Famous Deaths In March - 24

0809  On March - 24 harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44   

1284  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1455  On this day in history nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57   

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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  Death of Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488) on this day in history.   

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  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of william Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston   

1755  On this day in history theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72   

1773  Death of Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694) on March - 24.   

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

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

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

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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  On March - 24 albin Masek, composer, dies at 73   

1881  On this day in history friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69   

1882  On March - 24 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  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on this day in history.   

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

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on March - 24.   

1905  On March - 24 jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77   

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1188  On this day in history birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I   

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

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on this day in history.   

1607  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on March - 24.   

1628  On March - 24 birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)   

1630  On this day in history birth of jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal   

1657  On March - 24 birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

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