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April 24 in history

197 sourced entries recorded on April 24, from 624 CE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 624St. Justus is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Boniface V upon the death of Archbishop Mellitus., receiving the pallium — symbol of the jurisdiction entrusted to archbishops. He oversees the dispatch of missionaries to Northumbria in northern England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.source
  • 776Emperor Leo IV ("the Khazar") appoints his 5-year-old son Constantine VI co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire. This leads to an uprising, led by one of Leo's half-brothers, Caesar Nikephoros, the second son of former emperor Constantine V. The revolt is quickly suppressed. Fortunately for Nikephoros, his only punishment is to be stripped of his titles, while the rest of the conspirators are blinded, tonsured, and exiled to Cherson (southern Crimea) under guard.source
  • 934Abbasid caliph al-Qahir is deposed and blinded; he is succeeded by his nephew ar-Radi.source
  • 1130Jin–Song Wars: Battle of Huangtiandang – Naval forces of the Song dynasty trap Wuzhu's Jin troops in the city for 48 days.source
  • 1254Louis IX and his family sail from Acre to France. His boat is nearly wrecked off the coast of Cyprus and later nearly destroyed by fire. In July, the royal party arrives at Hyères in Provence.source
  • 1309Spanish kings James II of Aragon and Ferdinand IV of Castile persuade Pope Clement V to grant the papal bull Indesinentis cure, authorizing them approval and church financial support for a crusade to rid the Iberian peninsula of Islam, as well as to conquer Corsica and Sardinia. The two monarchs fail to mention their collaboration with the Muslim Marinid Empire, and use the papal bull to plan a blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar with their combined fleet of 40 warships on their mission to expel the Saracen forces from Spain.source
  • 1344the 'Bonnaght', a treaty between Richard, Duke of York, Earl of Ulster and Henry, Son of Eoghan O'Neill, is sanctioned in Ulster.source
  • 1345Parliament is held in Dublinsource
  • 1367Otto I, "the Evil", becomes Duke of the independent city of Göttingen (in modern-day Germany) on the death of his father, Ernst I.source
  • 1379The English Parliament opens for a five-week session under the direction of King Richard II.source
  • 1459The Fra Mauro map of the world is completed by the Italian cartographers Fra Mauro and Andrea Bianco, who had been hired by the late King Afonso V of Portugal to produce an up-to-date geography for the use by explorers.source
  • 1474The members of the Hungarian nobility ratify the treaty with Poland after King Matthias had given his assent on February 27.source
  • 1488A judgment of confiscation is declared by a French court against the goods of Prince Louis of Orleans, who had sought to overthrow his cousin, King Charles VIIIsource
  • 1488A judgment of confiscation was declared against all the goods of Louis of Orléanssource
  • 1506After being extradited to England as part of Henry's agreement with Philip, Edmund de la Pole is imprisoned in the Tower of London as a rival claimant to the throne.source
  • 1523The Diet of Hungary, parliament for the Kingdom of Hungary under King Lajos II, passes a decree ordering the confiscation of property and execution of all followers of Martin Luther within the Kingdom.source
  • 1541Battle of Sahart: Gelawdewos is defeated by the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.source
  • 1546The first government body to administer England's Royal Navy, the Keeper of the King's Ports and Galleys, is created by order of King Henry VIII.source
  • 1547Battle of Mühlberg: Emperor Charles V defeats the Lutheran forces of the Schmalkaldic League and takes John Frederick I.source
  • 1556Pál Márkházy surrenders the Hungarian fortress at Ajnácskő (now Hajnáčka in Slovakia) to the Ottoman Empire. Márkházy, accused of treachery, is stripped of his estates and title by the King of Hungary, and forced to flee to the Principality of Transylvania.source
  • 1558Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Francis, Dauphin of France, at Notre-Dame de Paris.source
  • 1567Bothwell takes Mary prisoner at his castle at Dunbar after preventing her from traveling from her palace to Edinburgh, then rapes her.source
  • 1567Bothwell takes Mary as a prisoner to Dunbar Castle after preventing her from travelling from Stirling Castle to Edinburgh, then rapes her.source
  • 1584(1st waning of Kason 946 ME) In what is now Myanmar, Prince Naresuan of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (now Thailand) suppresses the rebellion of Thado Minsaw of the Ava Kingdom.source
  • 1585Cardinal Felice Piergentile of the church of San Girolamo dei Croati is unanimously elected as the 227th Pope, and takes the regnal name Pope Sixtus V.source
  • 1590Ten armed English merchant vessels of the Levant Company are intercepted by 12 galleys of the Spanish Navy while attempting to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar after trading in the Mediterranean Sea. Levant Company's Benedict Barnham, on the flagship Salomon, leads the corporate fleet in a six-hour battle and heavily damages the Spanish ships, clearing the way for the company ships to return home.source
