Born on Tuesday, 10th March – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 167 notable people were born on 10th March — spanning from 1452 to 2004. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 marks the birth of notable figures across sport, entertainment and politics. Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic was born on this date in 1997, establishing herself as a significant competitor in professional tennis. The day also celebrates the birth of Croatian footballer Ivan Rakitić in 1988, who became one of Europe’s most accomplished midfielders during his career. Among more contemporary births, Canadian ice hockey player Matt Poitras arrived in 2004, continuing a tradition of athletic excellence on this particular date.
The historical record extends considerably further back, encompassing figures of substantial cultural and political impact. Russian Emperor Alexander III was born on 10 March 1845, a reign that would shape European geopolitics during the late nineteenth century. The date also saw the birth of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff in 1788, a German author and poet whose literary contributions influenced Romantic-era writing across continental Europe.
On Tuesday, 10 March 2026, the weather is expected to be clear with temperatures around nine degrees Celsius. The zodiac sign for this date is Pisces, and the moon will be in its waxing gibbous phase, approaching full illumination. These atmospheric and astronomical conditions create the backdrop for the day’s significance in marking numerous births across different eras.
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10/03/2004
Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player
Matthew Poitras is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect to the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).
10/03/2002
Keon Johnson, American basketball player
Christopher Keon Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the Maine Celtics of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. Johnson was selected in the 2021 NBA draft with the 21st overall pick by the New York Knicks, but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers on draft night. During his rookie season, the Clippers traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers with whom he played for until the end of the 2022-23 season. After getting traded to and waived by the Phoenix Suns during the 2023 offseason, Johnson signed with the Brooklyn Nets with whom he had a breakout year during the 2024-25 season.
10/03/2000
Nick Bolton, American football player
Nicholas Bolton is an American professional football linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers, and was selected by the Chiefs in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft. Bolton has won two Super Bowl titles, LVII and LVIII, having been a starter in the 2022 and 2023 Chiefs teams. He also scored a defensive touchdown from a fumble recovery in the first win.
10/03/1999
Cole Kmet, American football player
Cole Kmet is an American professional football tight end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and was selected by the Bears in the second round of the 2020 NFL draft.
10/03/1998
Justin Herbert, American football player
Justin Patrick Herbert is an American professional football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, where he won the 2019 Pac-12 Championship, and was selected by the Chargers as the sixth overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft.
10/03/1997
Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as high as world No. 4 in singles, which she achieved on 17 February 2020, and No. 59 in doubles, attained on 1 February 2016. She is the current No. 1 Swiss in women's singles.
10/03/1995
Zach LaVine, American basketball player
Zachary Thomas LaVine is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected in the first round of the 2014 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves. A two-time Slam Dunk Contest champion, he was named an NBA All-Star with the Chicago Bulls in 2021 and 2022. He also won a gold medal on the 2020 U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo.
Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
Sergey Alexandrovich Mozgov is a Russian retired competitive ice dancer. With former partner Betina Popova, he is the 2017 CS Warsaw Cup champion. With former partner Anna Yanovskaya, he was the 2015 World Junior champion, two-time JGP Final champion, the 2012 Youth Olympics champion, the 2014 World Junior silver medalist, and the 2015 Russian junior national champion.
10/03/1994
Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer, and occasional professional wrestler. Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", he is widely credited with helping Spanish-language rap reach mainstream global popularity and is considered one of the greatest Latino rappers of all time.
Nikita Parris, English footballer
Nikita Josephine Parris is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club London City Lionesses and the England national team. She previously played for Division 1 club Olympique Lyonnais, Manchester City, Everton, Arsenal, Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion.
10/03/1993
Jack Butland, English footballer
Jack Butland is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician
Aminata Namasia Bazego is a politician and member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Parliament, appointed Deputy Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education since April 2021.
10/03/1992
Neeskens Kebano, French-Congolese footballer
Neeskens Kebano is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Al-Qadsia. Born in France, he represented the DR Congo national team.
10/03/1991
Kenshi Yonezu, Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator
Kenshi Yonezu is a Japanese singer and songwriter. He started releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name Hachi (ハチ) in 2009. In 2012, he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. He has sold at least 4.2 million physical copies and over 7 million digital copies in Japan.
10/03/1990
Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player
Stefanie Vögele is a Swiss professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 42 on 11 November 2013. Her highest WTA ranking in doubles is 100, which she reached on 5 January 2015. Over her career, she has defeated top ten players Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki.
