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Mar 23 1599

Thomas Selle German baroque composer born in Zrbig (d. 1663)

Mar 23 1699

John Bartram naturalist and explorer father of American botany born near Darby Pennsylvania (d. 1777)

Mar 23 1723

Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar King of Iran (d. 1771)

Mar 23 1732

Marie Adlade of France daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)

Mar 23 1736

Iman Willem Falck Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83) born in Colombo Sri Lanka (d. 1785)

Mar 23 1737

Arthur St. Clair American soldier and politician (President of the Continental Congress 1787) born in Thurso Scotland (d. 1818)

Mar 23 1749

Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer

Mar 23 1749

Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace French mathematician astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system) born in Beaumount-en-Auge Normandy France (d. 1827)

Mar 23 1754

Baron Jurij Vega Slovenian mathematician physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)

Mar 23 1761

John W de Winter Dutch vice-admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)

Mar 23 1769

William Smith British geologist who is credited with creating the first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) born in Churchill Oxfordshire (d. 1839)

Mar 23 1769

Augustin Daniel Belliard French general (d. 1832)

Mar 23 1801

Peterus D Regout Dutch industrialist (Sphinx Maastricht)

Mar 23 1808

Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper sociologisthistorian (Statistic yearbook)

Mar 23 1818

Don Carlos Buell American Major General (Union Army) born in Lowell Ohio (d. 1898)

Mar 23 1821

Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper)

Mar 23 1825

Edward Lloyd Thomas Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1898)

Mar 23 1826

Ludwig Minkus Austrian ballet composer born in Vienna (d. 1917)

Mar 23 1854

Alfred Milner Giessen Germany British governor (Cape colony)

Mar 23 1857

Fannie Farmer American culinary pioneer who revolutionised modern cooking through the introduction of precise measurements (Boston Cooking-School Cook Book) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1915)

Mar 23 1858

Ludwig Quidde German historianpolitician (Nobel prize 1927)

Mar 23 1862

Nathaniel Reed American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)

Mar 23 1863

Godfried CE van Daalen Dutch generalgovernor of Atjeh

Mar 23 1864

Louis Glass Danish composer born in Copenhagen (d. 1936)

Mar 23 1868

Dietrich Eckart early supporter of Adolf Hitlers Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)

Mar 23 1876

Muirhead Bone etcherengraver of architecture born in Glasgow Scotland

Mar 23 1878

Franz Schrecker Austrian composer (Der ferne Klang Der Schatzgrber)

Mar 23 1880

Heikki Ritavuori Finnish politician (d. 1922)

Mar 23 1881

Hermann Staudinger German chemistplastics researcher (Nobel 53)

Mar 23 1881

Roger Martin du Guard French novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)

Mar 23 1883

Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali 1st king of IraqSyria

Mar 23 1887

Anthony van Hoboken Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)

Mar 23 1887

Felix Yussupov Russian aristocrat best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin born in Moika Palace Saint Petersburg Russian Empire (d. 1967)

Mar 23 1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet

Mar 23 1174 Jocelin abbot of Melrose is elected bishop of Glasgow

Mar 23 1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides Mishneh Torah a code of Jewish religious law is published

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