- Change theme
Search by Keyword
Search by Date
This Day On History
| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of March 1401 | EVENT | Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. |
| 24th of March 1603 | EVENT | James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England. |
| 24th of March 1603 | EVENT | Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. |
| 24th of March 1707 | EVENT | The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 24th of March 1731 | EVENT | Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
| 24th of March 1765 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. |
| 24th of March 1832 | EVENT | In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. |
| 24th of March 1837 | EVENT | Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote. |
| 24th of March 1860 | EVENT | Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairo) Ii Naosuke |
| 24th of March 1869 | EVENT | The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. |
| 24th of March 1878 | EVENT | The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. |
| 24th of March 1882 | EVENT | Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. |
| 24th of March 1896 | EVENT | A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history. |
| 24th of March 1900 | EVENT | Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
| 24th of March 1907 | EVENT | The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
| 24th of March 1923 | EVENT | Greece becomes a republic. |
| 24th of March 1927 | EVENT | Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. |
| 24th of March 1933 | EVENT | The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power. |
| 24th of March 1934 | EVENT | U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. |
| 24th of March 1944 | EVENT | Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome. |
| 24th of March 1944 | EVENT | World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III. |
| 24th of March 1946 | EVENT | The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. |
| 24th of March 1958 | EVENT | Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. |
| 24th of March 1959 | EVENT | The Party of the African Federation is launched by Leopold Sedar Senghor and Modibo Keita. |
| 24th of March 1965 | EVENT | NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. |
| 24th of March 1972 | EVENT | The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland. |
| 24th of March 1973 | EVENT | Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California. |
| 24th of March 1976 | EVENT | In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Peron and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day. |
| 24th of March 1980 | EVENT | Archbishop Oscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. |
| 24th of March 1986 | EVENT | The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. |
| 24th of March 1989 | EVENT | Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m?) of petroleum after running aground. |
| 24th of March 1993 | EVENT | Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. |
| 24th of March 1998 | EVENT | A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. |
| 24th of March 1998 | EVENT | Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. |
| 24th of March 1999 | EVENT | Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. |
| 24th of March 2000 | EVENT | S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years. |
| 24th of March 2003 | EVENT | The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. |
| 24th of March 2008 | EVENT | Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
| 24th of March 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555) |
| 24th of March 1607 | BIRTHDAY | Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667) |
| 24th of March 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Luneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) |
| 24th of March 1657 | BIRTHDAY | Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) |
| 24th of March 1693 | BIRTHDAY | John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) |
| 24th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) |
| 24th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788) |
| 24th of March 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827) |
| 24th of March 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836) |
| 24th of March 1796 | BIRTHDAY | John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878) |
| 24th of March 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882) |
| 24th of March 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836) |
| 24th of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Jose de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837) |
| 24th of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882) |
| 24th of March 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915) |
| 24th of March 1820 | BIRTHDAY | A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891) |
| 24th of March 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902) |
| 24th of March 1829 | BIRTHDAY | George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904) |
| 24th of March 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862) |
| 24th of March 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889) |
| 24th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896) |
| 24th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902) |
| 24th of March 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893) |
| 24th of March 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Honore Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906) |
| 24th of March 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935) |
| 24th of March 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937) |
| 24th of March 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920) |
| 24th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926) |
| 24th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961) |
| 24th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966) |
| 24th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972) |
| 24th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Athenagoras I, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972) |
| 24th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958) |
| 24th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933) |
| 24th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922) |
| 24th of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969) |
| 24th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Macphail, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 1954) |
| 24th of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951) |
| 24th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960) |
| 24th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973) |
| 24th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957) |
| 24th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971) |
| 24th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (d. 1971) |
| 24th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990) |
| 24th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995) |
| 24th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007) |
| 24th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984) |
| 24th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sauve, Quebec politician (d. 1960) |
