14th March — Pi Day & International Day of Mathematics & White Day

On this day, 186 notable people were born on 14th March — spanning from 1297 to 2008. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

14/03/2008

Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress

Abby Ryder Fortson is an American actress. She played Ella Novak in Transparent, Harper Weil in The Whispers, Sophie Pierson in Togetherness, Cassie Lang in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Margaret Simon in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023).

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14/03/2001

Nico Mannion, Italian-American basketball player

Niccolò "Nico" Mannion is an Italian-American professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. He attended Pinnacle High School in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the top point guards in the 2019 class. Although he mainly grew up in the United States, Mannion represents his birth country of Italy in international competitions.

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14/03/2000

Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality

Chrisean Eugenia Malone, known professionally as Chrisean Rock, is an American rapper and reality television personality. She is best known for appearing on Zeus Network's reality series Baddies (2022–2026) for four seasons. She then starred in her own short-lived series, Blueface & Chrisean: Crazy in Love (2022–2023), also for the network.

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Jihoon, South Korean singer

Park Ji-hoon, known mononymously as Jihoon, is a South Korean singer. He debuted in Treasure on August 7, 2020, and its single album entitled The First Step: Chapter One.

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14/03/1999

Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player

Marvin Bagley III is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was a 2018 Consensus All-American.

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Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter

Olivia Lauryn Dean is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include four Brit Awards and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

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14/03/1998

Tyson Jost, Canadian ice hockey player

Tyson Jost is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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14/03/1997

Simone Biles, American gymnast

Simone Arianne Biles Owens is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time, and one of the greatest female athletes in history. With 11 Olympic medals, she is tied with Věra Čáslavská as the second-most decorated female Olympic gymnast behind Larisa Latynina, and has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast.

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14/03/1996

Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer

Mustafa Batuhan Altıntaş is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for TFF 2. Lig club Güzide Gebzespor.

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14/03/1995

Brandon Aubrey, American multi-sport athlete

Brandon Scott Aubrey is an American multi-sport athlete who plays as a placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He has also played professional association football as a center back.

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Nick Eh 30, Canadian live streamer and professional gamer

Nicholas Amyoony, better known online as Nick Eh 30, is a Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer. Amyoony began making gaming videos as a student at Dalhousie University, and later dropped out to pursue his gaming and streaming career as he received online success while starting to play Fortnite Battle Royale in late 2017. Amyoony is particularly known for being family-friendly.

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14/03/1994

Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ

Ansel Elgort is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013). He gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and for his supporting role in The Divergent Series (2014–2016).

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14/03/1993

Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball player

Anthony Harris Bennett is a Canadian professional basketball player for Al-Najma of the Bahraini Premier League. He played college basketball for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) for one year. He was the first overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, becoming the first Canadian to be drafted number one overall. He played only four seasons in the NBA, averaging 4.4 points per game, and has been named the worst number-one pick in league history.

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J. T. Miller, American ice hockey player

Jonathan Tanner Miller is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward and captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Rangers in the first round, 15th overall, of the 2011 NHL entry draft. He has also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Vancouver Canucks.

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14/03/1992

Shotzi Blackheart, American wrestler

Ashley Louise Alfaro, better known by the ring name Shotzi Blackheart, is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW), where she is the current MLW World Women's Featherweight Champion in her first reign. She also performs on the independent circuit. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Shotzi and is a former one-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion.

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Erik Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player

Erik Gustafsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman for the Grand Rapids Griffins in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers. Gustafsson was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round, 93rd overall, of the 2012 NHL entry draft.

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14/03/1991

Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler

Emir Bekrić is a former Serbian hurdler. He specialises and holds the Serbian national record for the 400 metres hurdles. He is coached by Mirjana Stojanović. In 2013, Bekrić became the first male track and field athlete from Serbia to win a medal at the IAAF Outdoor World Championships. In the same year he won the award European athletics rising star, as well as golden badge for Serbian athlete of the year.

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14/03/1990

Joe Allen, Welsh footballer

Joseph Michael Allen is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is a first-team coach at Swansea City.

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Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer

Tamás Kádár is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club MTK Budapest. He is a defender and is equally capable at centre-back or left-back. He made his debut for Zalaegerszegi TE at the age of 16 and has since gone on to win Hungary U-21 honours.

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Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress

Haru Kuroki is a Japanese actress. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her performance in the film The Little House.

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Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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14/03/1989

Marwin González, Venezuelan baseball player

Marwin Javier González is a Venezuelan former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes. González was signed as an international free agent by the Chicago Cubs in 2005. He made his MLB debut with the Astros in 2012, and won the World Series with the team in 2017. González has appeared at every position in MLB except for catcher.

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Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver

Kevin Lacroix is a Canadian racing driver from Saint-Eustache, Quebec. He currently competes in the NASCAR Canada Series, driving the No. 74 Chevrolet for Innovation Auto Sport, a team he formed with fellow driver Mathieu Kingsbury.

