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Mar 20 1502

Pierino Belli Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)

Mar 20 1634

Balthasar Bekker Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)

Mar 20 1644

Ivan Mazepa Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)

Mar 20 1680

Baron Emanuele d Astorga Italian composer (Stabat mater)

Mar 20 1728

Franciscus L Kersteman Dutch lawyerastrologist

Mar 20 1737

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke King of Thailand (d. 1809)

Mar 20 1741

Jean Antoine Houdon French sculptor (d. 1828)

Mar 20 1750

Martinus van Marum Dutch chemistphysicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)

Mar 20 1770

Friedrich Hlderlin German writer (d. 1843)

Mar 20 1774

John Braham English tenor singer and composer born in London (d. 1856)

Mar 20 1804

Neal Dow American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Portland Maine (d. 1897)

Mar 20 1811

George Caleb Bingham American politicianpainter (Country Election)

Mar 20 1811

Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II Napoleons sonKing of Rome

Mar 20 1812

George Bibb Crittenden Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1880)

Mar 20 1813

Matthias Keller German hymm writer (O Farther un High) born in Ulm Wrttemberg (d. 1875)

Mar 20 1820

Alexander J Cuza monarch of MoldaviaWallachiaRomania

Mar 20 1823

John Echols Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1896)

Mar 20 1825

William Nelson Rector Beall Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Mar 20 1826

Carel Vosmaer Dutch art historianpoeteditor

Mar 20 1828

Henrik Ibsen Norwegian playwright (Peer Gynt Hedda Gabler) born in Skien Norway (d. 1906)

Mar 20 1830

Eugene Asa Carr American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Hamburg New York (d. 1910)

Mar 20 1834

Charles William Elliot President of Harvard (1869-1909) born in Boston Massachusetts

Mar 20 1836

Ferris Jacobs Jr. American politician (d. 1886)

Mar 20 1840

Illarion Pryanishnikov Russian painter (d. 1894)

Mar 20 1853

George Godfrey heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate) born in Chelsea Massachusetts

Mar 20 1868

Obe Postma Frisian poetgeographyhistorian (Frisian Clay Farm)

Mar 20 1870

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian general and politician (East Africa)

Mar 20 1873

Sergei V Rachmaninov RussianUS pianistcomposer (Aleko) [NSApr 1]

Mar 20 1874

Brries von Mnchhausen German poet (d. 1945)

Mar 20 1881

Eugne Schueller French chemist founder of LOral born in Paris France (d. 1957)

Mar 20 1882

Ren Coty Le Harve France president of France (1953-58)

Mar 20 1883

Colin Campbell Scottish actor (High Bright Sun Leather Boys) born in Falkirk Scotland (d. )

Mar 20 1883

Karl Hasse German composer born in Dohna (d. 1960)

Mar 20 1345 Saturn Jupiter and Mars-conjunction thought cause of plague epidemic

Mar 20 1525 Paris parliament begins pursuit of Protestants

Mar 20 1569 Duke of Alva leads tenth penning in Les Ponts de C

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