10/03/1989
Simon Moser, Swiss ice hockey player
Simon Moser is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who currently serves as captain of SC Bern of the National League (NL). He has formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Nashville Predators.
Dayán Viciedo, Cuban baseball player
Dayán Viciedo Pérez is a Cuban professional baseball infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, and in NPB for the Chunichi Dragons.
10/03/1988
Clarissa dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player
Clarissa Cristina dos Santos is a Brazilian professional basketball player who previously played for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Most recently she has played for Basket Landes in the Euroleague Women.
Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
Josh Hoffman is a New Zealand international rugby league footballer who plays as fullback, winger and centre, five-eighth for the Wests Panthers in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership.
Ego Nwodim, American actress
Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2018, beginning with the show's 44th season, to 2025, ending with the show's 50th season.
Quincy Pondexter, American basketball player and coach
Quincy Coe Pondexter is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Huskies men’s basketball team. He played high school basketball in Fresno, California, at San Joaquin Memorial High School. Pondexter played four years of college basketball for the Washington Huskies. At the end of his senior season, he earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and an All-American honorable mention by the Associated Press.
Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
Ivan Rakitić is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the technical director of Hajduk Split, the club with whom he ended his playing career.
10/03/1987
Martellus Bennett, American football player
Martellus Demond Bennett is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. Bennett was a member of five teams during his career, most notably the Chicago Bears, with whom he earned Pro Bowl honors, and the New England Patriots, with whom he won Super Bowl LI. After retiring, Bennett became a children's author and published books under his publication company The Imagination Agency. He is the younger brother of former defensive end Michael Bennett.
Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
Greg Eastwood is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer. A New Zealand international forward, he played in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos and Canterbury Bulldogs, and in the Super League for the Leeds Rhinos.
Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
Tuukka Mikael Rask is a Finnish former professional ice hockey goaltender. Rask was drafted 21st overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs before being traded to the Boston Bruins in 2006, where he played his entire 15 season NHL career. Rask was consistently successful during his tenure with the Bruins. After winning the Stanley Cup as the backup with the Bruins in 2011, he led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Final on two occasions in 2013 and 2019. He also won the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goaltender during the 2013–14 season, and was a finalist for the 2019–20 award. He also won the William M. Jennings Trophy along with goaltender Jaroslav Halák in the 2019–20 season. Rask is also a two-time NHL All-Star team member. Internationally, he led team Finland to a bronze medal over team USA at the 2006 World Juniors, where he was also awarded the honor of Best Goaltender. He led them to another bronze medal against the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Tuukka is the older brother of Joonas Rask, who plays professionally as a forward with Luleå HF in the SHL.
Māris Štrombergs, Latvian BMX racer
Māris Štrombergs is a Latvian former professional BMX racer. In the 2008 Summer Olympics he became the first Olympic champion in BMX cycling. Earlier that year he won the 2008 UCI BMX World Championships. In 2012 he added to his Olympic title by winning the gold medal in the London Olympics.
10/03/1986
Sergei Shirokov, Russian ice hockey player
Sergei Sergeyevich Shirokov is a Russian professional ice hockey winger currently with Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Before signing with Vancouver in 2009, Shirokov played with CSKA Moscow for four seasons in the Russian Superleague and Kontinental Hockey League. He returned to CSKA Moscow in 2011 after two years with the Vancouver Canucks and Manitoba Moose.
10/03/1984
Tim Brent, Canadian ice hockey player
Tim Brent is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played over 200 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes.
Ben May, English footballer
Ben Steven May is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Olivia Wilde, American actress and director
Olivia Jane Cockburn, known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress and filmmaker. She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012), and appeared in the action films Tron: Legacy (2010) and Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the romantic drama film Her (2013), the comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and the horror film The Lazarus Effect (2015). She made her Broadway debut playing Julia in 1984 (2017).
10/03/1983
Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player
Étienne Boulay is a Canadian former professional football safety. He most recently played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, with whom he won the 100th Grey Cup championship. He previously played for the Montreal Alouettes from 2006 to 2011 where he won two more Grey Cup championships. He was drafted 16th overall by the Alouettes in the 2006 CFL draft. He played college football for the New Hampshire Wildcats.
Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist
Janet Mock is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir Redefining Realness, became a New York Times bestseller. She is a contributing editor for Marie Claire and a former staff editor of People magazine's website.
Rafe Spall, English actor
Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor.
Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter
Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer and songwriter. Known for her vocal ability and dynamic stage presence, Underwood is recognized as a pivotal figure in modern country music and often cited for her role in revitalizing and sustaining the presence of female country artists in popular music since winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.
10/03/1982
Kwame Brown, American basketball player
Kwame Hasani Brown is an American former professional basketball player who spent 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Selected first overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2001 NBA draft, Brown was the first player to be drafted number one overall straight out of high school. He later played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats, Golden State Warriors, and Philadelphia 76ers.
Dr Disrespect, American live streamer
Herschel "Guy" Beahm IV, better known as Dr Disrespect or The Doc or DDR, is an American live streamer. He became known for playing battle royale games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, H1Z1, and PUBG: Battlegrounds on Twitch and YouTube. While streaming, he takes on a bombastic persona. He has invested in game studios, including founding the Midnight Society.
Logan Mankins, American football player
Logan Lee Mankins is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the New England Patriots. After playing college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs, he was selected by the Patriots in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft. He spent his final two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Selected to seven Pro Bowls and named a first-team All-Pro twice, Mankins was considered a premier guard in his 11 seasons in NFL, and was also named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team.
10/03/1981
Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation. He is often regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of the greatest African players of all time.
Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer
Steven John Reid is a former professional footballer who played as a right back, having previously played most of his career in midfield.
10/03/1978
Benjamin Burnley, American musician
Benjamin Jackson Burnley IV is an American musician and the founder and frontman of the rock band Breaking Benjamin. As the sole constant and namesake of the group, Burnley has served as its principal songwriter, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist since its inception in 1999.
Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress
Camille Dalmais, better known by her mononym Camille, is a French singer-songwriter.
10/03/1977
Robin Thicke, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
Robin Alan Thicke is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 2013 single "Blurred Lines", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and remains one of the best-selling singles of all time. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, it received nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
10/03/1976
Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player
Barbara Schett Eagle is an Austrian former professional tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30. She also represented Austria at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals of the singles event. She retired after the 2005 Australian Open and now works for Eurosport as a commentator and presenter.
10/03/1973
Jason Croker, Australian rugby league player
Jason Croker is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative utility player, he previously played club football in the NRL for the Canberra Raiders, with whom he won the 1994 Winfield Cup and set club records for both highest total games and tries. Croker saw out his career with French Super League club Catalans Dragons.
Liu Qiangdong, Chinese entrepreneur, billionaire, founder of JD.com
Liu Qiangdong (Richard) (Chinese: 刘强东; born March 10, 1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded JD Multimedia as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com (also known as Jingdong) in 2013.
Chris Sutton, English footballer
Christopher Roy Sutton is an English former professional football player and manager. He later became a pundit, commentator and presenter of football coverage on television and radio.
Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer and manager
Mauricio Ricardo Taricco is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who was most recently the assistant coach of K League 1 side Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.
10/03/1972
Beth Buchanan, Australian actress
Beth Christine Buchanan is an Australian actress and social worker. She is best known for the television roles as Gemma Ramsay in Neighbours, and Susan Croydon in Blue Heelers. She was also a long-standing member of the Ranters Theatre Company.
Matt Kenseth, American NASCAR driver
Matthew Roy Kenseth is an American former professional stock car racing driver and the current competition advisor for Legacy Motor Club in the NASCAR Cup Series. Most recently, he raced part-time in the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX), driving the No. 8 car. Kenseth is also an active competitor at Slinger Speedway, where he holds the record for the most Slinger Nationals victories.
Timbaland, American rapper and producer
Timothy Zachery Mosley, known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter, rapper and singer. Born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, he is widely acclaimed for his distinctive production work and "stuttering" rhythmic style. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly stated that "just about every current pop trend can be traced back to him—from sultry, urban-edged R&B songstresses [...] to the art of incorporating avant-garde sounds into No. 1 hits." He has won four Grammy Awards from 22 nominations.
10/03/1971
Jon Hamm, American actor and director
Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
10/03/1968
Alma Čardžić, Bosnian singer
Alma Čardžić is a Bosnian singer. She's best known internationally for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests in 1994 and 1997.
Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)
Pavel Srníček was a Czech football coach and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper.
10/03/1965
Jillian Richardson, Canadian sprinter
Jillian Cheryl Richardson-Briscoe is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She is a three-time Olympian. In 1988, she equalled Marita Payne's Canadian 400 metres record of 49.91 secs. The record still stands. She was inducted into the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame in 2017.
Rod Woodson, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
Roderick Kevin Woodson is an American former professional football player for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time, Woodson holds the NFL record for fumble recoveries (32) by a defensive player, and interceptions returned for a touchdown (12). He was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1993.
10/03/1964
Greg Campbell, Australian cricketer
Gregory Dale Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches and 12 One Day Internationals in 1989 and 1990. Campbell was a right arm fast bowler, and batted as a right-handed tail ender. He is the uncle of former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Campbell's sister, Lorraine, is married to Graeme Ponting, and Ricky Ponting is their first child.
Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
Neneh Mariann Karlsson, better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer. Her musical career started in the early 1980s, in London, England, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, is a member of the British royal family. He is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the youngest sibling of King Charles III. Edward was born third in the line of succession to the British throne and is 15th as of 2026.
10/03/1963
Jeff Ament, American bass player and songwriter
Jeffrey Allen Ament is an American musician best known as the bassist of rock band Pearl Jam, which he co-founded alongside Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder. Ament wrote or co-wrote many of Pearl Jam's hits, including "Jeremy", "Oceans", "Dissident", "Nothingman" and "Nothing as It Seems".
Rick Rubin, American record producer
Frederick Jay Rubin is an American record producer. He is a co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.
10/03/1962
Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, and director
Jasmine Chanel Guy is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She portrayed Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, which originally ran from 1987 to 1993. Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show. She played Roxy Harvey on Dead Like Me and as Sheila "Grams" Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She also played the role of Gemma on Grey's Anatomy.
Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter
Noriko Kamachi , known professionally as Seiko Matsuda , is a Japanese singer-songwriter, known for being one of the most popular Japanese idols of the 1980s. Since then, she has continued to release new singles and albums, put on annual summer concert tours, and perform in winter dinner shows. She makes frequent appearances in high-profile TV commercials and movies, and on radio. Her alma mater is Chuo University.
10/03/1961
Laurel Clark, American captain, physician, and astronaut (died 2003)
Laurel Blair Clark was an American NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Clark was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
10/03/1958
Garth Crooks, English footballer and sportscaster
Garth Anthony Crooks, is an English football pundit and former professional player. He played from 1976 to 1990, for Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, West Bromwich Albion and Charlton Athletic.
Steve Howe, American baseball player (died 2006)
Steven Roy Howe was an American professional baseball relief pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees, spanning 1980 to 1996. His baseball career ended in 1997 after a stint with the Sioux Falls Canaries of the independent Northern League.
Sheikh Mohammad Illias, Bengali politician
Sheikh Mohammad Illias is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India. He was the MLA of Nandigram Assembly constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress. Known for primarily playing femmes fatales and women of mystery on film and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. She was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2005.
10/03/1957
Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011)
Osama bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of the al-Qaeda militant organization. A pan-Islamist and Islamic extremist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks (9/11) against the United States directly killed 2,977 victims.
10/03/1956
Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the sci-fi television sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He has also founded and hosts a YouTube series, Everything Electric, which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter
Larry Myricks is an American former track and field athlete, who mainly competed in the long jump event. He is a two-time winner of the World Indoor Championships and a two-time winner of the World Cup. He also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and bronze medals at the World Championships in 1987 and 1991.
Odile Buisson, French gynecologist, advocate for women's right to pleasure
Odile Buisson born Odile Poullaouec is a French gynaecologist and writer. She was a co-researcher of sonography that revealed the internal structure of the clitoris.
10/03/1955
Toshio Suzuki, Japanese race car driver
Toshio Suzuki is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
10/03/1953
Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), the latter of which he also directed. Haggis also co-wrote the war film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He is the creator of the television series Due South (1994–1999) and co-creator of Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–2001), among others. Haggis is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and seven-time Gemini Award winner. He also assisted in the making of "We Are the World 25 for Haiti".
Ronnie Earl, American blues guitarist
Ronnie Earl is an American blues guitarist and music instructor.
10/03/1952
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (died 2018)
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was president of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), and a key figure in the opposition to then-president Robert Mugabe.
10/03/1951
Gloria Diaz, Filipino actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1969
Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is a Filipino actress, model, socialite, and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1969, making history as the first Filipino Miss Universe.
10/03/1948
Austin Carr, American basketball player
Austin George Carr is an American former professional basketball player and commentator who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, and Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In college, he won several national awards while playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He is known by Cleveland basketball fans as "Mr. Cavalier".
10/03/1947
Kim Campbell, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.
Tom Scholz, American musician and songwriter
Donald Thomas Scholz is an American musician. He is the founder, main songwriter, primary guitarist, keyboardist and only constant original member of the rock band Boston. A multi-instrumentalist, Scholz plays guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums and has also performed backing vocals live.