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Patrick Patterson, American basketball player

Patrick Davell Patterson is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the NBA for the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, Toronto Raptors, Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Clippers.

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14/03/1988

Stephen Curry, American basketball player

Wardell Stephen Curry II, also known as Steph Curry, is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he plays as a point guard. Nicknamed "Chef Curry", he is widely regarded as the greatest shooter in basketball history and is credited with revolutionizing the game by popularizing the three-point shot across all levels of basketball.

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Rico Freimuth, German decathlete

Rico Freimuth is a retired German athlete who specialised in the decathlon. He won two medals at World Championships, bronze in 2015 and silver in 2017.

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14/03/1986

Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer

Elton Chigumbura is a Zimbabwean former cricketer, who played for the national cricket team between 2004 and 2020.

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Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist

Jessica Gallagher is an Australian Paralympic alpine skier, track and field athlete, tandem cyclist and rower. She was Australia's second female Winter Paralympian, and the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics at the 2010 Vancouver Games. She competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where she won a bronze medal in the women's giant slalom visually impaired.

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Andy Taylor, English footballer

Andrew Taylor is an English former footballer who played as a defender. He is currently the Assistant Manager at Barrow.

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14/03/1983

Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics. In recognition of his success, one of the Taraz sport centres was named after him. In 2012 he was appointed as a president of the Astana Presidential Sports Club.

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14/03/1982

Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer

Carlos Ariel Marinelli is an Argentine former footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder.

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François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (died 2008)

François Sterchele was a Belgian professional footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006–07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on 8 May 2008.

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14/03/1981

Bobby Jenks, American baseball player (died 2025)

Robert Scott Jenks was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox from 2005 through 2011, and was a two-time All-Star. A relief pitcher, Jenks served as a closer for most of his career, and he ranks second in career saves among White Sox pitchers.

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George Wilson, American football player

George Eugene Wilson Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2004. Wilson was a longtime player for the Buffalo Bills and also played for the Tennessee Titans.

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14/03/1980

Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach

Aaron Wesley Brown is an English professional footballer who played as a left-back or left winger. His late younger brother Marvin also played professionally and both were with Bristol City at the same time.

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Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player and coach

Ben Herring is a rugby union coach and former professional player.

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14/03/1979

Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager

Nicolas Sébastien Anelka is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. As a player, he regularly featured in his country's national team, often scoring at crucial moments. Known for his ability to both score and assist goals, he has been described as a classy and quick player, with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball, and was capable of playing both as a main striker and as a second striker.

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Dan Avidan, American musician and internet personality

Leigh Daniel Avidan, also known by his stage name Danny Sexbang, is an American musician, internet personality, actor, and comedian. He is one half of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party with Brian Wecht, as well as the co-host of the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps with Arin Hanson. He is also part of the more rap-based comedy music trio Starbomb with Hanson and Wecht, and the vocalist for the rock duo Shadow Academy, known for its inspiration from classic novels, alongside Jim Roach. As of October 2023, Avidan also performs vocals for the electronic music duo Skyhill, originally co-founded by Avidan in 2007.

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Chris Klein, American actor

Frederick Christopher Klein is an American actor. He made his on-screen debut with a supporting role in the dark comedy film Election (1999) before his breakout starring role as Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the teen sex comedy film American Pie (1999). He reprised his role in two sequels: American Pie 2 (2001) and American Reunion (2012).

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Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer

Sead Ramović is a German football manager and former player who manages Algerian club CR Belouizdad. He played as a goalkeeper.

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14/03/1978

Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer

Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.

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Viesturs Kleinbergs, Latvian politician

Viesturs Kleinbergs is a Latvian politician and social worker currently serving as the chairman of the Riga city council.

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14/03/1977

Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach

Vadims Fjodorovs is a Latvian former football goalkeeper, currently a goalkeeping coach for Daugava Daugavpils in the Latvian Higher League.

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Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (died 2011)

Naoki Matsuda was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a central defender for the Japan national team.

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Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player

Jeremy Paul is a former professional rugby union player. He played hooker for the Wallabies and the ACT Brumbies.

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14/03/1976

Brian Quinn, American improvisational comedian and actor

Brian Michael "Q" Quinn is an American improvisational comedian and actor. He is a member of The Tenderloins, a comedy troupe consisting of Sal Vulcano, James Murray, and formerly Joe Gatto. Along with Vulcano and Murray, he stars in the television series Impractical Jokers, which first premiered in 2011, on TruTV.

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Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster

Philip John Vickery MBE DL is an English former rugby union player. A tighthead prop he won 73 international caps for England squad and was a member of England's World Cup winning squad in 2003, playing in all seven matches in the tournament.

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14/03/1975

Steve Harper, English footballer and referee

Stephen Alan Harper is an English former professional footballer, and currently first team coach for Newcastle United and goalkeeping coach for the Northern Ireland national team. He is best known for his time playing at Newcastle, having amassed 157 league appearances over a twenty-year period between 1993 and 2013. Although he was not always the first choice goalkeeper at Newcastle, he was the longest-serving player in the club's history.

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Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter

Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder. His gold medal winning jump at the 2001 World Championships made him the third person ever to clear 6.05 metres or 19 feet 10 inches.

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14/03/1974

Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler

Anthony Carelli, better known by the ring name Santino Marella, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he works as the on-screen director of authority. He is the founder of and instructor at Battle Arts Academy, a martial arts and professional wrestling training facility in Mississauga, Ontario, and the official ambassador of Judo Canada.

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Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player

Patrick Traverse is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 279 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with five teams including the Ottawa Senators, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, and Dallas Stars. He was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the third round, 50th overall, in the 1992 NHL entry draft and joined the organization in 1993. In 2009, he left North America to play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany with the DEG Metro Stars and Hamburg Freezers. He played internationally for Canada at the 2000 World Championship.

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14/03/1973

Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer

Rohit Shetty is an Indian director, screenwriter, stuntman, producer and television personality who works in Hindi cinema. A notable director of Hindi cinema, his movies often mix the genres of action comedy and masala films.

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14/03/1972

Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist

Irom Sharmila Chanu, also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" is an Indian civil rights activist and poet from the state of Manipur. In 2000, she began a hunger strike to abolish the Armed Forces Act, 1958. She ended her intermittent fast in 2016, after being force-fed for over 500 weeks in custody. Amnesty International has declared her a prisoner of conscience.

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14/03/1970

Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kristian Merrill Bush is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bush is one half of the country music duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles, and was a member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Andrew Hyra. In addition to his work in these two groups, Bush released one solo album, Southern Gravity, via Streamsound Records in 2015, and four solo albums via Big Machine Records, 52 ATL x BNA, 52 | In The Key Of Summer, 52 | New Blue, and 52 | This Year in 2022 and 2023. In 2023 Bush also released an EP titled Drink Happy Thoughts on his own label Songs Of The Architect.

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14/03/1969

Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor

Larry Demetric Johnson is an American former professional basketball player who spent his career as a power forward with the Charlotte Hornets and the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). An NCAA champion and two-time NBA All-Star, Johnson is a member of the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame. Johnson won a version of national player of the year at the high school, junior college, and NCAA Division I levels.

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14/03/1968

Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress

Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian actress and director. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels. From 2013 to 2017, she starred as Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, in the television drama series Reign.

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Magnús Árni Magnússon, Icelandic politician

Magnús Árni Skjöld Magnússon is an Icelandic academic, politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Reykjavík constituency from October 1998 to May 1999.

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14/03/1966

Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter

Jonas Elmer is a Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of Family Business, starring Sean Connery.

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Elise Neal, American actress and producer

Elise Demetria Neal is an American actress known for her work in television and film. She rose to prominence in 1997 with roles in Rosewood, Money Talks, and Scream 2. She later starred as Yvonne Hughley in the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys (1998–2002), earning two NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her notable film credits include Restaurant (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), and Logan (2017). For her performance in Hustle & Flow (2005), she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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14/03/1965

Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach

James Kevin Brown is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2005 for the Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Yankees. Brown led the American League in wins once and led the National League in earned run average twice. He was a six-time MLB All-Star and threw a no-hitter in 1997.

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Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director

Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi films. Referred to as "Mr. Perfectionist" in the media, through his career spanning over 30 years, Khan has established himself as one of the most notable actors of Indian cinema. Khan is the recipient of numerous awards, including nine Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, and an AACTA Award. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2010, and received an honorary title from the Government of China in 2017.

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Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

William Wyman Sherwood is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, record producer and mixing engineer. He is best known as the current bassist and backing vocalist in English progressive rock band Yes, and previously played guitar and keyboards with the band as a touring member in 1994 and as a full member from 1997 to 2000. He is also known for working with former and current Yes members on other projects such as Arc of Life, Circa and Yoso.

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Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is known for writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream (1996)—which launched the Scream franchise—along with those for Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 4 (2011), and writing and directing Scream 7 (2026). He is also known for creating the WB teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), the CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), the Fox crime thriller series The Following (2013–2015) and the CBS All Access thriller series Tell Me a Story (2018–2020).

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14/03/1964

Chris Johns, Australian rugby league player and administrator

Chris Johns is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played in the centres, achieving representative honors for Australia and New South Wales. His club football career was spent with the St. George Dragons and Brisbane Broncos, as well as two spells in England, first with Castleford in 1986-87 and then Barrow in 1989–90. After retiring from the playing field, Johns worked in the administration of the Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm clubs.

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14/03/1963

Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach

Bruce Anthony Reid is a former Australian international cricketer. A 203 cm tall left-arm fast-medium bowler, Reid also played domestically for his home state Western Australia. He was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup, and is the first Australian to take a hat-trick in the ODI format of the game.