  • 1592Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans fighting for the Kingdom of Joseon.source
  • 1617Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, fifteen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.source
  • 1617Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, the seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.source
  • 1633Great Council of Mechelen sentences René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée to perpetual banishment and forfeiture of all goods for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles.source
  • 1646The Union of Uzhorod brings the Ruthenian Greek Orthodox Church into the fold of the Catholic Church while allowing it to retain its Eastern and Rusyn character.source
  • 1655The Piedmontese Easter Massacre of the Waldensians: Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy slaughters 1,500 men, women and children; this is memorialized in John Milton's sonnet "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" and apologized for by Pope Francis in 2015.source
  • 1662Chinese warlord Zheng Chenggong sends a message to the Spanish government of the Philippines demanding payment of tribute and threatening to send a fleet of ships to conquer the area. The message reaches the Spanish Governor-General on May 5, and preparations are made to resist the invasion.source
  • 1668The Treaty of Breda, signed in 1667 and ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War, goes into effect worldwide.source
  • 1674In India, Shivaji Bhonsale, the Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, captures the Kenjalgad Fort in what is now the Maharashtra state.source
  • 1686April 20–April 24 – three Roman Catholic judges are appointed to Ireland (but Charles Ingleby refuses to travel there).source
  • 1702The first two missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts set sail from England to North America.source
  • 1704The first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.source
  • 1715The Battle of Fehmarn takes place in the Baltic Sea as part of the Great Northern War. Ten warships of Denmark, under the command of Christian Gabel, overwhelm a force of Swedish Navy ships led by Carl Wachtmeister. By the time the battle ends the next day, five Swedish ships and 1,626 crewmen have been captured, and another 353 killed. The Danish navy suffers 65 deaths.source
  • 1715Battle of Fehmarn, naval battle of the Great Northern War.source
  • 1748A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (now Aachen), with the intent to conclude the War of the Austrian Succession. The treaty is signed on October 18.source
  • 1748War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.source
  • 1751John Wesley arrives at Musselburgh, his destination on his first mission to Scotland.source
  • 1758Robert Dodsley and his brother James sign a contract with Edmund Burke to launch The Annual Register.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel: John Paul Jones in USS Ranger captures HMS Drake in the North Channel off Carrickfergus.source
  • 1778American Revolutionary War: North Channel Naval Duel: Scottish-born John Paul Jones in the USS Ranger captures HMS Drake in the North Channel off Carrickfergus.source
  • 1800The U.S. Library of Congress is founded in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1800The U.S. Library of Congress is founded.source
  • 1808Irish Dominican R. Luke Concanen is consecrated first bishop of the newly erected Roman Catholic Diocese of New York (appointed April 8) but is unable to sail from Italy to America before his death in 1810 due to restrictions caused by the Napoleonic Wars.source
  • 1812Luddites attack the Westhoughton Mill of Thomas Rowe in Lancashire.source
  • 1815The Second Serbian Uprising against Ottoman rule takes place in Takovo, Ottoman Serbia. By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state, temporarily achieving the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising.source
  • 1822Salon of 1822 opens at the Louvre in Parissource
  • 1827Greek War of Independence: Battle of Phaleron – Ottoman troops defeat the Greek rebels.source
  • 1837The great fire in Surat, a city of India, begins. Over a three-day period, the fire kills more than 500 people and destroys more than 9,000 houses.source
  • 1839Boston University is established as the Newbury Biblical Institute in Vermont.source
  • 1851Convention with the Netherlands allowing steamships on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in The Hague.source
  • 1868The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.source
  • 1871Murder of Jane Clouson, a servant girl, in Eltham, England; her probable murderer is acquitted.source
  • 1877The Compromise of 1877 forces federal troops to withdraw from the Southern United States. This is the latest date disputed by historians when the Reconstruction Era ended and when the Gilded Age started.source
