Here are the famous people who were born in March. Look down the list and see if the person born on the day of the month matches yours if you were born in March.

 

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• (1769) De Witt Clinton
• (1793) Sam Houston  

 

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• (1748) Casimir Pulaski
• (1756) Sir Henry Raeburn 

 

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• (1685) George Berkeley
• (1795) William Lyon Mackenzie  

 

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•  (1733) Joseph Priestley

 

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• (1782) Thomas Hart Benton (senator) 
• (1681) Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• (1790) Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver
• (1801) Kristjan Jaak Peterson, first Estonian poet
• (1804) Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer
• (1807) Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway
• (1813) Joseph Philo Bradley, American jurist
• (1820) Victor Emanuel II, first king of united Italy
• (1822) Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil
• (1823) Théodore de Banville, French writer
• (1833) Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States
• (1835) Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
• (1837) Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian
• (1844) Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, British poet
• (1844) King Umberto I of Italy

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• 1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer 
• 1737 - Amarindra, Queen consort to Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke|King Rama I of Siam 
• 1754 - Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon 
• 1767 - President Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States 
• 1771 - Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina 
• 1779 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|William Lamb, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 
• 1790 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician 
• 1791 - Charles Knight (publisher)|Charles Knight, English publisher 
• 1809 - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian 
• 1809   - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia 
• 1813 - John Snow (physician)|John Snow, English epidemiologist 
• 1818 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general 
• 1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician  
• 1821   - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
• 1821   - William Milligan, Scottish theologian 
• 1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest 
• 1830 - Paul Heyse|Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate 
• 1830   - Élisée Reclus, French geographer 
• 1831 - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary 
• 1835 - John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist 
• 1835   - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer 
• 1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist 

 

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• (1751) President James Madison
• (1787) Georg Simon Ohm  

 

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•  1686 - Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter, engraver, and tapestry designer 
• 1725 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader
• 1747 - Johannes Jährig, German linguist 
• 1777 - Patrick Bronte, Anglo-Irish writer, curate, and father of the Brontë sisters 
• 1777   - Roger B. Taney|Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1780 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist 
• 1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British poet 
• 1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor 
• 1804 - Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer
• 1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet 
• 1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor 

 

 

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• (1782) John C. Calhoun 
• 1685 - Ralph Erskine (preacher)|Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister
• 1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician 
• 1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist 
• 1733 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller 
• 1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist 
• 1798 - Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and political philosopher 
• 1813 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer 
• 1814 - Jacob Bunn, American industrialist and financier 
• 1816 - Antonio Salviati, Italian glass manufacturer 
• 1823 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general 
• 1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 
• 1837 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States 
• 1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic 

 

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• 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist
• 1734 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
• 1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman
• 1742 - Túpac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary 
• 1748 - Elias Hicks, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist 
• 1749 - Princess Louisa of Great Britain 
• 1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general 
• 1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer 
• 1821 - Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author 
• 1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria 
• 1824 - William Allingham, Irish author 
• 1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist

 

 

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• 1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan 
• 1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist 
• 1736 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand 
• 1741 - Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor 
• 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer 
• 1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet 
• 1800 - Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State 
• 1811 - George Caleb Bingham, American artist 
• 1811   - Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome 
• 1821 - Ned Buntline (E.Z.C. Judson), American publisher 
• 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer 
• 1831 - Solomon L. Spink, American politician U.S. Congressman 
• 1834 - Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University 
• 1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician 
• 1836   - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter 
• 1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter 

 

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•  (1685) Johann Sebastian Bach 
• 1672 - Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet and opera librettist
• 1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence 
• 1716 - Josef Seger, Bohemian organist, composer, and educator 
• 1763 - Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), German writer 
• 1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician 
• 1801 - Maria Theresa of Austria (1801–1855)|Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia 
• 1806 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and first indigenous president in the Americas 
• 1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist 
• 1825 - Alexander Mozhayskiy|Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer 
• 1835 - Thomas Hayward (cricketer)|Thomas Hayward, English cricketer 
• 1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer 
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• 1684 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician 
• 1712 - Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore, English writer 
• 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter 
• 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect 
• 1723 - Charles Carroll (barrister)|Charles Carroll, American statesman 
• 1759 - Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway 
• 1797 - William I, German Emperor 
• 1808 - David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician 
• 1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist 
• 1814 - Thomas Crawford (sculptor)|Thomas Crawford, American sculptor 
• 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general 
• 1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer of South Australia 
• 1837 - Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione,  Italian aristocrat and early photography figure 

