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Mar 16 1338

Thomas de Beauchamp 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)

Mar 16 1445

Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)

Mar 16 1581

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)

Mar 16 1585

Gerbrant A Bredero Holland poetplaywright (Klucht van de Koe)

Mar 16 1609

Michael Franck German composer and baker born in Schleusingen (d. 1667)

Mar 16 1651

Zaccaria Tevo Italian composer born in Piove di Sacco

Mar 16 1654

Andreas Acoluthus German orientalist (d. 1704)

Mar 16 1663

Nicolas Siret French baroque composer and organist born in Troyes (d. 1754)

Mar 16 1687

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)

Mar 16 1729

Georg W Franz Panzer German vicarlibrarian (Annales typographic)

Mar 16 1739

George Clymer US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence Constitution)

Mar 16 1745

Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer

Mar 16 1750

Caroline Herschel German astronomer (comet 35PHerschel-Rigollet) born in Hanover Germany (d. 1848)

Mar 16 1757

Bengt Lidner Swedish poet (Medea Yttersa Domen)

Mar 16 1773

Juan Ramn Balcarce Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)

Mar 16 1774

Matthew Flinders English navigatorcartographer (coast Australia)

Mar 16 1776

Johan G Verstolk van Soelen Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs

Mar 16 1789

Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician (Ohms law) born in Erlangen Bavaria (d. 1854)

Mar 16 1802

George Archibald McCall American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1868)

Mar 16 1805

Peter Ernst von Lasaulx German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)

Mar 16 1812

Henry Dwight Terry American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Hartford Connecticut (d. 1869)

Mar 16 1821

Ernest Feydeau French author (Georges Feydeau)

Mar 16 1822

John Pope American Major General (Union Army) born in Louisville Kentucky (d. 1892)

Mar 16 1822

Rosa Bonheur French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)

Mar 16 1823

William Henry Monk English composer and organist (Eventide) born in London England (d. 1889)

Mar 16 1832

Charles Camp Doolittle Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)

Mar 16 1836

Andrew Smith Hallidie American inventor of the cable car born in London (d. 1900)

Mar 16 1839

Ren F Armand Sully-Prudhomme French poet 1st Nobel winner (1901)

Mar 16 1840

Shibusawa Eiichi Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)

Mar 16 1846

Gsta Mittag-Leffler Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)

Mar 16 1849

James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger

Mar 16 1851

Martinus Beijerinck Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)

Mar 16 1856

Napolon IV Prince Imperial Head of the House of Bonaparte (1873-79) born in Paris French Empire (d. 1879)

Mar 16 1190 York Progrom Jews living in York England besieged in Cliffords Tower and massacred or commit sucide rather than submit to baptism

Mar 16 1249 The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci papal legate in Tuscany

Mar 16 1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence

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