Famous Birthdays Mar 11 Torquato Tasso, Italian Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia), born in Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1595) Born in 1544 Famous Deaths Mar 22 Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488) Jan 1544 History by Year Apr 1544 Historical Figures Authors Civil Rights Activists Inventors Kings Revolutionaries Scientists