 

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• 1699 - John Bartram, American botanist 
• 1732 - Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV 
• 1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer 
• 1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian contrabassist and composer 
• 1754 - Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer 
• 1769 - William Smith (geologist)|William Smith, English geologist and cartographer 
•   1769   - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general 
• 1823 - Schuyler Colfax, American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States 
• 1826 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist 
• 1831 - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer 
• 1834 - Julius Reubke, German composer 
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• 1693 - John Harrison, British clockmaker 
• 1725 - Samuel Ashe (North Carolina)|Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina 
• 1725   - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts 
• 1740 - John Antes, American composer 
• 1755 - Rufus King, American politician 
• 1762 - Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer 
• 1775 - Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer, considered one of the musical ''trinity'' of Carnatic music 
• 1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter 
• 1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician 
• 1803 - Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician 
• 1808 - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer 
• 1809 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer 
• 1809   - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician 
• 1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist 
• 1820   - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist 
• 1823 - Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and editor 
• 1826 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette 
• 1828 - Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States 
• 1829 - George Francis Train, American businessman 
• 1829   - Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general 
• 1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet 
• 1834 - William Morris, English writer and designer 
• 1834   - John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist 
• 1835 - Joseph Stefan|Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist 

 

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• 1699 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer
• 1767 - Joachim Murat, King of Naples
• 1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples
• 1800 - Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist
• 1824 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician
• 1840 - Myles Keogh, American soldier of fortune

 

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• 1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist
• 1749 - William Blount, American statesman
• 1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor
• 1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator
• 1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter

 

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•  1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist 
• 1696 - Antoine Court (Huguenot)|Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister 
• 1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer 
• 1709 - William Flackton, English bookseller, publisher, organist, violinist, viola player and composer 
• 1710 - Joseph Abaco, Belgian violoncellist and composer 
• 1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon 
• 1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian 
• 1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar 
• 1746 - Michael Bruce (poet)|Michael Bruce, Scottish poet 
• 1760 - Ishmail Spicer, American composer 
• 1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian 
• 1784 - Alexander Csoma de Korös, Hungarian philologist 
• 1785 - King Louis XVII of France 
• 1796 - Robert James Graves, Irish physician and surgeon 
• 1797 - Alfred de Vigny, French author 
• 1809 - Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian entrepreneur and politician
• 1809  - Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner 
• 1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar 
• 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator 
• 1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist and botanist 
• 1818 - Erminia Frezzolini, Italian operatic soprano 

 

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• (1660) George I of England
• (1749) Marquis de Laplace  
• 1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate 
• 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer 
• 1750 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan nationalist 
• 1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist 
• 1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general 
• 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist 
• 1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian 
• 1806 - Thomas Hare, English political scientist 
• 1811 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint 
• 1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist
• 1818 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician 
• 1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer 
• 1836 - Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer,  founded the Pabst Brewing Company 
• 1840 - Emin Pasha, Egyptian politician 

 

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• 1668 - Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital
• 1713 - John Ponsonby (politician)|John Ponsonby, Irish politician
• 1746 - Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1747 - Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German composer, organist and pianist
• 1751 - Supply Belcher, American composer, singer, and compiler of tune books
• 1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal
• 1790 - John Tyler, American politician, 10th President of the United States
• 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1815 - Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor, writer, and first director of Craiova's National Theater
• 1816 - Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama
• 1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician
• 1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician

 

30

• 1675 - Pope Benedict XIV
• 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
• 1718 - Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain
• 1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark
• 1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician
• 1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
• 1746 - Goya
• 1747 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German musician and composer
• 1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist
• 1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist
• 1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1809 - Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward FitzGerald, English poet
• 1809   - Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer
• 1809   - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian writer
• 1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman
• 1823 - Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author

 

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• 1675 - Pope Benedict XIV
• 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
• 1718 - Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain
• 1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark
• 1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician
• 1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
• 1747 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German musician and composer
• 1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist
• 1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist
• 1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1809 - Edward FitzGerald Edward FitzGerald, English poet.
• 1809   - Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer
• 1809   - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian writer
• 1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman
• 1823 - Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author