Discover the most famous people who died on March 24. The list includes people like Elizabeth I of England, Jules Verne, Johan Cruyff, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Famous personalities featured on this list, include actors, journalists, political leaders and military leaders and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United Kingdom, United States, France & Switzerland and many more countries.

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Birthdate: September 7, 1533

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Palace of Placentia

Died: 1603

Elizabeth I, daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, ruled as the Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603. She had been declared illegitimate after her mother’s execution. Nicknamed The Virgin Queen for her unmarried status, she established an English Protestant church and served as its governor.

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Johan Cruyff

(One of the Greatest Football Players & One of the Best Managers Ever)

Birthdate: April 25, 1947

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Died: 2016

Dutch midfielder/forward Johan Cruyff pioneered the idea of Total Football, along with coach Rinus Michels. The first three-time Ballon d'Or-winner was known for his signature move, the Cruyff Turn. He made it to FIFA 100 and ranked second only to Pele in an official World Player of the Century poll.

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Jules Verne

(French Author Who Was One of the Pioneers of the Modern Science Fiction Genre)

Birthdate: February 8, 1828

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Nantes, France

Died: 1905

French author Jules Verne, also known as the “Father of Science Fiction,” is best remembered for his legendary adventure novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He also became the world’s second most-translated writer since 1979.

Birthdate: November 29, 1949

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Chicago

Died: 2016

Garry Shandling was initially a sitcom writer and then performed as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He later soared to fame with his own shows, It's Garry Shandling's Show and the Emmy-winning The Larry Sanders Show. He has also hosted the Grammy and Emmy Awards.

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Jessica Walter

(Best Known for Her Role as ‘Lucille Bluth’ in the TV Series ‘Arrested Development’)

Birthdate: January 31, 1941

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States

Died: 2021

Jessica Walter is best known for her Satellite Award-winning performance as Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development and her Emmy-winning titular role in the series Amy Prentiss. Fans also loved her in the movies Play Misty For Me and Grand Prix. She has also voiced characters in Archer and Dinosaurs.

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Robert Culp

(Known for His Role as 'Kelly Robinson' in TV series 'I Spy')

Birthdate: August 16, 1930

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Oakland, California, United States

Died: 2010

Robert Culp is best remembered as Kelly Robinson from the series I Spy and as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman from Trackdown. Fans also loved him as Bill Maxwell in The Greatest American Hero and as Warren Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond. He had also appeared in films and written scripts.

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Richard Widmark

(Villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death)

Birthdate: December 26, 1914

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Sunrise Township, Minnesota, United States

Died: 2008

Height: 5'10" (178 cm)

Birthdate: November 17, 1887

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Kennington, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1976

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a British Army officer who played important roles in World War I, World War II, and the Irish War of Independence. He commanded the British Eighth Army during the Second World War and also oversaw the operations during the Battle of Normandy. Bernard Montgomery has a couple of statues dedicated to him.

Birthdate: February 27, 1807

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Portland, Maine, United States

Died: 1882

Birthdate: January 21, 1895

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Getaria, Spain

Died: 1972

Remembered as The King of Fashion, Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga had begun sewing at 10, helping his mother earn a living after his father’s death. A visit to Paris at 15 turned his luck around. A closeted gay, Balenciaga later revolutionized fashion with his signature flowy gowns and dresses.

Birthdate: October 1, 1754

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Died: 1801

Paul I ruled as the Russian emperor from 1796 till his assassination in 1801. He was officially the son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, but it is believed he was sired by Catherine’s lover, Sergei Saltykov. Paul established the law of succession to the throne of Russia.

Birthdate: October 31, 1892

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Moscow, Russia

Died: 1946

Alexander Alekhine was a French and Russian chess player renowned for his imaginative and fierce attacking style. He also possessed great positional and endgame skill, which he used effectively to reign as the World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1935 and then from 1937 to 1946. Also a theoretician, Alexander Alekhine innovated several opening variations, including the Alekhine's Defence.