10/03/1946
Curley Culp, American football player (died 2021)
Curley Culp was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arizona State University, where he was also an NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion. He played football in the AFL for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1968 and 1969, and in the NFL for the Chiefs, Houston Oilers, and Detroit Lions. He was an AFL All-Star in 1969 and a six-time Pro Bowler.
Gérard Garouste, French contemporary artist
Gérard Garouste is a French artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain.
Jim Valvano, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC State. While the head coach at NC State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds. Valvano is remembered for his ecstatic celebration after winning the national championship game against the heavily favored Houston Cougars.
10/03/1945
Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright
Katharine Houghton is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white woman who brings home her black fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was Houghton's aunt. Houghton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance. She is also known for her role as Kanna, the grandmother of Katara and Sokka in the film The Last Airbender (2010).
Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways (died 2001)
Madhavrao Jiwajirao Scindia or Madhavrao II was an Indian politician and minister in the Government of India. He was a member of the Indian National Congress. He was viewed as a potential future prime ministerial candidate before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections in the aftermath of the controversy over Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.
10/03/1943
Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author
Peter Berresford Ellis is a British historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over 98 books to date either under his own name or his pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. He has also published 100 short stories. Under Peter Tremayne, he is the author of the international bestselling Sister Fidelma historical mystery series. His work has appeared in 25 languages.
10/03/1941
George P. Smith, American biologist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
George Pearson Smith is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. He is a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, US.
10/03/1940
LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (died 2012)
LeRoy Ellis was an American basketball player.
Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist (died 2026)
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris was an American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author. He held black belts in karate, taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, he won numerous martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. Norris began working in the American film industry as a martial arts instructor for celebrities before making his screen debut with a minor role in The Wrecking Crew (1968). Friend and fellow martial artist Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in The Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen suggested he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977), which turned a profit. His second lead, Good Guys Wear Black (1978), became a hit, and he soon became a popular action film star.
David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
David William Rabe is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974, 1977 (Streamers) and 1985 (Hurlyburly).
10/03/1939
Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian activist and author (died 2013)
Asghar Ali Engineer was an academic, Indian reformist writer and social activist. Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work was on communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South Asia. He was a votary of peace and non-violence and lectured all over world on communal harmony.
Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete (died 2004)
Irina Natanovna Press was a Soviet athlete who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. In 1960, she won a gold medal in the 80 m hurdles and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay. In 1964, she finished fourth in the hurdles and sixth in the shot put, but won gold in the newly introduced pentathlon event.
10/03/1938
Norman Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Norman L. Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter. He is half of the eponymous Norman & Nancy Blake band with his wife, Nancy Blake.
Ron Mix, American football player
Ronald Jack Mix is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He is a member of the AFL All-Time Team, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979. Mix played college football for the USC Trojans, where he was named to the All American team. He played at right tackle and guard for the Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers of the AFL and also played for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. While playing in Oakland for the Raiders he was a part of the only offensive line in NFL history to be composed entirely all Hall of Famers. Art Shell, Gene Upshaw, Jim Otto, Ron Mix, and Bob Brown from left to right. An eight-time AFL All-Star (1961–1968) and a nine-time All-AFL (1960–1968) selection, he is also a member of the Los Angeles Chargers Hall of Fame.
10/03/1937
María Kodama, Argentine writer and translator (died 2023)
María Kodama Schweizer was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985. They were married in 1986, shortly before Borges' death.
Sam Hall, American diver, legislator, and mercenary (died 2014)
Samuel "Sam" Wesley Hall was an American Olympic silver medalist diver and politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
10/03/1936
Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman and eighth president of FIFA
Joseph Sepp Blatter is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been suspended from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, which remains in place until 2027.
10/03/1935
Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (died 2019)
Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the East Perth Football Club and West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).
10/03/1934
Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower (died 2020)
Gergely Kulcsár was a Hungarian javelin thrower. He competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won two bronze medals, in 1960 and 1968, and a silver medal in 1964. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Hungary in 1964, 1968, and 1972.
10/03/1933
Ralph Emery, American country music disc jockey, radio and television host (died 2022)
Walter Ralph Emery was an American country music disc jockey, radio and television host from McEwen, Tennessee.
10/03/1932
Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, English politician (died 2019)
Marcia Matilda Williams, Baroness Falkender, CBE, also known as Marcia Falkender, was the private secretary for, and then the political secretary and head of political office to, UK Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
10/03/1931
Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright, and composer (died 2001)
Georges Dor was a Canadian author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director.
10/03/1930
Sándor Iharos, Hungarian runner (died 1996)
Sándor Iharos was a Hungarian long-distance runner. Though unsuccessful in major competitions, Iharos ran world records over multiple distances and is one of only two athletes to have held outdoor world records over 1500 metres, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. Iharos was one of the star pupils of the famous coach Mihály Iglói.
