Famous Deaths on March 24

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, dies at 69

1631 Philipp Dulichius, German composer, dies at 68
1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
1644 Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland, dies at 32
1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
1661 William Leddra becomes the last Quaker to be hanged in Boston, for the crime of returning from banishment
1755 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer, dies at 72
1771 William Shirley, British Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (played an important role in Britain’s struggle against France for control of North America), dies at 76
1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope [Lord Chesterfield], English statesman and letter writer, responsible for introducing the Gregorian calendar, dies at 78

John Harrison (1693-1776)

English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer to calculate longitude while at sea, dies at 82

1823 Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar, dies at 66
1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 64
1838 Thomas Attwood, English organist and composer, dies at 72
1844 Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying Lion), dies at 73
1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, French queen as wife of Louis Philip of Austria, dies at 83
1869 Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1877 Walter Bagehot, English journalist and economist (founded National Review), dies at 51
1878 Albin Masek, Czech composer, dies at 73
1881 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republican politician, dies at 69
1881 Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1887 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic, dies at 49
1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1891 Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City, dies at 76
1894 Robert Prescott Stewart, Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 68
1899 Billy Barnes, English cricket all-rounder (21 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 134, 51 wickets, BB 6/28; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 46
1901 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English writer (Heir of Redclyffe), dies at 77
1904 Edwin Arnold, English writer (The Light of Asia), dies at 71

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

French writer known as the "Father of Science Fiction" (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77

1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist and poet (Riders to the Sea), dies at 37
1910 Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa's Grove of giant Sequoia trees), dies at 95 [1]
1911 Stanley Robison, American civil engineer, streetcar magnate, and baseball team owner (Cleveland Spiders, 1887-99; St. Louis Cardinals, 1899-1911), dies from complications of locomotor ataxia at 56
1915 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 Enrique Granados, Spanish concert pianist, and composer (Goyescas), drowns crossing the English Channel when his ferry is sunk by a German torpedo attack at 48
1918 Théophile "Théo" Ysaÿe, Belgian composer and pianist, dies at 53
1921 Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), dies at 48
1921 James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 86
1932 George Harris, (4th Baron Harris), English cricket batsman and captain (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Kent CCC), dies at 81
1934 William Donne, English cricket batsman, (Olympic gold 1900) and administrator (President England Rugby Football Union), dies at 58
1941 (Rafaël) "Raf" Verhulst, Flemish poet, journalist, playwright (Jesus of Nazarus; Semini's Children), and educator, dies at 75
1945 (Jevon) "Jeff" Nicklin, Canadian CFL football player,1934-40 (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), and Army paratrooper officer killed in action at 30
1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
1946 Alexander Alekhine, Russian-French chess player (world champion 1927-35, 37-46), dies choking on meat at 53
1946 Gustaf Heintze, Swedish composer, dies at 66
1948 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter, dies at 62
1949 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, executed by firing squad at 54
1950 Harold Laski, English economist, academic, and poitical leader (Labour Party chairman,1945-46), dies of influenza at 56
1950 James Rudolph Garfield, American politician, dies at 84
1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
1953 Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
1955 John W. Davis, American politician and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, dies at 81
1956 Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), physicist and historian of science, dies at 82
1960 Paul Joostens, Belgian avant-garde artist, dies at 70
1962 (John) Jean Goldkette, French jazz pianist and bandleader, dies of a heart attack at 69
1966 Virginia Hill, American organized crime figure (girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel), supposedly commits suicide at 49
1967 Marc Lavry [Levin], Latvian-Israeli composer (Emek; Independence Symphony; Song of Songs], and conductor, dies at 63 [1]
1968 Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director who was the first woman to direct a film (The Fairy of the Cabbages), dies at 94
1968 Howard Petrie, American actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70

Joseph Kasa-Vubu (c. 1915-1969)

Congolese politician and the 1st President of the Republic of Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55

1974 Doris Deane [Dibble], American silent film actress (Stupid, But Brave), dies at 74
1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1975 Muriel Hutchison, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
1975 Oscar Rasbach, American composer, dies at 86

Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976)

1st Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal (African campaign, D-Day) and WWI officer, dies at 88

