Famous Birthdays
Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)
Mar 9 comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary (influential member of the National Constituent Assembly), born in Le Bignon, France
- Mar 10 Lorenzo Da Ponte [Emanuele Conegliano], Italian-American librettist (Don Giovanni), poet, and libertine priest, born in Ceneda, Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy) (d. 1838)
- Mar 19 Princess Louisa Anne of Wales, born at Leicester House, London (d. 1768)
- Mar 23 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1802)
- Mar 23 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system), born in Beaumount-en-Auge, Normandy, France (d. 1827)
- Mar 24 Bernard Jumentier, French composer, primarily of sacred music, born in Lèves, France (d. 1829)
- Mar 26 William Blount, American statesman and signer of the United States Constitution, born in Windsor, North Carolina (d. 1800)
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