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Mar 17 1578

Francesco Albana Italian painter (Marys Ascension)

Mar 17 1628

Daniel van Papenbroeck [Papebrochius] Flemish historian

Mar 17 1637

Toyotomi Hideyoshi Japanese daimy & warrior (Japans second great unifier) born in Nakamura-ku Japan (d. 1598)

Mar 17 1676

Thomas Boston Scottish church leader (d. 1732)

Mar 17 1695

Antoine Court French minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France born in Villeneuve-de-Berg France (d. 1760)

Mar 17 1725

Lachlan McIntosh Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)

Mar 17 1754

Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon] French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction) born in Paris France (d. 1793)

Mar 17 1777

Roger Brooke Taney Calvert Md 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)

Mar 17 1780

Thomas Chalmers Scottish minister and 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47) born in Anstruther Scotland (d. 1847)

Mar 17 1781

Dominique J de Eerens governor-general of Neth Indies

Mar 17 1781

Ebenezer Elliott British Poet. Know as the Corn Law Rhymer (d. 1849)

Mar 17 1789

Edmund Kean British Shakespearean tragic actor (Shylock) born in London England (d. 1833)

Mar 17 1804

James Bridger scoutfur tradermountain man par excellance

Mar 17 1820

Patrick Edward Connor Irish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in County Kerry Republic of Ireland (d. 1891)

Mar 17 1825

Rodolphe Bresdin French cartoonistlithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)

Mar 17 1826

Oskar Peschel German journalistgeography (Volkerkunder)

Mar 17 1828

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne Major General (Confederate Army)

Mar 17 1832

Moncure Daniel Conway US abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)

Mar 17 1832

Walter Quintin Gresham American statesman jurist and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Lanesville Indiana (d. 1895)

Mar 17 1834

Gottlieb Daimler German engineerinventordesigned 1st motorcycle

Mar 17 1839

Josef Rheinberger Vaduz Liechtenstein opera composer (Munich Conser)

Mar 17 1846

Kate Greenaway England artistbook illustrator (Under the Window)

Mar 17 1866

Pierce Butler Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)

Mar 17 1870

Horace Donisthorpe British entomologist (d. 1951)

Mar 17 1872

Billy Quaife cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)

Mar 17 1873

Chard Somerset 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)

Mar 17 1873

Margaret Bondfield British politician and 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour) born in Chard (d. 1953)

Mar 17 1874

Stephen Samuel Wise American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America born in Budapest Hungary (d. 1949)

Mar 17 1877

Albert P Hahn Dutch political cartoonist (PeopleNutcracker)

Mar 17 1880

Sir Patrick Hastings British barrister (d. 1952)

Mar 17 1880

Lawrence Oates English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)

Mar 17 1881

Kristian Elster Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)

Mar 17 1881

Walter Rudolf Hess Swiss physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

Mar 17 1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England

Mar 17 1337 Edward the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall the first Duchy made in England

Mar 17 1755 Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for 50000 from a Cherokee chief

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