Famous Birthdays Mar 6 Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779) Mar 21 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer Famous Deaths Mar 8 Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69 Mar 10 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, Austrian composer, dies at 48 Mar 13 Georg Gabriel Schutz, German composer, dies at 46 1715 History by Year 1717 What Happened in 1716 Battle of Petrovaradin August 5, 1716