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

1396  On March - 24 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  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on this day in history.  

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  Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.  

1635  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on this day in history.  

1644  Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies on March - 24.  

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

1661  On this day in history death of william Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston  

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

1773  On March - 24 death of philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)  

1776  Death of John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693) on this day in history.  

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

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

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 March - 24.  

1882  On this day in history henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75  

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 March - 24.  

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

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on this day in history.  

1905  On March - 24 jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77  

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1188  On March - 24 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 this day in history 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  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) was born on this day in history.  

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 March - 24.  

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