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Mar 19 1434

Ashikaga Yoshikatsu Japanese shogun (d. 1443)

Mar 19 1488

Johannes Magnus last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)

Mar 19 1503

Benedetto Varchi Italian humanisthistorian (Storia Fiorentina)

Mar 19 1601

Alonzo Cano Spanish paintersculptor (Cathedral Granada)

Mar 19 1673

Pedro Vaz Rego Portuguese composer and poet born in Campo Maior Portugal (d. 1736)

Mar 19 1684

Jean Astruc French physician and scholar (d. 1766)

Mar 19 1728

Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter

Mar 19 1734

Thomas McKean US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or Apr 19]

Mar 19 1739

Charles-Franois Lebrun duc de Plaisance Third Consul of France (d. 1824)

Mar 19 1740

Joseph F Weigl GermanAustrian() violin cellist

Mar 19 1777

Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Educationdiplomat

Mar 19 1817

Lewis Henry Little Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)

Mar 19 1819

David Henry Williams American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Allegheny County Pennsylvania (d. 1891)

Mar 19 1821

Francis Barretto Spinola American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Old Field New York (d. 1891)

Mar 19 1821

William Allingham Ballyshannon County Donegal Irish poet (The Fairies Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)

Mar 19 1823

Cornelis A van Sypesteyn Dutch governor of Surinam (1873-82)

Mar 19 1827

Alexander Shaler American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Haddam Connecticut (d. 1911)

Mar 19 1829

Carl Frederik Tietgen Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)

Mar 19 1837

Robert Daniel Johnston Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1919)

Mar 19 1844

Minna Canth Finland playwright (The Pastors Family) and social activist

Mar 19 1845

Willem H de Beaufort Dutch historianpolitician

Mar 19 1849

Alfred von Tirpitz German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)

Mar 19 1851

Roque Saenz Pena President of Argentina (1910-14)

Mar 19 1851

William Henry Stark American business leader (d. 1936)

Mar 19 1864

Charles Marion Russell American artist (d. 1926)

Mar 19 1865

William Morton Wheeler American entomologist myrmecologist pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)

Mar 19 1871

Joseph McGinnity baseball pitcher (NY Giants) born in Rock Island Illinois

Mar 19 1871

Schofield Haigh cricketer (Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11)

Mar 19 1872

Sergei Diaghilev Gruzino Novgorod Russia ballet director

Mar 19 1872

Anna Held Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model) born in Warsaw (d. 1918)

Mar 19 1873

Max Reger German composer pianist and professor (Leipzig Univ) born in Brand Bavarian Empire (d. 1916)

Mar 19 1873

Arthur Hoyt American actor and director (Gold Dust Gertie Goldie Get Along) born in Georgetown Colorado (d. 1953)

Mar 19 1879

Joseph Haas German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)

Mar 19 1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX

Mar 19 1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China

Mar 19 1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V in Rome

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