History Deaths on March 24

César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)

#César_Milstein

Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)

#Jules_Verne

Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)

#Robert_Culp

Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)

#Óscar_Romero

Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)

#Rafael_Azcona

Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)

#Sir_Abraham_Hume,_2nd_Baronet

Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury

#Wulfred

John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)

#John_Harrison

Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)

#Sigrid_Hjertén

Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)

#Louis_Marie_de_La_Révellière-Lépeaux

Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924)

#Lys_Assia

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)

#Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)

#Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield

Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949)

#Garry_Shandling

Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

#Margaret_Lindsay_Huggins

Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)

#Carl_Schuhmann

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)

#Gertrud_Scholtz-Klink

Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)

#Johan_Cruyff

Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)

#Edward_Stafford,_2nd_Earl_of_Wiltshire

Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)

#Catherine_of_Vadstena

Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)

#Nick_Noble_(singer)

Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)

#Gury_Marchuk

Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)

#Édouard_Branly

George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)

#George_Kell

Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)

#Karol_Olszewski

Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)

#Ray_Goulding

Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)

#Achille_Ernest_Oscar_Joseph_Delesse

Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)

#Pope_Nicholas_V

Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)

#Hans_Hermann_Groër

Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile

#Constance_of_Castile,_Duchess_of_Lancaster

John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)

#John_Kerr_(governor-general)

Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)

#Pieter_de_Hooch

James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)

#James_Douglas,_7th_Earl_of_Douglas

Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)

#Inge_Lønning

Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)

#Richard_Widmark

Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)

#Paul_Callaghan

Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver (b. 1910)

#Raoul_Ubac

Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)

#Sam_Jaffe

Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)

#Orde_Wingate

Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b.1949)

#Joseph_Pilato

Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)

#Jim_Marshall_(photographer)

Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)

#Antoine-Henri_Jomini

Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)

#Birdie_Tebbetts

John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)

#John_Millington_Synge

Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)

#Alexander_Alekhine

Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)

#Vsevolod_Garshin

Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)

#Arne_Jacobsen

Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)

#Samuel_Scheidt

Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

#Jean_Goldkette

John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)

#John_Hersey

Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

#Phan_Chu_Trinh

James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)

#James_Rudolph_Garfield

Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)

#Harun_al-Rashid

Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

#Enrique_Granados

Mary of Teck (b. 1867)

#Mary_of_Teck

Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340)

#Walter_Hilton

Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)

#Ivan_Kramskoi

notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash: Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960) Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981)

#Germanwings_Flight_9525

Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)

#Auguste_Piccard

Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928)

David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)

John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)

Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)

Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)

Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974)

Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)

Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)

Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)

Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919)

Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)

Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)

Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)

Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)

Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)

Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)

Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)

Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)

Turhan Feyzio?lu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)

Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)

Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)

Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)

Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband

Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)

Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimy? (b. 1514)

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320)

Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)