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Neil Aspinall

(British Music Industry Executive Best Known for His Association with the Rock Band 'The Beatles')

Birthdate: October 13, 1941

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Prestatyn, Wales

Died: 2008

Often termed The Fifth Beatle, music executive Neil Aspinall went from being a schoolmate of Paul McCartney and George Harrison to eventually managing The Beatles. He later also headed Apple Corps., a company established by The Beatles. He had also fathered a child with the mother of his friend, musician Pete Best.

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Manu Dibango

(Musician)

Birthdate: December 12, 1933

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Douala, Cameroon

Died: 2020

Birthdate: July 10, 1923

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Schuyler, Virginia, United States

Died: 2016

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Amado V. Hernandez

(Filipino Revolutionary, Labor Leader, and Writer)

Birthdate: September 13, 1903

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Hagonoy

Died: 1970

Amado V. Hernandez was a Filipino labor leader and writer. He is best remembered for his participation in the communist movement, for which he was arrested and imprisoned. Amado V. Hernandez criticized the social injustices in the Philippines through his writings and often included his experiences as a labor leader and as a guerrilla in his socio-political novels.

Birthdate: June 17, 1914

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Tianjin, China

Died: 1993

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Walter Bagehot

(English Journalist, Businessman, and Essayist)

Birthdate: February 3, 1826

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Died: 1877

Born to Stuckey's Bank MD Walter Bagehot was initially part of his father’s shipping and banking business. He later became the editor-in-chief of The Economist and married the publication’s founder James Wilson’s daughter. He penned path-breaking works such as Lombard Street and The English Constitution and co-established National Review.

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Nikolai Berdyaev

(Former philosopher who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person)

Birthdate: March 18, 1874

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine

Died: 1948

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E. H. Shepard

(English Artist and Book Illustrator)

Birthdate: December 10, 1879

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Died: 1976

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Enrique Granados

(Spanish Pianist and Composer Known for His Works: ‘Goyescas’, ‘Spanish Dances’, and ‘María del Carmen’)

Birthdate: July 27, 1867

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Lleida, Spain

Died: 1916

Spanish pianist and composer Enrique Granados gained fame with his nationalistic music. He is remembered for his iconic work Goyescas, which premiered as an opera in New York. Granados lost his life when the ship he was traveling to England in drowned after being torpedoed by a German submarine.

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Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

(Queen Consort of the French (1830 - 1848))

Birthdate: April 26, 1782

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Caserta Palace, Naples, Italy

Died: 1866

The wife of French king Louis Philippe I, Marie-Amélie de Bourbon was the last queen of France. Least interested in politics, she spent most of her life raising her 8 children. She also shunned public life for fear of a new revolution after Louis Philippe became the king following the July Revolution.

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John Millington Synge

(Irish Playwright, Poet and a Key Figure in the Irish Literary Revival)

Birthdate: April 16, 1871

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland

Died: 1909

A major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, John Millington Synge is best remembered for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin due to its satiric depiction of the Irish nature of boasting. His life ended abruptly at 37, due to blood cancer.

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Alice Guy-Blaché

(Film director)

Birthdate: July 1, 1873

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Saint-Mandé, France

Died: 1968

Height: 5'2" (157 cm)

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An Wang

(Co-founder of Wang Laboratories)

Birthdate: February 7, 1920

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Shanghai, China,

Died: 1990

Born in Shanghai, An Wang studied electrical engineering before moving to Harvard to get his PhD. The Wang Laboratories co-founder is remembered for inventing the magnetic core memory, which was the main component of computers till the invention of the microchip. He also developed many word-processing systems.

Birthdate: August 15, 1917

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador

Died: 1980

Óscar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. Disturbed by a growing war between left-wing and right-wing forces, he spoke against social injustice, poverty, assassinations, and torture. He was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980. He is considered an unofficial patron saint of the Americas and El Salvador.

