Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

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

1381  Death of Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint on March - 24.  

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

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on March - 24.  

1455  On this day in history nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57  

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  Death of Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) on this day in history.  

1575  Death of Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488) on March - 24.  

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

1631  On this day in history philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68  

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 this day in history 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 this day in history 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  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1825  Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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 March - 24.  

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

1899  On March - 24 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 March - 24 birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I  

1441  On March - 24 birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)  

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  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.