Day 2 Day History

Mar 07 1481

Baldassare Peruzzi Italian architect and painter born in Siena Italy (d. 1537)

Mar 07 1543

Johan Casimir German prince (occupied Gent) born in Simmern Germany (d. 1592)

Mar 07 1556

Guillaume du Vair French writer and thinker born in Paris (d. 1621)

Mar 07 1574

John Wilbye English madrigal composer born in Brome Suffolk (d. 1638)

Mar 07 1621

Georg Neumark German composer and poet born in Langensalza (d. 1681)

Mar 07 1663

Tomaso Antonio Vitali Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)

Mar 07 1678

Filippo Juvarra Italian architect born in Messina Italy (d. 1736)

Mar 07 1682

Johan Willem Duke of Ripperda Dutch political adventurer born in Oldehove Groningen Netherlands (d. 1737)

Mar 07 1687

Jean Lebeuf French historian born in Auxerre France (d. 1760)

Mar 07 1693

Clement XIII [Carlo Rezzonico] Pope (1758-69) born in Venice (d. 1769)

Mar 07 1707

Stephen Hopkins American politician who signed the US Declaration of Independence born in Providence Rhode Island (d. 1785)

Mar 07 1715

Ephraim Williams American philanthropist born in Newton Massachusetts (d. 1755)

Mar 07 1715

Ewald Christian von Kleist German poet (d. 1759)

Mar 07 1731

Jean-Louis Laruette French musician and composer of comic opera born in Paris France (d. 1792)

Mar 07 1762

Sebastiaan C Nederburgh director-general (East Indies Company)

Mar 07 1765

Nicphore Nipce French inventor of photography (d. 1833)

Mar 07 1769

Josef Alois Ladurner Austrian composer and priest born in Algund (d. 1851)

Mar 07 1773

Tommaso Marchesi Italian composer born in Lisbon Portugal (d. 1852)

Mar 07 1785

Alessandro Manzoni Italian poetnovelist (Betrothed)

Mar 07 1788

Antoine Csar Becquerel French physicist who pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena born in Chtillon-Coligny France (d. 1878)

Mar 07 1792

John Herschel William Herschels son English astronomer and photographer (invented the blueprint) born in Slough England (d. 1871)

Mar 07 1797

Carl Schwencke Swedish composer born in Hamburg (d. 1870)

Mar 07 1799

Frantisek L. Celakovsky Czech poet (national anthem folk song)

Mar 07 1807

Franz Grave von Pocci German poetcomposer (Der Alchemist)

Mar 07 1811

Christian Heinrich Hohmann German composer born in Niederwerrn (d. 1861)

Mar 07 1813

Judocus Smits Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneerfounder (The Time)

Mar 07 1820

Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman German composer and teacher born in Bnin (d. 1900)

Mar 07 1822

Victor Masse French composer born in Lorient France (d. 1884)

Mar 07 1827

Henry DeLamar Clayton Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1889)

Mar 07 1831

John Bratton [Old Reliable] American physician and Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) born in Winnsboro South Carolina (d. 1898)

Mar 07 1832

Orlando Metcalfe Poe American engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Navarre Ohio (d. 1895)

Mar 07 1837

Henry Draper American astronomer (Moon Orion Nebula) born in Prince Edward County Virginia (d. 1882)

Mar 07 1841

Olegario Victor Andrade Argentine journalist and poet (El nido de condores) born in Rio Grande do Sul Brazil (d. 1882)

Mar 07 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king

Mar 07 1277 Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier Bishop of Paris.

Mar 07 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba North Africa

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