What happened on July 24 ?

1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)

1129 - Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)

1394 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (b. 1343)

1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)

1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)

1739 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)

1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)

1862 - Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States (b. 1782)

1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)

1927 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)

1965 - Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)

1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)

1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian buisnessman (b. 1897)

1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)

1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1995 - George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)

1996 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)

1997 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)

2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)