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14/03/1961

Mike Lazaridis, Greek–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited

Mike Lazaridis, OC, FRS is a Canadian businessman who co-founded Research In Motion, the company that created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has gone on to become a major supporter of Canadian academic physics and an investor in quantum computing technologies.

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14/03/1960

Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic

Heidi B. Hammel is an American planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She was part of the team imaging Neptune from Voyager 2 in 1989. She led the team using the Hubble Space Telescope to view Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter in 1994. She has used the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope to study Uranus and Neptune, discovering new information about dark spots, planetary storms and Uranus' rings. In 2002, she was selected as an interdisciplinary scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (died 2006)

Kirby Puckett was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995). Puckett was instrumental in helping the Twins to win World Series championships in 1987 and 1991. Puckett generally played center field, although he was shifted to right field later in his career.

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14/03/1959

Laila Robins, American actress

Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), An Innocent Man (1989), Live Nude Girls (1995), True Crime (1999), She's Lost Control (2014), Eye in the Sky (2015), and A Call to Spy (2019). Her television credits include regular roles on Gabriel's Fire, Homeland, and Murder in the First, playing Pamela Milton in the final season of The Walking Dead (2022), and Colonel Grace Mallory in The Boys (2019–2024) and Gen V (2023).

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Tamara Tunie, American actress

Tamara Tunie is an American film, stage, and television actress, singer, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and as medical examiner Melinda Warner in the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2000–2021). Tunie also appeared in films such as Rising Sun (1993), The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Caveman's Valentine (2001) receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female, Flight (2012), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). Since February 2025, she has played the role of Anita Dupree on the CBS daytime soap opera Beyond the Gates.

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14/03/1958

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Albert II is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005.

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14/03/1957

Tad Williams, American author

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, Shadowmarch series, and The Bobby Dollar series, as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Most recently, Williams published The Last King of Osten Ard series, with its final novel The Navigator's Children being published in 2024. More than 17 million copies of Williams' works have been sold.

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14/03/1956

Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court of India

Indu Malhotra is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Post retirement, she is practicing as a full-time arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations. Prior to her elevation, she was practicing as a Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of India, and various High Courts. In 2007, she was the second woman to be designated as a Senior Counsel by the Supreme Court, after more than three decades. In 2018, she was the first woman to be elevated directly from the Bar as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. She demitted office in March 2021 on completion of her term. She has contributed significantly to arbitration jurisprudence, both as a counsel and as a judge.

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Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach

Harold Delano "Butch" Wynegar Jr. is an American former professional baseball catcher who played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees and California Angels, and was a two-time All Star.

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14/03/1955

Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (died 2013)

Jonathan David Kaufer was an American film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. Kaufer received his first job while in his late teens as a writer for the sitcom Mork & Mindy. Filmmaker Howard Zieff later hired Kaufer to do rewrites for his films, and his work on the 1979 film The Main Event led to a development deal enabling him to direct his first film, the romantic comedy Soup for One. At the time, he was the youngest director hired by a major studio.

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14/03/1954

Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach

Brian Smith is an Australian rugby league coach and former player. He was also the Football Manager for the New Zealand Warriors.

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14/03/1953

Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Nick Keir was a Scottish musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, who is best known for his work with The McCalmans. More recently Keir emerged as a singer-songwriter, producing three solo albums and performing as a soloist with The Tolkien Ensemble. Keir regularly played in both Scotland and Denmark at folk festivals and on tours, both with The McCalmans and also at solo gigs.

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14/03/1951

Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's

Jerry Greenfield is an American businessman, philanthropist, and activist. He is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.

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14/03/1950

Rick Dees, American actor and radio host

Rigdon Osmond Dees III, best known as Rick Dees, is an American radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song "Disco Duck". He is also known as the source of the audio in the 2002 "You Are An Idiot" trojan, which originated from a comedy sketch on his 1984 album Put It Where the Moon Don’t Shine.

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14/03/1948

Tom Coburn, American physician and politician (died 2020)

Thomas Allen Coburn was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015. A Republican, Coburn previously served as a United States representative from 1995 to 2001.

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Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter

William Edward Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is known as a stand-up comedian and for his film and stage roles. Crystal has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for three Grammy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2007, the Critics' Choice Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2023.

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Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor

Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled Strandbeest. The kinetic sculptures appear to walk. His animated works are intended to be a fusion of art and engineering. He has said that "The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds." Some of his creations are reported to incorporate primitive logic gates for collision detection with obstacles such as the sea.

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14/03/1947

Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (died 1993)

Roy Frederick Budd was an English jazz pianist and composer known for his film scores, including Get Carter and The Wild Geese.

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William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician

William Jennings Jefferson is an American former politician from Louisiana whose career ended amid a high-profile corruption scandal and subsequent conviction. A member of the Democratic Party, he served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009, representing Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district in the greater New Orleans area. He is the state’s first black congressman since the end of Reconstruction.

