Famous birthdays for this day ..
1320 - Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)
1605 - Orazio Benevoli, composer
1660 - Sebastian Duron, composer
1700 - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer
1715 - James Nares, composer
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer (Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1721 - Thomas McKean, attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19]
1728 - Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright
1737 - Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist
1768 - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist
1771 - Giuseppe Cartufo, composer
1772 - David Ricardo, economist
1785 - Alexandre Pierre Franois Boely, composer
1795 - Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist
1798 - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
1798 - Heinrich Maria von Hess, historical painter
1801 - Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist
1805 - Charles Edmond-Hnri de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian
1817 - John Philip, painter
1821 - Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 - Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit
1832 - Jos Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904)
1832 - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1st lady (1881)
1838 - August[us] Alleb, Dutch painter/lithographer
1840 - Andrea Bezzola, writer
1850 - Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver
1850 - Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
1857 - Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher
1858 - May Robson, [Mary J Robison], Melbourne Aust, actress (Apple Annie)
1858 - Siegfried Ochs, composer
1861 - Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1866 - Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1868 - Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1873 - Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
1874 - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
1876 - Hendrik W A E, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
1877 - Ole Evinrude, inventor (outboard marine engine)
1879 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
1883 - Get£lio Vargas, president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
1888 - William L Axt, composer
1890 - Lou Bandy, [Lodewijk F Dieben], revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
1891 - Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband)
1891 - Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer
1897 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor
1897 - Vivienne Segal, Phila, Broadway actress (Pal Joey)
1898 - Constance Talmadge, Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance)
1898 - Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter