Famous Deaths Happened In March - 24

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

1284  On this day in history death of king Hugh III of Cyprus   

1381  On this day in history death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint   

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on March - 24.   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on March - 24.   

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

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

1558  On this day in history anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies   

1563  Death of Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) on this day in history.   

1575  Death of Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488) on March - 24.   

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

1631  On March - 24 philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68   

1635  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on March - 24.   

1644  On March - 24 cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies   

1654  On March - 24 samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66   

1661  On March - 24 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 this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)   

1823  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on March - 24.   

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

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

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on March - 24.   

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

1869  On March - 24 death of antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)   

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1878  On this day in history albin Masek, composer, dies at 73   

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  Death of Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837) on this day in history.   

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 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 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 this day in history.   

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  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.