What happened on June 24 ?

803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne

1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)

1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)

1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)

1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)

1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)

1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)

1643 - John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)

1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)

1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)

1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)

1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)

1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)

1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837)

1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)

1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867)

1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)

1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)

1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)

1984 - Clarence Campbell, NHL president (b. 1905)

1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)

1993 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915)

1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)

1997 - Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)

2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born intelligence officer (b. 1908)

2000 - David Tomlinson, British actor (b. 1917)

2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)

2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1938)

2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)

2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)

2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother to JonBenet Ramsey (ovarian cancer) (b. 1957)