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  On March - 24 death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint  

1396  On this day in history death of walter Hilton, English mystic  

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  On March - 24 thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55  

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.  

1563  On March - 24 death of hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)  

1575  On this day in history 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  Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.  

1635  On this day in history jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42  

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  Death of William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston on March - 24.  

1755  On March - 24 theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72  

1773  Death of Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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  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  On March - 24 albin Masek, composer, dies at 73  

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  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on this day in history.  

1894  On this day in history robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68  

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

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

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1188  Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born on this day in history.  

1441  Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born on this day in history.  

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on March - 24.  

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

1628  On this day in history birth of sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)  

1630  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on March - 24.  

1657  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on this day in history.  

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