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  On this day in history death of walter Hilton, English mystic   

1400  Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies on this day in history.   

1455  On March - 24 nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57   

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 March - 24.   

1563  Death of Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514) on this day in history.   

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

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

1631  On March - 24 philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68   

1635  On March - 24 jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42   

1644  On March - 24 cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies   

1654  On March - 24 samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66   

1661  On March - 24 death of william Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston   

1755  On this day in history theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72   

1773  On March - 24 death of philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)   

1776  On March - 24 death of john Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)   

1823  On this day in history cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66   

1825  Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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  Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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 March - 24.   

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

1882  On March - 24 henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75   

1887  On March - 24 death of ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)   

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 this day in history.   

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  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 March - 24.   

1630  On March - 24 birth of jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal   

1657  On this day in history birth of arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)   

1693  John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) was born on March - 24.