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April 24th
163 Notable deaths
Mike Pinder
British musician.
Born December 27th, 1941 in Erdington.
Died April 24th, 2024 at 82 years old in California. [ref]
Don Gordon
American actor (1926-2017).
Born November 13th, 1926 in Los Angeles.
Died April 24th, 2017 at 90 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]
Papa Wemba
Was a congolese singer and musician who played congolese rumba, soukous, and ndombolo..
Born June 14th, 1949 in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lubefu.
Died April 24th, 2016 at 66 years old in Ivory Coast, Abidjan (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Tommy Kono
American weightlifter.
Born June 17th, 1930 in Sacramento.
Died April 24th, 2016 at 85 years old in Honolulu (liver disease). [ref]
Lennie Hayton
American composer and conductor (1908-1971).
Born February 13th, 1908 in New York City.
Died April 24th, 1971 at 63 years old in Palm Springs (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Alber Elbaz
Fashion designer.
Born June 12th, 1961 in Casablanca. [ref]
Died April 24th, 2021 at 59 years old in 13th arrondissement of Paris (COVID-19). [ref]
Ezer Weizman
Israeli politician, 7th president of israel (1924-2005).
Born June 15th, 1924 in Tel Aviv. [ref]
Died April 24th, 2005 at 80 years old in Caesarea (respiratory failure).
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
German general; reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on nazi concentration camp inmates.
Born June 8th, 1899 in Charlottenburg.
Died April 24th, 1945 at 45 years old in Babelsberg (hand grenade).
Fumio Demura
Martial artist.
Born September 15th, 1938 in Yokohama.
Died April 24th, 2023 at 84 years old [ref]
Max von Laue
German physicist, nobel laureate and anti-nazi.
Born October 9th, 1879 in Koblenz. [ref]
Died April 24th, 1960 at 80 years old in West Berlin (traffic collision). [ref]
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde