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Famous People Who Died in March 1772

  • Mar 2 Robert Joseph Pothier, French lawyer (influential writer on French Law), dies at 73
  • Mar 11 Johann George Reutter, composer, dies at 63
  • Mar 21 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
  • Mar 22 John Canton, English physicist, dies at 53
  • Mar 26 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer and historian, dies at 68
  • Mar 29 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher, mathematician, and mystic (The New Church), dies at 84