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Mar 30 1326

Ivan II of Russia Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)

Mar 30 1674

Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon) baptised

Mar 30 1719

John Hawkins England wrote 1st history of music

Mar 30 1727

Tommaso MFS Traetta Itals opera composerband leader (Farnace)

Mar 30 1746

Francisco Jose de Goya Fuendetodos Spain painteretcher (Naked Maja)

Mar 30 1790

Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (d. 1877)

Mar 30 1820

Anna Sewell English author (Black Beauty) born in Great Yarmouth Norfolk (d. 1878)

Mar 30 1823

Joseph Farmer Knipe American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Mount Joy Pennsylvania (d. 1901)

Mar 30 1824

Innis Newton Palmer American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Buffalo New York (d. 1900)

Mar 30 1825

Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)

Mar 30 1836

Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg German industrialistpolitician

Mar 30 1842

John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green] US historianphilosopher

Mar 30 1844

Paul M Verlaine French lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)

Mar 30 1857

Leon Charles Thevenin French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)

Mar 30 1858

Siegfried Alkan German composer born in Dillingen Saarland (d. 1941)

Mar 30 1864

Franz Oppenheimer German sociologistpolitician

Mar 30 1876

Clifford Whittingham Beers American mental hygiene pioneer

Mar 30 1879

Coen de Koning Dutch speed skater (World Alllround Speed Skating champion 1905) born in Edam. Netherlands (d. 1954)

Mar 30 1880

Sean OCasey Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) born in Dublin (d. 1964)

Mar 30 1882

Melanie Klein AustrianBritish psycho analysis

Mar 30 1883

Jo Davidson American sculptor (Woodrow Wilson Walt Whitman)

Mar 30 1886

Stanislaw Lesniewski Polish logicianmathematician

Mar 30 1887

Albert P Termote FlemishDutch sculptor (Charles the Great)

Mar 30 1888

Anna Q Nilsson Swedish actress (Shenandoah Uncle Toms Cabin) born in Ystad Skne ln Sweden (d. 1974)

Mar 30 1891

Jan B Cammans Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)

Mar 30 1894

Sergei Ilyushin Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)

Mar 30 1898

Heinz Risse German writer born in Dusseldorf (d. 1989)

Mar 30 1898

Joyce Carey British actress (Brief Encounter The Cedar Tree) born in Kensington London (d. 1993)

Mar 30 1899

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)

Mar 30 1901

Haj Ali Razmara 33rd Prime Minister of Iran (1950-51) born in Tehran Iran (d. 1951)

Mar 30 1902

Brooke Astor American philanthropist (d. 2007)

Mar 30 1902

Ted Heath British musician and band leader (d. 1969)

Mar 30 1903

Sol C Siegel American producer (High Society Gentlemen prefer blondes)

Mar 30 1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers

Mar 30 1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed during armed conflict between Scotland and England

Mar 30 1422 Ketsugan Zen teacher performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple

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