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Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Jona Lewie is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".

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14/03/1946

Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager (died 2020)

Westley Sissel Unseld Sr. was an American professional basketball player, coach and executive. He spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets. Unseld played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected with the second overall pick by the Bullets in the 1968 NBA draft. Known as "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Oak Tree" because of his immense physical presence, Unseld was named the NBA Most Valuable Player and NBA Rookie of the Year during his rookie season and joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only two players in NBA history to accomplish the feat. He won an NBA championship with the Bullets in 1978 and the Finals MVP award to go with it.

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14/03/1945

Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and game show host

Robert Norman Davis, known by his stage name, Jasper Carrott, is an English comedian, writer, actor, singer and television presenter. His credits include An Audience With Jasper Carrott (1978), The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982), Carrott's Lib (1982-1983), Jane and the Lost City (1987), Carrott's Commercial Breakdown (1989-1996), Canned Carrott (1990-1995), The Detectives (1993-1997), All About Me (2002–2004), and Golden Balls (2007–2009).

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Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the founding artists of progressive country. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959. He has recorded the hit singles "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "A Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Maybe This Time". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment". He has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy.

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Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist

Walter Parazaider is an American retired woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow. Parazaider is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasionally plays guitar.

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14/03/1944

Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2022)

Boris Brott, was a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker. He conducted on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and Covent Garden. Over his career, he commissioned, performed, and recorded a wide variety of Canadian works for orchestra.

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Clyde Lee, American basketball player

Clyde Wayne Lee is an American former professional basketball player who had his most success as an All-American center at Vanderbilt University, where the two-time Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year was among the most heralded players in school history. He was the No. 3 overall pick in the 1965 NBA draft and a one-time NBA All-Star, playing ten seasons in the league.

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Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager

Václav Nedomanský is a Czech former ice hockey forward. Nedomanský was the first Czechoslovak hockey player to defect to North America for professional hockey, playing with the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019. He is also a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame (1997), Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame (2002), Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame (2008) and was named into the IIHF All-Time Czech Team (2020).

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Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager

Robert William Smith is an English former footballer and football manager. He was capped by England at Schoolboys and Youth level. He is the son of Conway Smith and grandson of Billy Smith, from whom he gets his middle name.

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Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (died 2012)

Charles Thomas Stannage, was a prominent Western Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player. He edited the major work A New History of Western Australia, which was published in 1981.

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14/03/1943

Anita Morris, American actress and singer (died 1994)

Anita Rose Morris was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

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14/03/1942

Rita Tushingham, English actress

Rita Tushingham is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), Being Julia (2004), and Last Night in Soho (2021).

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14/03/1941

Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Wolfgang Petersen was a German film and television director, screenwriter and producer. His international breakthrough was the war film Das Boot (1981), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He subsequently directed the blockbuster fantasy film The Never Ending Story (1984), based on the 1979 novel of the same name.

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14/03/1939

Raymond J. Barry, American actor

Raymond John Barry is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Steel City.

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Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter (died 2025)

Bertrand Blier was a French film director and writer. His 1978 film Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.

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Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter (died 2025)

Yves Félix Claude Boisset was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed fiction films like The Assassination, Le prix du danger, as well as investigative documentaries. Boisset was known for his left wing political views and the controversial releases of his films. He was labeled "the most censored man in France", and declared himself the most censored filmmaker of the Fifth Republic.

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14/03/1938

Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter

Eleanor Bron is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author. Her film roles include Ahme in the Beatles musical Help! (1965), the Doctor in Alfie (1966), Margaret Spencer in Bedazzled (1967) and Hermione Roddice in Women in Love (1969). She has appeared in television series such as Yes Minister, Doctor Who and Absolutely Fabulous.

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Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (died 2016)

Janice Wendell Crouch was an American religious broadcaster. Crouch and her husband, Paul, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973.

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John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (died 2016)

John William Gleeson was an Australian cricketer who played in 29 Test matches from 1967 to 1972. He is best known for his unique bowling style, which according to Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland "bamboozled batsmen" and could "regularly dumbfound the best batsmen in any team".

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Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008)

Árpád Orbán was a Hungarian Olympic champion football player.

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14/03/1937

Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (died 2013)

Peter Laurence van der Merwe was a South African cricketer. He played in fifteen Tests from 1963 to 1967, captaining South Africa to series victories against England in 1965 and Australia in 1966–67.

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14/03/1936

Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer

Sir Robert James Charles is a New Zealand professional golfer who won the 1963 Open Championship, the first left-handed player to win a major championship. He won the 1954 New Zealand Open as an 18-year-old amateur and made the cut in the same event in 2007, at the age of 71. His achievements over that period, in which he won 80 tournaments, rank him as one of the most successful New Zealand golfers of all time. Along with Michael Campbell, he is one of only two New Zealanders to win a men's major golf championship.

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14/03/1934

Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)

Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.

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Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army (died 2025)

Paul Alexander Rader, was an American religious leader, who was the 15th General of the Salvation Army from 1994 to 1999, and was the President of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, from 2000 to 2006.

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14/03/1933

Michael Caine, English actor

Sir Michael Caine is an English retired actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 130 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon. He has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Quincy Jones, American producer (died 2024)

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was an American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer, and bandleader. During his seven-decade career, he received dozens of accolades, including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.

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14/03/1932

Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)

Mark Howe Murphy was an American jazz singer based at various times in New York City, Los Angeles, London, and San Francisco. He recorded 51 albums under his own name during his lifetime and was principally known for his innovative vocal improvisations. He was the recipient of the 1996, 1997, 2000, and 2001 Down Beat magazine readers' jazz poll for Best Male Vocalist and was also nominated five times for the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Jazz Performance. He wrote lyrics to the jazz tunes "Stolen Moments" and "Red Clay".

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Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia

Anastasia Iosifovna "Naina" Yeltsina is a Russian civil engineer and the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. She was the First Lady of Russia during her husband's presidency (1991–1999).

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14/03/1929

Bob Goalby, American golfer (died 2022)

Robert George Goalby was an American professional golfer. He won 11 PGA Tour events including the 1968 Masters.

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14/03/1928

Frank Borman, American astronaut (died 2023)

Frank Frederick Borman II was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 28 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

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Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (died 1980)

Félix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential television series El Hombre y la Tierra (1974–1980). A graduate in medicine and self-taught in biology, he was a multifaceted charismatic figure whose influence has endured despite the passing years.

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14/03/1927

Chuck Share, American basketball player (died 2012)

Charles Edward Share was an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Share has the distinction of being the first NBA draft pick ever: he was selected by the Boston Celtics as the No. 1 overall pick in the inaugural 1950 NBA draft.

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14/03/1926

François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (died 2018)

François Morel was a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded the Prix Denise-Pelletier in 1996. He has had his works premiered by the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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14/03/1925

William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (died 2014)

William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman who was on the boards of Ford Motor Company and the Edison Institute. Ford owned the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 until his death. He was the youngest child of Edsel Ford and was the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford.

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Francis A. Marzen, Roman Catholic priest (died 2004)

Francis A. Marzen was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, former editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald and an information specialist for the City & County of Honolulu in the administration of Mayor Frank Fasi.

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Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (died 2013)

Joseph Andrew Unanue was an American businessman and president of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic–owned food company in the United States.

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14/03/1923

Diane Arbus, American photographer (died 1971)

Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. "She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity."

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14/03/1922

Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (died 1996)

Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over 250 radio, television and motion pictures numbers.

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14/03/1921

S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (died 2014)

Samuel Truett Cathy was an American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist who founded the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A in 1946.

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Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (died 2013)

Ada Louise Huxtable was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the urban environment. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue." "She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved," said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.

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14/03/1920

Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (died 2001)

Henry King Ketcham was an American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip, writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994, when he retired from drawing the daily cartoon and took up painting full-time in his home studio. In 1953, he received the Reuben Award for the strip, which continues today in the hands of other cartoonists.

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Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (died 2014)

Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

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14/03/1919

Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (died 1988)

Maximilian Shulman was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.

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14/03/1918

Zoia Horn, American librarian (died 2014)

Zoia Markovna Horn was an American librarian who in 1972 became the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Horn, an outspoken member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, worked at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in the early 1970s. Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists.

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14/03/1917

Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013)

Sir Alan Smith, was a Royal Air Force fighter ace who piloted a Supermarine Spitfire in the Second World War, and a successful businessman.

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14/03/1916

Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2009)

Albert Horton Foote Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, and Tender Mercies (1983). He was also known for his notable live television dramas produced during the Golden Age of Television.

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14/03/1915

Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2005)

Alexander Brott,, born Joël Brod, was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher.

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14/03/1914

Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

Lee Elhardt Hays was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. He wrote or cowrote "Lonesome Traveller", "Wasn't That a Time?", "If I Had a Hammer", and "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", which became hits and Weavers' staples. He also familiarized audiences with songs of the 1930s labor movement, such as "We Shall Not Be Moved".

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Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (died 1999)

William John Owen Rowbotham was an English actor and songwriter. He is best known for portraying Compo Simmonite in the Yorkshire-based BBC comedy series Last of the Summer Wine for over a quarter of a century. He died on 12 July 1999, his last appearance on-screen being shown in April 2000.

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Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (died 2000)

Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family. He was one of the early pioneers of NASCAR and one of its first stars. He was NASCAR's first three-time Cup champion. He is the father of Richard Petty, who went on to become one of the most successful stock car racing drivers in history. He is also the grandfather of Kyle Petty and great grandfather of Adam Petty.

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14/03/1913

Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (died 1989)

Dominik Tatarka was a Slovak writer famous for his 1956 satirical text The Demon of Consent condemning Stalinism.

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14/03/1912

Cliff Bastin, English footballer (died 1991)

Clifford Sydney Bastin was an English footballer who played as a winger for Exeter City and Arsenal. He also played for the England national team. Bastin is Arsenal's third-highest goalscorer of all time.

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Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2001)

Lester Raymond Brown was an American jazz musician who for over six decades (1938–2000) led his big band, later called Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

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W. Graham Claytor Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1994)

William Graham Claytor Jr. was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, railroad executive, and administrator of railroad, transportation, and defense affairs for the United States government, working under the administrations of three US presidents.

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W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (died 2010)

William Willard Wirtz was a U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secretary of Labor between 1962 and 1969 under the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Wirtz was the last living member of Kennedy's cabinet.

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14/03/1911

Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (died 2005)

Akira Yoshizawa was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books. Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career. In 1983, Emperor Hirohito awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class, one of the highest honors bestowed in Japan.

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14/03/1908

Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft (died 1991)

Edward Henry Heinemann was a military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (died 1961)

Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.

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Phil Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (died 1979)

Philip Conrad Vincent was a British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Founder of Vincent Motorcycles, his designs influenced the development of motorcycles around the world.

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Koča Popović, Yugoslav politician and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans (died 1992)

Konstantin "Koča" Popović was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on occasion referred to as "the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans", because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik axis, and devised the plan for breaking through it during the Battle of Sutjeska, thus saving Josip Broz Tito, his headquarters and the rest of the resistance movement. After the war, he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, before moving to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and spent the final years of his political career as Vice President of Yugoslavia.

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14/03/1906

Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (died 1972)

Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a member of the pioneer group of symphonic composers in Turkey, born in the period 1904–1910, who later came to be called The Turkish Five. These composers, all trained in Europe took on the responsibility of creating a new Turkish music style, both universal and also local at the same time. They utilized Western musical forms, i.e. symphony, concerto and opera, and brought in melodic, harmonic, modal and rhythmic elements of Turkish folk music, also known as Anatolian Village Music, and Ottoman Court music, popularly known as Turkish Art Music.

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14/03/1905

Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1983)

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

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14/03/1904

Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (died 2010)

Doris Eaton Travis was an American dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, owner and manager, writer, and rancher, who was the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies.

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14/03/1903

Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (died 1974)

Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a printmaker.

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14/03/1901

Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (died 1977)

Sidney James Montford Atkinson was a South African athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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14/03/1899

K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (died 1992)

Kenneth Colin Irving, was a Canadian businessman whose business began with a family sawmill in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, in 1882. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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14/03/1898

Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (died 1954)

Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work. He painted in egg tempera and in oils, and produced many watercolors, ink and ink wash drawings, and prints.

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14/03/1887

Sylvia Beach, American-French bookseller and publisher, who founded Shakespeare and Company (died 1962)

Sylvia Beach, born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.

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14/03/1886

Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (died 1964)

Firmin Lambot was a Belgian bicycle racer who twice won the Tour de France.

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14/03/1885

Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (died 1918)

Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service in World War I, he is sometimes listed alternately as a French ace or as an American ace. All but one of his 17 confirmed combat victories came while flying in French units.

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14/03/1882

Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1969)

Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.

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14/03/1879

Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

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14/03/1874

Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951)

Anton Frederik Philips was a Dutch businessman. He is one of the co-founders of the Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His father and Gerard had founded the Philips Company in 1891 as a family business while Anton served as chief executive officer from 1922 to 1939.

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14/03/1869

Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (died 1951)

Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures (1914) "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

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14/03/1868

Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (died 1933)

Emily Murphy was a Canadian women's rights activist and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and the fifth in the British Empire after Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, Jane Price, E. Cullen and Cecilia Dixon of Australia. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "qualified persons" to serve in the Senate under Canadian law.

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14/03/1864

Casey Jones, American engineer (died 1900)

John Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

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14/03/1862

Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (died 1951)

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist with essential contributions to the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numerical weather prediction and climate modeling. He is the founder of the Bergen School of Meteorology, which was successful in advancing weather prediction and meteorology in the early 20th century.

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14/03/1854

Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)

Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Élie Metchnikoff "in recognition of their work on immunity". Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.

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John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (died 1925)

John Lane was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews. He published the Yellow Book literary magazine. He established a New York branch of his publishing business and married American author Anna Eichberg King.

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Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (died 1920)

Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades. A forerunner of local modernist literature, he is the first local author to have used free verse, and claimed by some to have been the first in modern European literature. Within the framework of Romanian literature, Macedonski is seen by critics as second only to national poet Mihai Eminescu; as leader of a cosmopolitan and aestheticist trend formed around his Literatorul journal, he was diametrically opposed to the inward-looking traditionalism of Eminescu and his school.

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Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925)

Thomas Riley Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well-known member of the Democratic Party by stumping across the state for other candidates and organizing party rallies that later helped him win election as the 27th governor of Indiana. In office, he attempted to incorporate items from his progressive agenda into the Constitution of Indiana, but was blocked by the Indiana Supreme Court.

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14/03/1853

Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)

Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism".

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14/03/1847

Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright (died 1871)

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the Condorist movement, he wrote classics such as Espumas Flutuantes and Hinos do Equador, which elevated him to the position of greatest among his contemporaries, as well as verses from poems such as "Os Escravos" and "A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso", in addition to the play Gonzaga, which earned him epithets such as "O Poeta dos Escravos" and "republican poet" by Machado de Assis, or descriptions of being "a national poet, if not more, nationalist, social, human and humanitarian poet", in the words of Joaquim Nabuco, of being "the greatest Brazilian poet, lyric and epic", in the words of Afrânio Peixoto, or even of being the "walking apostle of Condorism" and "a volcanic talent, the most enraptured of all Brazilian poets", in the words of José Marques da Cruz. He was part of the romantic movement, being part of what scholars call the "third romantic generation" in Brazil.

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14/03/1844

Umberto I of Italy (died 1900)

Umberto I was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination in 1900. His reign saw the creation of the Italian Empire, as well as the creation of the Triple Alliance among Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

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Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (died 1881)

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy was a British poet and herpetologist. Of Irish descent, he was born in London. He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers including Edward Elgar, Zoltán Kodály, Alfred Reed and, more recently, 808 State and Aphex Twin.

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14/03/1837

Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (died 1903)

Charles Ammi Cutter was an American librarian. In the 1850s and 1860s he assisted with the re-cataloging of the Harvard College library, producing America's first public card catalog. The card system proved more flexible for librarians and far more useful to patrons than the old method of entering titles in chronological order in large books. In 1868 he joined the Boston Athenaeum, making its card catalog an international model. Cutter promoted centralized cataloging of books, which became the standard practice at the Library of Congress. He was elected to leadership positions in numerous library organizations at the local and national level. Cutter is remembered for the Cutter Expansive Classification, his system of giving standardized classification numbers to each book, and arranging them on shelves by that number so that books on similar topics would be shelved together.

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14/03/1836

Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (died 1865)

Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor.

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14/03/1835

Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910)

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.

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14/03/1833

Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (died 1911)

Frederic James Shields was a British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.

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Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (died 1910)

Lucy Hobbs Taylor was an American dentist, known for being the first woman to graduate from dental school.

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14/03/1823

Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (died 1891)

Étienne Jean Baptiste Claude Théodore Faullain de Banville was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century.

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14/03/1822

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (died 1889)

Dona Teresa Cristina, popularly known as “the Mother of the Brazilians”, was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II, a position she held from her marriage in 1843 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1889. Born a princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in present-day southern Italy, she was the daughter of King Francis I of the Italian branch of the House of Bourbon and his wife, Maria Isabella of Spain. Long portrayed by historians as timid and politically passive, modern scholarship has reassessed Teresa Cristina as a more complex figure, recognizing her intellectual curiosity, cultural patronage, and a quiet but consistent assertion of personal independence within the constraints of 19th-century court life.

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14/03/1820

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878)

Victor Emmanuel II was King of Sardinia from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. Borrowing from the old Latin title Pater Patriae of the Roman emperors, the Italians gave him the epithet of "Father of the Fatherland".

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14/03/1813

Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (died 1892)

Joseph Philo Bradley was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1892. He was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.

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14/03/1804

Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1849)

Johann Baptist Strauss I, also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father, was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he popularized alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons—Johann, Josef and Eduard—to carry on his musical dynasty. He is best known for his composition of the Radetzky March.

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14/03/1801

Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (died 1822)

Kristjan Jaak Peterson, also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

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14/03/1800

James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (died 1874)

James Bogardus was an American inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture, for which he took out a patent in 1850.

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14/03/1790

Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (died 1863)

Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.

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14/03/1772

José Núñez de Cáceres, Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic against Spain in 1821 (died 1846)

José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor was a Dominican revolutionary and writer. Known for being the leader of the first Dominican independence movement against Spain in 1821, his actions preceded the Dominican War of Independence.

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14/03/1737

Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (died 1828)

Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus was an Aromanian physician and noble. Born in Gramos, he migrated to Siatista and then to Vienna to complete his studies in medicine. He gained great popularity as a physician in Vienna, being awarded the nobiliary particle von Pindo for his services.

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14/03/1638

Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died 1710)

Johann Georg Gichtel was a German mystic and religious leader who was a critic of Lutheranism. His followers ultimately separated from this faith.

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14/03/1297

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, Mongol empress consort of the Ilkhanate.

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, also Öljei Qutlugh, Oljai Kutlugh or Uljaki, was a Mongol princess, and empress consort of the Ilkhanate as the principal wife of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan.

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