  • 1877Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878): Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1877six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.source
  • 1884A German protectorate is established over South-West Africa.source
  • 1884Germany occupies German South-West Africa.source
  • 1884The Colchester earthquake ("the Great English earthquake") measuring EMS-98 VIII (Heavily damaging) is the UK's most destructive, although no direct fatalities can be confirmed.source
  • 1886Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to identify himself publicly as African American, is ordained in Rome.source
  • 1886Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the U.S. to identify himself publicly as African American, is ordained in Rome.source
  • 1895The Supreme Court decides that former Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti cannot not be tried by an ordinary civil court, as Giolitti had argued since he had made his accusations against the involvement of current Prime Minister Crispi in the Banca Romana scandal in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Only the Senate could hear the case. Giolitti had been accused of embezzlement of judiciary document as well as libel against Crispi and his wife, and had been summoned before the courts after the Public Prosecutor, sustained by lower courts, had started the prosecution.source
  • 1899The Scottish ship Loch Sloy is wrecked off the coast of Australia's Kangaroo Island, drowning 32 people on board.source
  • 1899The 1,280-ton barque Loch Sloy hits rocks off Kangaroo Island and sinks, killing 31 persons.source
  • 1904Official visit of French President Émile Loubet to Rome.source
  • 1905China's Empress Regent Cixi (Tzu Hsi) abolishes further use in executions of the nation's three most cruel torture execution methods, lingchi ("death by a thousand cuts"), gibbeting (similar to crucifixion, hanging until dying of exposure, thirst or starvation), and desecration of a dying person.source
  • 1907Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.source
  • 1908The seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history strikes the towns of Amite, Louisiana, Pine, Louisiana and Purvis, Mississippi, killing 143 and injuring 770.source
  • 1911The 3rd National Congress of the General Confederation of Labour (Confederazione Generale del Lavoro – CGdL), the most important Italian trade union, in Modena, affirms the independence of the trade union movement from party political constraints.source
  • 1912The NSW government grants 43 acres of land for the construction of a zoological garden, later known as Taronga Park.source
  • 1913The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world on this date, and for more than a decade after.source
  • 1914James Franck and Gustav Hertz's experiment on electron collisions showing internal quantum levels of atoms is presented to the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.source
  • 1915Armenian genocide: deportation of Armenian notables from Istanbul begins.source
  • 1915The deportation of Armenian notables from Constantinople, beginning the Armenian genocide.source
  • 1916April 24–30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army. A total of 485 Irish Volunteers, British soldiers and Irish civilians were killed as well as 2,200 wounded and 16 rebel leaders would be executed.source
  • 1916May 10 – Voyage of the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance.source
  • 191624 April–19 May – Voyage of the James Caird, an open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (left under command of Frank Wild) following the loss of its ship Endurance.source
  • 1919Ford Brasil, a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company, is founded.source
  • 1920April 19–26 – San Remo conference: Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories, following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1920April 19–26 – San Remo conference held at Castle Devachan in Sanremo, Italy. Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories following partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The conference was attended by the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Alexandre Millerand), Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's Ambassador Keishirō Matsui.source
  • 1920Polish–Soviet War: Polish and anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops attack the Red Army in Soviet Ukraine.source
  • 1922The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from the UK to Egypt.source
  • 1926Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years.source
  • 1926The Treaty of Berlin (1926) is signed.source
  • 1927April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.source
  • 1933Jewish physicians are excluded from official insurance schemes, forcing many to give up their practices.source
  • 1933Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses begins with the seizure of the Bible Students' office in Magdeburg.source
  • 1934In a debate in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, states "All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State." (often misquoted as "A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People").source
