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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of October 0069 | EVENT | Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. |
| 24th of October 1147 | EVENT | After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques, reconquered Lisbon. |
| 24th of October 1260 | EVENT | The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
| 24th of October 1260 | EVENT | Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself. |
| 24th of October 1360 | EVENT | The Treaty of Bretigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. |
| 24th of October 1590 | EVENT | John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists. |
| 24th of October 1648 | EVENT | The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. |
| 24th of October 1795 | EVENT | Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia |
| 24th of October 1812 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow. |
| 24th of October 1854 | EVENT | William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus. |
| 24th of October 1857 | EVENT | Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England. |
| 24th of October 1861 | EVENT | The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. |
| 24th of October 1892 | EVENT | Goodison Park, the world's first association football specific stadium is opened. |
| 24th of October 1901 | EVENT | Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. |
| 24th of October 1911 | EVENT | Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. |
| 24th of October 1912 | EVENT | First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory. |
| 24th of October 1917 | EVENT | Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo). |
| 24th of October 1926 | EVENT | Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 24th of October 1929 | EVENT | "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 24th of October 1930 | EVENT | A bloodless coup d'etat in Brazil ousts Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getulio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president." |
| 24th of October 1931 | EVENT | The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic. |
| 24th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. |
| 24th of October 1945 | EVENT | Founding of the United Nations |
| 24th of October 1946 | EVENT | A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. |
| 24th of October 1947 | EVENT | Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. |
| 24th of October 1954 | EVENT | Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam |
| 24th of October 1957 | EVENT | The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. |
| 24th of October 1960 | EVENT | Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash |
| 24th of October 1964 | EVENT | Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony) |
| 24th of October 1973 | EVENT | Yom Kippur War ends |
| 24th of October 1977 | EVENT | Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.) |
| 24th of October 1980 | EVENT | Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union |
| 24th of October 1986 | EVENT | Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials. |
| 24th of October 1990 | EVENT | Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army. |
| 24th of October 1998 | EVENT | Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission |
| 24th of October 2002 | EVENT | Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC. |
| 24th of October 2003 | EVENT | Concorde makes its last commercial flight. |
| 24th of October 2005 | EVENT | Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage. |
| 24th of October 2006 | EVENT | Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. |
| 24th of October 2008 | EVENT | "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. |
| 24th of October 0051 | BIRTHDAY | Titus Flavius Domitianus, Roman Emperor (d. 96) |
| 24th of October 1378 | BIRTHDAY | David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402) |
| 24th of October 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Babington, Leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586) |
| 24th of October 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723) |
| 24th of October 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749) |
| 24th of October 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773) |
| 24th of October 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839) |
| 24th of October 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879) |
| 24th of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) |
| 24th of October 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885) |
| 24th of October 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (d. 1890) |
| 24th of October 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Edson Taylor, American Adventuress (d. 1921) |
| 24th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907) |
| 24th of October 1855 | BIRTHDAY | James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) |
| 24th of October 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) |
| 24th of October 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra David-Neel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969) |
| 24th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957) |
| 24th of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958) |
| 24th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976) |
| 24th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and widow of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975) |
| 24th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917) |
| 24th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969) |
| 24th of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) |
| 24th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987) |
| 24th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981) |
| 24th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959) |
| 24th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) |
| 24th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961) |
| 24th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | A.K. Golam Jilani, a Bangladeshi who was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. (d. 1932) |
| 24th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (d. 1988) |
| 24th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968) |
| 24th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966) |
| 24th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986) |
| 24th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gregoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993) |
| 24th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984) |
| 24th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Marghanita Laski, British journalist and novelist (d. 1988) |
| 24th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Milliken, American millionaire |
| 24th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998) |
| 24th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Sharp, Scottish opera singer |
| 24th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008) |
| 24th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996) |
| 24th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robin Day OBE, British political broadcaster and commentator (d. 2000) |
| 24th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997) |
| 24th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (d. 2004) |
| 24th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003) |
