Famous Deaths Happened In March - 24

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

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

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

1396  On this day in history death of walter Hilton, English mystic   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on this day in history.   

1455  On March - 24 nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57   

1471  On March - 24 thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55   

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

1563  On this day in history death of hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)   

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

1603  On this day in history 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  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on March - 24.   

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  On this day in history theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72   

1773  On March - 24 death of philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)   

1776  Death of John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693) on March - 24.   

1823  On March - 24 cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66   

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

1838  Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 on March - 24.   

1866  On March - 24 maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies   

1867  On this day in history 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 March - 24.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1881  Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 on March - 24.   

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  On March - 24 death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)   

1894  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1899  On this day in history billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies   

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

1441  Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born on March - 24.   

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on March - 24.   

1607  On this day in history birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)   

1628  On this day in history birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

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