Famous Personalities Born In March - 05
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
1133 On March - 05 birth of king Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 On this day in history birth of david II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71)
1326 Louis I, [the Great], King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82) was born on March - 05.
1512 On March - 05 birth of gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1563 John Coke, English politician (d. 1644) was born on this day in history.
1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule) was born on this day in history.
1585 On March - 05 birth of johan Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
1585 John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656) was born on March - 05.
1637 On this day in history birth of john van der Heyden, Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 On March - 05 birth of antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America
1668 On March - 05 birth of francesco Gasparini, composer
1693 On this day in history birth of johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice)
1703 On March - 05 birth of vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1723 Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) was born on this day in history.
1733 Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer was born on this day in history.
1739 Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819) was born on March - 05.
1746 On March - 05 birth of jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1748 On this day in history birth of william Shield, composer
1748 Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810) was born on this day in history.
1750 Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon) was born on this day in history.
1751 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer was born on March - 05.
1756 Thomas Linley, composer was born on this day in history.
1774 On this day in history birth of christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
1794 On this day in history birth of jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1794 On March - 05 birth of robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1805 Theodore Labarre, composer was born on March - 05.
1814 On March - 05 birth of wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888) was born on March - 05.
1817 On this day in history birth of austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
1824 Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc was born on March - 05.
1824 On March - 05 birth of james Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1825 On March - 05 birth of john Dunovant, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1825 On March - 05 birth of joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype)