Famous Deaths In March - 24

0809  On March - 24 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  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  Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies on March - 24.   

1563  On this day in history death of hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)   

1575  Death of Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488) on March - 24.   

1603  Elizabeth I Tudor, [Maiden Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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

1635  Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 on this day in history.   

1644  Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies on March - 24.   

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  Death of Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694) on this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)   

1823  On March - 24 cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66   

1825  On this day in history giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64   

1838  On March - 24 thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72   

1866  Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies on this day in history.   

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

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 March - 24.   

1878  Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1888  Death of Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) on March - 24.   

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 March - 24.   

1905  On this day in history 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 March - 24 birth of ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)   

1494  On March - 24 birth of georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)   

1607  On March - 24 birth of michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)   

1628  On March - 24 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  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)