  • 1935William Christian Bullitt Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon, which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.source
  • 1935William Christian Bullitt Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon, which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.source
  • 1938Eberhardt Bohnstedt, a Wehrmacht general, was appointed as director of the Salvadoran military school.source
  • 1938April 24 A general meeting of Camp of National Unity takes place in Katowice,source
  • 1939President Germán Busch dismisses the assembly and declares dictatorial rule.source
  • 1945Retreating German troops destroy all the bridges over the Adige in Verona, including the historic Ponte di Castelvecchio and Ponte Pietra.source
  • 1951Sakuragichō train fire: in Yokohama, Japan, a fire on a train kills more than 100.source
  • 1952The National Statistics Institute (INE) carries out the XII National Population Census and the I Housing Census.source
  • 1955April 18–24 – The Asian-African Conference is held in Bandung, Indonesia.source
  • 1957April 24–25 – The 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occur on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.source
  • 19601960 Laotian parliamentary electionsource
  • 1961Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm Harbor.source
  • 1964The Singapore Tourism Promotion Board adopts the Merlion as its new emblem.source
  • 1965In the Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.source
  • 1965The 1965 Yerevan demonstrations start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the Armenian genocide.source
  • 1965officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government.source
  • 1966Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.source
  • 1967Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.source
  • 1970China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).source
  • 1970China launched its first space satellite Dong Fang Hong I as part of the PRC's Dong Fang Hong space satellite program.source
  • 1972The 7.2 Ms Ruisui earthquake occurred in Hualien County.source
  • 1973Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.source
  • 1974Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.source
  • 1977In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others.source
  • 1978April 18– 30 – The Khmer Rouge massacres 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, Vietnam.source
  • 1980April 24–25 – Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.source
  • 1982German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.source
  • 1982Representing Luxembourg, Svetlana finishes sixth in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 with the song Cours après le temps.source
  • 1982April 24/25: Table tennis player Bettine Vriesekoop wins the women's single and mixed doubles at the European championships in Budapest. Besides those two titles she also became 2nd in women's doubles in that tournament.source
  • 1983In the 1983 Austrian legislative election, the Socialist Party wins 90 out of a possible 183 seats to secure a fifth term in government, prompting Bruno Kreisky to stand down as SPÖ leader.source
  • 1984An X-class solar flare erupts on the Sun.source
  • 1985Yitzhak Kahan (born 1913), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli jurist, sixth President of the Supreme Court of Israel.source
  • 1990Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.source
  • 1990Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.source
  • 1990STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.source
  • 1994The Crans Montana Forum ends after 4 days. Shimon Peres of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization take part.source
  • 1996At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause in Palestinian National Covenant calling for the removal of Israel (→ Legitimacy of the State of Israel). The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine.source
  • 1998Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.source
  • 2004Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko becomes the WBC world heavyweight champion after defeating his opponent Corrie Sanders.source
  • 2005The first lunar eclipse of the year was a penumbral event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 5 days before the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -1.08851. A penumbral lunar eclipse was visible in eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific and Americas, and was the 23rd lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.source
  • 2007Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.source
  • 2009Eliud Wabukala is elected the new archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, replacing the outgoing Benjamin Nzimbisource
  • 2011The 2011 Guantanamo Bay files leak occurs, WikiLeaks and other organisations publishing 779 classified documents about Guantanamo Bay detainees, and it had been exposed 150 innocent citizens from Afghanistan and Pakistan were held in the camp without trial and detainees being as young as 14 years old.source