10/03/1929
Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (died 2012)
Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and one term as mayor of Prescott, Arizona. Steiger also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, served as a special assistant to Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, and hosted political talk shows on both radio and television. Despite these accomplishments, Steiger is best known for two incidents: one, while he was a sitting congressman, was the 1975 killing of two burros; the second was painting a crosswalk between Prescott's courthouse and nearby Whiskey Row.
10/03/1928
Sara Montiel, Spanish actress (died 2013)
María Antonia Abad Fernández, known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish actress and singer. She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.
James Earl Ray, American criminal; assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (died 1998)
James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray, who had planned on living in exile in Rhodesia, fled to London and was captured there. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment. He later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and to be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful.
10/03/1927
Claude Laydu, Belgian-French actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)
Claude Laydu was a Belgian-born Swiss actor on stage and in films. He was renowned for his performance in his film debut in the role of the young priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), which has been described as one of the greatest in the history of film.
10/03/1926
Marques Haynes, American basketball player (died 2015)
Marques Haynes was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters, notable for his ability to dribble the ball and keep it away from defenders. According to the 1988 film Harlem Globetrotters: Six Decades of Magic, Haynes could dribble the ball as many as 348 times a minute.
10/03/1925
Bob Lanier, American lawyer, banker, and politician, Mayor of Houston (died 2014)
Robert Clayton Lanier was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Houston, Texas, from 1992 to 1998. Before becoming mayor, Lanier had a notable career as a lawyer, banker, and real estate developer. He also held significant public service positions, including chairman of the Texas Highway Commission and chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO). As mayor, he focused on improving infrastructure, public safety, and the city’s diversity. Lanier was re-elected in 1993 and 1995, and after leaving office, remained active in real estate and public policy. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former mayor of Houston.
10/03/1924
Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (died 2017)
Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.
10/03/1923
Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
Val Logsdon Fitch was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of K-mesons, that a reaction run in reverse does not retrace the path of the original reaction, which showed that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time. Thus the phenomenon of CP violation was discovered. This demolished the faith that physicists had that natural laws were governed by symmetry.
10/03/1920
Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (died 2007)
Alfred H. Peet was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. Peet is widely credited with starting the specialty coffee revolution in the US. Among coffee historians, Peet has been called "the Dutchman who taught America how to drink coffee." Peet taught his style of roasting beans to Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker, who, with his blessing, took the technique to Seattle and founded Starbucks in 1971. Peet later distanced himself, however, from the Starbucks trio as they experimented with ultra-dark roasts. "Baldwin never learned anything from me," Peet was later quoted as saying.
Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, American mandolinist and comic singer (died 1989)
Kenneth Charles "Jethro" Burns was an American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro with Henry D. "Homer" Haynes.
10/03/1919
Leonor Oyarzún, Chilean socialite, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (died 2022)
Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic was a Chilean family therapist and member of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC). She served as the First Lady of Chile from 1990 until 1994 as the wife of President Patricio Aylwin.
10/03/1918
Günther Rall, German general and pilot (died 2009)
Günther Rall was a highly decorated German military aviator, officer and General, whose military career spanned nearly forty years. Rall was the third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history, behind Gerhard Barkhorn, who is second, and Erich Hartmann, who is first.
10/03/1917
David Hare, American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (died 1992)
David Hare was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942.
10/03/1915
Harry Bertoia, Italian-American sculptor and furniture designer (died 1978)
Harry Bertoia, son of Giuseppe Antonio Bertoia and Maria Secunda Mussio, was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.
Joža Horvat, Croatian writer (died 2012)
Josip "Joža" Horvat was a Croatian writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays, essays and radio dramas, translated into at least nine languages, including Russian, Chinese and Esperanto.
10/03/1903
Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (died 1989)
Edward Bawden, was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.
Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (died 1931)
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell”.
Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (died 1987)
Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and conservative public intellectual. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She served as a U.S. representative from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1943 to 1947, and as U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1956. She was married to Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.
10/03/1901
Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter (died 1999)
Fernand Berckelaers, pseudonym Michel Seuphor, was a Belgian painter.
10/03/1900
Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (died 2017)
Violet Brown was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017. She was, along with Japanese woman Nabi Tajima, one of the last two living people known to have been born in the 19th century. She is the oldest verified Jamaican person in history.
Pandelis Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (died 1943)
Pandelis Pouliopoulos was a Greek communist, anti-fascist, and one-time general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He stood for the internationalist and revolutionary character of the communist movement. He is among the founders of the Trotskyist movement in Greece.
10/03/1896
Frederick Coulton Waugh, British cartoonist, painter, teacher and author (died 1973)
Frederick Coulton Waugh was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics (1947), the first major study of the field.
10/03/1892
Arthur Honegger, French composer and educator (died 1955)
Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".
Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1952)
Gregory La Cava was an American film director of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.
10/03/1891
Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (died 1984)
Shalom "Sam" Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). He also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959), and is additionally known for his roles as the titular character in Gunga Din (1939) and as the "High Lama" in Lost Horizon (1937).
10/03/1890
Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (died 1939)
Albert George Ogilvie was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939.
10/03/1888
Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (died 1961)
William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
10/03/1881
Jessie Boswell, English painter (died 1956)
Jessie Boswell was an English painter, active mainly in her adoptive Piedmont, known as being one of the painters of the Gruppo dei Sei Pittori (1929–1931) in that city.
10/03/1877
Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican diplomat and president (1930-1932) (died 1963)
Pascual Ortiz Rubio was a Mexican military officer, topographical engineer, diplomat and politician who served as the 49th President of Mexico from 1930 to 1932. He was one of three presidents to serve out the six-year term (1928–1934) of assassinated president-elect Álvaro Obregón, while former president Plutarco Elías Calles retained power in a period known as the Maximato. Calles was so blatantly in control of the government that after an attempt on his life and pressures, Ortiz Rubio resigned the presidency in protest in September 1932, being the last Mexican president to date that has resigned.
10/03/1876
Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor (died 1973)
Anna Vaughn Huntington was an American sculptor who was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century. At a time when very few women were successful artists, she had a thriving career. Hyatt Huntington exhibited often, traveled widely, received critical acclaim at home and abroad, and won multiple awards and commissions.
10/03/1873
Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier and author (died 1934)
Jakob Wassermann was a German writer and novelist.
10/03/1870
David Riazanov, Russian theorist and politician (died 1938)
David Riazanov or Ryazanov, born David Borisovich Goldendakh, was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer, Marxologist and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky. Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.
10/03/1867
Hector Guimard, French-American architect (died 1942)
Hector Guimard was a French architect and designer prominent for his Art Nouveau style designs including Paris Métro entrances. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Béranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building in Paris, which was selected in an 1899 competition as one of the best new building facades in the city. He is best known for the glass and iron edicules or canopies, with ornamental Art Nouveau curves, which he designed to cover the entrances of the first stations of the Paris Métro.
Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (died 1940)
Lillian D. Wald was an American nurse, humanitarian, human rights activist and author. An early advocate for nurses in public schools, she started American community nursing and founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.
10/03/1861
E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian First Nations poet and performer (died 1913)
Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief, and her mother was an English immigrant.
10/03/1853
Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
Sir Thomas Mackenzie was a New Zealand politician and explorer who briefly served as the 18th prime minister of New Zealand in 1912, and later served as New Zealand High Commissioner in London.
10/03/1850
Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (died 1906)
Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).
10/03/1846
Edward Baker Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1850)
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Lincoln's close friend, Edward Dickinson Baker. Both Abraham and Mary spelled his name "Eddy"; however, the National Park Service uses "Eddie" as a nickname and the nickname also appears spelled this way on his crypt at the Lincoln tomb.
10/03/1845
Alexander III of Russia (died 1894)
Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II, a policy of "counter-reforms".
10/03/1844
Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (died 1908)
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués, commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include Zigeunerweisen, the Spanish Dances, and the Carmen Fantasy.
Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1927)
Marie Stillman was a British painter. A member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she is regarded as the greatest female artist of that movement.
10/03/1843
Evelyn Abbott, English classical scholar (died 1901)
Evelyn Abbott was an English writer and classical scholar. He is best known for his book History of Greece, which includes a sceptical viewpoint of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. He is also very well known as being the editor-in-chief of Heroes of the Nations book series, which were widely popular in England.
10/03/1841
Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California, writer, and librarian (died 1928)
Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state.
10/03/1810
Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (died 1886)
Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century Irish poet, and his interest in Irish mythology and early Irish history can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Irish Literary Revival.
10/03/1795
Joseph Légaré, Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (died 1855)
Joseph Légaré was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He was an important figure in Quebec City during the early nineteenth century, painting nearly 200 works with subject matter ranging from Quebec's landscapes and important figures to current events and history paintings.
10/03/1789
Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (died 1850)
José Manuel de la Peña y Peña was a Mexican lawyer and judge who served two non-consecutive, but closely following, terms as the president of Mexico during the Mexican American War. In contrast to many other nineteenth-century Mexican presidents, he never served in the military, instead coming from a distinguished legal background.
10/03/1788
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1857)
Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism. Ever since their publication and up to the present day, some of his works have been very popular in German-speaking Europe.
Edward Hodges Baily, English sculptor (died 1867)
Edward Hodges Baily was a prolific British sculptor responsible for numerous public monuments, portrait busts, statues and exhibition pieces as well as works in silver. He carved friezes for both the Marble Arch and Buckingham Palace in London. His numerous statues of public figures include that of Horatio Nelson on top of Nelson's Column and Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey on Grey's Monument in Newcastle upon Tyne. Throughout his career Baily was responsible for creating a number of monuments and memorials for British churches and cathedrals, including several in St Paul's Cathedral.
10/03/1787
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1862)
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Cornejo was a Spanish statesman and dramatist and the first prime minister of Spain to receive the title of President of the Council of Ministers.
William Etty, English painter and academic (died 1849)
William Etty was an English artist best known for his historical paintings containing nude figures. He was the first significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Born in York, he left school at the age of 12 to become an apprentice printer in Hull. He completed his apprenticeship seven years later and moved to London, where in 1807 he joined the Royal Academy Schools. There he studied under Thomas Lawrence and trained by copying works by other artists. Etty earned respect at the Royal Academy of Arts for his ability to paint realistic flesh tones, but had little commercial or critical success in his first few years in London.
10/03/1777
Louis Hersent, French painter (died 1860)
Louis Hersent was a French painter.
10/03/1772
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (died 1829)
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.
10/03/1769
Joseph Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1840)
Joseph Williamson was an eccentric English businessman, philanthropist and property owner who is best known for the Williamson Tunnels, which were constructed under his direction in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England. His philanthropy earned him the nickname the King of Edge Hill, whilst his tunnel-building activity earned him posthumous nicknames, including the Mole of Edge Hill and the Mad Mole.
10/03/1749
Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest and poet (died 1838)
Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian, later American librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's most celebrated operas: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790).
10/03/1748
John Playfair, Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819)
John Playfair FRSE, FRS was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience. Playfair's textbook Elements of Geometry made a brief expression of Euclid's parallel postulate known now as Playfair's axiom.
10/03/1709
Georg Wilhelm Steller, German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (died 1746)
Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German-born naturalist and explorer who contributed to the fields of biology, zoology, and ethnography. He participated in the Great Northern Expedition (1733–1743) and his observations of the natural world helped the exploration and documentation of the flora and fauna of the North Pacific region.
10/03/1656
Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor (died 1732)
Giacomo Serpotta was an Italian sculptor, active in a Rococo style and mainly working in stucco.
10/03/1653
John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (died 1702)
Vice-Admiral of the White John Benbow was a Royal Navy officer. He joined the Navy in 1678, seeing action against Barbary pirates before leaving to join the Merchant Navy in which Benbow served until the 1688 Glorious Revolution, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned.
10/03/1628
François Girardon, French sculptor (died 1715)
François Girardon was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.
Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (died 1694)
Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects. The splenic lymphoid nodules are often called the "Malpighian bodies of the spleen" or Malpighian corpuscles. The botanical family Malpighiaceae is also named after him. He was the first person to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins that had eluded William Harvey. Malpighi was one of the earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam. His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding blood composition, as well as how blood clots. In it, Malpighi described how the form of a blood clot differed in the right against the left sides of the heart.
10/03/1604
Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (died 1670)
Johann Rudolf Glauber was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him: "Glauber's salt".
10/03/1596
Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden (died 1618)
Maria Elizabeth Vasa was a Swedish princess, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, and by marriage Duchess of Östergötland.
10/03/1536
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (died 1572)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk,, was an English Roman Catholic nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign.
10/03/1503
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1564)
Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Emperor Charles V, and often served as Charles' representative in developing encouraging relationships with German princes. In addition, Ferdinand also developed valuable relationships with the German banking house of Jakob Fugger and the Catalan bank, Banca Palenzuela Levi Kahana.
10/03/1452
Ferdinand II, King of Castile and León (died 1516)
Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504. He reigned jointly with Isabella over a dynastically unified Spain; together, they are known as the Catholic Monarchs. Ferdinand is considered the de facto first king of Spain, and was described as such during his reign, even though, legally, Castile and Aragon remained two separate kingdoms until they were formally united by the Nueva Planta decrees issued between 1707 and 1716.