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Mar 21 1474

Angela Merici Italian monastery foundersaint

Mar 21 1521

Maurice Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53) (d. 1553)

Mar 21 1527

Hermann Finck German composer born in Pirna (d. 1558)

Mar 21 1642

Georg Schmezer German composer and musician born in Augsburg (d. 1697)

Mar 21 1708

Caspar Ruetz German composer born in Wismar (d. 1755)

Mar 21 1713

Francis Lewis signer (Declaration of Independence)

Mar 21 1763

Jean Paul German romantic writer (Titan) born in Wunsiedel Franconia (d. 1825)

Mar 21 1768

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier mathematicianEgyptologist

Mar 21 1801

Maria Theresa of Tuscany Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)

Mar 21 1806

Benito Pablo Juarez president of Mexico (1858-72) born in Oaxaca Mexico

Mar 21 1811

Nathaniel Woodard English educationalist (d. 1891)

Mar 21 1813

James Jesse Strang King of Mormons on Beaver Is MI (1850-56)

Mar 21 1820

Frank Mori English composer born in London (d. 1873)

Mar 21 1839

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Karevo Russian composer (Boris Gudunov Night on Bald Mt) [NS]

Mar 21 1854

Alick A C Bannerman cricketer (bro of Charles Australia 1878-1893)

Mar 21 1863

Hugo Kaun German composer born in Berlin (d. 1932)

Mar 21 1863

George Owen Squier American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp (d. 1934)

Mar 21 1865

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher English historian and politician born in London United Kingdom (d. 1940)

Mar 21 1866

Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury astronomer

Mar 21 1869

Florenz Ziegfeld producer (Ziegfield Follies)

Mar 21 1880

Hans Hofmann GermanUS painter (Search for the Real)

Mar 21 1880

Broncho Billy Anderson American actor and the 1st cowboy in a movie (The Great Train The Lucky Dog) born in Little Rock Arkansas (d. 1971)

Mar 21 1884

George D Birkhoff American mathematician (Aesthetic measure)

Mar 21 1887

Edwin Scharff German entartet paintersculptor

Mar 21 1889

Otto Forst de Battaglia Austrian diplomat and genealogist born in Vienna (d. 1965)

Mar 21 1891

Jonathan Hale actor (Saints Double Trouble Saint Strikes Back)

Mar 21 1895

Zlatko Balokovi Croatian violinist (d. 1955)

Mar 21 1900

Eugenie Leontovitch Russian actress (Homicidal The Rains of Ranchipur) born in Moscow Russia (d. 1993)

Mar 21 1900

Paul KleckiKletzki Polish violinistcomposerconductor

Mar 21 1901

Carmelita Geraghty American actress (My Best Girl Texas Ranger) born in Rushville Indiana (d. 1966)

Mar 21 1902

Carl Jaffe German actor (1st Man in Space Escapement) born in Hamburg Germany (d. 1974)

Mar 21 1902

Eddie James Son House folk blues musician (Delta Blues)

Mar 21 1904

Forrest Mars Sr. American candymaker (d. 1999)

Mar 21 1188 Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku

Mar 21 1349 Between 100 and 3000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany

Mar 21 1413 Henry of Monmouth Prince of Wales becomes King Henry V of England

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