Friday, 3rd April 2026 in Lisbon

On this day, 260 notable people were born on 3rd April — spanning from 1016 to 1999. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

03/04/1999

Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

Chanel Harris-Tavita is a rugby league footballer from New Zealand who plays as a five-eighth or halfback for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League (NRL). He has played for the Māori All Stars and Samoa at representative level.

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03/04/1998

Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer

Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson is an American model, actress, and singer. The second child and daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe, Jackson signed a deal with Republic Records in 2020. Her debut album, Wilted, was released that year.

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03/04/1997

Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer

Gabriel Fernando de Jesus is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Arsenal and the Brazil national team.

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Zhao Xintong, Chinese snooker player

Zhao Xintong is a Chinese professional snooker player and the 2025 world champion, the sport's first world champion from Asia and the first player to win a ranking event while competing as an amateur. He also won his first Triple Crown title at the 2021 UK Championship and followed that with victory at the 2022 German Masters.

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03/04/1996

Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player

Mayo Hibi is a Japanese former professional tennis player.

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03/04/1994

Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player

Kodi Nikorima is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL) and as a hooker for New Zealand.

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Dylann Roof, American mass murderer

Dylann Storm Roof is an American mass murderer, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting. During a Bible study on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Roof murdered nine people and injured a tenth, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in Shelby, North Carolina. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war. Roof's actions in Charleston have been widely described as domestic terrorism.

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03/04/1993

Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer

Moussa Konaté is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Senegal national team.

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03/04/1992

Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer

Simone Benedetti is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Serie D club Derthona.

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Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer

Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova is a Russian competitive swimmer. She is the Russian record holder in the 200 metre individual medley, 50 metre breaststroke, 100 metre breaststroke, and 200 metre breaststroke. After making her Olympic debut in 2008, she went on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke in 2012, and silver medals in the 100 metre and 200 metre breaststroke in 2016. She is a six-time World Champion, winning the 50 metre breaststroke in 2009 and 2013, the 100 metre breaststroke in 2015, and the 200 metre breaststroke in 2013, 2017, and 2019. In 2019, she became the first woman to win the 200 metre breaststroke at a FINA World Aquatics Championships three times. She is a former world record holder in the long course 50 metre breaststroke. She has won 109 medals, including 48 gold medals, at Swimming World Cups.

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03/04/1991

Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer

Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and author. As an actress, she has appeared in a variety of films, including Lemonade Mouth (2011), Jem and the Holograms (2015), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and XOXO (2016). She also had recurring roles in the TV series Wizards of Waverly Place (2010) and The Fosters (2014) and lead roles in CSI: Cyber (2015–2016) and Five Points (2018–2019).

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03/04/1990

Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer

Karim Adil Ansarifard is an Iranian former professional footballer who played as a forward. His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Ali Daei and he has been named Daei's "successor".

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Madison Brengle, American tennis player

Madison Brengle is an American professional tennis player. Her biggest success came in early 2015 when she reached her first WTA Tour final in January, followed by a fourth round major event appearance at the Australian Open. In May of that year, she reached her career-high singles ranking of No. 35.

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Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer

Sotiris Ninis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a right winger. Ninis was formerly a member of the Greece national team.

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Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer

Natasha Negovanlis is a Canadian actress, writer, producer, and singer. She achieved international recognition for portraying Carmilla Karnstein in the YouTube web series Carmilla (2014–2016) and in the 2017 feature film based on the series.

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03/04/1989

Romain Alessandrini, French footballer

Romain Alessandrini is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer

Israel ‘Isileli Folau is a professional rugby union player, a former Australian rules football and former professional rugby league footballer. He plays as a fullback for Japan Rugby League One club Urayasu D-Rocks. Born in Australia, he played rugby league for Australia, and rugby union for Australia and Tonga after qualifying on ancestry grounds.

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Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player

Joel Romelo is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm in the NRL. He primarily played at hooker but could fill in at five-eighth and halfback. Romelo is of Indigenous Australian and Italian descent.

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Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer

Narangoda Liyanaarachchige Thisara Chirantha Perera, popularly known as Thisara Perera, is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer who played all formats for the national team. He also captained the team in limited-overs formats. Domestically he plays for Sri Lanka Army Sports Club in the Premier Trophy and Premier Limited-Overs Tournament, and the Jaffna Stallions in the Lanka Premier League. Perera has played franchise T20 cricket all around the world for numerous leagues. Primarily a bowling all-rounder, he is an aggressive left-handed batsman who can hit big sixes in death overs and is a useful right-arm medium-fast bowler.

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03/04/1988

Kam Chancellor, American football player

Kameron Darnel Chancellor, nicknamed "Bam Bam Kam", is an American former professional football safety who spent his entire nine-year career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies prior to being selected by the Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL draft. A four-time Pro Bowler, he was one of the key members of their Legion of Boom secondary. He also helped lead the Seahawks to victory in Super Bowl XLVIII. Chancellor retired following complications from a neck injury he suffered in 2017.

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Brandon Graham, American football player

Brandon Lee Graham is an American professional football defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning first-team All-American honors in 2009. Graham was selected by the Eagles in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft with the 13th overall selection and the first from the Big Ten Conference.

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Peter Hartley, English footballer

Peter William Hartley is an English professional football manager and former player who is currently the assistant coach of Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters.

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Tim Krul, Dutch footballer

Timothy Michael Krul is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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03/04/1987

Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer

Rachel Leah Bloom is an American actress, comedian, singer, writer, and producer. She is best known for co-creating and starring as Rebecca Bunch in The CW musical comedy-drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019). The role has won her numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Jay Bruce, American baseball player

Jay Allen Bruce is an American former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. The Reds drafted Bruce in the first round with the 12th overall pick of the 2005 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2008. He was named an All-Star three times and won two Silver Slugger Awards.

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Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player

Yileen "Buddy" Gordon is an Australian rugby league footballer who played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NSW Cup. Gordon formerly played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Penrith Panthers. He was sacked by the West Tigers in February, 2014 for breach of contract. He played in the Centres and has previously played in the back-row or at centre.

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Jason Kipnis, American baseball player

Jason Michael Kipnis is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs. He attended Glenbrook North High School in the suburbs of Chicago where he earned three letters playing baseball for the Glenbrook North Spartans. He attended the University of Kentucky, but transferred to Arizona State University after two years. In college, Kipnis was an All-American and the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Year for the Sun Devils.

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Martyn Rooney, English sprinter

Martyn Joseph Rooney is an English sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He reached the 400 m final at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 4 × 400 metres relay. A mainstay on the anchor leg of the Great Britain and England 4 × 400 metre relay teams, at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he won a silver medal with the Great Britain relay team, and bronze in the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.

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Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Julie Sokolow is an American film director, musician, and writer. Her body of work includes documentary films, personal essays, and musical compositions. She directed the films Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story (2019), Woman on Fire (2016), Aspie Seeks Love (2015), and the Healthy Artists series (2012-4). She first came to public attention with her music album Something About Violins (2006).

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Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer

Yuval Spungin is an Israeli footballer who plays for Hapoel Kfar Shalem. He has played for the Israel national under-17 football team, the Israel national under-18 football team, the Israel national under-19 football team, the Israel national under-21 football team, and the Israel national football team. He won a gold medal with Team Israel in the 2005 Maccabiah Games. He has also played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, AC Omonia, RAEC Mons, Ironi Kiryat Shmona, F.C. Ashdod, and Hapoel Marmorek.

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03/04/1986

Amanda Bynes, American actress

Amanda Laura Bynes is an American former actress. Known for playing comedic roles, Bynes began her career as a child actress and received recognition for her roles on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series' All That (1996–2000), and The Amanda Show (1999–2002), for which she won several Kids' Choice Awards for both.

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Stephanie Cox, American soccer player

Stephanie Renee Cox is an American soccer coach and former professional player who played as a defender. She is currently the head coach of the Puget Sound Loggers women's soccer team.

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Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist

Annalisa Cucinotta is an Italian former professional road and track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer

Sergio Sánchez Ortega is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as either a right-back or a central defender.

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03/04/1985

Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver

Jari-Matti Johannes Latvala is a Finnish rally driver who has competed in the World Rally Championship (WRC). His co-driver for most of his career was Miikka Anttila, who co-drove for Latvala between the 2003 Rallye Deutschland and 2019 Rally Catalunya. He is well known for his aggressive driving style, which earns him many plaudits, and comparisons to the late Colin McRae. With 18 event victories in the WRC, he is one of the most successful drivers to not have won a championship. Latvala is also the driver with the most World Rally starts in the sport which he achieved in 2019, 17 years after his debut.

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Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer

Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in London, she later attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of the ITV talent show The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This", peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks and broke a world record by reaching 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.

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03/04/1984

Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer

Jonathan Blondel is a Belgian former footballer who last played as a midfielder.

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Maxi López, Argentinian footballer

Maximiliano Gastón López is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He holds both an Argentine and an Italian passport. He is known as El Rubio, and La Gallina de Oro.

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03/04/1983

Ben Foster, English footballer

Ben Anthony Foster is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player

Stephen Weiss is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who most recently played for the Detroit Red Wings, as well as the Florida Panthers, who drafted him fourth overall in the 2001 NHL entry draft. Weiss held the Panthers franchise records for games played and led the franchise in assists when he retired.

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03/04/1982

Jared Allen, American football player

Jared Scot Allen is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. A five-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro selection, he recorded 136 career sacks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2025.

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Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer

Iain Stuart Fyfe is a retired Australian A-League professional footballer.

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Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress

Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" Smulders is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Robin Scherbatsky in the CBS series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero franchise, starting with the film The Avengers (2012), through the television miniseries Secret Invasion (2023).

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03/04/1981

Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player

Aaron Bertram is a trumpet player for third wave ska band Suburban Legends, and member of the children's music group Kids Imagine Nation. In the past he has taught music and movement to preschool students in Orange County, CA. His music program was called Little Rockstars. He launched an online Streaming Service for Children's Entertainment and Arts Education called KINTV in March of 2020, where he currently performs and teaches music.

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DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player

DeShawn Stevenson is an American former professional basketball player. Stevenson played for six teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) during a 13-year career. He originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from high school and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA draft. He was a member of the Dallas Mavericks team that won an NBA championship in 2011. In 2017, Stevenson joined Power, one of the eight BIG3 basketball league teams.

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03/04/1980

Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer

Andrei Nikolayevich Lodis is a Belarusian former professional football player.

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Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist

Megan Rohrer is an American activist for homeless and LGBTQ+ rights and former Lutheran bishop. Rohrer is the first openly transgender minister ordained in the Lutheran tradition and a successful author and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2012 for "Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect." As an historian, Rohrer has written the book San Francisco's Transgender District. Following their reception as a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in 2010, they served the church as bishop of its Sierra Pacific Synod from 2021 until June 2022.

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03/04/1979

Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach

Simon Black is a former Australian rules football player and current assistant coach, who played his whole career with the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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03/04/1978

Matthew Goode, English actor

Matthew William Goode is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's television film Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films, such as Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He earned praise for his performances as Charles Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of the novel Brideshead Revisited and as Ozymandias in the superhero film Watchmen (2009). He then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and the Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him nominations for Best Actor at both the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and the AACTA Awards.

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Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player

Thomas Mario Haas is a German former professional tennis player. He competed on the ATP Tour from 1996 to 2017, and was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in May 2002. Haas won 15 career titles in singles, including a Masters title at the 2001 Stuttgart Masters, and a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He reached the semifinals of the Australian Open three times, and in Wimbledon once. He reached the quarterfinal stage at each of the majors.

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John Smit, South African rugby player

John William Smit, OIS, is a South African former professional rugby union player and former chief executive officer of the Sharks. He was the 50th captain of the Springbok rugby union team and led the team to win the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He played most of his senior career as a hooker, but also won 13 caps as a prop, where he had also played for South Africa's under-21 team. He retired from international rugby following the 2011 Rugby World Cup as the most-capped South African player ever, with 111 appearances.

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03/04/1976

Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player

Nicolas Jean-Christophe Escudé is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional in 1995. He won four singles titles and two doubles titles during his career.

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03/04/1975

Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player

Shawn William Bates is an American former professional ice hockey center. He played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders.

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Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player

Michael Olowokandi is a Nigerian former professional basketball player. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, and raised in London, he played collegiately for the Pacific Tigers in Stockton, California. Nicknamed "the Kandi Man," Olowokandi was selected as the first overall pick of the 1998 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers. He played professionally until 2007, when he was forced to retire due to severe hernia and knee injuries.

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Aries Spears, American comedian and actor

Nairobi Aries Spears is an American stand-up comedian, impressionist, and actor from New Jersey. Spears was a regular on Fox's sketch comedy series Mad TV (1997–2005), appearing in 198 episodes, making him the second longest-serving cast member on the show behind Michael McDonald. In 2011, he released a special called Aries Spears: Hollywood, Look I'm Smiling. and in 2018 and 2020, he co-hosted the AVN Awards.

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Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player

Yoshinobu Takahashi is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager. He spent his entire playing career with the Yomiuri Giants and served as the team's manager for three seasons. He graduated from Keio University.

