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  On this day in history death of king Hugh III of Cyprus  

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 this day in history.  

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

1471  Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1755  Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72 on March - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

1838  Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on March - 24.  

1867  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on March - 24.  

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

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

1887  On this day in history death of ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)  

1888  On this day in history death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)  

1894  On this day in history 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  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 March - 24.  

1607  On this day in history birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)  

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 this day in history.  

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

1693  On this day in history birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)