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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of May 1218 | EVENT | The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. |
| 24th of May 1276 | EVENT | Magnus Ladulas is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. |
| 24th of May 1487 | EVENT | The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign. |
| 24th of May 1595 | EVENT | Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. |
| 24th of May 1621 | EVENT | The Protestant Union is formally dissolved. |
| 24th of May 1626 | EVENT | Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. |
| 24th of May 1689 | EVENT | The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. |
| 24th of May 1738 | EVENT | John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday. |
| 24th of May 1798 | EVENT | The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. |
| 24th of May 1822 | EVENT | Battle of Pichincha: Antonio Jose de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito. |
| 24th of May 1830 | EVENT | Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. |
| 24th of May 1830 | EVENT | The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. |
| 24th of May 1832 | EVENT | The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. |
| 24th of May 1844 | EVENT | Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line. |
| 24th of May 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey. |
| 24th of May 1856 | EVENT | John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. |
| 24th of May 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 24th of May 1883 | EVENT | The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. |
| 24th of May 1895 | EVENT | Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted. |
| 24th of May 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State. |
| 24th of May 1901 | EVENT | Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. |
| 24th of May 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. |
| 24th of May 1921 | EVENT | The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. |
| 24th of May 1930 | EVENT | Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). |
| 24th of May 1935 | EVENT | The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field. |
| 24th of May 1940 | EVENT | Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. |
| 24th of May 1941 | EVENT | World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen. |
| 24th of May 1943 | EVENT | Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. |
| 24th of May 1948 | EVENT | Arab : Israeli War: Egypt finally captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. |
| 24th of May 1956 | EVENT | Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbana. |
| 24th of May 1956 | EVENT | The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland |
| 24th of May 1958 | EVENT | United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. |
| 24th of May 1960 | EVENT | Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordon Caulle begins to erupt. |
| 24th of May 1961 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. |
| 24th of May 1961 | EVENT | Cyprus enters the Council of Europe. |
| 24th of May 1962 | EVENT | Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. |
| 24th of May 1967 | EVENT | Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel. |
| 24th of May 1968 | EVENT | FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. |
| 24th of May 1970 | EVENT | The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. |
| 24th of May 1973 | EVENT | Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. |
| 24th of May 1976 | EVENT | The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins. |
| 24th of May 1976 | EVENT | The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine. |
| 24th of May 1980 | EVENT | The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran. The hostages would not be freed until the following January. |
| 24th of May 1982 | EVENT | Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran : Iraq War. |
| 24th of May 1988 | EVENT | Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted. |
| 24th of May 1989 | EVENT | Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, is awarded ?600,000 in damages (later reduced to ?60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye. |
| 24th of May 1990 | EVENT | A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both. |
| 24th of May 1991 | EVENT | Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. |
| 24th of May 1991 | EVENT | Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. |
| 24th of May 1992 | EVENT | The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests. |
| 24th of May 1994 | EVENT | Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. |
| 24th of May 2000 | EVENT | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
| 24th of May 2001 | EVENT | The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 |
| 24th of May 2001 | EVENT | Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. |
| 24th of May 2002 | EVENT | Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. |
| 24th of May 2004 | EVENT | Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones. |
| 24th of May 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557) |
| 24th of May 1522 | BIRTHDAY | John Jewel, English Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1571) |
| 24th of May 1544 | BIRTHDAY | William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603) |
| 24th of May 1616 | BIRTHDAY | John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682) |
| 24th of May 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737) |
| 24th of May 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Fahrenheit, German inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736) |
| 24th of May 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769) |
| 24th of May 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793) |
| 24th of May 1794 | BIRTHDAY | William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866) |
| 24th of May 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866) |
| 24th of May 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Clark, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877) |
| 24th of May 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874) |
| 24th of May 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868) |
| 24th of May 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901) |
| 24th of May 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897) |
| 24th of May 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925) |
| 24th of May 1854 | BIRTHDAY | John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918) |
| 24th of May 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934) |
| 24th of May 1863 | BIRTHDAY | George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938) |
| 24th of May 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Taylor, American mechanic, associate with the Wright brothers (d. 1956) |
| 24th of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950) |
| 24th of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938) |
| 24th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878) |
| 24th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972) |
| 24th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co. (d. 1956) |
| 24th of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948) |
| 24th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979) |
| 24th of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish World War I pilot (d. 1918) |
| 24th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971) |
| 24th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher (d. 1979) |
| 24th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938) |
| 24th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984) |
| 24th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954) |
| 24th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 24th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968) |
| 24th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Milo Burcham, American aviator (d. 1944) |
