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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of July 1132 | EVENT | Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. |
| 24th of July 1148 | EVENT | Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. |
| 24th of July 1411 | EVENT | Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. |
| 24th of July 1487 | EVENT | Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer. |
| 24th of July 1534 | EVENT | French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspe Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. |
| 24th of July 1567 | EVENT | Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI. |
| 24th of July 1701 | EVENT | Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan. |
| 24th of July 1715 | EVENT | A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks. |
| 24th of July 1814 | EVENT | War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders. |
| 24th of July 1823 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in Chile. |
| 24th of July 1832 | EVENT | Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass. |
| 24th of July 1847 | EVENT | After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade. |
| 24th of July 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown : Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley. |
| 24th of July 1866 | EVENT | Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. |
| 24th of July 1901 | EVENT | O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. |
| 24th of July 1911 | EVENT | Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". |
| 24th of July 1915 | EVENT | The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. |
| 24th of July 1923 | EVENT | The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I. |
| 24th of July 1927 | EVENT | The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. |
| 24th of July 1929 | EVENT | The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). |
| 24th of July 1931 | EVENT | A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people. |
| 24th of July 1935 | EVENT | The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. |
| 24th of July 1935 | EVENT | The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109?F (44?C) in Chicago and 104?F (40?C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| 24th of July 1937 | EVENT | Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys". |
| 24th of July 1938 | EVENT | First ascent of the Eiger north face. |
| 24th of July 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. |
| 24th of July 1950 | EVENT | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket. |
| 24th of July 1959 | EVENT | At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate". |
| 24th of July 1966 | EVENT | Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap. |
| 24th of July 1967 | EVENT | During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Quebec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians. |
| 24th of July 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. |
| 24th of July 1972 | EVENT | Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces. |
| 24th of July 1974 | EVENT | Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. |
| 24th of July 1974 | EVENT | After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored. |
| 24th of July 1977 | EVENT | End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. |
| 24th of July 1980 | EVENT | The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level. |
| 24th of July 1982 | EVENT | Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. |
| 24th of July 1983 | EVENT | George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". |
| 24th of July 1990 | EVENT | Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border. |
| 24th of July 1998 | EVENT | Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. |
| 24th of July 2001 | EVENT | Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. |
| 24th of July 2001 | EVENT | Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy. |
| 24th of July 2002 | EVENT | Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1. |
| 24th of July 2005 | EVENT | Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France. |
| 24th of July 2010 | EVENT | Over 80,000 people from around the world record their daily lives for submission to the YouTube documentary Life In A Day. |
| 24th of July 0923 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952) |
| 24th of July 1529 | BIRTHDAY | Karl II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, governor of the Margravate of Durlach (d. 1577) |
| 24th of July 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Maria of Palatinate-Simmern, Duchess of Sodermanland (d. 1589) |
| 24th of July 1574 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician (d. 1628) |
| 24th of July 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718) |
| 24th of July 1725 | BIRTHDAY | John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807) |
| 24th of July 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825) |
| 24th of July 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830) |
| 24th of July 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843) |
| 24th of July 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865) |
| 24th of July 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Dumas, pere, French writer (d. 1870) |
| 24th of July 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856) |
| 24th of July 1821 | BIRTHDAY | William Poole, American racketeer and politician (d. 1855) |
| 24th of July 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902) |
| 24th of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935) |
| 24th of July 1853 | BIRTHDAY | William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937) |
| 24th of July 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Emile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941) |
| 24th of July 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) |
| 24th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919) |
| 24th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939) |
| 24th of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918) |
| 24th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. 1908) |
| 24th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940) |
| 24th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Tate, English cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 24th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917) |
| 24th of July 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954) |
| 24th of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (d. 1957) |
| 24th of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959) |
| 24th of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Kristian Hellstrom, Swedish athlete (d. 1946) |
| 24th of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (d. 1965) |
| 24th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 24th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985) |
| 24th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937) |
| 24th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (d. 1981) |
| 24th of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist (d. 1948) |
| 24th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Richard B. Morris, American constitutional historian (d. 1989) |
| 24th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991) |
| 24th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985) |
| 24th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994) |
| 24th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (d. 2010) |
| 24th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and theatrical impresario (d. 2007) |
| 24th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist (d. 2004) |
| 24th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (d. 1986) |
| 24th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Farnon, Canadian conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005) |
| 24th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 24th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist |
| 24th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Kubler, Swiss cyclist |
| 24th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian jurist (d. 1999) |
| 24th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bella Abzug, American politician (d. 1998) |
| 24th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008) |
| 24th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer (d. 2010) |
| 24th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Binns, West Indian cricketer |
| 24th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998) |
| 24th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ermanno Olmi, Italian director |
| 24th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Sanders, American golfer |
| 24th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | John Aniston, American actor |
| 24th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderer |
| 24th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist |
| 24th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Varnals, South African cricketer |
| 24th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Goddard, American actor |
| 24th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian |
| 24th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Manoj Kumar, Indian actor |
| 24th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist |
| 24th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer |
| 24th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian |
| 24th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hedaya, American actor |
| 24th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sarandon, American actor |
| 24th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Ross, Canadian scientist and creationist advocate |
| 24th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Azim Premji, Indian businessman |
| 24th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Gallagher, American comedian |
| 24th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Friedhelm Haebermann, German footballer |
| 24th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer |
| 24th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hays, American actor |
| 24th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Serkin, American pianist |
| 24th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff McQueen, British television screenwriter (d. 1994) |