| 24th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934) |
| 24th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975) |
| 24th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006) |
| 24th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963) |
| 24th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006) |
| 24th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 24th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007) |
| 24th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher |
| 24th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005) |
| 24th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 24th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010) |
| 24th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987) |
| 24th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005) |
| 24th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 24th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 24th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994) |
| 24th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate |
| 24th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin |
| 24th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Walser, German author |
| 24th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Janis, American pianist |
| 24th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | David Dacko, 1st and 3rd President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003) |
| 24th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 24th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Agustin Gonzalez, Spanish actor (d. 2005) |
| 24th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003) |
| 24th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | William Smith, American actor |
| 24th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Kaye. American musician & member of L.A. session group The Wrecking Crew |
| 24th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer |
| 24th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist |
| 24th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970) |
| 24th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Czukay, German musician (Can) |
| 24th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Irving, British historian |
| 24th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Mackie, American fashion designer |
| 24th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006) |
| 24th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Vojislav Kostunica, Serbian Prime Minister |
| 24th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | R. Lee Ermey, American actor |
| 24th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Hanson, American film director |
| 24th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist |
| 24th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Dinger, German musician (d. 2008) |
| 24th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Gregoire, American politician, 22nd Governor of Washington |
| 24th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress |
| 24th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Sugar, English businessman |
| 24th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer, second person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (d. 1989) |
| 24th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Lowe, British musician |
| 24th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tabitha Spruce, American writer, poet and activist |
| 24th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer |
| 24th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Bradley, American golfer |
| 24th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dougie Thomson, British bassist |
| 24th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer |
| 24th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Anita L. Allen, American law professor |
| 24th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Anderson, American comedian |
| 24th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Carradine, American actor |
| 24th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Pescow, American actress |
| 24th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Ballmer, American businessman |
| 24th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier |
| 24th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach |
| 24th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Statham, English footballer |
| 24th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly LeBrock, American actress |
| 24th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nena, German pop singer |
| 24th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Pruett, American race car driver |
| 24th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Jones, Australian cricketer |
| 24th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Star Jones, American television personality |
| 24th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Angele Dubeau, Canadian violinist |
| 24th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer goalkeeper |
| 24th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Jacobson, American actor |
| 24th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Scales, British-German electric bass guitar player |
| 24th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | The Undertaker, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor |
| 24th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Houston, American pornographic actress |
| 24th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress |
| 24th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs) |
| 24th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer |
| 24th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player |
| 24th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Megyn Price, American actress |
| 24th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Karsay, American baseball player |
| 24th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jacek Bak, Polish footballer |
| 24th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Parsons, American Film And Television Actor |
| 24th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Corica, Australian footballer |
| 24th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer |
| 24th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alyson Hannigan, American actress |
| 24th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot) |
| 24th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player |
| 24th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva |
| 24th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Brooks, American football player |
| 24th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aliou Cisse, Senegalese footballer |
| 24th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer |
| 24th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Peyton Manning, American football player |
| 24th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Corneille, Rwandan/Canadian singer |
| 24th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Burnette, American actress |
| 24th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Angellica Bell, English TV presenter |
| 24th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 24th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer |
| 24th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kaori Mochida, Japanese singer (Every Little Thing) |