| 24th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 24th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Y. A. Tittle, American football player |
| 24th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992) |
| 24th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Becaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001) |
| 24th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | George Crumb, American composer |
| 24th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004) |
| 24th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977) |
| 24th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959) |
| 24th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher |
| 24th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia |
| 24th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer |
| 24th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 24th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
| 24th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Rush, American writer |
| 24th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Kray, British gangster and murderer (d. 1995) |
| 24th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Kray, British gangster and murderer (d. 2000) |
| 24th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor |
| 24th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Nelson, American actor and director |
| 24th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones) |
| 24th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny) |
| 24th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | F. Murray Abraham, American actor |
| 24th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director |
| 24th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer |
| 24th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Downs American author and musician |
| 24th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2007) |
| 24th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Larose, Quebec labour union executive |
| 24th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Christian, English artist |
| 24th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Titus, American baritone |
| 24th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Lunan, Scottish astronomer and writer |
| 24th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (d. 1993) |
| 24th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kline, American actor |
| 24th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist |
| 24th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Paul and Barry Ryan, British composer-singers |
| 24th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer |
| 24th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Sladek, Czech politician |
| 24th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Greenberg, American composer (Lipps Inc.) |
| 24th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player |
| 24th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Sherman, American politician |
| 24th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician |
| 24th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician |
| 24th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Rounds, American politician, current governor of South Dakota |
| 24th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Raz, Slovak musician |
| 24th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Knight, Australian murderess |
| 24th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Maharidge, American author |
| 24th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Merkley, American politician, junior senator of Oregon |
| 24th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager |
| 24th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Kassir, American actor and comedian |
| 24th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Waller, Lebanese film director |
| 24th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | B.D. Wong, American actor |
| 24th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer |
| 24th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Garzon, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999) |
| 24th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver |
| 24th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver (Grave Digger) |
| 24th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Bono, American politician |
| 24th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce L. Castor, Jr. American politician |
| 24th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist |
| 24th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Blaney, American race car driver |
| 24th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Novacek, American football player |
| 24th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Hendrie, Scottish footballer |
| 24th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician |
| 24th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate |
| 24th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Bishop, West Indian cricketer |
| 24th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress |
| 24th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Wilonsky, American journalist |
| 24th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Walton, American story artist, actor |
| 24th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Adela Noriega, Mexican actress |
| 24th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Mangum, American musician |
| 24th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Leslie-Carter, British engineer and project manager |
| 24th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress |
| 24th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Caprice Bourret, American model and actress |
| 24th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress |
| 24th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Peterson, American murderer |
| 24th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Williams, American football player |
| 24th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Madlib, American musician and rapper |
| 24th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist |
| 24th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer |
| 24th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer |
| 24th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player |
| 24th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Dillon, American football player |
| 24th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Pablo Angel, Colombian footballer |
| 24th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player |
| 24th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Natterqvist, Swedish actor |
| 24th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer |
| 24th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer |
| 24th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Lee Brannan, American musician |
| 24th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer |
| 24th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | James Hopes, Australian one-day cricketer |
| 24th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair) |
| 24th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Monica, American singer and actress |
| 24th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zac Posen, American fashion designer |
| 24th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer |
| 24th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Wilson, American comic actress (Saturday Night Live) |
