March 18 Birthday’s

• 1075 Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari, Muslim scholar of Persian origin, born in Zamakhshar, Khwarezmia (d. 1144)
• 1380 Lidwina, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride) and saint, born in Schiedam, Netherlands (d. 1433)
• 1395 John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
• 1496 Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
• 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
• 1556 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant
• 1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
• 1590 Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
• 1602 Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
• 1603 Simon Bradstreet, Massachusetts Bay colonist (d. 1693)
• 1609 Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), born in Haderslev, Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1640 Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1644 Gottfried Wegner, composer
• 1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
• 1679 Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
• 1685 Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
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• 1690 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
• 1701 Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
• 1734 Joseph Schmitt, composer
• 1756 Johann Christoph Vogel, German composer, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1788)
• 1765 David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
• 1780 Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
• 1781 Gustave Vogt, French composer, born in Strasbourg (d. 1870)
• 1813 Friedrich Hebbel, writer
• 1828 William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
• 1829 William R Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1911)
• 1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist

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• 1838 Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
• 1838 Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
• 1839 Francis Fessenden, American lawyer, politician, and Major General (Union Army), born in Portland, Maine (d. 1906)
• 1840 William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
• 1842 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
• 1843 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
• 1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade), born in Tikhvin (d. 1908) (OS 6 Mar)

• 1848 Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
• 1848 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)

• 1864 Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
• 1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
• 1866 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
• 1867 Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)

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• 1872 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
• 1874 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
• 1874 Jimmy 'Nixey' Callahan, American baseball pitcher, outfielder and manager (Chicago WS; first AL no-hitter 1902), born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (d. 1934)
• 1877 Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
• 1877 Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
• 1881 Oliver Seibert, Canadian hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963), born in Berlin, Ontario (d. 1944)

• 1881 Paul Le Flem, French composer and music critic, born in Radon, France (d. 1984)
• 1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
• 1884 Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
• 1886 Edward Everett Horton, American actor and narrator (Bulwinkle Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1970)
• 1886 Kurt Koffka, German Gestalt psychologist
• 1886 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
• 1887 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
• 1888 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor
• 1889 F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
• 1890 Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education

• 1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WWII)
• 1893 Wilfred Owen, English soldier and anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility), born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England (d. 1918)
• 1893 Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
• 1893 Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
• 1898 Otto Jochum, German composer, born in Babenhausen (d. 1969)
• 1898 Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
• 1901 William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
• 1904 Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
• 1905 John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (Concord Sonata), born in NYC, New York
• 1905 Mollie Parnis, American fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection), born in NYC, New York

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