Famous Deaths In March - 24

0809  On March - 24 harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44   

1284  Death of King Hugh III of Cyprus on March - 24.   

1381  On this day in history death of saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint   

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  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  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.   

1603  On this day in history 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  Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies on March - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

1773  Death of Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694) on March - 24.   

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 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 March - 24 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 this day in history 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  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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 on March - 24.   

1887  Death of Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837) on this day in history.   

1888  On March - 24 death of vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)   

1894  Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 on March - 24.   

1899  Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies on March - 24.   

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

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1188  Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born on this day in history.   

1441  On March - 24 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  Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) was born on March - 24.   

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