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Birthdays of Personalities on March 17

1473 : James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
1578 : Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1628 : Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1685 : Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1777 : Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1780 : Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
1781 : Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1787 : George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1804 : James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1820 : Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 : Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1826 : Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder)
1828 : Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
1832 : Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 : Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 : Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1846 : Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
1873 : Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
1873 : Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1874 : Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1877 : Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1881 : Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1887 : Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1894 : Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
1901 : Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1906 : Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
1906 : Tamara Geva, dancer
1907 : Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
1909 : Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
1910 : Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1915 : Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1917 : Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist
1918 : Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1922 : Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1923 : Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
1925 : G M Hughes, British zoologist
1925 : Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
1927 : Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
1930 : James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1934 : Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
1936 : Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1937 : Galina Samsova, ballerina
1938 : Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1942 : John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
1942 : Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
1944 : Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1944 : Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 : Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1946 : Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1947 : Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
1948 : Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1948 : William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1951 : Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1954 : Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1954 : Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 : Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1956 : Will Rigby, rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1959 : Terry Hall (Specials, Fun Boy 3)
1962 : Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1964 : Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
1973 : Jerome Woods, safety (KC Chiefs)
1974 : Eric Lane, running back (NY Giants)
1974 : John Hall, kicker (NY Jets)

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