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

1396  Death of Walter Hilton, English mystic on this day in history.  

1400  On March - 24 florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies  

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

1471  On March - 24 thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55  

1558  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.  

1563  Death of Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) on March - 24.  

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

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

1631  Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1823  Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1825  On March - 24 giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64  

1838  On March - 24 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  On this day in history mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85  

1869  On March - 24 death of antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)  

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

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

1881  On this day in history friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69  

1882  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1887  Death of Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837) on March - 24.  

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

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  On this day in history birth of ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I  

1441  On this day in history birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)  

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 this day in history.  

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  On March - 24 birth of john Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)