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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of February 0303 | EVENT | Diocletian, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire. |
| 24th of February 1303 | EVENT | Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence. |
| 24th of February 1387 | EVENT | King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. |
| 24th of February 1538 | EVENT | Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zapolya. |
| 24th of February 1582 | EVENT | Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. |
| 24th of February 1607 | EVENT | L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premiere performance. |
| 24th of February 1711 | EVENT | The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. |
| 24th of February 1803 | EVENT | In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review. |
| 24th of February 1809 | EVENT | London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. |
| 24th of February 1822 | EVENT | The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated. |
| 24th of February 1826 | EVENT | The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War. |
| 24th of February 1831 | EVENT | The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West. |
| 24th of February 1848 | EVENT | King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne. |
| 24th of February 1863 | EVENT | Arizona is organized as a United States territory. |
| 24th of February 1868 | EVENT | Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate. |
| 24th of February 1875 | EVENT | The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries. |
| 24th of February 1881 | EVENT | China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty. |
| 24th of February 1895 | EVENT | Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898. |
| 24th of February 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States. |
| 24th of February 1918 | EVENT | Estonian Declaration of Independence. |
| 24th of February 1920 | EVENT | The Nazi Party is founded. |
| 24th of February 1944 | EVENT | Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000 mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma. |
| 24th of February 1945 | EVENT | Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree. |
| 24th of February 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hue. |
| 24th of February 1971 | EVENT | The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman. |
| 24th of February 1976 | EVENT | Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed. |
| 24th of February 1980 | EVENT | The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal. |
| 24th of February 1981 | EVENT | An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. |
| 24th of February 1983 | EVENT | A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. |
| 24th of February 1989 | EVENT | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. |
| 24th of February 1989 | EVENT | United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section. |
| 24th of February 1996 | EVENT | The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 24th of February 1999 | EVENT | A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61. |
| 24th of February 1999 | EVENT | The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. |
| 24th of February 2006 | EVENT | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup. |
| 24th of February 2007 | EVENT | Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. |
| 24th of February 2008 | EVENT | Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. |
| 24th of February 2011 | EVENT | Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103). |
| 24th of February 1103 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156) |
| 24th of February 1304 | BIRTHDAY | Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer (d. c.1368) |
| 24th of February 1463 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (d. 1494) |
| 24th of February 1500 | BIRTHDAY | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558) |
| 24th of February 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578) |
| 24th of February 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619) |
| 24th of February 1595 | BIRTHDAY | Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and Latin Poet (d. 1640) |
| 24th of February 1597 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648) |
| 24th of February 1619 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690) |
| 24th of February 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665) |
| 24th of February 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738) |
| 24th of February 1693 | BIRTHDAY | James Quin, English actor (d. 1766) |
| 24th of February 1709 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782) |
| 24th of February 1723 | BIRTHDAY | John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792) |
| 24th of February 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Buddha Loetla Nabhalai, King of Siam (d. 1824) |
| 24th of February 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850) |
| 24th of February 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869) |
| 24th of February 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859) |
| 24th of February 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899) |
| 24th of February 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910) |
| 24th of February 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918) |
| 24th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Denza, Italian composer (d. 1922) |
| 24th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907) |
| 24th of February 1852 | BIRTHDAY | George A. Moore, Irish writer (d. 1933) |
| 24th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912) |
| 24th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961) |
| 24th of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955) |
| 24th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936) |
| 24th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1972) |
| 24th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral (d. 1966) |
| 24th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939) |
| 24th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975) |
| 24th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot (d. 1983) |
| 24th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Bartol, Slovene writer (d. 1967) |
| 24th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971) |
| 24th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Weldon Kees, American poet, musician, painter (d. 1955) |
| 24th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965) |
| 24th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005) |
| 24th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Marsden, English comedy actress (d. 1998) |
| 24th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Arpad Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (d. 2004) |
| 24th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Reiss, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2010) |
| 24th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (d. 1992) |
| 24th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Vigoda, American actor |
| 24th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Douglass Watson, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 24th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Hill, American actor |
| 24th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hamilton, English painter |
| 24th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | David Soyer, American cellist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Nielsen, Canadian politician (d. 2008) |
| 24th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Alexander, English actress |
| 24th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Gunther Dean, American diplomat |