| 24th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 24th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Wilbur Mills, U.S. House of Representative from Arkansas (d. 1992) |
| 24th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007) |
| 24th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986) |
| 24th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007) |
| 24th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002) |
| 24th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986) |
| 24th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994) |
| 24th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor |
| 24th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | William Trevor, Irish writer |
| 24th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor |
| 24th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lonsdale, French actor |
| 24th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Wesker, English dramatist |
| 24th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Aharon Lichtenstein, French-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva |
| 24th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Byrne, 50th Mayor of Chicago |
| 24th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist |
| 24th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Micklin Silver, American director |
| 24th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Budd, American composer and poet |
| 24th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Shepp, American jazz saxophonist |
| 24th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Peterson, pilot who drove the plane on The Day the Music Died (d. 1959) |
| 24th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996) |
| 24th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian |
| 24th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) |
| 24th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | George Lakoff, American linguist and political activist |
| 24th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter |
| 24th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and administrator |
| 24th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ichiro Ozawa, Japanese politician |
| 24th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Burghoff, American actor |
| 24th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Patti LaBelle, American R&B singer, songwriter and actress |
| 24th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Priscilla Presley, American actress |
| 24th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Irena Szewinska, Russian-born Polish sprinter |
| 24th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive (Volkswagen Group) |
| 24th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Broadbent, English actor |
| 24th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tomaz Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician |
| 24th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sybil Danning, Austrian actress |
| 24th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Seidlin, American judge |
| 24th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nell Campbell, American actress and singer |
| 24th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Molina, London-born Spanish-Italian actor |
| 24th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus-Gunter Stade, German footballer |
| 24th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Leonard, American guitarist, singer and songwriter |
| 24th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rosanne Cash, American singer |
| 24th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Richard B. Bernstein, American constitutional and legal historian |
| 24th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman |
| 24th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Blackmon, American singer (Cameo) |
| 24th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (d. 1985) |
| 24th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress |
| 24th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits) |
| 24th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Jones, American actor |
| 24th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 24th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer |
| 24th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Capelli, Italian racing driver |
| 24th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Chabon, American author |
| 24th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Rodriguez, American football coach |
| 24th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Leander, Swiss singer |
| 24th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Dumars, American basketball player |
| 24th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer |
| 24th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John C. Reilly, American actor |
| 24th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese anime director |
| 24th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Cantona, French footballer |
| 24th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver |
| 24th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Kun, Nauruan politician |
| 24th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Hernandez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 24th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Close, American actor |
| 24th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Putzulu, French actor |
| 24th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross) |
| 24th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter |
| 24th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes) |
| 24th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Page, American singer |
| 24th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings) |
| 24th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer |
| 24th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Wisniewska, Polish discus thrower |
| 24th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter |
| 24th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bartolo Colon, Dominican baseball player |
| 24th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Smicer, Czech footballer |
| 24th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ruslana, Ukrainian singer |
| 24th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian |
| 24th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Foucan, French actor and free-runner |
| 24th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player |
| 24th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater |
| 24th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer |
| 24th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Lawson, British singer |
| 24th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Maesen, Belgian flatwater canoer |
| 24th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Cortini, Italian multi-instrumentalist (Nine Inch Nails) |
| 24th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Cox, Australian netballer |
| 24th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kym Valentine, Australian actress |
| 24th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Ching, American footballer |
| 24th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Penny, American baseball player |
| 24th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Holmqvist, Swedish hockey player |
| 24th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Greenberg, American actor |
| 24th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Elijah Burke, American wrestler |
| 24th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy McGrady, American basketball player |
| 24th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kareem McKenzie, American football player |
| 24th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Mir, American UFC fighter |
| 24th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer |
| 24th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Marketa Janska, Czech model |
| 24th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Issah Ahmed, Ghana football player |