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Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player

Koji Uehara is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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03/04/1974

Marcus Brown, American basketball player

Marcus Brown is an American former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall, he played as a shooting guard. A three time All-EuroLeague selection, Brown has been mentioned as being one of the top U.S. players ever to play abroad. Brown ended his career as a player-coach with Žalgiris Kaunas in 2011. Brown was the EuroLeague's career scoring leader since the year 2000, when he ended his career in October 2011. As far as United States players only are concerned, Brown remains one of league's higher scoring players in the competition since the year 2000, when the league's current organizer took over the competition.

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Lee Williams, Welsh model and actor

Lee Williams is a British screen actor and former model.

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03/04/1973

Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer

Nilesh Moreshwar Kulkarni is a former Indian cricketer. He is a slow left-arm bowler and left-handed lower order batsman who stood large at 6 ft 4 inches (193 cm).

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Adam Scott, American actor

Adam Paul Scott is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Ben Wyatt in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2010–2015), for which he was twice nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as Mark Scout in the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance, for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards – two for acting and two for producing – and two Golden Globe Awards.

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03/04/1972

Jennie Garth, American actress and director

Jennifer Eve Garth is an American actress. She is known for starring as Kelly Taylor throughout the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise and Val Tyler on the sitcom What I Like About You (2002–06). In 2012, she starred in her own reality show, Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country on CMT. Her memoir titled Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde was published by New American Library on April 1, 2014.

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Catherine McCormack, English actress

Catherine Jane McCormack is an English actress. Her film appearances include Braveheart (1995), The Land Girls (1998), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Spy Game (2001), and 28 Weeks Later (2007). Her theatre work includes National Theatre productions of All My Sons (2000) and Honour (2003).

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Sandrine Testud, French tennis player

Sandrine Testud is a former professional tennis player from France.

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03/04/1971

Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer and manager

Vitālijs Astafjevs is a Latvian professional football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is an assistant manager of Cypriot club Aris Limassol having previously held the role for the Latvia national team.

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Emmanuel Collard, French race car driver

Emmanuel Collard is a French professional racing driver. He is a former member of the Porsche Junioren factory team, but also drives for other marques.

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Picabo Street, American skier

Picabo Street is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals. Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins. Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.

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03/04/1969

Rodney Hampton, American football player

Rodney Craig Hampton is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs and was selected by the Giants in the first round of the 1990 NFL draft. He was a starting running back for the 1990 New York Giants who finished the year at 13–3 during the regular season while winning Super Bowl XXV on January 27, 1991.

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Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach

Peter Matera is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is regarded as one of the greatest West Australians and indigenous players being a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and Indigenous Team of the Century as well as being 5 time All-Australian and 2 time premiership player.

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Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his break-out role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He gained international attention for his starring role in the crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010). He has since had roles in films such as The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Lost River (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Darkest Hour (2017) and Ready Player One (2018).

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Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer

Lance Timothy Evers, known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he works as a producer. Storm is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he held a combined 14 total championships.

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03/04/1968

Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

Sebastian Philip Bierk, known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian singer who achieved mainstream success as the frontman of the hard rock band Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. He has acted on Broadway and has made appearances in film and television such as Trailer Park Boys, The Masked Singer and Gilmore Girls. He continues his music career as a solo artist and since 2026, as the lead singer of Twisted Sister.

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Charlotte Coleman, English actress (died 2001)

Charlotte Ninon Coleman was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990). For the former, she was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and, for the latter, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. Her childhood roles included Sue in Worzel Gummidge (1979–1981) and the character Marmalade Atkins (1981–1984).

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Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer

Jamie Christopher Hewlett is a British comic book artist and illustrator. He is the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl with Alan Martin, and the virtual band Gorillaz alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

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Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player

Tomoaki Kanemoto is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and manager. In his career as a player he spent 11 years with the Hiroshima Carp before moving to the Hanshin Tigers in 2003, where he spent another 10 years. He holds the world record for consecutive games played without missing an inning and consecutive innings.

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03/04/1967

Cat Cora, American chef and author

Catherine Ann Cora is an American professional chef, television personality, business person, and cookbook author. She is best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on Iron Chef America and as co-host of Around the World in 80 Plates.

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Pervis Ellison, American basketball player

Pervis Ellison is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Nicknamed "Never Nervous Pervis" for his clutch play with the University of Louisville, after leading Louisville to a national championship, Ellison was the first overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft. His professional career was largely hindered by injuries, though he won the NBA Most Improved Player Award in 1992.

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Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player

Brent Lindsay Gilchrist is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1988-2003. In his career, Gilchrist played 792 games, totaling 135 goals and 305 points. He appeared in 10 post-seasons in his NHL career, playing 90 games and totaling 17 goals, 14 assists and 31 points. He was a member of the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in 1998.

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Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter

Cristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora.

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Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster

Mark Stephen Skaife OAM is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the V8 Supercar Championship Series, including its predecessor, the Australian Touring Car Championship, as well as a six-time Bathurst 1000 winner. On 29 October 2008, he announced his retirement from full-time touring car racing. Since retiring from driving, Skaife has worked as a commentator and presenter for the series for both the Seven Network and Fox Sports Australia.

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03/04/1966

John de Vries, Australian race car driver

John David de Vries is a former driver in the Indy Racing League and Australian Formula Holden. He raced in the 2002 IRL season, where he began the season with Brayton Racing. De Vries competed in the first three races, and arrived but withdrew from the Nazareth Speedway race. He attempted to qualify for the 2002 Indianapolis 500, but was not among the 33 drivers who made the field. He returned after the Indianapolis 500 to compete in the Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and logged his best career IRL finish, an eleventh place, in what would be his final IRL race. Previously, de Vries had spent four years in Formula Holden and the Australian Formula Ford Championship.

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03/04/1965

Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (died 2000)

Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani-English singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. Regarded as the "Queen of South Asian Pop,” she is considered one of the most influential musical figures in Pakistan history who completely overturned the music industry in the late 70s and 80s,and is the subcontinent's first ever pop star. Starting in the 1980s, as part of the duo Nazia and Zoheb, she and her brother Zoheb Hassan, have sold over 65 million records worldwide.

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03/04/1964

Marco Ballotta, Italian footballer and manager

Marco Ballotta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Nigel Farage, English politician

Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician who has been Leader of Reform UK since 2024, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton since 2024. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.

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Claire Perry, English banker and politician

Claire Louise O'Neill is a British businesswoman and former politician who previously served as Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth from 2017 to 2019 and as managing director for climate and energy at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development from 2020 to 2021. Since 2022 she has been one of its directors and jointly chairs its Global Imperatives Advisory Board.

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Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist and manager

Bjarne Lykkegård Riis, nicknamed The Eagle from Herning, is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer and cycling team manager. He won the 1996 Tour de France and later admitted to having doped throughout the most successful period of his career.

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Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach

Richard Andrew Robinson OBE is an English rugby union coach and retired player. He was the director of rugby at Bristol until November 2016. He is the former head coach of Scotland and England. From September 2019 to December 2022, he was the head coach of the Romanian national team.

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Jay Weatherill, Australian politician, 45th Premier of South Australia

Jay Wilson Weatherill is an Australian diplomat and former politician who was the 45th premier of South Australia, serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of the South Australian Labor Party from the 2002 election to 17 December 2018, when he retired from politics. He currently serves as the High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom.

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03/04/1963

Les Davidson, Australian rugby league player

Les Davidson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and represented at both the State and national levels. His position of choice on the field was second-row or prop.

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Ricky Nixon, Australian footballer and manager

Ricky Lee Nixon is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL and a former sports agent. At the height of his career, he was one of the most high-profile sports agents in Australia, and a powerful figure in the AFL.

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Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993)

Christopher Michael Oliva was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the heavy metal band Savatage. During his lifetime, he released seven studio albums and one EP with the band.

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03/04/1962

Dave Miley, American baseball player and manager

David Allen Miley is an American former baseball player and manager.

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Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael James Ness is an American musician who is the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, which was formed in 1978. He has also released two solo albums, Cheating at Solitaire and Under the Influences.

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Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician

Jaya Prada Nahata is a politician and an Indian actress, known for her works in Telugu cinema and Hindi cinema as well as in Tamil films in late '70s, '80s and early '90s and '20s. Jayaprada is the recipient of three Filmfare Awards South and has starred in many Telugu and Hindi films along with several Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi films. She left the film industry at the peak of her career, as she joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1994 and entered politics. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2014.

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03/04/1961

Tim Crews, American baseball player (died 1993)

Stanley Timothy Crews was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1987 to 1992. Crews was part of the Dodgers team that won the 1988 World Series. At the end of the 1992 season, he became a free agent and signed with the Cleveland Indians on January 22, 1993.

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Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

Edward Regan Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Black artists in the entertainment industry, and one of the greatest comedians of all time. He had his breakthrough as a stand-up comic before gaining stardom for his film roles; He has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and an Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023, and the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2026.

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03/04/1960

Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer, best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Dutch heavy metal band Bodine as Iron Anthony, before joining Vengeance in 1984. After eight years he left the band, wanting to go into a more progressive direction, and released two years later an unsuccessful solo album entitled Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy under the nickname Anthony.

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03/04/1959

David Hyde Pierce, American actor and activist

David Hyde Pierce is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, he received four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as well as two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Pierce has also received five Golden Globe Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the role. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Lt. Frank Cioffi in the Broadway musical Curtains (2007).

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03/04/1958

Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host

Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama. He has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and eight Actor Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and Tony Award.

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Adam Gussow, American scholar, musician, and memoirist

Adam Gussow is an American blues harmonica player and author, best known as a member of Satan and Adam.

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Francesca Woodman, American photographer (died 1981)

Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white pictures featuring either herself or female models.

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03/04/1956

Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician

Kalle Kulbok is an Estonian politician.

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Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer

Boris Miljković is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, creative director in advertising and writer.

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Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor

Luis Miguel Luchino Dominguín Bosé, known professionally as Miguel Bosé, is a Spanish and Italian pop singer and actor.

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Ray Combs, American game show host (died 1996)

Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host of the game show Family Feud in its second run and first revival. The show aired on CBS from 1988 to 1993 and was in syndication from 1988 to 1994. From 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another game show, Family Challenge.

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03/04/1954

Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer

Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa is an Italian/British composer.

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K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician

K. Krishnasamy is an Indian physician, social worker and politician who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He founded the Puthiya Tamilagam party in 1999 and was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Ottapidaram constituency in 1996 election and as Puthiya Tamilagam candidate in 2011 Alliance with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.

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03/04/1953

Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator

Sandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author, and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated over eighty-five books for children and seven general audience books, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and seven music albums. She has also designed calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys for various companies.

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Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna (died 2022)

Wakanohana Kanji was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ōwani, Aomori. He was the sport's 56th yokozuna. He was popular with sumo fans and was well-known for his rivalry with Kitanoumi. After retirement, he became the head coach of Magaki stable. Due to poor health, he left the Japan Sumo Association in December 2013. He died of lung cancer in July 2022 at the age of 69.

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James Smith, American boxer

James "Bonecrusher" Smith is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1999 and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1986 to 1987.

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03/04/1952

Mike Moore, American lawyer and politician

Michael Cameron Moore is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Attorney General of Mississippi from 1988 to 2004.

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03/04/1951

Brendan Barber, English trade union leader

Brendan Paul Barber, Baron Barber of Ainsdale, is a British trade union official and life peer. He served as chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Council until 2020. He is a former general secretary of the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress (TUC); a post he held from June 2003 until his retirement at the end of 2012. He was appointed Acas Chair in 2014, replacing Ed Sweeney, who had been in the post since 2007. He also serves on the board of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London (2013–), the board of Britain Stronger in Europe, the Council of City University, London and the board of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

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Annette Dolphin, British academician and educator

Annette Catherine Dolphin was a British scientist who was professor of pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London (UCL).

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Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Mitch Woods is an American modern day boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz pianist and singer. Since the early 1980s he has been touring and recording with his band, the Rocket 88s. Woods calls his music, "rock-a-boogie," and with his backing band has retrospectively provided a 1940s and 1950s jump blues style.

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03/04/1950

Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist

Deshamanya Indrajit Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan economist. He served as the 14th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

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03/04/1949

Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (died 1992)

Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional football player who was a defensive end of the National Football League (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.

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A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic

Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.

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Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Richard Thompson is an English songwriter, musician, singer and record producer.

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03/04/1948

Arlette Cousture, Canadian author and screenwriter

Arlette Cousture, is a Canadian writer. She writes historical fiction, often depicting the lives of women in Quebec. Many of her novels have become best-sellers in the French language.

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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO

Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a Dutch retired politician, jurist and diplomat who served as the eleventh secretary general of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), which he led from March 1997 to October 2001, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2002 until December 2003 under Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

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Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer

Hans-Georg "Katsche" Schwarzenbeck is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in the Bundesliga from 1966 to 1981, appearing in 416 matches for Bayern Munich. He won six German league championships, three German Cups, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and three consecutive European Cups.

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico

Carlos Salinas de Gortari is a Mexican economist and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. He is considered the frontman of Mexican neoliberalism, responsible for formulating, promoting, signing and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he worked in the Secretariat of Programming and Budget, eventually becoming Secretary. He secured the party's nomination for the 1988 general election and was elected amid widespread accusations of electoral fraud.

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03/04/1947

Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (died 2013)

Anders Erik Birger Eliasson was a Swedish composer.

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03/04/1946

Nicholas Jones, English actor

Nicholas Jones is an English actor who has appeared on stage and in film and television.

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Dee Murray, English bass player (died 1992)

David Murray Oates, known as Dee Murray, was an English bass guitarist. He was best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John as a member of the Elton John Band.

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Marisa Paredes, Spanish film actress (died 2024)

María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, known professionally as Marisa Paredes, was a Spanish actress with a 60-year long career. She acted in more than 75 films, 80 tv shows, and 15 plays.

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Hanna Suchocka, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland

Hanna Stanisława Suchocka is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 8 July 1992 to 26 October 1993 during the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland and was the 14th woman to be appointed and serve as prime minister in the world.

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03/04/1945

Doon Arbus, American author and journalist

Doon Arbus is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel is The Caretaker. Her play, Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival.

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Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)

Bernard Marcel Parent was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs between 1965 and 1979, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Philadelphia Blazers during the 1972–73 season. Parent is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.

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Catherine Spaak, French actress (died 2022)

Catherine Spaak was a French-Italian actress, singer, model, and media personality. A member of the Spaak family, she was known as an iconic "It girl" in Italy during the 1960s, becoming a star of commedia all'italiana films, before later becoming prominent as a talk show host and media personality.

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03/04/1944

Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic

Peter Malcolm Colman is the head of the structural biology division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.

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Tony Orlando, American singer

Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, known professionally as Tony Orlando, is an American pop and rock singer, songwriter, and music executive whose career spans nearly seven decades. He is best known for his work as part of Tony Orlando and Dawn.

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03/04/1943

Mario Lavista, Mexican composer (died 2021)

Mario Lavista was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual.

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Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter

Jonathan Adam Lynn is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He directed the comedy films Clue, Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Whole Nine Yards. He also co-created and co-wrote the political-satirical television series Yes Minister.

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Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1986)

Richard George Manuel was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces

Hikaru Saeki is the first female admiral of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the first female in the entire Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) to achieve star rank. Originally an obstetrician-gynecologist with the degree of M.D., Saeki joined the JMSDF in 1989. After her service in several military hospitals and medical rooms aboard naval vessels, she became the first woman to head a JSDF hospital in 1997, promoted to rear admiral in 2001, and retired in 2003.

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03/04/1942

Marsha Mason, American actress

Marsha Mason is an American actress and theatre director. She has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), and Only When I Laugh (1981). The first two also won her Golden Globe Awards. She was married for 10 years (1973–1983) to the playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, who wrote all but the first film cited above, in addition to several others in which she starred.

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Wayne Newton, American singer

Carson Wayne Newton, also known as Mr. Las Vegas, is an American singer and actor. One of the most popular singers in the United States from the mid-to-late 20th century, Newton remains one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas and has performed there since 1958, headlining since 1963. He is known by other nicknames such as "The Midnight Idol" and "Mr. Entertainment".

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Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

Billy Joe Royal was an American country soul singer. His most successful record was "Down in the Boondocks" in 1965.

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03/04/1941

Jan Berry, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence. In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles later popularized by the Beach Boys.

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Philippé Wynne, American soul singer (died 1984)

Philippé Wynne was an American singer, best known for his role as a lead vocalist of The Spinners. Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband Man", and "One of a Kind ". After leaving The Spinners, Wynne never regained the same success, although he was featured in hits by other artists such as "(Not Just) Knee Deep" by Funkadelic. Wynne died of a heart attack while performing at a nightclub.

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03/04/1939

François de Roubaix, French composer (died 1975)

François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his death in 1975.

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Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (died 2012)

Robert Dale "Hawk" Taylor was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 394 games over all or part of 11 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons as a catcher and outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets (1964–67), California Angels (1967) and Kansas City Royals (1969–70). Born in Metropolis, Illinois, he threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 187 pounds (85 kg).

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Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and politician

Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and author. He formerly held a sub-cabinet office in the United States federal government as well as teaching positions at several U.S. universities. He is a promoter of supply-side economics and an opponent of recent U.S. foreign policy.

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03/04/1938

Jeff Barry, American singer-songwriter, and producer

Jeff Barry is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are "Tell Laura I Love Her", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Then He Kissed Me", "Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love", and "River Deep - Mountain High" ; "Leader of the Pack" ; "Sugar, Sugar" ; "Without Us", and "I Honestly Love You".

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Phil Rodgers, American golfer (died 2018)

Phil Rodgers was an American professional golfer.

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03/04/1936

Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (died 2008)

James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader.

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Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (died 1987)

Harold Vick was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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03/04/1935

Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (died 2023)

Harold Samuel Kushner was an American rabbi, author, and lecturer. He was a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism and served as the congregational rabbi of Temple Israel of Natick, in Natick, Massachusetts, for 24 years.

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03/04/1934

Pamela Allen, New Zealand children's writer and illustrator

Pamela Kay Allen is a New Zealand children's writer and illustrator. She has published over 50 picture books since 1980. Sales of her books have exceeded five million copies.

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Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist (died 2025)

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Beginning in 1960, under the mentorship of the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, Goodall's research demonstrated that chimpanzees share many key traits with humans, such as using tools, having complex emotions, forming lasting social bonds, engaging in organised warfare, and passing on knowledge across generations, which redefined the traditional view that humans are uniquely different from other animals.

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Jim Parker, American football player (died 2005)

James Thomas Parker was an American professional football player who was an offensive tackle and guard for the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played from 1957 to 1967, and was a member of Baltimore's NFL championship teams in 1958 and 1959. He was selected as a first-team All-Pro in nine of his 11 seasons in the NFL. Parker was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973.

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03/04/1933

Bob Dornan, American politician

Robert Kenneth Dornan is an American actor, radio talk show host, combat veteran, and Republican politician from California. Dornan represented two Southern California districts in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997, where he became known as a "leading firebrand" on the party's conservative wing. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982 and for President of the United States in 1996.

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Rod Funseth, American golfer (died 1985)

James Rodney Funseth was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.

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03/04/1931

William Bast, American screenwriter and author (died 2015)

William Bast was an American screenwriter and author. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television, he was the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean. He often worked with his partner, Paul Huson.

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03/04/1930

Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (died 1998)

Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.

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Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany and governed the Federal Republic from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the creation of the European Union (EU). Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest in German post-war history and is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.

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Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (died 2015)

Mario Benjamin Menéndez was the Argentine governor of the Falklands during the 1982 Argentine occupation of the islands. He also served in the Argentine Army. Menéndez surrendered Argentine forces to British armed forces during the Falklands War.

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Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (died 2018)

Wallace Wade Moon was an American professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball. Moon played his 12-year career in the major leagues for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954–1958) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1959–1965). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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03/04/1929

Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (died 1982)

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John Hancock Center.

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Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2021)

Poul Holmskov Schlüter was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first member of the Conservative People's Party to become prime minister, as well as the first conservative to hold the office since 1901. Schlüter was a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party from 1964 to 1994. He was also Chairman of the Conservative People's Party from 1974 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1993.

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03/04/1928

Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

Donald Eugene Gibson was an American country singer and songwriter. Gibson wrote such country standards as the ballad "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1956 until the late '70s, including number ones on the US Country Chart with Oh Lonesome Me and Blue Blue Day, both tracks he also wrote.

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Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue (died 2018)

Emmett Mathias Joseph Johns, was a Canadian priest and humanitarian. He was the founder of Dans la Rue, a homeless shelter and support group for street youth in Montreal, Quebec.

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Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)

Earl Francis Lloyd was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to play a game in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television personality (died 1999)

Jennifer Mary Paterson was a British celebrity cook, author, actress and television personality who appeared on the television programme Two Fat Ladies (1996–1999) with Clarissa Dickson Wright. Prior to this, she wrote cookery columns for The Spectator and for The Oldie.

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03/04/1927

Wesley A. Brown, American general and engineer (died 2012)

Wesley Anthony Brown was the first African-American graduate of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland. He served in the United States Navy from May 2, 1949, until June 30, 1969. He was involved in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.

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03/04/1926

Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach (died 2019)

Alexander Peter Grammas was an American professional baseball infielder, manager and coach. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Grammas played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs and Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). Grammas's family origins are from Agios Dimitrios, Greece.

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Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1967)

Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom went on to be a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, Grissom was the second American to fly in space in 1961. He was also the second American to fly in space twice, preceded only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights.

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03/04/1925

Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (died 2014)

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.

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03/04/1924

Marlon Brando, American actor and director (died 2004)

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

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Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (died 1945)

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with over 50 kills. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a sniper on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets.

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03/04/1923

Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (died 2013)

Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.

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03/04/1922

Yevhen Bulanchyk, Ukrainian hurdler (died 1996)

Yevgeniy Bulanchik was a Ukrainian and Soviet former athlete who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Honoured Master of Sports (1955), Honoured Coach of Ukraine (1962), Honoured Coach of the Soviet Union (1968), Doctor Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1975). Docent of the Kyiv Institute of Physical Culture, Department of Athletics (1974–1984). 11x Soviet champion. First coach Z.Synytskyi. Bulanchyk coached the European champion Vyacheslav Skomorokhov. Bulanchyk was a Ukrainian republican coach in athletics (1958–1980) and a Soviet national coach in athletics (1960–76).

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Doris Day, American singer and actress (died 2019)

Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.

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03/04/1921

Robert Karvelas, American actor (died 1991)

Robert Karvelas was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Larabee in the television series Get Smart (1965–1970).

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Jan Sterling, American actress (died 2004)

Jan Sterling was an American film, television and stage actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Her best performance is often considered to be opposite Kirk Douglas, as the opportunistic wife in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole. Although her career declined during the 1960s, she continued to play occasional television and theatre roles.

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03/04/1920

Stan Freeman, American composer and conductor (died 2001)

Stanley Freeman was an American composer, pianist, lyricist, musical arranger, conductor, and studio musician.

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Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (died 1977)

Yoshibayama Junnosuke , real name Ikeda Junnosuke , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Atsuta District, Hokkaido. He was the sport's 43rd yokozuna. He suffered a number of injuries and only won one tournament championship, but was a popular wrestler. He was a runner-up five times, and earned three special prizes and two gold stars in his top division career. After his retirement in 1958 he revived and led the Miyagino stable until his death in 1977.

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03/04/1919

Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (died 2015)

Ervin Drake was an American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as "I Believe" and "It Was a Very Good Year". He wrote in a variety of styles and his work has been recorded by musicians around the world. In 1983, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (died 2008)

Claire Françoise Oddera,, sometimes stated as simply Claire Oderra and better known as Clairette, was a Quebec-based French actress and singer. After her own career slowed down she became the proprietor of Montreal's "Chez Clairette" nightclub. In later life she received official honors for her cultural influence in giving a career break to many up-and-coming entertainers who later became famous.

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03/04/1918

Mary Anderson, American actress (died 2014)

Mary Bebe Anderson was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat.

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Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2000)

Louis Applebaum was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.

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03/04/1916

Herb Caen, American journalist and author (died 1997)

Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (died 1988)

Clifford Gladwin was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1939 to 1958 and in eight Tests for England from 1947 to 1949. He took over 1,600 first-class wickets.

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Louis Guglielmi, Catalan composer (died 1991)

Louis Guglielmi, known by his pen name Louiguy, was a French musician. He wrote the melody for Édith Piaf's lyrics of "La Vie en rose" and the Latin jazz composition "Cerisier rose et pommier blanc", a popular song written in 1950, made famous in English as "Cherry Pink ", which was recast as a resounding mambo hit for Pérez Prado.

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03/04/1915

Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2016)

Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong was a Dutch politician and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the Catholic People's Party (KVP), later merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

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İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic (died 2010)

İhsan Doğramacı was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in modern Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq then part of the Ottoman Empire.

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03/04/1914

Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2008)

Raymond Getliffe was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens. Born in Galt, Ontario, he played with the Saint John St. Peters. At the time of his death, he was believed to be the oldest living former Montreal Canadiens player. Getliffe's name is on the Stanley Cup twice, for 1939 with Boston and 1944 with Montreal. On February 6, 1943, while playing for the Canadiens he scored five goals in one game.

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Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (died 2008)

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, nicknamed as Sam Bahadur, was an Indian Army general officer who was the Chief of the army staff during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, and the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His active military career spanned four decades, beginning with service in World War II.

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03/04/1913

Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (died 2005)

was a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party and the prime minister of Norway from 1965 to 1971. Per Borten is credited for leading the modernization of what was then named Bondepartiet into today's Centre Party. He was an active opponent of Norway joining the European Union.

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03/04/1912

Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (died 1982)

Dorothy Enid Eden was a New Zealand novelist and short story writer, principally in the Gothic genre.

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Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (died 1963)

Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer. He participated in track and field sports and was a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens. A member of the Greek resistance to Axis rule during World War II, he later became a prominent anti-war activist. His assassination by right-wing zealots that were covertly supported by the police and military provoked mass protests and led to a political crisis.

