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 this day in history.  

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 March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1661  On March - 24 death of william Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston  

1755  On this day in history theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72  

1773  Death of Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694) on March - 24.  

1776  On March - 24 death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)  

1823  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on March - 24.  

1825  On this day in history giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64  

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 this day in history mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85  

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

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

1882  On March - 24 henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75  

1887  Death of Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837) on March - 24.  

1888  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on this day in history.  

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 March - 24.  

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 March - 24.  

1441  On this day in history birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)  

1494  Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born on this day in history.  

1607  Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) was born on March - 24.  

1628  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)  

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