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100 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 1924 | Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) | |||
24 May 1924 | Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 1949 | Hubert Birkenmeier, German-American soccer player and coach | |||
24 May 1949 | Jim Broadbent, English actor and screenwriter | |||
24 May 1949 | Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician and academic | |||
24 May 1949 | Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873) | |||
24 May 1949 | John Illsley rocker (Dire Straits) | |||
24 May 1949
Tomaž Pisanski |
birth Tomaž Pisanski Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 1974 | Ace Custis: NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks) | |||
24 May 1974 | Marcus Coleman: Free safety (NY Jets) | |||
24 May 1974 | Maria Alejandra Vento: Caracas, Venezuela -- Tennis star (1995 Futures-Braz) | |||
24 May 1974 | Natalie Neaton: Royal Oak, Michigan -- Soccer forward (1996 Olympics) | |||
24 May 1974 | Duke Ellington: Blues singer, dies of cancer at 75 | |||
24 May 1974 | Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV | |||
24 May 1974 | Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor | |||
24 May 1974 | Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player and coach | |||
24 May 1974 | Magnus Manske, German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki | |||
24 May 1974 | Will Sasso, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter | |||
24 May 1974 | Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899) | |||
24 May 1974 | American composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington, died of lung cancer and pneumonia aged 75. Worked with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday. Awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. In 2009 the United States Mint launched a new coin featuring Duke Ellington on the reverse side of the coin. | |||
24 May 1974 | Ace Custis NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks) | |||
24 May 1974 | Marcus Coleman free safety (New York Jets) | |||
24 May 1974 | Maria Alejandra Vento Caracas Venz, tennis star (1995 Futures-Braz) | |||
24 May 1974 | Natalie Neaton Royal Oak MI, soccer forward (Olympics-96) | |||
24 May 1974 | Duke Ellington composer/bandleader/pianist, dies of cancer at 75 | |||
24 May 1974 | Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 1999 | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. | |||
24 May 1999 | Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, was honoured on a new set of millennium stamps issued by the Royal Mail. Mercury, who featured on the 19p stamp, was a keen stamp collector, and his collection was bought by the Post Office in 1993. The stamp marked his contribution to the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, and caused controversy by featuring a small portion of Queens drummer, Roger Taylor, in the background - UK stamps by tradition only carry pictures of living persons who are members of the Royal Family. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 2004 | Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917) | |||
24 May 2004 | Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913) | |||
24 May 2004 | Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900) | |||
24 May 2004 | Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her Re-invention World Tour by playing three sold out nights at The Los Angeles Forum. The tour became the top grossing of the year, with ticket sales of nearly $125 million, with over 900,000 fans attending the 60 date tour. As a follower of the Kabbalah, Madonna didn't play any Friday night gigs as the teaching of the religion forbids it. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 2009 | Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963) | |||
24 May 2009 | Billy Joel was being sued by his former drummer for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties. Liberty Devitto, claimed that Joel hadn't paid him proper royalties for 10 years of his work. Devitto was Joel's drummer from 1975 until 2005, when he said he was abruptly thrown out of the band. He said: "People get fired, they get severance or insurance for a certain period of time. I didn't even get a phone call. It was cold." | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
24 May 2014 | David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935) | |||
24 May 2014 | Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969) | |||
24 May 2014 | Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927) | |||
24 May 2014 | Mark Selbee, American kick-boxer (b. 1969) | |||
24 May 2014 | John Vasconcellos, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932) |