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Famous People Who Died in 1324

Marco Polo (1254-1324)

Jan 8 Venetian explorer (The Travels of Marco Polo), dies at 69

  • Feb 26 Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller, poet and chronicler, dies
  • Mar 3 Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English knight and military leader (won Battle of Boroughbridge), hung, drawn and quartered for treason [1]
  • Jul 16 Emperor Go-Uda, 91st Emperor of Japan (1274-87), dies at 56
  • Nov 3 Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant, first person in Ireland or Great Britain to be burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy, at about 24