What happened on January 24 ?

41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (assassinated) (b. 12)

772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)

1125 - King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)

1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)

1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader

1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer

1595 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)

1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)

1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)

1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)

1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)

1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)

1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)

1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)

1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)

1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)

1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)

1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)

1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)

1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)

1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)

1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)

1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)

1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)

1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)

1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)

1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)

1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)

1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)

1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)

1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)

1978 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (b. 1911)

1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)

1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)

1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)

1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)

1986 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)

1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)

1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)

1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)

1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)

1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)

2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)

2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)

2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)

2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)

2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby coach (b. 1929)

2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)