1916, Venezuelan
President
Rudi Dutschke07 March 1940, German
Sociologist, Politician
Gardner Fox20 May 1911, American
Comics artist, Writer, Novelist, Science fiction
Samael Aun Weor03 March 1917, Colombian
writer
Laci Peterson04 May 1975, American
Louis Aragon03 October 1897, French
Writer, Journalist, Politician, Poet, Novelist,
Juan Velasco Alvarado16 June 1910, Peruvian
Politician, Officer
Leo V the Armenian0775 AD, Turkish
Emperor
Jake Thackray27 February 1938, British
Singer-songwriter, Poet
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João Figueiredo15 January 1918, Brazilian
Politician, Officer
Ferdinand I of León1015 AD, Spanish
King
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza23 September 1907, Austrian
Bruno Taut04 May 1880, German
Architect, Urban planner
William John Macquorn Rankine05 July 1820, British, Scottish
Engineer, Physicist, Civil engineer, University
Johannes Heesters05 December 1903, German, Dutch
Singer, Television actor, Film actor, Actor
Richard Rodney Bennett29 March 1936, British
Composer, Music educator, Jazz musician, Pianist,
John Dunstaple1390 AD, British
composer
Pope Gregory VIII1100 AD, Italian
philosopher, Catholic priest
Edward Greenspan28 February 1944, Canadian
Lawyer
Frederic Bastiat30 June 1801, French
Robert Leckie18 December 1920, American
journalist, historian, writer
Albert Barnes01 December 1798, American
Theologian
João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo15 January 1918, Brazilian
Former President of Brazil
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale31 May 1898, American