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03/04/1911

Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress (died 1956)

Hélène Olivine Veilleux, known professionally as Nanette Bordeaux, was a French Canadian-born American film actress. Bordeaux made over 15 film appearances between 1942 and 1956.

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Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic (died 2001)

Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed his studies shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, but was soon captured by Japanese forces and imprisoned in the Changi Prison Camp. While there, he devised an ingenious method of extracting nutrients from agricultural wastes to prevent malnutrition among his fellow POWs.

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Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (died 1980)

Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Born in Poland and raised in the United States, she became an American citizen in 1947.

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03/04/1910

Ted Hook, Australian public servant (died 1990)

Edwin John "Ted" Hook was a senior Australian public servant best known for his time as Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department in the 1960s.

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03/04/1905

Robert Sink, American general (died 1965)

Robert Frederick Sink was an American soldier who served as an officer in the United States Army from 1927 to 1961. His most notable command was of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, which fought in Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, and the Western Allied invasion of Germany. He also served as an assistant division commander during the Korean War, and held an array of high-ranking staff positions until his retirement as a lieutenant general.

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03/04/1904

Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (died 1999)

Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films. Cody's film roles included the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the most well-known television public service announcements in the United States. Living in Hollywood, Cody began to insist--even in his private life--that he was Native American. Over time, he claimed membership in several different tribes. Although a 1996 newspaper report revealed that Cody was Italian-American and that his purported Native American identity was self-created, Cody denied the report.

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Sally Rand, American dancer (died 1979)

Sally Rand was an American burlesque dancer, stripper, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck.

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Russel Wright, American furniture designer (died 1976)

Russel Wright was an American industrial designer. His best-selling ceramic dinnerware was credited with encouraging the general public to enjoy creative modern design at table with his many other ranges of furniture, accessories, and textiles. The Russel and Mary Wright Design Gallery at Manitoga in upstate New York records how the "Wrights shaped modern American lifestyle".

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03/04/1903

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (died 1988)

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic standard of Indian women. She was the first woman in India to contest in elections from Madras Constituency, but lost.

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03/04/1900

Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (died 1987)

Camille Nimr Chamoun was a Lebanese politician and statesman who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War and considered a za'im in Lebanon.

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Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (died 1958)

Sir Albert Joseph Walsh was Commissioner of Home Affairs and Education and chief justice of the Dominion of Newfoundland, and its first lieutenant governor upon its admission to the Canadian Confederation on 1 April 1949.

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03/04/1898

David Jack, English footballer and manager (died 1958)

David Bone Nightingale Jack was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 267 goals from 490 appearances in the Football League playing for Plymouth Argyle, Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal. He was the first footballer to be transferred for a fee in excess of £10,000, was the first to score at Wembley – in the 1923 FA Cup Final – and was capped nine times for England. After retiring as a player, he managed Southend United, Middlesbrough and Shelbourne.

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George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (died 1981)

George Albert "Georgie" Jessel was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies. He was widely known by his nickname, the "Toastmaster General of the United States," for his frequent role as the master of ceremonies at political and entertainment gatherings. Jessel originated the title role in the stage production of The Jazz Singer.

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Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time magazine (died 1967)

Henry Robinson Luce was an American magazine publisher who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. He has been called, one of "the most influential [Americans] of his day".

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03/04/1897

Joe Kirkwood Sr., Australian golfer (died 1970)

Joseph Henry Kirkwood Sr. was a professional golfer who is acknowledged as having put Australian golf on the world map.

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Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general (died 1989)

Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos was a distinguished Hellenic Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I, the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, World War II and the Greek Civil War, rising to become Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff. He also served as Greece's Ambassador to Yugoslavia.

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03/04/1895

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (died 1968)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.

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Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (died 1971)

Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey was an American composer and performer of novelty piano and jazz music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers." Studying at the Chicago Musical College and becoming enthralled by French impressionists played a critical role in how he composed and performed music.

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03/04/1893

Leslie Howard, English actor (died 1943)

Leslie Howard Steiner, better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.

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03/04/1889

Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1949)

Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for nai. It is rumored that Jascha Heifetz once said that Grigoraș Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. In the 1930s he was involved in the political movement of the Romanian Roma and was made honorary president of the "General Union of the Romanian Roma". Other well known compositions are: Hora mărțișorului, Ceasornicul and Căruța poștei.

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03/04/1888

Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (died 1972)

Thomas Cassin Kinkaid was an admiral in the United States Navy, known for his service during World War II. He built a reputation as a "fighting admiral" in the aircraft carrier battles of 1942 and commanded the Allied forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was Commander Allied Naval Forces and the Seventh Fleet under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific Area, where he conducted numerous amphibious operations, and commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of World War II and the last naval battle between battleships in history.

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03/04/1887

Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (died 1956)

Ōtori Tanigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. He was the sport's 24th yokozuna.

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Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (died 1966)

Nishizō Tsukahara , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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03/04/1886

Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (died 1953)

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered for his portrayal of Sam in the 1942 film Casablanca. In that romantic drama, he performs its theme song "As Time Goes By".

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03/04/1885

Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian and American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (died 1954)

Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher was an American cartoonist who created Mutt and Jeff, the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.

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Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (died 1944)

Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C., was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada.

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St John Philby, English colonial and explorer (died 1960)

Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE, also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah, was a British Arabist, advisor, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia.

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03/04/1883

Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937)

Ikki Kita was a Japanese author, intellectual and political philosopher who was active in early Shōwa period Japan. Drawing from an eclectic range of influences, Kita was a self-described socialist who has also been described by detractors as the "ideological father of Japanese fascism", though this has been highly contested, as his writings touched equally upon pan-Asianism, Nichiren Buddhism, fundamental human rights and egalitarianism and he was involved with Chinese revolutionary circles. While his publications were invariably censored and he ceased writing after 1923, Kita was an inspiration for elements on the far-right of Japanese politics into the 1930s, particularly his advocacy for territorial expansion and a military coup. The government saw Kita's ideas as disruptive and dangerous; in 1936 he was arrested for allegedly joining the failed coup attempt of 26 February 1936 and executed on 19 August 1937.

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03/04/1882

Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (died 1952)

Philippe-Servulo Desranleau was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and the Archbishop of Sherbrooke from 1951 to 1952.

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03/04/1881

Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1954)

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.

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03/04/1880

Otto Weininger, Jewish-Austrian philosopher and author (died 1903)

Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher who in 1903 published the book Geschlecht und Charakter, which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Weininger had a strong influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, August Strindberg, and, via his lesser-known work Über die letzten Dinge, on James Joyce.