| 24th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jemima Rooper, British actress |
| 24th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Bueno, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tila Tequila, American model |
| 24th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver |
| 24th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Macay McBride, American baseball player |
| 24th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | VV Brown, English singer |
| 24th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hernan Garin, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer |
| 24th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Vickers, American race car driver |
| 24th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress |
| 24th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer |
| 24th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish hockey player |
| 24th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Rooney, English footballer |
| 24th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper |
| 24th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | John Ruddy, English footballer |
| 24th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie White, American ice dancer |
| 24th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer |
| 24th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor |
| 24th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress |
| 24th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress |
| 24th of October 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer |
| 24th of October 0996 | DEATH | King Hugh Capet of France (Born 938) |
| 24th of October 1260 | DEATH | Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt |
| 24th of October 1375 | DEATH | King Valdemar IV of Denmark (Born c.1320) |
| 24th of October 1537 | DEATH | Jane Seymour, consort of Henry VIII of England (Born 1508) |
| 24th of October 1572 | DEATH | Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (Born c.1508) |
| 24th of October 1601 | DEATH | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (Born 1546) |
| 24th of October 1655 | DEATH | Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (Born 1592) |
| 24th of October 1669 | DEATH | William Prynne, English Puritan leader (Born 1600) |
| 24th of October 1672 | DEATH | John Webb, English architect (Born 1611) |
| 24th of October 1708 | DEATH | Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician |
| 24th of October 1725 | DEATH | Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (Born 1660) |
| 24th of October 1799 | DEATH | Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (Born 1739) |
| 24th of October 1821 | DEATH | Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (Born 1740) |
| 24th of October 1852 | DEATH | Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (Born 1782) |
| 24th of October 1875 | DEATH | Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer (Born 1817) |
| 24th of October 1898 | DEATH | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Born 1824) |
| 24th of October 1912 | DEATH | Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Born 1842) |
| 24th of October 1915 | DEATH | Desire Charnay, French archaeologist (Born 1828) |
| 24th of October 1922 | DEATH | George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Born 1839) |
| 24th of October 1935 | DEATH | Dutch Schultz, American organized crie figure (Born 1902) |
| 24th of October 1938 | DEATH | Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (Born 1870) |
| 24th of October 1943 | DEATH | Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (Born 1912) |
| 24th of October 1944 | DEATH | Louis Renault, French car manufacturer (Born 1877) |
| 24th of October 1945 | DEATH | Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician (Born 1887) |
| 24th of October 1948 | DEATH | Franz Lehar, Austrian composer (Born 1870) |
| 24th of October 1958 | DEATH | George Edward Moore, British philosopher (Born 1873) |
| 24th of October 1964 | DEATH | Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (Born 1931) |
| 24th of October 1966 | DEATH | Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (Born 1896) |
| 24th of October 1971 | DEATH | Carl Ruggles, American composer (Born 1876) |
| 24th of October 1972 | DEATH | Claire Windsor, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 24th of October 1972 | DEATH | Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (Born 1919) |
| 24th of October 1974 | DEATH | David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (Born 1908) |
| 24th of October 1975 | DEATH | Zdzis?aw Zygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (Born 1888) |
| 24th of October 1985 | DEATH | Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (Born 1941) |
| 24th of October 1985 | DEATH | Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (Born 1905) |
| 24th of October 1989 | DEATH | Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (Born 1948) |
| 24th of October 1991 | DEATH | Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Born 1921) |
| 24th of October 1993 | DEATH | Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (Born 1930) |
| 24th of October 1994 | DEATH | Yannis Hotzeas, Greek Marxist theoretician (Born 1930) |
| 24th of October 1994 | DEATH | Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Born 1940) |
| 24th of October 1997 | DEATH | Don Messick, American voice actor (Born 1926) |
| 24th of October 2001 | DEATH | Wolf Rudiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (Born 1937) |
| 24th of October 2002 | DEATH | Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (Born 1969) |
| 24th of October 2002 | DEATH | Harry Hay, American activist (Born 1912) |
| 24th of October 2002 | DEATH | Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (Born 1921) |
| 24th of October 2004 | DEATH | Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (Born 1954) |
| 24th of October 2004 | DEATH | Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (Born 1980) |
| 24th of October 2004 | DEATH | James Aloysius Hickey, American Catholic cardinal and archbishop (Born 1920) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Joy Clements, American soprano (Born 1932) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Robert Sloman, British television writer (Born 1926) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Jose Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran statesman (Born 1926) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese intellectual and scholar (Born 1923) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (Born 1913) |
| 24th of October 2005 | DEATH | Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (Born 1928) |
| 24th of October 2006 | DEATH | Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (Born 1904) |
| 24th of October 2006 | DEATH | William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and Islamic scholar (Born 1909) |
| 24th of October 2007 | DEATH | Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (Born 1929) |
| 24th of October 2007 | DEATH | Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist (Born 1981) |
| 24th of October 2007 | DEATH | Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (Born 1928) |
| 24th of October 2008 | DEATH | Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (Born 1943) |
| 24th of October 2010 | DEATH | Lamont Johnson, American television director (Born 1922) |
| 24th of October 2010 | DEATH | Joseph Stein, American playwright (Born 1912) |