| 24th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuelle Riva, French actress |
| 24th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Lawrence, American actress |
| 24th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Chianese, American actor |
| 24th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Legrand, French composer |
| 24th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005) |
| 24th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher (d. 2008) |
| 24th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Renata Scotto, Italian soprano |
| 24th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Cristal, Argentina-born actress |
| 24th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000) |
| 24th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | James Farentino, American actor |
| 24th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British Baroness and Methodist reverend |
| 24th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer |
| 24th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 24th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Law, Scottish footballer |
| 24th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress |
| 24th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Bond, Australian racing driver |
| 24th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Lieberman, American politician |
| 24th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Jones, English singer (Manfred Mann) |
| 24th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Milanes, Cuban musician |
| 24th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (d. 1984) |
| 24th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Semel, American business executive |
| 24th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994) |
| 24th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Bostwick, American actor |
| 24th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician |
| 24th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Stapleton, English television presenter |
| 24th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Fratello, American basketball head coach |
| 24th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Holmes, English musician |
| 24th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Edward James Olmos, American actor |
| 24th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician |
| 24th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Smith, Scottish football manager |
| 24th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Staffell, English singer |
| 24th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Waterman, British actor |
| 24th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | George Thorogood, American singer and guitarist |
| 24th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Holiday, German singer (d. 1990) |
| 24th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Jo Rupp, American actress |
| 24th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Shaver, Canadian actress |
| 24th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Bell, American Teacher, Entrepreneur and Children's Book Author |
| 24th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer |
| 24th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie L. Johnson, retired American professional basketball player and sex offender |
| 24th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Prost, French race car driver |
| 24th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Pagel, German footballer (d. 2010) |
| 24th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Murray, American baseball player |
| 24th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Zahn, American journalist |
| 24th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Butler, American philosopher |
| 24th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Kershaw, American musician |
| 24th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer |
| 24th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Moses, American actor |
| 24th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Gleiberman, American film critic |
| 24th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Broderick, American actress |
| 24th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Outi Maenpaa, Finnish actress |
| 24th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Teri Weigel, American pornographic actress |
| 24th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Shocked, American musician |
| 24th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Crane, British children's television presenter |
| 24th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Field, American actor and film director |
| 24th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver |
| 24th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer |
| 24th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Swift, American politician |
| 24th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Miller, English comedian, director and actor |
| 24th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Arocha, Cuban baseball player |
| 24th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Zane, American actor |
| 24th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005) |
| 24th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Garcia, American football player |
| 24th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets |
| 24th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor |
| 24th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver |
| 24th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Bernstein, American explorer and television host |
| 24th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Savage, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Manon Rheaume, Canadian female ice hockey player |
| 24th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Clapp, Canadian baseball player |
| 24th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast |
| 24th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot) |
| 24th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Papadaki, Greek tennis player |
| 24th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player |
| 24th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer |
| 24th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 24th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer |
| 24th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Hugo, American musician (N*E*R*D) and producer (The Neptunes) |
| 24th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller |
| 24th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1995) |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Crista Flanagan, American comedian |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio, Heavens) |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Johnson, American golfer |
| 24th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist |
| 24th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Akermanis, Australian footballer |
| 24th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player |
| 24th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Mayweather Jr, American boxer |
| 24th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run) |
| 24th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) |
| 24th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Billauer, American quadriplegic surfer |
| 24th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Cooper, British actress |
| 24th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Maiden, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003) |
| 24th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 24th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer |
| 24th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player |
| 24th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Rosales, Argentinian footballer |
