Famous Deaths In March - 24

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on March - 24.   

1284  On this day in history death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on this day in history.   

1396  On March - 24 death of walter Hilton, English mystic   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on March - 24.   

1455  Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 on March - 24.   

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on March - 24.   

1558  On March - 24 anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies   

1563  Death of Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) on March - 24.   

1575  On March - 24 death of yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)   

1603  On March - 24 elizabeth I Tudor, [Maiden Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69   

1631  Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.   

1635  On March - 24 jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42   

1644  Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies on this day in history.   

1654  Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1661  Death of William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston on this day in history.   

1755  On March - 24 theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72   

1773  On this day in history death of philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)   

1776  On March - 24 death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)   

1823  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on March - 24.   

1825  On this day in history giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64   

1838  On this day in history thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72   

1866  On this day in history maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies   

1867  On March - 24 mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85   

1869  On this day in history death of antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)   

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on March - 24.   

1881  Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75   

1887  On March - 24 death of ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)   

1888  On this day in history death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)   

1894  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.   

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on this day in history.   

1905  On this day in history jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77   

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1188  Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born on March - 24.   

1441  On this day in history birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

1494  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  On March - 24 birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)   

1628  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) was born on this day in history.   

1630  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on March - 24.   

1657  On this day in history birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

1693  On this day in history birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)