Famous Deaths In July - 24

1115  On July - 24 death of matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)   

1240  On this day in history death of konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights   

1345  On July - 24 death of jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered   

1568  On July - 24 death of prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)   

1594  On July - 24 death of john Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)   

1652  On this day in history johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32   

1712  On July - 24 cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies   

1739  Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday on this day in history.   

1756  George Vertue, engraver, dies on July - 24.   

1758  On this day in history john Dyer, poet, dies   

1768  On July - 24 death of nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)   

1809  On this day in history johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74   

1812  Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63 on July - 24.   

1819  Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43 on July - 24.   

1826  Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65 on July - 24.   

1831  On July - 24 maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41   

1837  On this day in history death of charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter   

1842  John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies on July - 24.   

1846  On July - 24 joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81   

1862  On July - 24 martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79   

1865  Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30 on July - 24.   

1868  On this day in history george Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies   

1876  Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 on July - 24.   

1883  On July - 24 death of matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls   

1900  On this day in history death of ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59   

1908  On July - 24 death of vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)   

1910  On this day in history death of arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)   

1927  On July - 24 death of ryÅ«nosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)   

1931  Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1933  On this day in history max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65   

1936  James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52 on July - 24.   

1944  Death of Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 on July - 24.   

1947  On July - 24 ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72   

1954  Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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1380  On this day in history birth of johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint   

1660  On this day in history birth of charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)   

1686  On this day in history birth of benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]   

1720  On this day in history birth of louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik   

1725  On July - 24 birth of john Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)   

1738  Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) was born on July - 24.   

1757  On this day in history birth of vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)   

1759  On this day in history birth of victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)