| 24th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer |
| 24th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin O'Neill, New Zealand rugby player |
| 24th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Klara Zakopalova, Czech tennis player |
| 24th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Blackburn, American baseball player |
| 24th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Fala Chen, Chinese-American actress and beauty pageant titleholder |
| 24th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver |
| 24th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Britney Stevens, American pornographic actress |
| 24th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Wojtek Wolski, Polish/Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model |
| 24th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress |
| 24th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Kyu Jong, Korean singer (SS501) |
| 24th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Trace Cyrus, American musician |
| 24th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kosta Koufos, American basketball player |
| 24th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer |
| 24th of February 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Sweatshirt , American rapper part of the collective OFWGKTA |
| 24th of February 0616 | DEATH | King Ethelbert of Kent |
| 24th of February 1525 | DEATH | Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier |
| 24th of February 1563 | DEATH | Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (Born 1519) |
| 24th of February 1588 | DEATH | Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist |
| 24th of February 1666 | DEATH | Nicholas Lanier, English composer (Born 1588) |
| 24th of February 1674 | DEATH | Matthias Weckmann, German composer (Born 1616) |
| 24th of February 1685 | DEATH | Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (Born 1629) |
| 24th of February 1704 | DEATH | Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (Born 1643) |
| 24th of February 1714 | DEATH | Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (Born 1637) |
| 24th of February 1721 | DEATH | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (Born 1648) |
| 24th of February 1732 | DEATH | Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (Born 1675) |
| 24th of February 1777 | DEATH | King Joseph I of Portugal (Born 1714) |
| 24th of February 1779 | DEATH | Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (Born 1704) |
| 24th of February 1781 | DEATH | Edward Capell, English critic (Born 1713) |
| 24th of February 1799 | DEATH | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (Born 1742) |
| 24th of February 1810 | DEATH | Henry Cavendish, English scientist (Born 1731) |
| 24th of February 1812 | DEATH | Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (Born 1775) |
| 24th of February 1815 | DEATH | Robert Fulton, American inventor (Born 1765) |
| 24th of February 1824 | DEATH | Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1755) |
| 24th of February 1825 | DEATH | Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (Born 1754) |
| 24th of February 1856 | DEATH | Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (Born 1792) |
| 24th of February 1876 | DEATH | Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (Born 1809) |
| 24th of February 1879 | DEATH | Shiranui Koemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (Born 1825) |
| 24th of February 1914 | DEATH | Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg (Born 1828) |
| 24th of February 1925 | DEATH | Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1860) |
| 24th of February 1929 | DEATH | Andre Messager, French composer and conductor (Born 1853) |
| 24th of February 1953 | DEATH | Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (Born 1875) |
| 24th of February 1970 | DEATH | Conrad Nagel, American actor (Born 1897) |
| 24th of February 1975 | DEATH | Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (Born 1895) |
| 24th of February 1982 | DEATH | Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (Born 1910) |
| 24th of February 1984 | DEATH | Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Born 1912) |
| 24th of February 1986 | DEATH | Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (Born 1904) |
| 24th of February 1987 | DEATH | Jim Connors, American radio personality (Born 1940) |
| 24th of February 1989 | DEATH | Sparky Adams, American baseball player (Born 1894) |
| 24th of February 1990 | DEATH | Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (Born 1945) |
| 24th of February 1990 | DEATH | Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (Born 1917) |
| 24th of February 1990 | DEATH | Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (Born 1896) |
| 24th of February 1990 | DEATH | Johnnie Ray, American singer (Born 1927) |
| 24th of February 1991 | DEATH | John Daly, South African game show host (Born 1914) |
| 24th of February 1991 | DEATH | Webb Pierce, American music singer (Born 1921) |
| 24th of February 1991 | DEATH | George Gobel, American comedian (Born 1919) |
| 24th of February 1993 | DEATH | Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (Born 1917) |
| 24th of February 1993 | DEATH | Bobby Moore, English footballer (Born 1941) |
| 24th of February 1994 | DEATH | Jean Sablon, French singer (Born 1906) |
| 24th of February 1994 | DEATH | Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (Born 1916) |
| 24th of February 1998 | DEATH | Clara Fraser, American feminist and activist (Born 1923) |
| 24th of February 1998 | DEATH | Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (Born 1921) |
| 24th of February 1998 | DEATH | Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (Born 1906) |
| 24th of February 1999 | DEATH | Andre Dubus, American writer (Born 1936) |
| 24th of February 1999 | DEATH | Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (Born 1916) |
| 24th of February 1999 | DEATH | David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (Born 1904) |
| 24th of February 2001 | DEATH | Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (Born 1916) |
| 24th of February 2001 | DEATH | Theodore Marier, KCSG, American composer, founder of the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (Born 1912) |
| 24th of February 2002 | DEATH | Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (Born 1912) |
| 24th of February 2002 | DEATH | Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (Born 1932) |
| 24th of February 2003 | DEATH | John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (Born 1912) |
| 24th of February 2003 | DEATH | Bernard Loiseau, French chef (Born 1951) |
| 24th of February 2004 | DEATH | John Randolph, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 24th of February 2006 | DEATH | Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (Born 1947) |
| 24th of February 2006 | DEATH | John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (Born 1947) |
| 24th of February 2006 | DEATH | Don Knotts, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 24th of February 2006 | DEATH | Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (Born 1925) |
| 24th of February 2006 | DEATH | Dennis Weaver, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 24th of February 2007 | DEATH | Bruce Bennett, American actor (Born 1906) |
| 24th of February 2007 | DEATH | Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (Born 1932) |
| 24th of February 2007 | DEATH | Lamar Lundy, American football player (Born 1935) |
| 24th of February 2007 | DEATH | Damien Nash, American football player (Born 1982) |
| 24th of February 2008 | DEATH | Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (Born 1947) |
| 24th of February 2009 | DEATH | C. R. Johnson, American freestyle skier (Born 1983) |
| 24th of February 2011 | DEATH | Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (Born 1929) |