1976 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
1977 Saburō Moroi, Japanese composer and educator, dies at 73
1978 Leigh Brackett, American sci-fi author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
1979 Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (Nineteen Eigthy-Four) and writer, dies of cancer at 53
1980 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest, murdered during mass at 62
1982 Goodman Ace, American writer, radio presenter, actor and humorist (Better of Goodman), dies at 83
1984 Sam Jaffe, American actor (The Asphalt Jungle; Gunga Din; Dr Zorba), dies of cancer at 93
1985 George London, Canadian bass-baritone (Rigoleto- "Monterone"), dies at 64
1986 Sarah Cunningham, American actress (Trapper John, M.D. - "Nurse Andrews"), dies of a heart attack while attending the Oscar ceremony at 67
1989 Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Lionel Hampton), dies at 70
1990 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
1990 An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70
1990 Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
1991 Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
1993 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
1993 John Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall), dies at 78
1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1993 Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of a heart attack at 60
1994 David Van Vactor, American classical composer (Chaconne), dies at 87
1994 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, dies at 81
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated at 44
1994 Tommy Benford, American jazz drummer, dies at 88
1995 Joey Long, American blues and cajun guitarist, dies at 62
1995 Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66
1997 Harold Melvin, American soul and R&B singer (The Blue Notes - "If You Don't Know Me By Now"), dies at 57
1997 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer, dies at 69
1999 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
1999 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 Henry Brandon [Lord Brandon of Oakbrook], British judge (Lord of Appeal - Ordinary) and probable spy (Military Cross), dies at 78
2000 Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (Snap Your Fingers), dies at 74
2001 Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 César Milstein, Argentine biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984), dies at 74
2003 Dave Dallwitz, South Australian jazz and classical pianist, bandleader, composer, and visual artist, dies at 88
2003 Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2004 Max Dendermonde [Hendrik Hazelhoff], Dutch literary, dies at 84
2006 Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2007 Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Dutch black widow and Nazi supporter, dies at 92
2007 Maurice Flitcroft, British golfer known as "the world's worst golfer," dies at 77
2008 Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American gospel, neo-soul, and session guitarist (Mighty Clouds of Joy; Raphael Saadiq; D'Angelo), dies of complications from diabetes at 52 [1]
2008 Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2008 Mary Joan Nielubowicz, US Navy Rear Admiral and nurse (Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983-87), dies at 79
2008 Neil Aspinall, British music executive (The Beatles), dies of lung cancer at 66
2008 Richard Widmark, American actor (Madigan, Murder on the Orient Express, Judgement at Nuremberg), dies complications following a fall at 93
2009 George Kell, American Baseball HOF third baseman (10 x MLB All-Star; AL batting champion 1949; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox), dies at 86
2009 Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
2009 Uriel Jones, American jazz and session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), dies from complications of a heart attack at 74
2010 Jim Marshall, American photographer (The Beatles final concert in San Francisco; Woodstock Festival), dies at 74
2010 Johnny Maestro, American rock vocalist (Crests - "16 Candles"; Brooklyn Bridge), dies at 70
2010 Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), dies at 79
2010 Ron Hamence, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII), dies at 94
2012 Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (BDO World Champion 1982, 89), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 62
2013 Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author, dies at 86
2015 Maria Radner, German operatic contralto, specializing in Wagner, dies in a plane crash at 33
2015 Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
2016 Earl Hamner Jr., American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons", dies at 92
2016 Garry Shandling, American comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show), dies at 66

Johan Cruyff (1947-2016)

Dutch soccer player and coach (Ajax/Barcelona), dies at 68

2016 Kevin Turner, American football fullback (Philadelphia Eagles) and plaintiff against NFL (concussion case), dies of ALS at 46
2018 Carl Scheib, American baseball pitcher (at the time [1943] youngest player in MLB history at 16; Philadelphia A’s), dies at 91
2018 José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan conductor, pianist and teacher (El Sistema), dies at 78
2018 Lawrence K. Grossman, American news executive (PBS, NBC-TV) and author (The Electronic Republic), dies of Parkinson’s disease and cancer at 86
2018 Lys Assia, Swiss singer who won the 1st Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, dies at 94

Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)

French cartoonist and script writer (Asterix comic books), dies at 92

2020 Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist (Nobel Peace Prize 1976), dies of pneumonia at 76
2020 Bill Rieflin, American rock drummer (Nine Inch Nails; R.E.M.; King Crimson. 2013-20), dies of cancer at 59
2020 Gerard Schurmann, Dutch-British conductor, and composer of classical music (The Double Heart), and film scores, (The Bedford Incident), dies at 96
2020 Ignacio Trelles, Mexican soccer midfielder (Mexican Primera División: 1935, 37, 38; Club Necaxa) and coach (Mexico 1960-69), dies at 103
2020 John Davies, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1952; WR 200m breaststroke 2:34.4 1952), dies at 90
2020 Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician (Soul Makossa), dies of COVID-19 at 86
2020 Terrence McNally, American Tony-winning playwright (Kiss of the Spider Woman), dies of COVID-19 complications at 81
2020 Tony Rutter, British motorcycle road racer (Formula Two World C'ship 1981-84; 7 x Isle of Man TT Races), dies at 78
2021 Bob Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (St. Louis Blues 1969-77) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1992), dies from a heart attack at 78
2021 Craig "muMS" Grant, American poet and actor (Oz), dies at 52
2021 Rudolf Kelterborn, Swiss composer, conductor (Swiss German RSO, 1974-80), and educator (Basel Music Academy, 1983-94), dies at 79
2021 Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka (Olympic gold - 71kgs 1992; silver 1996), dies at 53