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03/04/1876

Margaret Anglin, Canadian actress, director, and producer (died 1958)

Mary Margaret Warren Anglin was a Canadian-born Broadway actress, director and producer. Encyclopædia Britannica calls her "one of the most brilliant actresses of her day."

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Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (died 1932)

Tomáš Baťa was a Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Bata shoe company. His career was cut short when he died in a plane accident due to bad weather.

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03/04/1875

Mistinguett, French actress and singer (died 1956)

Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois, known professionally as Mistinguett, was a French actress and singer. She was at one time the highest-paid female entertainer in the world. At the time of her unofficial retirement in 1955, Mistinguett had 60 years of experience under her belt. Mistinguett has been credited with performing in 31 movies, 9 shows, and 389 musical works.

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03/04/1864

Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (died 1943)

Emil Kellenberger was a Swiss sport shooter who competed in the early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won three Olympic medals, two gold medals in the Military Rifle 3 positions and team categories and a silver medal in the Military Rifle (kneeling). However his silver medal was tied with the Danish shooter Anders Peter Nielsen.

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03/04/1860

Frederik van Eeden, Dutch psychiatrist and author (died 1932)

Frederik Willem van Eeden was a Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing among the editors of De Nieuwe Gids during its celebrated first few years of publication, starting in 1885. Van Eeden adopted vegetarianism in 1890 for health reasons, later promoting it as an ethical stance in works like Het Vegetariaat (1896), but gradually distanced himself from it in the early 20th century as his philosophical views shifted.

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03/04/1858

Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (died 1937)

Jacob Gill Gaudaur, Sr. was one of two Canadians to win the Professional World Sculling Championship. Gaudaur was born in Orillia, Ontario. His first race was when he was aged 17 years and over his career he raced more than two hundred times. His professional career started in 1880.

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03/04/1852

Talbot Baines Reed, English author (died 1893)

Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family's business, Reed became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a standard work on the subject: History of the Old English Letter Foundries.

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03/04/1848

Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and captain (died 1879)

Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean Navy officer and lawyer. He was killed in the Battle of Iquique, during the War of the Pacific. During his career, Prat had taken part in several naval engagements, including battles at Papudo (1865), and at the Abtao (1866). Following his death, his name became a rallying cry for Chilean forces, and Arturo Prat has since been considered a national hero.

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03/04/1842

Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (died 1864)

Ulric Dahlgren was an American military officer who served as colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the son of Union Navy Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren and nephew to Confederate Brigadier General Charles G. Dahlgren.

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03/04/1837

John Burroughs, American botanist and author (died 1921)

John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.

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03/04/1826

Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (died 1900)

Colonel Cyrus Kurtz Holliday was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the township of Topeka, Kansas, in the mid 19th century; and was Adjutant General of Kansas during the American Civil War. The title Colonel, however, was honorary. He was the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, as well as one of the railroad's directors for nearly 40 years, up to 1900. A number of railway locomotives have been named after him, as well as the former town of Holliday, Kansas. He was also the Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Kansas. As a Freemason, he was a member of Topeka Lodge #17 and was highly influential in the decision of moving the State Capitol to the city of Topeka.

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03/04/1823

George Derby, American lieutenant and journalist (died 1861)

George Horatio Derby was an early California humorist. He attended West Point with Ulysses S. Grant. Derby used the pseudonym "John P. Squibob" and its variants "John Phoenix" and "Squibob." Derby served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. In his spare time, he wrote humorous anecdotes and burlesques, often under the guise of his pseudonyms.

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William M. Tweed, American politician (died 1878)

William Magear "Boss" Tweed was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.

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03/04/1822

Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (died 1909)

Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War.

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03/04/1814

Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1901)

Lorenzo Snow was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 until his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the 19th century and the first in the 20th.

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03/04/1807

Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (died 1877)

Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.

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03/04/1798

Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (died 1877)

Charles Wilkes was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the first United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). During the American Civil War (1861-1865), he commanded USS San Jacinto during the Trent Affair incident in which he stopped a British Royal Mail ship and forcibly removed two Confederate diplomats, almost leading to war between the United States and United Kingdom.

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03/04/1791

Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (died 1840)

Anne Lister was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian".

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03/04/1783

Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (died 1859)

Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.

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03/04/1782

Alexander Macomb, American general (died 1841)

Alexander Macomb was an American military officer who was the Commanding General of the United States Army from 1828 until his death in 1841. Macomb was the field commander at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812 and, after the stunning victory, was lauded with praise and styled "The Hero of Plattsburgh" by some of the American press. He was promoted to Major General for his conduct, receiving both the Thanks of Congress and a Congressional Gold Medal.

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03/04/1781

Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (died 1830)

Swaminarayan, also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed.

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03/04/1778

Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (died 1862)

Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau was a French medical doctor.

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03/04/1770

Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (died 1843)

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire.

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03/04/1769

Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (died 1835)

Count Christian Günther von Bernstorff was a Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat.

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03/04/1764

John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (died 1831)

John Abernethy was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion.

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03/04/1715

William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (died 1787)

Sir William Watson, FRS was a British physician and scientist who was born and died in London. His early work was in botany, and he helped to introduce the work of Carl Linnaeus into England. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741 and vice president in 1772. He was knighted in 1786.

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03/04/1693

George Edwards, English ornithologist and entomologist (died 1773)

George Edwards was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

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03/04/1682

Valentin Rathgeber, German organist and composer (died 1750)

Johann Valentin Rathgeber was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era.

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03/04/1643

Charles V, duke of Lorraine (died 1690)

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697.

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03/04/1593

George Herbert, English poet (died 1633)

George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England. He received a good education that led to his admission to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609. He enrolled intending to become a priest, but became the University's Public Orator and attracted the attention of King James I. He sat in the Parliament of England in 1624 and briefly in 1625.

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03/04/1540

Maria de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. (died 1557)

Maria de' Medici was the eldest child of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. She was a member of the famous Medici family.

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03/04/1529

Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1581)

Michael Neander was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer.

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03/04/1438

John III of Egmont, Dutch nobleman (died 1516)

John III of Egmont was first Count of Egmont, Lord of Baer, Lathum, Hoogwoude, Aarstwoude, Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam, and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland.

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03/04/1395

George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist (died 1486)

George of Trebizond was a Byzantine Greek philosopher, scholar, and humanist.

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03/04/1151

Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus' prince (died 1202)

Igor Svyatoslavich, nicknamed the Brave, was Prince of Novgorod-Seversk (1180–1198) and Prince of Chernigov (1198–1201/1202).

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03/04/1016

Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1055)

Emperor Xingzong of Liao, personal name Zhigu, sinicised name Yelü Zongzhen, was the seventh emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China.

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