Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

1284  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

1455  On March - 24 nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57  

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on March - 24.  

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on this day in history.  

1563  On this day in history death of hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)  

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 March - 24.  

1644  On this day in history cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies  

1654  Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 on March - 24.  

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

1755  Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72 on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1838  On this day in history thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72  

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

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  On this day in history 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  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1899  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I  

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

1494  On March - 24 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  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 this day in history.  

1693  On March - 24 birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)