Deaths in History 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

1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
1644 Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland, dies at 32
1661 William Leddra becomes the last Quaker to be hanged in Boston, for the crime of returning from banishment
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 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
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
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
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
1911 Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies
1915 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1921 James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 86
1941 (Rafaël) "Raf" Verhulst, Flemish poet, journalist, playwright (Jesus of Nazarus; Semini's Children), and educator, dies at 75
1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
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 and Labour Party leader (1945-46), dies 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), dies at 82
1960 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at 70
1966 Virginia Hill, American organized crime figure (girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel), supposedly commits suicide at 49
1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
1969 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
1974 Doris Deane, dies at 74
1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79

Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976)

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

1978 Leigh Brackett, American sci-fi author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
1979 Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53
1980 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest, murdered during mass at 62
1990 An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70
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
1994 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, dies at 81
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
1995 Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
1997 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer, dies at 69
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
2001 Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 César Milstein, Argentine biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984), dies at 74
2003 Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2004 Max Dendermonde [Hendrik Hazelhoff], Dutch literary, dies at 84
2007 Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Dutch black widow and Nazi supporter, dies at 92
2008 Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2013 Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author, dies at 86
2016 Earl Hamner Jr., American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons", dies at 92
2020 Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist (Nobel Peace Prize 1976), dies of pneumonia at 76
2020 Terrence McNally, American Tony-winning playwright (Kiss of the Spider Woman), dies of COVID-19 complications at 81