Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

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

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

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on this day in history.  

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  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on March - 24.  

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 March - 24.  

1575  Death of Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488) on this day in history.  

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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 March - 24 jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42  

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

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

1661  On this day in history death of william Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston  

1755  On March - 24 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  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 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  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 this day in history.  

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

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75  

1887  On this day in history death of ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)  

1888  On March - 24 death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)  

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

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

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

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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  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)  

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

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 March - 24.  

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