| 24th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Richards, American comedian |
| 24th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter |
| 24th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Arliss Ryan, American author |
| 24th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Jampole, American poet |
| 24th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lynda Carter, American actress |
| 24th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Smith, British politician |
| 24th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Van Sant, American film director |
| 24th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Claire McCaskill, American politician |
| 24th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Finn, American game show host and producer |
| 24th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Crist, American politician |
| 24th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Pam Tillis, American singer |
| 24th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Barry Carroll, American basketball player |
| 24th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Leighton, Scottish goalkeeper |
| 24th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Dixon, English footballer |
| 24th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny O'Connell, American race car driver |
| 24th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Krone, American jockey |
| 24th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Geary, American musician |
| 24th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Malone, American basketball player |
| 24th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Rosengren, American writer and author |
| 24th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Bonds, American baseball player |
| 24th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author |
| 24th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player |
| 24th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kadeem Hardison, American actor |
| 24th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Liman, American film director |
| 24th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Keown, English footballer |
| 24th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director |
| 24th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist |
| 24th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress |
| 24th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Leighton, American actress |
| 24th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer |
| 24th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player |
| 24th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Adams, American model and author |
| 24th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Elli Kokkinou, Greek singer |
| 24th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Baggio, Italian footballer |
| 24th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Partridge, English singer |
| 24th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kaio Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 24th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist |
| 24th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player |
| 24th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Szmanda, American actor |
| 24th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dafydd James, Welsh rugby player |
| 24th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Torrie Wilson, American wrestler |
| 24th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rafer Alston, American basketball player |
| 24th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Bump, American baseball player |
| 24th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese racing driver |
| 24th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player |
| 24th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Aitor Perez, Spanish cyclist |
| 24th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter |
| 24th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Irons, American professional surfer (d. 2010) |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Byrne, Australian actress |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stat Quo, American rapper |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Gaelle Sidot, French tennis player |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Andrew Smith, American graphic novelist |
| 24th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Valverde, American baseball player |
| 24th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan runner |
| 24th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gauge, American pornographic actress |
| 24th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Summer Glau, American actress |
| 24th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Robinson, English footballer |
| 24th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Elise Crombez, Belgian model |
| 24th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver |
| 24th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Poppmeier, South African-born German rugby player |
| 24th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress |
| 24th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer |
| 24th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer |
| 24th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Steve O'Rourke, Irish Canadian |
| 24th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Wright, American football player |
| 24th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player |
| 24th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress |
| 24th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater |
| 24th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Park, Canadian actress |
| 24th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Cafu, Brazilian footballer |
| 24th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mara Wilson, American actress |
| 24th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Gerbe, American hockey player |
| 24th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer |
| 24th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer/dancer |
| 24th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Tae-Hwan, South Korean footballer |
| 24th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Daveigh Chase, American actress |
| 24th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Stoneman, British racing driver |
| 24th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Lin Yue, Chinese athlete |
| 24th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Abyzov, Russian professional footballer |
| 24th of July 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer |
| 24th of July 1115 | DEATH | Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (Born 1046) |
| 24th of July 1129 | DEATH | Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (Born 1053) |
| 24th of July 1240 | DEATH | Konrad von Thuringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights |
| 24th of July 1568 | DEATH | Prince Don Carlos of Spain (Born 1545) |
| 24th of July 1594 | DEATH | John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (Born 1544) |
| 24th of July 1739 | DEATH | Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (Born 1686) |
| 24th of July 1768 | DEATH | Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (Born 1684) |
| 24th of July 1862 | DEATH | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (Born 1782) |
| 24th of July 1908 | DEATH | Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (Born 1867) |
| 24th of July 1910 | DEATH | Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (Born 1841) |
| 24th of July 1927 | DEATH | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (Born 1892) |
| 24th of July 1957 | DEATH | Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (Born 1885) |
| 24th of July 1962 | DEATH | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (Born 1917) |
| 24th of July 1965 | DEATH | Constance Bennett, American actress (Born 1904) |
| 24th of July 1966 | DEATH | Tony Lema, American golfer (Born 1934) |
| 24th of July 1969 | DEATH | Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (Born 1904) |
| 24th of July 1970 | DEATH | Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (Born 1897) |
| 24th of July 1974 | DEATH | James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1891) |
| 24th of July 1980 | DEATH | Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (Born 1925) |
| 24th of July 1980 | DEATH | Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (Born 1926) |
| 24th of July 1985 | DEATH | Father Ezechiele Ramin MCCJ, Italian Comboni missionary priest and martyr (Born 1953) |
| 24th of July 1986 | DEATH | Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1899) |
| 24th of July 1991 | DEATH | Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1904) |
| 24th of July 1992 | DEATH | Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (Born 1900) |
| 24th of July 1992 | DEATH | Arletty, French singer and actress (Born 1898) |
| 24th of July 1993 | DEATH | Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (Born 1957) |
| 24th of July 1995 | DEATH | Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (Born 1922) |
| 24th of July 1995 | DEATH | George Rodger, British photojournalist (Born 1908) |
| 24th of July 1995 | DEATH | Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (Born 1934) |
| 24th of July 1996 | DEATH | Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (Born 1937) |
| 24th of July 1997 | DEATH | Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (Born 1928) |
| 24th of July 1997 | DEATH | William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1906) |
| 24th of July 2000 | DEATH | Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (Born 1925) |
| 24th of July 2001 | DEATH | Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (Born 1931) |
| 24th of July 2004 | DEATH | Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (Born 1925) |
| 24th of July 2005 | DEATH | Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (Born 1912) |
| 24th of July 2007 | DEATH | Albert Ellis, American psychologist (Born 1913) |
| 24th of July 2007 | DEATH | Chaney Kley, American actor (Born 1972) |
| 24th of July 2008 | DEATH | Norman Dello Joio, American composer (Born 1913) |
| 24th of July 2009 | DEATH | E. Lynn Harris, American author (Born 1955) |
| 24th of July 2010 | DEATH | Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (Born 1949) |