Birthdays in History on March 19

William Bradford

1589 William Bradford, English separatist, Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized), born in Austerfield, England (d. 1657)

1593 Georges de la Tour, French painter
1601 Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1610 Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
1629 Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
1684 Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1721 Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter
1734 Thomas McKean, US attorney (signed US Declaration of Independence) [or Apr 19]
1739 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
1742 Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1742 Tupac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
1749 Princess Louisa Anne of Wales (d. 1768)

1777 Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat
1778 Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)

David Livingstone

1813 David Livingstone, Scottish explorer (found by Stanley in Africa), born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1873)

1817 Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1819 David Henry Williams, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (d. 1891)
1821 Francis Barretto Spinola, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Old Field, New York (d. 1891)

Richard Francis Burton

1821 Richard Burton, English explorer and translator (Arabian Nights), born in Torquay, Devon (d. 1890)

1821 William Allingham, Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish poet (The Fairies, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1823 Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Surinam (1873-82)
1823 Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria d. 1914
1827 Alexander Shaler, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haddam, Connecticut (d. 1911)
1829 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919)
1844 Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist
1845 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician

Wyatt Earp

1848 Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)

1849 Alfred von Tirpitz, German architect of the Imperial Navy (Tirpitz Plan, Unrestricted U-boat Warfare) and World War I Grand Admiral, born in Küstrin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1930)
1851 Roque Saenz Pena, President of Argentina (1910-14)
1851 William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)

William Jennings Bryan

1860 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois (d. 1925)

1861 Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
1864 Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1865 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1872 Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1882 Gaston Lachaise, American sculptor (Standing Woman), born in Paris, France (d. 1935)
1883 Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
1883 Sir Walter Norman Haworth, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1937) born at Chorley, Lancashire, England (d. 1950)
1888 Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1889 Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)

Earl Warren

1891 Earl Warren, Governor of California and 14th US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-69), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1974)

1892 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1892 James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 Liam O'Flaherty, Irish writer, born in Inishmore, Aran Islands (d. 1984)
1900 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
1901 Jo Mielziner, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman), born in Paris, France
1903 Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1903 Jim Bullock, English colliery manager, unionist and pit reformist, born in Bower's Row, England (d.

John Sirica

1904 John Sirica, American federal judge (Watergate hearings), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1992)

Albert Speer

1905 Albert Speer, German architect and Nazi leader (Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production), born in Mannheim, German Empire (d. 1981)

Adolf Eichmann

1906 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), born in Solingen, German Empire (d. 1962)

1907 Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
1910 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1910 Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
1911 Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman
1912 Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
1914 Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)

Jiang Qing

1914 Jiang Qing [Madame Mao], Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China (d. 1991)

1915 Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
1916 Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18]
1919 Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber (Dutch Liberal Party)
1920 Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1923 Henry Morgentaler, Canadian gynecologist
1925 Brent Scowcroft, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council, born in Ogden, Utah
1928 Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
1933 Philip Roth, American novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint), born in Newark, New Jersey
1937 Egon Krenz, former East German folitician and last communist leader of East Germany (1989), born in Kolberg, Nazi Germany
1941 Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire (Union International)
1942 David Minge, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1943 Mario Molina, Mexican chemist, 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (CFC's effect on the ozone layer), born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 2020)
1943 Mario Monti, Italian politician
1944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
1944 Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1947 John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1954 Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai
1956 Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1956 Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician and economist.
1964 Barbara Lynch, American restaurateur (The Barbara Lynch Gruppo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1968 Mots'eoa Senyane, Lesotho diplomat
1971 Sébastien Godefroid, Belgian sailor (1996 Olympics- Silver), born in Antwerp, Belgium
1975 Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
1980 Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator
1992 Henry & Angus Bernsen, twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
2007 Prince Abdullah bin Ali, Prince of Jordan

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