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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of June 0109 | EVENT | The Aqua Traiana is inaugurated by emperor Trajan, the aqueduct channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north-west of Rome. |
| 24th of June 0972 | EVENT | Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place. |
| 24th of June 1128 | EVENT | Battle of Sao Mamede, near Guimaraes: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of Leon and her lover Fernando Perez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique. |
| 24th of June 1314 | EVENT | First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory of the Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognise Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton. |
| 24th of June 1340 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys : The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III. |
| 24th of June 1374 | EVENT | A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. |
| 24th of June 1441 | EVENT | King Henry VI of England founds Eton College. |
| 24th of June 1497 | EVENT | John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. |
| 24th of June 1497 | EVENT | Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London. |
| 24th of June 1509 | EVENT | Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England. |
| 24th of June 1535 | EVENT | The Anabaptist state of Munster is conquered and disbanded. |
| 24th of June 1571 | EVENT | Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines. |
| 24th of June 1597 | EVENT | The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java). |
| 24th of June 1604 | EVENT | Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. |
| 24th of June 1622 | EVENT | Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau. |
| 24th of June 1664 | EVENT | The colony of New Jersey is founded. |
| 24th of June 1692 | EVENT | Kingston, Jamaica is founded. |
| 24th of June 1717 | EVENT | The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England. |
| 24th of June 1748 | EVENT | John Wesley and his brother Charles open the Kingswood School in Bristol. The school later moves to Bath. |
| 24th of June 1793 | EVENT | The first Republican constitution in France is adopted. |
| 24th of June 1794 | EVENT | Foundation of Bowdoin College. |
| 24th of June 1812 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armee crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia. |
| 24th of June 1813 | EVENT | Battle of Beaver Dams : a British and Indian combined force defeats the U.S Army. |
| 24th of June 1821 | EVENT | The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain. |
| 24th of June 1859 | EVENT | Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy. |
| 24th of June 1866 | EVENT | Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War. |
| 24th of June 1880 | EVENT | First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congres national des Canadiens-Francais. |
| 24th of June 1894 | EVENT | Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. |
| 24th of June 1901 | EVENT | The first exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens. |
| 24th of June 1902 | EVENT | King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. |
| 24th of June 1913 | EVENT | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. |
| 24th of June 1916 | EVENT | Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract. |
| 24th of June 1916 | EVENT | World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line. |
| 24th of June 1918 | EVENT | First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. |
| 24th of June 1922 | EVENT | The American Professional Football Association formally changes its name to the National Football League. |
| 24th of June 1932 | EVENT | A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (Thailand). |
| 24th of June 1938 | EVENT | Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. |
| 24th of June 1939 | EVENT | Siam is renamed to Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister. |
| 24th of June 1945 | EVENT | The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. |
| 24th of June 1947 | EVENT | Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. |
| 24th of June 1948 | EVENT | Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible. |
| 24th of June 1949 | EVENT | The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd. |
| 24th of June 1957 | EVENT | In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment . |
| 24th of June 1963 | EVENT | The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government. |
| 24th of June 1975 | EVENT | An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die. |
| 24th of June 1981 | EVENT | The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years. |
| 24th of June 1982 | EVENT | "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. |
| 24th of June 1985 | EVENT | STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist. |
| 24th of June 1993 | EVENT | Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses his sight in one eye, his hearing in one ear and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber. |
| 24th of June 1994 | EVENT | A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base killing all four members of its crew. |
| 24th of June 2002 | EVENT | The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. |
| 24th of June 2004 | EVENT | In New York state, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. |
| 24th of June 2007 | EVENT | The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California, destroying over 200 structures in its first 48 hours. |
| 24th of June 2010 | EVENT | John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history. |
| 24th of June 1244 | BIRTHDAY | Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308) |
| 24th of June 1343 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373) |
| 24th of June 1386 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456) |
| 24th of June 1485 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) |
| 24th of June 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) |
| 24th of June 1533 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1588) |
| 24th of June 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573) |
| 24th of June 1542 | BIRTHDAY | St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet (d. 1591) |
| 24th of June 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (d. 1610) |
| 24th of June 1587 | BIRTHDAY | William Arnold, English settler of Providence Plantation (d. 1675) |
| 24th of June 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742) |
| 24th of June 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757) |
| 24th of June 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss political theorist (d. 1748) |
| 24th of June 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771) |
| 24th of June 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Nicolas Benoit, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838) |
| 24th of June 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Gonzalez de Balcarce, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (d. 1819) |
| 24th of June 1777 | BIRTHDAY | John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856) |
| 24th of June 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Larrea, Argentine bussinesman, member of the Primera Junta (d. 1847) |
| 24th of June 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878) |
| 24th of June 1803 | BIRTHDAY | George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887) |
| 24th of June 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854) |
| 24th of June 1811 | BIRTHDAY | John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889) |
| 24th of June 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887) |
| 24th of June 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Guillermo Rawson, medical doctor and one of the most influential politicians in nineteenth century Argentina (d. 1890) |
| 24th of June 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844) |
| 24th of June 1826 | BIRTHDAY | George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) |
| 24th of June 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Ambrose Bierce, American author (disappeared ca. 1914) |
| 24th of June 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916) |
| 24th of June 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes of Orleans, Queen of Spain (d. 1878) |
| 24th of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957) |
| 24th of June 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962) |
| 24th of June 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953) |
| 24th of June 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964) |
| 24th of June 1886 | BIRTHDAY | George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949) |
| 24th of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964) |
| 24th of June 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Roy O. Disney, American co-founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971) |
| 24th of June 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983) |
| 24th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992) |
| 24th of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945) |
| 24th of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974) |
| 24th of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1995) |
| 24th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986) |
| 24th of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971) |
| 24th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989) |
| 24th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d. 1987) |
| 24th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942) |
| 24th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976) |
| 24th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer |
| 24th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver (d. 1995) |
| 24th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d. 1994) |
| 24th of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (d. 2002) |
| 24th of June 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Pearl Witherington CBE, British World War II secret agent (d. 2008) |
| 24th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) |
| 24th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | William B. Saxbe, American politician (d. 2010) |
| 24th of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Al Molinaro, American actor |
| 24th of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988) |
| 24th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991) |
| 24th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008) |
| 24th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer, academic and paranormal researcher |
| 24th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 24th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Chabrol, French film director (d. 2010) |
| 24th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006) |
| 24th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Casper, American golfer |
| 24th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jones, American basketball player |
| 24th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Biwersi, German football referee |
| 24th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Ferland, Canadian singer |
| 24th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Riley, American composer |
| 24th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Block, American writer |
| 24th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | HA Schult, German artist |
| 24th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992) |
| 24th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst and novelist |
| 24th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Lee, American actress |
| 24th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean president |
| 24th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Beck, English guitarist (The Yardbirds) |
| 24th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point) |
| 24th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Brown, English singer |
| 24th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wood, English saxophonist (Traffic) (d. 1983) |
| 24th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | George Pataki, American politician |
| 24th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Nora Valsami, Greek actress |
| 24th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Blunstone, English singer and songwriter (The Zombies) |
| 24th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | David Collenette, Canadian politician |
| 24th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 24th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator |
| 24th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 24th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Weller, American actor |
| 24th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes) |
| 24th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits) |
| 24th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Allen, American actress |
| 24th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes Lackey, American fantasy writer |
| 24th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | David Rodigan, Germany-born British radio DJ and actor |
| 24th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Pusey, British public artist |
| 24th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Lill, Estonian glass artist |
| 24th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Malura, German footballer |
| 24th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Penny, English actor |
| 24th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Parkinson, American politician, 45th Governor of Kansas |
| 24th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Biros, American murderer (d. 2009) |
| 24th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Charest, 29th Premier of Quebec |
| 24th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach |
| 24th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Lister, Jr., American actor and professional wrestler |
| 24th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Troccoli, American singer |
| 24th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Siedah Garrett, American singer |
| 24th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Karin Pilsater, Swedish politician |
| 24th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director |
| 24th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (d. 2000) |
| 24th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Glen, Scottish actor |
| 24th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Smith, English bassist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Tears for Fears) |
| 24th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Reed, American political figure and religious leader |
| 24th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Preki (Predrag Radosavljevic), Serbian-born American soccer player |
| 24th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007) |
| 24th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Suter, American ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Hope Sandoval, American singer and songwriter (Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions) |
| 24th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Oden, American writer |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Z. Kruspe, German guitarist (Rammstein) |
| 24th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sherry Stringfield, American actress |
| 24th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player |
| 24th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sissel Kyrkjeb?, Norwegian soprano |
| 24th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Medeiros, American singer and songwriter |
| 24th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor |
| 24th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Showerman, American actor |
| 24th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist |
| 24th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower |
| 24th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Beyer, German actor |
| 24th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Gallo, American actress |
| 24th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Pucciariello, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 24th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Louisa Leaman, English writer and behaviour expert |
| 24th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brock Olivo, American football player |
| 24th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player |
| 24th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer |
| 24th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Cas Jansen, Dutch actor |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Garcia, Spanish footballer |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Pink, American recording artist |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish) |
| 24th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer |
| 24th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Petra Nemcova, Czech model |
| 24th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject |
| 24th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cicinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 24th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Liane Balaban, Canadian actress |
| 24th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Minka Kelly, American actress |
| 24th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver |
| 24th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter |
| 24th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Penney, Canadian film director |
| 24th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Nolan, English footballer |
| 24th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Cooke, British swimmer |
| 24th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor |
| 24th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Redick, American basketball player |
| 24th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Searles, American actor |
| 24th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol |
| 24th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Broad, English cricketer |
| 24th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Solange Knowles, American singer |
| 24th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Hughes, American baseball player |
| 24th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Henderson, New Zealand footballer |
| 24th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Serdar Gunes, Turkish footballer |
| 24th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer |
| 24th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nichkhun Horvejkul, Thai-American singer active in South Korea (2PM) |
| 24th of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of June 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Fiesel, American murder victim (d. 2006) |
| 24th of June 0238 | DEATH | Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (Born 173) |
| 24th of June 0803 | DEATH | Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne (birth year unknown) |
| 24th of June 1398 | DEATH | Hongwu Emperor, founder of the Ming Dynasty of China (Born 1328) |
| 24th of June 1439 | DEATH | Duke Frederick IV of Austria (Born 1382) |
| 24th of June 1519 | DEATH | Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (Born 1480) |
| 24th of June 1520 | DEATH | Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (Born 1489) |
| 24th of June 1604 | DEATH | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (Born 1550) |
| 24th of June 1637 | DEATH | Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (Born 1580) |
| 24th of June 1643 | DEATH | John Hampden, English politician (Born 1595) |
| 24th of June 1766 | DEATH | Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (Born 1678) |
| 24th of June 1778 | DEATH | Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (Born 1714) |
| 24th of June 1803 | DEATH | Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1714) |
| 24th of June 1817 | DEATH | Thomas McKean, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (Born 1734) |
| 24th of June 1835 | DEATH | Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (Born 1769) |
| 24th of June 1894 | DEATH | Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, French statesman (Born 1837) |
| 24th of June 1908 | DEATH | Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (Born 1837) |
| 24th of June 1909 | DEATH | Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (Born 1849) |
| 24th of June 1922 | DEATH | Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (Born 1867) |
| 24th of June 1931 | DEATH | Xiang Zhongfa, Head of the Chinese Communist Party (Born 1880) |
| 24th of June 1931 | DEATH | Otto Mears, Russian-born American railroad executive (Born 1840) |
| 24th of June 1935 | DEATH | Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango singer (Born 1890) |
| 24th of June 1946 | DEATH | Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (Born 1857) |
| 24th of June 1947 | DEATH | Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Born 1864) |
| 24th of June 1968 | DEATH | Tony Hancock, British comedian (Born 1924) |
| 24th of June 1976 | DEATH | Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (Born 1883) |
| 24th of June 1977 | DEATH | Andre-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (Born 1943) |
| 24th of June 1978 | DEATH | Robert Charroux, French writer (Born 1909) |
| 24th of June 1984 | DEATH | Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (Born 1905) |
| 24th of June 1987 | DEATH | Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (Born 1916) |
| 24th of June 1989 | DEATH | Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (Born 1937) |
| 24th of June 1991 | DEATH | Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born novelist (Born 1917) |
| 24th of June 1991 | DEATH | Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (Born 1899) |
| 24th of June 1997 | DEATH | Don Hutson, American football player (Born 1913) |
| 24th of June 1997 | DEATH | Brian Keith, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 24th of June 2000 | DEATH | Vera Atkins, Romanian-born intelligence officer (Born 1908) |
| 24th of June 2000 | DEATH | David Tomlinson, English actor (Born 1917) |
| 24th of June 2002 | DEATH | Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (Born 1913) |
| 24th of June 2003 | DEATH | Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (Born 1987) |
| 24th of June 2004 | DEATH | Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (Born 1957) |
| 24th of June 2004 | DEATH | Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (Born 1920) |
| 24th of June 2005 | DEATH | Yedidia Shofet, former chief rabbi of Iran (Born 1908) |
| 24th of June 2005 | DEATH | Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (Born 1922) |
| 24th of June 2006 | DEATH | Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenet Ramsey (Born 1956) |
| 24th of June 2007 | DEATH | Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (Born 1938) |
| 24th of June 2007 | DEATH | Byron Baer, American politician (Born 1929) |
| 24th of June 2007 | DEATH | Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (Born 1967) |
| 24th of June 2007 | DEATH | Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (Born 1974) |
| 24th of June 2008 | DEATH | Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (Born 1919) |
| 24th of June 2008 | DEATH | Ira Tucker, American gospel singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (Born 1925) |
| 24th of June 2009 | DEATH | Romeo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (Born 1927) |
| 24th of June 2009 | DEATH | Ed Thomas, American High School football coach (Born 1951) |