Famous Deaths In March - 24

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

1284  On March - 24 death of king Hugh III of Cyprus  

1381  On March - 24 death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint  

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 this day in history.  

1471  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)  

1575  On this day in history death of yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)  

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

1654  Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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

1866  On this day in history 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  Death of Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779) on March - 24.  

1877  On this day in history walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51  

1878  On March - 24 albin Masek, composer, dies at 73  

1881  On March - 24 friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69  

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on March - 24.  

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

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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 this day in history.  

1494  On this day in history birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)  

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  Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal was born on March - 24.  

1657  On this day in history birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)  

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