| 24th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lake Bell, American actress |
| 24th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Norris Hopper, American baseball player |
| 24th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor |
| 24th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete |
| 24th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Swann, English cricketer |
| 24th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer |
| 24th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Adams, American football player |
| 24th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player |
| 24th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player |
| 24th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Looms, Dutch footballer |
| 24th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Paffett, British racing driver |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Hart, American baseball player |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin McGowan, American baseball player |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Hug, German rugby player |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nivea, American singer |
| 24th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Swagger, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer |
| 24th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Ford, American basketball player |
| 24th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer |
| 24th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer |
| 24th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Bosh, American basketball player |
| 24th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player |
| 24th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Assou-Ekotto, French footballer |
| 24th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Park Bom, South Korean singer (2NE1) |
| 24th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Lameche, Swedish singer |
| 24th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model |
| 24th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver |
| 24th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tony McMahon, English footballer |
| 24th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 24th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian/New Zealand actress |
| 24th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor |
| 24th of March 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Suckling, British Choirgirl |
| 24th of March 0809 | DEATH | Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (Born 763) |
| 24th of March 1284 | DEATH | King Hugh III of Cyprus (Born 1235) |
| 24th of March 1381 | DEATH | Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (Born 1332) |
| 24th of March 1396 | DEATH | Walter Hilton, English mystic (Born 1340) |
| 24th of March 1455 | DEATH | Pope Nicholas V (Born 1397) |
| 24th of March 1558 | DEATH | Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (Born 1533) |
| 24th of March 1563 | DEATH | Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (Born 1514) |
| 24th of March 1575 | DEATH | Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (Born 1488) |
| 24th of March 1603 | DEATH | Queen Elizabeth I of England (Born 1533) |
| 24th of March 1653 | DEATH | Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Born 1587) |
| 24th of March 1773 | DEATH | Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (Born 1694) |
| 24th of March 1776 | DEATH | John Harrison, English clockmaker (Born 1693) |
| 24th of March 1869 | DEATH | Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (Born 1779) |
| 24th of March 1881 | DEATH | Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (Born 1817) |
| 24th of March 1882 | DEATH | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (Born 1807) |
| 24th of March 1887 | DEATH | Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (Born 1837) |
| 24th of March 1888 | DEATH | Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (Born 1855) |
| 24th of March 1905 | DEATH | Jules Verne, French author (Born 1828) |
| 24th of March 1909 | DEATH | John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (Born 1871) |
| 24th of March 1915 | DEATH | Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (Born 1846) |
| 24th of March 1916 | DEATH | Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (Born 1867) |
| 24th of March 1921 | DEATH | Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (Born 1881) |
| 24th of March 1944 | DEATH | Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (Born 1903) |
| 24th of March 1946 | DEATH | Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (Born 1892) |
| 24th of March 1948 | DEATH | Sigrid Hjerten, Swedish modernist painter (Born 1885) |
| 24th of March 1950 | DEATH | James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (Born 1865) |
| 24th of March 1953 | DEATH | Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V of the United Kingdom (Born 1867) |
| 24th of March 1962 | DEATH | Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (Born 1884) |
| 24th of March 1962 | DEATH | Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (Born 1899) |
| 24th of March 1968 | DEATH | Alice Guy-Blache, American film director (Born 1873) |
| 24th of March 1976 | DEATH | Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (Born 1887) |
| 24th of March 1980 | DEATH | Oscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (Born 1917) |
| 24th of March 1984 | DEATH | Sam Jaffe, American actor (Born 1891) |
| 24th of March 1990 | DEATH | Ray Goulding, American comedian (Born 1922) |
| 24th of March 1991 | DEATH | Sir John Kerr, Australian Governor-General (Born 1914) |
| 24th of March 1993 | DEATH | Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (Born 1905) |
| 24th of March 1993 | DEATH | John Hersey, American author (Born 1914) |
| 24th of March 1995 | DEATH | Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (Born 1900) |
| 24th of March 1997 | DEATH | Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (Born 1939) |
| 24th of March 1997 | DEATH | Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (Born 1927) |
| 24th of March 1999 | DEATH | Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (Born 1912) |
| 24th of March 1999 | DEATH | Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (Born 1902) |
| 24th of March 2001 | DEATH | Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (Born 1928) |
| 24th of March 2002 | DEATH | Cesar Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1927) |
| 24th of March 2003 | DEATH | Hans Hermann Groer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (Born 1919) |
| 24th of March 2006 | DEATH | Lynne Perrie, English actress (Born 1931) |
| 24th of March 2008 | DEATH | Chalmers "Spanky" Alford?, American guitarist (Born 1955) |
| 24th of March 2008 | DEATH | Neil Aspinall, British record producer (Born 1941) |
| 24th of March 2008 | DEATH | Richard Widmark, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 24th of March 2008 | DEATH | Hal Riney, American advertising executive (Born 1932) |
| 24th of March 2009 | DEATH | George Kell, American baseball player (Born 1922) |
| 24th of March 2010 | DEATH | Jim Marshall, American photographer (Born 1936) |
| 24th of March 2010 | DEATH | Robert Culp, American actor (Born 1930) |
| 24th of March 2010 | DEATH | Johnny Maestro, American singer (Born 1939) |