Birthdate: October 8, 1927

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Died: 2002

Cesar Milstein was an Argentine biochemist renowned for his work in antibody research. He is credited with developing the Hybridoma technology, a method to produce identical antibodies in large numbers, for which he was honored with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984. He also received several other awards, including the Copley Medal in 1989.

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George Kell

(Baseball player)

Birthdate: August 23, 1922

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Arkansas, United States

Died: 2009

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

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Richard Halliburton

(Author)

Birthdate: January 9, 1900

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Brownsville, Tennessee, United States

Died: 1939

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Terrance McNally

(Playwright)

Birthdate: November 3, 1938

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Died: 2020

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Sigrid Hjertén

(Swedish Modernist Painter)

Birthdate: October 27, 1885

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Sundsvall, Sweden

Died: 1948

One of the pioneers of expressionism in Sweden, Sigrid Hjertén was the only female member of the artist group De Åtta. Initially a teacher of textile design, she later painted iconic works such as Atelierinteriör. She died of a failed lobotomy procedure to cure her schizophrenia.

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Rim Banna

(Singer)

Birthdate: December 8, 1966

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Nazareth, Israel

Died: 2018

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Maria Radner

(Opera singer)

Birthdate: January 1, 1981

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Düsseldorf, Germany

Died: 2015

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Bertel Thorvaldsen

(Danish Sculptor and Medalist)

Birthdate: November 19, 1770

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

Died: 1844

Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish sculptor and medallist. He was internationally famous and spent most of his life in Italy. He received his training at the Royal Danish Academy of Art and initially worked with his father, a woodcarver. He went on to become a famous sculptor and worked in a heroic neo-classicist style. He received many awards. 

Birthdate: April 3, 1693

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Foulby, England

Died: 1776

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Lys Assia

(Singer)

Birthdate: March 3, 1924

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Rupperswil, Switzerland

Died: 2018

Lys Assia created history by becoming the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Swiss-born singer was initially a dancer but had her first brush with music when she filled in for an absentee singer. She later released hits such as Moulin Rouge and O Mein Papa.

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Lola Beltrán

(Singer)

Birthdate: March 7, 1932

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: El Rosario, Mexico

Died: 1996

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Beatrice of England

(Noblewomen)

Birthdate: June 25, 1242

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Bordeaux, France

Died: 1275

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William Tappan Thompson

(Writer)

Birthdate: August 31, 1812

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Ravenna, Ohio, United States

Died: 1882

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Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire

(Statesman)

Birthdate: July 23, 1833

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: London, England

Died: 1908

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Pieter de Hooch

(Dutch painter)

Birthdate: December 20, 1629

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Died: 1684

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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

(German Chemist Best Known for Inventing the First Lighter)

Birthdate: December 13, 1780

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Hof, Germany

Died: 1849

German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner was born amid poverty but managed to get training as an apothecary. After his university education, he taught at the University of Jena. His discovery of the fact that certain chemical elements were similar later led to the development of the periodic law of chemistry.

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Catherine of Vadstena

(Saint)

Birthdate: 1331 AD

Birthplace: Sweden

Died: 1381

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Kitty McShane

(Actress)

Birthdate: May 19, 1897

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland

Died: 1964

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Mighty Joe Young

(Musician)

Birthdate: September 23, 1927

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Died: 1999

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Lanford Wilson

(Playwright)

Birthdate: April 13, 1937

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Lebanon, Missouri, United States

Died: 2011

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Uriel Jones

(Musician)

Birthdate: June 13, 1934

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Died: 2009

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Eddie Collins

(Baseball Player)

Birthdate: May 2, 1887

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Millerton, New York, United States

Died: 1951

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Hovhannes Shiraz

(Poet)

Birthdate: April 27, 1914

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Alexandropol, Russian Empire

Died: 1984

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Julia Tutwiler

(Advocate)

Birthdate: August 15, 1841

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Havana, Alabama, United States

Died: 1916