Who died on April 24, 1974 (the exact day you were born)
- Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian
Unusual Deaths in 1974
- Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on July 15. at 9:38 am, 8 minutes into her talk show, on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.
- Austrian formula one driver Helmut Koinigg died in a crash in the 1974 united states grand prix at the Watkins Glen grand prix race course in Watkins Glen, New York. on approaching a corner, a suspension failure sent Koinigg’s car crashing head-on into the outer armco barrier. the bottom rail gave way but the top rail did not. Helmut Koinigg was decapitated and died instantly, in what was only his second formula one race.
Natural disasters in 1974
- 1974 Brisbane flood
- 1974 Hunza earthquake
- Cyclone Tracy
People who died on April 24 (various years)
- 2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer
- 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi
- 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner
- 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
- 2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel
- 2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (my mom used to work for Estée Lauder)
- 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor
- 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer
- 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer
- 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician
- 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician
- 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor
- 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete
- 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
- 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger
- 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
- 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress
- 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined)
- 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Hans Biebow, German war criminal
- 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer
- 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician
- 1944 – William Stephens, U.S. political figure
- 1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author
- 1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author
- 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist
- 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor
- 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
- 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal
- 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet
- 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College
- 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general
- 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer
- 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist
- 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint
- 1342 – Pope Benedict XII
- 1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat
- 709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
- 624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
