What Happened in March 1758

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 9 Franz Joseph Gall, German-French physician (phrenology), born in Tiefenbronn, Germany (d. 1828)
  • Mar 12 Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general and politician who was part of the 1812 Triumvirate in the Netherlands, born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands (d. 1840)

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 2 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
  • Mar 6 Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Mar 22 American Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), dies at 54

  • Mar 22 Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer, dies at 87