Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

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

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1558  On March - 24 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  On March - 24 death of yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)  

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

1631  On this day in history philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68  

1635  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on this day in history.  

1644  Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies on March - 24.  

1654  Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history 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  Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 on March - 24.  

1838  On March - 24 thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72  

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

1867  On March - 24 mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85  

1869  Death of Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779) on March - 24.  

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on March - 24.  

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on March - 24.  

1881  On March - 24 friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69  

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on March - 24.  

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

1888  On this day in history death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)  

1894  On this day in history 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  On March - 24 birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)  

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 this day in history.  

1657  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on March - 24.  

1693  On this day in history birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)