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129,650 People

Approximately 129,650 people died worldwide on January 24, 1969.

129,650 People

Natural disasters in 1969
Hurricane Camille
Minnesota Tornado Outbreak of 1969
Ohio Fireworks Derecho
People who died on January 24 (various years)

2007 - Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician
2007 - Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor
2006 - Schafik Handal, Salvadorean politician
2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers
2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach
2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer
2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer
2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer
2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive
2002 - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander
2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter
2001 - Les Brown, American band leader
2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler
1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic
1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer
1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician
1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology
1983 - George Cukor, American film director
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor
1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian
1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist
1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate
1962 - André Lhote, french painter.
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor
1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero
1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz
1943 - John Burns, English politician
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder
1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader
1769 - François de Chevert, French general
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer
1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon
1125 - David IV of Georgia
1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)