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History Deaths on January 24


Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)

#Ahmet_Hamdi_Tanp?nar

Conrad Paumann
Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (b. 1410)

#Conrad_Paumann

Maximilian Bircher-Benner
Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)

#Maximilian_Bircher-Benner

Mark E. Smith
Mark E. Smith, British singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

#Mark_E._Smith

Johann Christian Poggendorff
Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)

#Johann_Christian_Poggendorff

Gianni Agnelli
Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (b. 1921)

#Gianni_Agnelli

L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (b. 1911)

#L._Ron_Hubbard

Alfonso IV of Aragon
Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)

#Alfonso_IV_of_Aragon

Rosemary Bryant Mariner
Rosemary Bryant Mariner, 20th and 21st-century U.S. Navy officer

#Rosemary_Bryant_Mariner

Butch Trucks
Butch Trucks, American drummer (b. 1947)

#Butch_Trucks

Gordon MacRae
Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)

#Gordon_MacRae

Johann Andreas Herbst
Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588)

#Johann_Andreas_Herbst

Leônidas
Leônidas, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1913)

#Leônidas

Otto Carius
Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (b. 1922)

#Otto_Carius

George Cukor
George Cukor, American director and producer (b. 1899)

#George_Cukor

Pernell Roberts
Pernell Roberts, American actor (b. 1928)

#Pernell_Roberts

Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)

#Amedeo_Modigliani

Alfredo Ovando Candía
Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)

#Alfredo_Ovando_Candía

Madge Bellamy
Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)

#Madge_Bellamy

Stanley Lord
Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)

#Stanley_Lord

Henry Worsley (explorer)
Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (b. 1960)

#Henry_Worsley_(explorer)

Schafik Handal
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)

#Schafik_Handal

Edwin Fischer
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)

#Edwin_Fischer

Shulamit Aloni
Shulamit Aloni, Israeli lawyer and politician, 11th Israeli Minister of Education (b. 1928)

#Shulamit_Aloni

Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1927)

#Marvin_Minsky

Homi J. Bhabha
Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)

#Homi_J._Bhabha

James Collinson
James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825)

#James_Collinson

Alfred Carlton Gilbert
Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)

#Alfred_Carlton_Gilbert

Jörg Jenatsch
Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss pastor and politician (b. 1596)

#Jörg_Jenatsch

Krystyna Feldman
Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)

#Krystyna_Feldman

Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen
Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 985)

#Eckard_II,_Margrave_of_Meissen

Guadalupe Larriva
Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian academic and politician (b. 1956)

#Guadalupe_Larriva

Bernd Eichinger
Bernd Eichinger, German director and producer (b. 1949)

#Bernd_Eichinger

André Lhote
André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)

#André_Lhote

Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)

#Caresse_Crosby

John Burns
John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)

#John_Burns

Gustav Ernesaks
Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1908)

#Gustav_Ernesaks

Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (b. 1908)

#Thurgood_Marshall

Larry Fine
Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)

#Larry_Fine

K?toku Sh?sui
K?toku Sh?sui, Japanese socialist and anarchist (b.1871)

#K?toku_Sh?sui

Werner Fenchel
Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1905)

#Werner_Fenchel

Franciabigio
Franciabigio, Florentine painter (b. 1482)

#Franciabigio

Rafael Pineda Ponce
Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician (b. 1930)

#Rafael_Pineda_Ponce

Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849)

#Lord_Randolph_Churchill

Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1529)

#Ferdinand_II,_Archduke_of_Austria

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

#Winston_Churchill

Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)

#Ted_Bundy

Friedrich von Flotow
Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)

#Friedrich_von_Flotow

J. Carrol Naish
J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)

#J._Carrol_Naish

David IV of Georgia
David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)

#David_IV_of_Georgia

Caligula
Caligula, Roman emperor (b. 12)

#Caligula

Fredrik Barth
Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (b. 1928)

#Fredrik_Barth

George Rooke
George Rooke, English admiral and politician (b. 1650)

#George_Rooke

Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (b. 1891)
?smail Cem ?pekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940)
Elie Hobeika, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1956)
Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
Jack Schaefer, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
Samuel Argall, English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1572)
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1306)
Liu Jishu, general of the Tang Dynasty
Pope Stephen IV (b. 770)