Famous Deaths In March - 24

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1284  On March - 24 death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

1381  On March - 24 death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint   

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

1400  On March - 24 florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies   

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

1471  On this day in history thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55   

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.   

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

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

1635  On this day in history 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 March - 24.   

1661  Death of William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston on March - 24.   

1755  Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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

1776  Death of John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693) on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66   

1825  On March - 24 giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64   

1838  Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on this day in history.   

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on March - 24.   

1869  Death of Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

1888  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on March - 24.   

1894  On March - 24 robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68   

1899  On March - 24 billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies   

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

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1188  On March - 24 birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I   

1441  On March - 24 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  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on March - 24.   

1628  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) was born on March - 24.   

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

1657  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on this day in history.   

1693  John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) was born on this day in history.