Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

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

1381  On March - 24 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1558  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)   

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

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

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

1661  Death of William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston on this day in history.   

1755  On March - 24 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  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on March - 24.   

1825  Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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 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 this day in history.   

1877  On March - 24 walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51   

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

1888  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on March - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

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  Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on this day in history.   

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

1693  John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) was born on March - 24.