Famous Deaths for 24th May 2026

1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician, dies at 78
1844 – William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist, social reformer and publisher (The Liberator), dies at 73
1979 – Ernest Bullock, British organist (Exeter Cathedral, 1917-28; Westminster Abbey, 1928-41), composer, and academic (Director of Royal College of Music, 1952-60), dies at 88
1988 – Tom Burtt, New Zealand cricketer (NZ slow left-arm bowler in 11 Tests 1947-53), dies at 73
1996 – John Abbott, British actor (The Jungle Book, Gigi, Smogasboard), dies from cancer at 90
1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (Knight Rider), dies of lung cancer at 74
2005 – Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
2007 – David Renton, British politician (one of the final National Liberal MPs), dies at 98
2019 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist who predicted quarks (1969 Nobel Prize for Physics for theory of elementary particles), dies at 89

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