| 33031 | March 24 | Death | 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587) |
| 33032 | March 24 | Death | 1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694) |
| 33033 | March 24 | Death | 1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693) |
| 33034 | March 24 | Death | 1824 – Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753) |
| 33035 | March 24 | Death | 1838 – Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49) |
| 33036 | March 24 | Death | 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779) |
| 33037 | March 24 | Death | 1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817) |
| 33038 | March 24 | Death | 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807) |
| 33039 | March 24 | Death | 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837) |
| 33040 | March 24 | Death | 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) |
| 33041 | March 24 | Death | 1905 – Jules Verne, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1828) |
| 33042 | March 24 | Death | 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871) |
| 33043 | March 24 | Death | 1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Irish-English astronomer (b. 1848) |
| 33044 | March 24 | Death | 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846) |
| 33045 | March 24 | Death | 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867) |
| 33046 | March 24 | Death | 1926 – Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872) |
| 33047 | March 24 | Death | 1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844) |
| 33048 | March 24 | Death | 1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903) |
| 33049 | March 24 | Death | 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892) |
| 33050 | March 24 | Death | 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869) |
| 33051 | March 24 | Death | 1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885) |
| 33052 | March 24 | Death | 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865) |
| 33053 | March 24 | Death | 1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867) |
| 33054 | March 24 | Death | 1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899) |
| 33055 | March 24 | Death | 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884) |
| 33056 | March 24 | Death | 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American actress, director, and producer (b. 1873) |
| 33057 | March 24 | Death | 1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902) |
| 33058 | March 24 | Death | 1971 – Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) |
| 33059 | March 24 | Death | 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887) |
| 33060 | March 24 | Death | 1978 – Doğan Öz, Turkish lawyer (b. 1934) |