Famous Deaths Happened In August - 24

0079  Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) on August - 24.   

1103  On this day in history magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies   

1217  On August - 24 eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle   

1313  On August - 24 henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies   

1371  Death of Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated on this day in history.   

1540  On August - 24 death of girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  On this day in history death of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  On this day in history death of gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded   

1595  On August - 24 thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies   

1647  Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61 on August - 24.   

1664  On August - 24 death of maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610)   

1666  On August - 24 francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57   

1679  On this day in history death of jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)   

1680  On August - 24 death of ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried   

1683  Death of John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616) on August - 24.   

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 on August - 24.   

1724  On August - 24 andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75   

1759  On August - 24 ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44   

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies on August - 24.   

1779  On this day in history death of saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)   

1798  Death of Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709) on August - 24.   

1801  On August - 24 jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68   

1832  Death of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796) on this day in history.   

1833  On August - 24 adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65   

1840  On August - 24 joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89   

1841  Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1888  Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies on August - 24.   

1889  Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies on this day in history.   

1895  John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1906  On August - 24 alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies   

1907  Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58 on August - 24.   

1921  On this day in history death of nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)   

1923  Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1939  On this day in history w H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies   

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1113  Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy was born on August - 24.   

1113  On August - 24 birth of geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)   

1198  On August - 24 birth of king Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  On August - 24 birth of floris IV, Count of Holland   

1358  King John I of Castile (d. 1390) was born on this day in history.   

1393  On August - 24 birth of arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)   

1420  On this day in history birth of albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole Bottrigari, composer was born on this day in history.