Famous Deaths Happened In May - 24

1144  On May - 24 petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies   

1153  On May - 24 david I, King of Scotland, dies   

1351  Death of Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297) on this day in history.   

1408  On May - 24 death of taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)   

1425  Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) on this day in history.   

1456  Death of Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396) on May - 24.   

1543  On May - 24 nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland   

1612  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1665  On May - 24 maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies   

1669  Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1670  On this day in history ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59   

1696  Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1725  On May - 24 death of jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)   

1734  Death of Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) on this day in history.   

1749  Death of Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman on this day in history.   

1751  On May - 24 william Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies   

1762  Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51 on May - 24.   

1773  Jan Zach, composer, dies at 73 on May - 24.   

1792  George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies on May - 24.   

1804  Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 on May - 24.   

1806  Death of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723) on May - 24.   

1826  Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37 on May - 24.   

1831  Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1843  Death of Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765) on this day in history.   

1844  On May - 24 william Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies   

1850  Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74 on May - 24.   

1851  Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 on May - 24.   

1861  On May - 24 death of elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23   

1871  On May - 24 francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40   

1872  On this day in history julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies   

1876  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 on this day in history.   

1879  William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1881  Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies on this day in history.   

1883  Death of Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808) on this day in history.   

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1522  On May - 24 birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)   

1544  William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism) was born on this day in history.   

1605  Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church was born on May - 24.   

1610  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer   

1616  John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682) was born on May - 24.   

1619  On May - 24 birth of philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter   

1650  On May - 24 birth of john Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist   

1671  On May - 24 birth of gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)