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Mar 05 1658

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac french colonial governor of America

Mar 05 1693

Johann Jakob Wettstein Swiss theologian (d. 1754)

Mar 05 1696

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Venetian Rococo painter (Isaacs Sacrifice)

Mar 05 1703

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky Russian poet (d. 1768)

Mar 05 1733

Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli] Italian dancerchoreographer

Mar 05 1739

Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge doctor Massachusetts militia officer member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819)

Mar 05 1746

Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writernaval chaplain

Mar 05 1750

Jean B G dAnsse de Villoison French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)

Mar 05 1756

Thomas Linley the younger English composer and musician English Mozart (d. 1778)

Mar 05 1133

King Henry II of England (1154-89) born in Le Mans (d. 1189)

Mar 05 1326

Louis I [the Great] King of Hungary (1342-82) Poland (1370-82)

Mar 05 1512

Gerardus Mercator Rupelmonde (Belgium) geographermapmaker

Mar 05 1574

William Oughtred England mathematicianinventor (slide rule)

Mar 05 1585

Johann Georg I elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)

Mar 05 1637

John van der Heyden Dutch painterinventor (fire extinguisher)

Mar 05 1794

Jacques Babinet French physicistmathematicianastronomer

Mar 05 1794

Robert Cooper Grier Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)

Mar 05 1814

Wilhelm von Giesebrecht German historian (d. 1889)

Mar 05 1817

Austen H Layard British archaeologistdiplomat

Mar 05 1824

Elisha Harris American physicianfound American Public Health Assoc

Mar 05 1824

James Merritt Ives American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives) born in NYC New York (d. 1895)

Mar 05 1825

John Dunovant Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Mar 05 1825

Joseph Albert German photographer (albertotype)

Mar 05 1836

Charles Goodnight American cattle rancher (d. 1929)

Mar 05 1840

Constance Fenimore Woolson NH writer (Jupiter Lights)

Mar 05 1850

Daniel Brink Towner American hymn composer (d. 1919)

Mar 05 1852

Isabella Gregory Irish writerplaywright (Golden Apple)

Mar 05 1853

Arthur Foote American classical composer and a member of the Boston Six (Suite for Strings in E) born in Salem Massachusetts (d. 1937)

Mar 05 1853

Howard Pyle illustratorpainterauthor (King Stork)

Mar 05 1862

Siegbert Tarrasch German chess player (d. 1934)

Mar 05 1867

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)

Mar 05 1868

Prosper Poullet Belgian viscountjuristminister

Mar 05 1869

Michael von Faulhaber cardinalarchbishop of Munich

Mar 05 1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama

Mar 05 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

Mar 05 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague

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