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Mar 31 1360

Philippa of Lancaster queen of Portugal (d. 1415)

Mar 31 1425

Bianca Maria Visconti Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)

Mar 31 1499

Pius IV [Gianangelo de Medici] Italian lawyer and Pope (1559-65)

Mar 31 1576

Louise Juliana of Nassau Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)

Mar 31 1621

Andrew Marvell England poet (To His Coy Mistress)

Mar 31 1675

Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini] Italian Pope (1740-58)

Mar 31 1718

Marianne Victoria of Borbn queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)

Mar 31 1730

tienne Bzout French mathematician (d. 1783)

Mar 31 1732

Franz Joseph Haydn prominent composer of the classical period (The CreationDie Schopfung) born in Vienna Austria

Mar 31 1747

Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen)

Mar 31 1777

Charles Cagniard de la Tour French physicist (d. 1859)

Mar 31 1778

Coenraad Jacob Temminck Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)

Mar 31 1794

Thompson McKennan American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)

Mar 31 1809

Edward FitzGerald England writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)

Mar 31 1809

Nikolai Gogol [Nikolay] Ukrainian-born Russian novelist humorist and dramatist (Dead Souls The Inspector-General) born in Sorochintsy Poltava Governorate Russian Empire (d. 1852)

Mar 31 1819

Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfrst Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)

Mar 31 1837

Robert Ross McBurney 1st paid secretary of the YMCA

Mar 31 1837

Stephen Dodson Ramseur Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Mar 31 1839

Nikolay Przhevalsky naturalist explorer of east central Asia (OS)

Mar 31 1840

John Herbert Kelly Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Mar 31 1840

Benjamin Baker English civil engineer who designed the bridge over the Firth of Forth Scotland and the London underground born in Frome England (d. 1907)

Mar 31 1844

Andrew Lang Scottish poet novelist literary critic and anthropologist (Andrew Langs Fairy Books) born in Selkirk Scottish Borders Scotland (d. 1912)

Mar 31 1847

Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev Russian mathematician (d. 1878)

Mar 31 1854

Dugald Clerk inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)

Mar 31 1860

Isidor Traube Hildesheim Hanover German Chemist (founded capillary chemistry research on liquids)

Mar 31 1868

Karl Bonhoeffer German psychiatristneurologist

Mar 31 1871

Arthur Griffith President of Ireland (d. 1922)

Mar 31 1872

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet)

Mar 31 1876

Borisav Bora Stankovi Serbian writer (d. 1927)

Mar 31 1878

Jack Johnson American boxer (1st African-American heavyweight champion [1908-15]) born in Galveston Texas (d. 1946)

Mar 31 1884

Adriaan van Maanen Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)

Mar 31 1885

Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas] BulgarianUS paintercartoonist

Mar 31 1890

William Lawrence Bragg English physicist Nobel laureate (d. 1971)

Mar 31 1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor

Mar 31 1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vzelay urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present and joins the Crusade.

Mar 31 1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Aragon issue the Alhambra Decree which expels Jews from their Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon

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