Famous Deaths In July - 24

1115  Death of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046) on this day in history.   

1240  On July - 24 death of konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights   

1345  On July - 24 death of jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered   

1568  Death of Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545) on July - 24.   

1594  On this day in history death of john Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)   

1652  Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.   

1712  On this day in history cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies   

1739  On July - 24 benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday   

1756  George Vertue, engraver, dies on this day in history.   

1758  On this day in history john Dyer, poet, dies   

1768  On this day in history death of nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)   

1809  On this day in history johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74   

1812  Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1819  On July - 24 sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43   

1826  Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65 on July - 24.   

1831  Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1837  Death of Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter on this day in history.   

1842  John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies on July - 24.   

1846  Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81 on July - 24.   

1862  On July - 24 martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79   

1865  On July - 24 johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30   

1868  On this day in history george Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies   

1876  Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 on July - 24.   

1883  On July - 24 death of matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls   

1900  On this day in history death of ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59   

1908  Death of Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867) on this day in history.   

1910  On July - 24 death of arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)   

1927  On this day in history death of ryÅ«nosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)   

1931  On this day in history marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75   

1933  On this day in history max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65   

1936  On July - 24 james Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52   

1944  Death of Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 on July - 24.   

1947  On this day in history ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72   

1954  On this day in history mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90   

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1380  On July - 24 birth of johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint   

1660  On this day in history birth of charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)   

1686  On July - 24 birth of benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]   

1720  Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik was born on July - 24.   

1725  On this day in history birth of john Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)   

1738  Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) was born on July - 24.   

1757  On July - 24 birth of vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)   

1759  On July - 24 birth of victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)