Famous Deaths Happened In March - 24

0809  Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 on March - 24.   

1284  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on this day in history.   

1381  On this day in history 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 March - 24.   

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  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.   

1603  On this day in history 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  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on this day in history.   

1644  On March - 24 cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies   

1654  On March - 24 samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66   

1661  Death of William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston on March - 24.   

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  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  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on March - 24.   

1869  On this day in history death of antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)   

1877  Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 on March - 24.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1881  Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1894  On March - 24 robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68   

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 March - 24.   

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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 March - 24.   

1494  On March - 24 birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  On March - 24 birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)   

1628  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) was born on March - 24.   

1630  On this day in history birth of jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal   

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

1693  John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) was born on this day in history.