Historical Events Mar 20 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms Famous Birthdays Mar 4 Kanō Tan'yū [Kanō Morinobu], Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), born in Kyōto, Japan (d. 1674) Mar 18 Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) Mar 29 John Lightfoot, English theologist and scholar (Horae Hebraicae), born in Stoke-on-Trent, England (d. 1675) Born in 1602 Famous Deaths Mar 11 Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer Mar 22 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (Communion of St. Jerome), dies at 44 Feb 1602 History by Year Apr 1602 Historical Figures Authors Civil Rights Activists Inventors Kings Revolutionaries Scientists