  • 2013The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.source
  • 2017In the early hours of the day a suspected Brazilian gang of robbers stole 11.7 million dollars from a security vault in Ciudad del Este, leaving one police officer dead. It is the biggest heist in Paraguay's history.source
  • 2021U.S. president Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. president to formally recognize the Ottoman killings of Armenians during World War I as genocide.source
  • 2021COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 1 billion. Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries (the United States, China and India).source
  • 2021Following an international search and rescue effort, the Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since 2003.source
  • 2023India surpasses China as most populous country.source

Births

  • 1086Ramiro II ("the Monk"), king of Aragon (died 1157)source
  • 1492Duchess Sabina of Bavaria (died 1564)source
  • 1533William I of Orange (died 1584)source
  • 1545Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, English earl (died 1581)source
  • 1553John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell, Scottish noble (died 1593)source
  • 1562Xu Guangqi, Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, agronomist, astronomer, mathematician and lay Catholic leader (died 1633)source
  • 1571Sur Singh, Ruler of Marwar (died 1619)source
  • 1580Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (died 1660)source
  • 1581Vincent de Paul, French Roman Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor (died 1660)source
  • 1608Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (died 1660)source
  • 1620John Graunt, English demographer (died 1674)source
  • 1762Alexander Møller, surgeon (died 1847).source
  • 1796Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio, Italian politician (died 1878)source
  • 1815Anthony Trollope, English novelist (died 1882)source
  • 1818Juan Esteban Rodríguez Segura (died 1901)source
  • 1849Joseph Gallieni, French general (died 1916)source
  • 1849Alfred Kleiner, physicist (died 1916)source
  • 1856Philippe Pétain, French soldier, statesman (died 1951)source
  • 1876Erich Raeder, German admiral (died 1960)source
  • 1903José Antonio Primo de Rivera, politician (died 1936)source
  • 1929Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (died 2006)source
  • 1942Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, composer, and film directorsource
  • 1963Osama Al-Khurafi, fencersource
  • 1973Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketersource
  • 1996Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis playersource

Deaths

  • 624Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 1101Vseslav of Polotsk, Kievan princesource
  • 1149Petronille de Chemillé, French abbesssource
  • 1288Gertrude of Austria, Austrian noblewoman (born 1226)source
  • 1320Abu Said Faraj, Nasrid advisor and governor (born 1248)source
  • 1338Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (born c. 1270)source
  • 1421The Sedlec Abbey, a monastery for the Cistercians order in Bohemia, is looted and burned by Hussites led by Jan Žižka, and several of the monks inside are killed.source
  • 1438Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (born 1429)source
  • 1466Margaret, Countess of Vertus, widow of the Duke of Brittany (born 1406)source
  • 1479Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (born 1440)source
  • 1513Şehzade Ahmet, oldest son of Sultan Bayezid II (executed) (born 1465)source
  • 1549Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English earl (born 1498)source
  • 1579John Stuart, 4th Earl of Athollsource
  • 1593William Harrison, English clergyman (born 1534)source
  • 1649Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty, French aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1611)source
  • 1656Thomas Fincke, mathematician and physicist (born 1561)source
  • 1658Francesco Maria Richini, Italian architect (born 1584)source
  • 1710April 24 − Manuel de Oms, 1st Marquis of Castelldosrius, diplomat, man of letters, Viceroy of Peru, 58source
  • 1731Daniel Defoe, English writer (born c. 1660)source
  • 1731Daniel Defoe, writer (born 1660)source
  • 1791Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1726)source
  • 1791Benjamin Harrison V, signer of Declaration of Independence, father of President William Henry Harrison, great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison (born 1726)source
  • 1809Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliusource
  • 1840Sveinn Pálsson, physician and naturalist.source
  • 1861April 24 (N.S.) – Bezdna unrest: Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and about 90 are killed.source
  • 1891Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (born 1800)source
  • 1942Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (born 1874)source
  • 1947Willa Cather, American novelist (born 1873)source
  • 2006Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.source
  • 2022Freddy Hall, 37, Bermudian footballer (Telford United, Limerick, national team)source