| 47431 | April 24 | Death | 1947 – Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902) |
| 47432 | April 24 | Death | 1947 – Willa Cather, American author and poet (b. 1873) |
| 47433 | April 24 | Death | 1948 – Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863) |
| 47434 | April 24 | Death | 1954 – Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910) |
| 47435 | April 24 | Death | 1957 – Harry McClintock, American singer and guitarist (b. 1882) |
| 47436 | April 24 | Death | 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) |
| 47437 | April 24 | Death | 1962 – Milt Franklyn, American composer (b. 1897) |
| 47438 | April 24 | Death | 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895) |
| 47439 | April 24 | Death | 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878) |
| 47440 | April 24 | Death | 1966 – Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902) |
| 47441 | April 24 | Death | 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927) |
| 47442 | April 24 | Death | 1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American runner and hurdler (b. 1876) |
| 47443 | April 24 | Death | 1970 – Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930) |
| 47444 | April 24 | Death | 1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) |
| 47445 | April 24 | Death | 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and producer (b. 1895) |
| 47446 | April 24 | Death | 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947) |
| 47447 | April 24 | Death | 1976 – Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890) |
| 47448 | April 24 | Death | 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904) |
| 47449 | April 24 | Death | 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896) |
| 47450 | April 24 | Death | 1983 – Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938) |
| 47451 | April 24 | Death | 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943) |
| 47452 | April 24 | Death | 1984 – Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891) |
| 47453 | April 24 | Death | 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (b. 1896) |
| 47454 | April 24 | Death | 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1917) |
| 47455 | April 24 | Death | 1993 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917) |
| 47456 | April 24 | Death | 1995 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903) |
| 47457 | April 24 | Death | 1997 – Allan Francovich, American director and producer (b. 1941) |
| 47458 | April 24 | Death | 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927) |
| 47459 | April 24 | Death | 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (b. 1922) |
| 47460 | April 24 | Death | 2000 – William Moore, English actor (b. 1916) |