| 24th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer |
| 24th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009) |
| 24th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Hagan, American actress |
| 24th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brodney Pool, American football player |
| 24th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Wieber, American visual effects compositor and amateur filmmaker |
| 24th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Kondoes, Greek footballer |
| 24th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Bridgman, British racing driver |
| 24th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Metcalfe, English actor |
| 24th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ballas, American professional dancer |
| 24th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian hockey player |
| 24th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Lin Brown, American soldier |
| 24th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Gilman, American singer |
| 24th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Artem Anisimov, Russian hockey player |
| 24th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Jordan, British racing driver |
| 24th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Adel Taarabt, Moroccan footballer |
| 24th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Logano, American racing driver |
| 24th of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Umeda, Japanese singer |
| 24th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Travis T. Flory, American actor |
| 24th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Davis, American actor |
| 24th of May 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein |
| 24th of May 1153 | DEATH | King David I of Scotland (Born 1084) |
| 24th of May 1351 | DEATH | Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (Born c. 1297) |
| 24th of May 1408 | DEATH | Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (Born 1335) |
| 24th of May 1425 | DEATH | Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (Born 1362) |
| 24th of May 1456 | DEATH | Ambroise de Lore, French military commander (Born 1396) |
| 24th of May 1543 | DEATH | Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (Born 1473) |
| 24th of May 1612 | DEATH | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman (Born 1563) |
| 24th of May 1627 | DEATH | Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet (Born 1561) |
| 24th of May 1632 | DEATH | Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (Born 1553) |
| 24th of May 1725 | DEATH | Jonathan Wild, English criminal (Born 1682) |
| 24th of May 1734 | DEATH | Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (Born 1660) |
| 24th of May 1792 | DEATH | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (Born 1718) |
| 24th of May 1806 | DEATH | John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (Born 1723) |
| 24th of May 1843 | DEATH | Sylvestre Francois Lacroix, French mathematician (Born 1765) |
| 24th of May 1861 | DEATH | Elmer E. Ellsworth, American Civil War officer (Born 1837) |
| 24th of May 1872 | DEATH | Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (Born 1794) |
| 24th of May 1876 | DEATH | Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1843) |
| 24th of May 1879 | DEATH | William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (Born 1805) |
| 24th of May 1881 | DEATH | Samuel Palmer, English artist (Born 1805) |
| 24th of May 1883 | DEATH | Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian leader (Born 1808) |
| 24th of May 1908 | DEATH | Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (Born 1821) |
| 24th of May 1915 | DEATH | Private John Condon, English World War I soldier (Born 1896) |
| 24th of May 1919 | DEATH | Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (Born 1870) |
| 24th of May 1941 | DEATH | Lancelot Holland, British admiral (Born 1887) |
| 24th of May 1945 | DEATH | Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (Born 1892) |
| 24th of May 1947 | DEATH | Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (Born 1878) |
| 24th of May 1948 | DEATH | Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (Born 1885) |
| 24th of May 1949 | DEATH | Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (Born 1873) |
| 24th of May 1950 | DEATH | Archibald Wavell, British Field Marshal (Born 1883) |
| 24th of May 1959 | DEATH | John Foster Dulles, American, 52nd United States Secretary of State (Born 1888) |
| 24th of May 1960 | DEATH | Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (Born 1887) |
| 24th of May 1963 | DEATH | Elmore James, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Born 1918) |
| 24th of May 1969 | DEATH | Willy Ley, German-born rocket scientist (Born 1906) |
| 24th of May 1972 | DEATH | Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (Born 1915) |
| 24th of May 1974 | DEATH | Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (Born 1899) |
| 24th of May 1984 | DEATH | Vincent J. McMahon, American pro wrestling promoter (Born 1914) |
| 24th of May 1991 | DEATH | Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (Born 1912) |
| 24th of May 1991 | DEATH | Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (Born 1944) |
| 24th of May 1992 | DEATH | Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (Born 1956) |
| 24th of May 1995 | DEATH | Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1964-1970, 1974-1976 (Born 1916) |
| 24th of May 1996 | DEATH | Enrique Alvarez Felix, Mexican actor (Born 1934) |
| 24th of May 1996 | DEATH | Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (Born 1908) |
| 24th of May 1997 | DEATH | Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (Born 1923) |
| 24th of May 2000 | DEATH | Kurt Schork, American reporter (Born 1947) |
| 24th of May 2000 | DEATH | Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and lyricist (Born 1919) |
| 24th of May 2002 | DEATH | Wallace Markfield, American writer (Born 1926) |
| 24th of May 2003 | DEATH | Rachel Kempson, English actress (Born 1910) |
| 24th of May 2004 | DEATH | Henry Ries, American photographer (Born 1917) |
| 24th of May 2004 | DEATH | Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (Born 1913) |
| 24th of May 2004 | DEATH | Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (Born 1900) |
| 24th of May 2005 | DEATH | Carl Amery, German writer (Born 1922) |
| 24th of May 2005 | DEATH | Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (Born 1934) |
| 24th of May 2005 | DEATH | Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (Born 1913) |
| 24th of May 2006 | DEATH | Henry Bumstead, American art director (Born 1915) |
| 24th of May 2006 | DEATH | Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican convicted killer (Born 1963) |
| 24th of May 2006 | DEATH | Micha? Zyczkowski, Polish technician (Born 1930) |
| 24th of May 2007 | DEATH | Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (Born 1922) |
| 24th of May 2008 | DEATH | Dick Martin, American comedian (Born 1922) |
| 24th of May 2008 | DEATH | Rob Knox, British actor (Born 1989) |
| 24th of May 2009 | DEATH | Jay Bennett, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Wilco) (Born 1963) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Virendra Bhatia, Indian politician (Born 1947) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Ray Alan, English ventriloquist & television entertainer (Born 1930) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Tapen Chatterjee, Bengali actor from India (Born 1937) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic lyric soprano (Born 1926) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Raymond V. Haysbert, African-American business executive and civil rights leader (Born 1920) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Petr Muk, Czech composer, musician, performer, and singer (Born 1965) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Morrie Martin, Former Major League Baseball (Born 1922) |
| 24th of May 2010 | DEATH | Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (Born 1972) |