Famous Personalities Born In March - 26
Friday, 18 July 2025
1479 Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III was born on this day in history.
1516 Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565) was born on this day in history.
1554 Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) was born on this day in history.
1577 On this day in history birth of elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher was born on this day in history.
1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer was born on March - 26.
1684 Johann Graf, composer was born on this day in history.
1698 Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765) was born on March - 26.
1717 On March - 26 birth of manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1749 On March - 26 birth of william Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA) was born on March - 26.
1758 On March - 26 birth of johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) was born on this day in history.
1783 On this day in history birth of johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1794 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) was born on this day in history.
1806 On March - 26 birth of josef Slavik, composer
1813 On March - 26 birth of thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905 was born on this day in history.
1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer was born on March - 26.
1819 On March - 26 birth of louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 On March - 26 birth of earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 Emanuel Kania, composer was born on this day in history.
1830 On this day in history birth of eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 John Rogers Thomas, composer was born on this day in history.
1833 On March - 26 birth of betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 On this day in history birth of carli Zoeller, composer
1840 On this day in history birth of george Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 On this day in history birth of edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1854 On March - 26 birth of braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1856 On this day in history birth of david Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad) was born on March - 26.
1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer was born on March - 26.
1859 Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919) was born on March - 26.
1862 On March - 26 birth of george William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer