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Mar 04 1188

Blanche of Castile wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)

Mar 04 1394

Henry the Navigator Princesponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery

Mar 04 1602

Kan Tany [Kan Morinobu] Japanese painter (palaces portraits) born in Kyto Japan (d. 1674)

Mar 04 1610

William Dobson English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)

Mar 04 1651

John Baron Somers (Whig) William IIIs chief minister (1696-1700)

Mar 04 1665

Philip Christoph von Knigsmarck Swedish soldier (d. 1694)

Mar 04 1702

Jack Sheppard English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)

Mar 04 1706

Lauritz de Thurah Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)

Mar 04 1715

James Waldegrave 2nd Earl Waldegrave British statesman (d. 1763)

Mar 04 1719

George Pigot Baron Pigot British governor of Madras (d. 1777)

Mar 04 1754

Benjamin Waterhouse physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School (smallpox vaccine pioneer) born in Newport Rhode Island (d. 1846)

Mar 04 1765

Charles Dibdin British composer author (Sea Songs) and actor baptized in Hampshire England (d. 1814)

Mar 04 1781

Rebecca Gratz American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)

Mar 04 1782

Johann Rudolf Wyss Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson) born in Bern (d. 1830)

Mar 04 1798

John Joseph Abercrombie American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Baltimore Maryland (d. 1877)

Mar 04 1813

Wijnand Nuijen Dutch romantic and water color painter (Wrecked) born in Den Haag Netherlands (d. 1839)

Mar 04 1817

Edwards Pierrepont American statesman jurist and lawyer 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)

Mar 04 1820

Francesco Bentivegna Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)

Mar 04 1826

Theodore Judah American railroad engineer (d. 1863)

Mar 04 1828

Elisha Franklin Bull Paxton Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Mar 04 1835

John Hughlings Jackson English neurologist (d. 1911)

Mar 04 1838

Paul Lacme French composer born in Le Houga Gascony (d. 1920)

Mar 04 1841

Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)

Mar 04 1854

Sir Napier Shaw British meteorologist (d. 1945)

Mar 04 1856

Toru Dutt English and French poet and author (d. 1877)

Mar 04 1856

Alfred William Rich English painter (d. 1921)

Mar 04 1862

Robert Emden Swiss geoastro physics (Emden-polytroop)

Mar 04 1863

Reginald Innes Pocock British zoologist (d. 1947)

Mar 04 1863

John Henry Wigmore American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)

Mar 04 1864

David W. Taylor U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)

Mar 04 1822

Jules Antoine Lissajous French mathematician (d. 1880)

Mar 04 1826

John Buford American Major General (Union Army) born in Woodford County Kentucky (d. 1863)

Mar 04 1871

Boris Galerkin Russian mathematician (d. 1945)

Mar 04 1215 King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.

Mar 04 1238 Battle of the Sit River Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia ending Russian resistance

Mar 04 1386 Wadysaw II Jagieo (Jogaila) crowned King of Poland

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