Famous Deaths on 24 Mar

Famous Deaths on 24 Mar

1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus
1381 - Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic
1455 - Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1558 - Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1653 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1881 - Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1905 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
1921 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1944 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
1980 - Ã"scar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
1990 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
1990 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer (b. 1920)
1991 - Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1993 - John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
1997 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1997 - Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 - Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2008 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
809 - Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)