Deaths on 24 March
2000s
Dick Carlson
2025
American journalist and diplomat (1941–2025)
Lou Whittaker
2024
American mountaineer (1929–2024)
Gordon Moore
2023
American businessman (1929–2023)
Pradeep Sarkar
2023
Indian film director (1955–2023)
Dagny Carlsson
2022
Swedish blogger and influencer (1912–2022)
Jessica Walter
2021
American actress (1941–2021)
Albert Uderzo
2020
French comic book artist (1927–2020)
Manu Dibango
2020
Cameroonian musician and songwriter (1933–2020)
Joseph Pilato
2019
American actor (1949–2019)
Lys Assia
2018
Swiss singer (1924–2018)
Rim Banna
2018
Palestinian singer (1966–2018)
Johan Cruyff
2016
Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)
Garry Shandling
2016
American comedian (1949–2016)
Yehuda Avner
2015
Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author
Oleg Bryjak
2015
Ukrainian opera singer (1960–2015)
Maria Radner
2015
German opera singer (1981–2015)
Oleksandr Muzychko
2014
Ukrainian activist (1962–2014)
John Rowe Townsend
2014
British children's writer and literary critic
David A. Trampier
2014
American artist (1954–2014)
Barbara Anderson (writer)
2013
New Zealander writer
Inge Lønning
2013
Norwegian theologist and politician
Gury Marchuk
2013
Soviet scientist
Paolo Ponzo
2013
Italian footballer (1972–2013)
Mohamed Yousri Salama
2013
Egyptian politician, writer and activist (1974–2013)
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow
2013
British peer (1912–2013)
Paul Callaghan
2012
New Zealand physicist (1947–2012)
Nick Noble (singer)
2012
American singer (1926–2012)
Robert Culp
2010
American actor (1930–2010)
Jim Marshall (photographer)
2010
American photographer (1936–2010)
George Kell
2009
American baseball player (1922–2009)
Hans Klenk
2009
German racing driver (1919–2009)
Gábor Ocskay
2009
Hungarian ice hockey player (1975–2009)
Chalmers Alford
2008
American guitarist (1955–2008)
Neil Aspinall
2008
British music industry executive (1941–2008)
Rafael Azcona
2008
Spanish screenwriter
Richard Widmark
2008
American actor and producer (1914–2008)
Boris Dvornik
2008
Croatian actor (1939 –2008)
Shripad Narayan Pendse
2007
Marathi-language writer
Rudra Rajasingham
2006
Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat
Hans Hermann Groër
2003
Austrian Catholic prelate (1919–2003)
César Milstein
2002
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
Bob Said
2002
American racing driver (1932–2002)
Muriel Young
2001
English TV announcer, presenter and producer (1923–2001)
1900s
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
1999
German Nazi official (1902–1999)
Birdie Tebbetts
1999
American baseball player, coach, manager (1912–1999)
Joseph Needham
1995
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)
Albert Arlen
1993
Musical artist
John Hersey
1993
American journalist, novelist and academic (1914-1993)
John Kerr (governor-general)
1991
Governor-General of Australia from 1974 to 1977
Ray Goulding
1990
Comedian
Turhan Feyzioğlu
1988
Turkish politician
Sam Jaffe
1984
American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (1891-1984)
Óscar Romero
1980
Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980
Pak Mok-wol
1978
Korean poet and academic (1916–1978)
Bernard Montgomery
1976
British Army officer (1887–1976)
Bertram Stevens (politician)
1973
Australian politician (1889–1973)
Arne Jacobsen
1971
Danish architect (1902–1971)
Arthur Metcalfe (public servant)
1971
Australian public servant
Alice Guy-Blaché
1968
French film director (1873–1968)
Jean Goldkette
1962
French-American jazz pianist and bandleader (1893–1962)
Auguste Piccard
1962
Swiss physicist, inventor, and explorer
E. T. Whittaker
1956
British mathematician and historian of science (1873–1956)
Mary of Teck
1953
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
Lorna Hodgkinson
1951
Australian psychologist and educator (1887–1951)
James Rudolph Garfield
1950
American lawyer and politician (1865–1950)
Sigrid Hjertén
1948
Swedish modernist painter (1885–1948)
Alexander Alekhine
1946
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)
Carl Schuhmann
1946
German athlete (1869–1946)
Orde Wingate
1944
British WWII Army general (1903-1944)
Édouard Branly
1940
French physicist and inventor (1844–1940)
Yondonwangchug
1938
Inner Mongolian noble and politician (1870–1938)
Frantz Reichel
1932
French athlete
Phan Châu Trinh
1926
Vietnamese nationalist and reformer
Enrique Granados
1916
Spanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
Margaret Lindsay Huggins
1915
Irish-English astronomer (1848–1915)
Karol Olszewski
1915
Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist
John Millington Synge
1909
Irish writer and collector of folklore (1871–1909)
Jules Verne
1905
French writer (1828–1905)
1800s
Vsevolod Garshin
1888
Russian author of short stories (1855–1888)
Ivan Kramskoi
1887
Russian painter (1837–1887)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1882
American poet and educator (1807–1882)
Achille Delesse
1881
French geologist and mineralogist
Antoine-Henri Jomini
1869
Swiss general and writer on the art of war (1779–1869)
Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily
1866
Queen of the French from 1830 to 1848
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet
1838
British floriculturist and Tory politician (1749–1838)
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
1824
French politician (1753–1824)
Before 1800
John Harrison
1776
English clockmaker (1693–1776)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
1773
British politician, diplomat and writer
Pieter de Hooch
1684
Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1629)
Elizabeth Ridgeway
1684
English murderer (died 1684)
Samuel Scheidt
1653
German composer and organist (1587–1654)
Elizabeth I
1603
Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
Joseph Karo
1575
Spanish rabbi and author on Jewish law (1488–1575)
Hosokawa Harumoto
1563
Japanese daimyō
Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire
1499
Pope Nicholas V
1455
Head of Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
1443
Scottish nobleman (1371–1443)
Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
1399
English noblewoman (1322–1399)
Walter Hilton
1396
English Augustinian mystic, 1340/1345–1396
Catherine of Vadstena
1381
Swedish noblewoman (c.1332–1381)
Odon de Pins
1296
Hugh III of Cyprus
1284
King of Cyprus (1267–1284) and Jerusalem (1268–1284)
Wulfred
832
Archbishop of Canterbury from 805 to 832
Harun al-Rashid
809
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)