Born on Thursday, 19th March – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 191 notable people were born on 19th March — spanning from 1206 to 1999. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
March 19th marks a significant date in history, with numerous notable figures born across centuries. Among the most prominent births on this day is Spanish footballer Héctor Bellerín, born in 1995, who has established himself as a versatile defender in European football. The date also coincides with the birth of Austrian tennis player Barbara Haas in 1996, continuing a tradition of sporting excellence associated with March 19th. In earlier history, the economist and Russian politician Yegor Gaidar was born on this day in 1956, later serving as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia during a transformative period in the nation’s history.
The range of professions and achievements among those born on March 19th extends far beyond sport and politics. Cultural and artistic figures feature prominently in the historical record for this date. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, was born in 1900, contributing significantly to scientific advancement in the twentieth century. The date has produced international talent across entertainment, academia, and business, reflecting the diversity of human endeavour across different eras.
On Thursday, 19th March 2026, the atmosphere is expected to be partly cloudy with moderate temperatures typical of early spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The zodiac sign for this date is Pisces, as those born on March 19th fall within the cusp of the zodiacal calendar. The moon will be in its waxing gibbous phase, approaching the full moon and creating notably brighter evening skies.
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19/03/1999
Nico Collins, American football player
Dominique Stephon "Nico" Collins is an American professional football wide receiver for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines and was selected by the Texans in the third round of the 2021 NFL draft.
19/03/1998
Caylee Cowan, American actress
Catherine Caylee Cowan is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in Sunrise in Heaven (2019), Willy's Wonderland (2021), Spinning Gold (2022), and Frank and Penelope (2022).
Julian Love, American football player
Julian Love is an American professional football safety for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
Sakura Miyawaki, also known mononymously as Sakura, is a Japanese singer and actress based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Le Sserafim, and a former member of South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One and Japanese girl groups AKB48 and its sister group HKT48.
19/03/1996
Yung Gravy, American rapper
Matthew Raymond Hauri, known professionally as Yung Gravy, is an American rapper.
Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player
Barbara Haas is an inactive Austrian tennis player. She has won 16 singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 24 February 2020, she reached her best singles ranking by the WTA of 133. On 27 September 2021, she peaked at No. 164 in the doubles rankings.
Quenton Nelson, American football player
Quenton Emerson Nelson is an American professional football guard for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame, earning unanimous All-American honors in 2017. Nelson was selected by the Colts sixth overall in the 2018 NFL draft. Considered among the NFL's best guards, he has received Pro Bowl selections in all eight of his seasons and three first-team All-Pros.
19/03/1995
Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer
Héctor Bellerín Moruno is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back or wing-back for La Liga club Real Betis.
Philip Daniel Bolden, American actor
Philip Daniel Bolden is an American actor. In 2005, Bolden played Kevin in the film Are We There Yet?, with Ice Cube and Nia Long, and again in 2007, in its sequel film Are We Done Yet? as well as Kirby on The King of Queens (1999–2000).
Julia Montes, Filipino actress
Mara Hautea Schnittka, known professionally as Julia Montes, is a Filipino actress. Known for playing strong female characters and romantic leads in a range of genres across film and television, she has received various accolades, including a FAMAS Award, two Gawad Tanglaw Awards, a PMPC Star Awards for Movies and a Box Office Entertainment Award. Yes! magazine named her one of the most influential celebrities in Philippine entertainment.
19/03/1993
Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer
Hakim Ziyech is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger or an attacking midfielder for Botola Pro club Wydad AC. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Morocco national team. He is nicknamed "The Wizard", a title given to him by the supporters of his former club Ajax.
19/03/1991
Garrett Clayton, American actor and singer
Gary Michael "Garrett" Clayton is an American actor and singer. He is known for portraying Tanner in the 2013 Disney Channel movie Teen Beach Movie and its 2015 sequel Teen Beach 2, and other film, television, and stage roles.
Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kokorin is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Cypriot First Division club Aris Limassol.
19/03/1990
EJ Manuel, American football player
Erik Rodriguez "EJ" Manuel Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, leading them to an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship and Orange Bowl win as a senior. Manuel was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft.
Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player
Bengt Per Anders Nilsson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey goaltender. Nilsson was drafted 62nd overall in the 2009 NHL entry draft by the New York Islanders and played in the NHL with the Islanders, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, and Ottawa Senators. Internationally, Nilsson led Sweden to a gold medal at the 2018 World Championships.
19/03/1988
Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
Clayton Edward Kershaw is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-handed starting pitcher, Kershaw was an 11-time National League (NL) All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and 2014 NL Most Valuable Player. He is one of 20 pitchers and four left-handers to be members of the 3,000 strikeout club. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history.
Ben Uzoh, Nigerian-American basketball player
Benjamin Chukwukelo Uzoh is a Nigerian-American former basketball player. He played in international competitions for Nigeria. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and playing at the point guard, Uzoh played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors. He also played for several teams across North America, Europe, South America and Africa.
19/03/1987
AJ Lee, American wrestler and author
April Jeanette Mendez is an American professional wrestler and author. As of February 2026, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name AJ Lee and is the WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion in her first reign.
Michal Švec, Czech footballer
Michal Švec is a Czech footballer who plays for Slavia Prague U20. He is a central midfielder. He made his debut for the Czech Republic national team in 2009.
Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
Miloš Teodosić is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He also represented the National Basketball Team of Serbia internationally. He primarily played the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is a six time All-EuroLeague selection, and was voted EuroLeague MVP in 2010.
19/03/1986
Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player
Tyler Bozak is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to being signed by the Maple Leafs as a free agent, Bozak had played two seasons at the University of Denver in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In 2018, after nine seasons with the Maple Leafs, Bozak signed with the Blues in free agency. In his first season with the Blues, Bozak won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins in 2019.
Ahmad Bradshaw, American football player
Ahmad Bradshaw is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd. Bradshaw was selected in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL draft by the New York Giants. He is a two-time Super Bowl champion, winning Super Bowls XLII and XLVI as a member of the Giants, defeating the New England Patriots each time. He was the leading rusher in each game, becoming one of eight running backs in NFL history to be the leading rusher in two Super Bowls.
19/03/1985
Inesa Jurevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
Inesa Jurevičiūtė is a Lithuanian retired figure skater. She is the 2000 Lithuanian national champion. She withdrew from the 2001 World Figure Skating Championships just before the event. She also competed in ice dancing on the national level with Marius Janeliauskas, with whom she is the 1998 Lithuanian silver medalist.
19/03/1982
Jonathan Fanene, American football player
Jonathan David Fanene is a Samoan former professional American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football at College of the Canyons and Utah.
Brad Jones, Australian footballer
Bradley Scott Jones is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper.
Hana Kobayashi, Venezuelan singer
Hana Kobayashi is a Venezuelan singer of Japanese descent.
Landon Powell, American baseball player and manager
Landon Reed Powell is an American former professional baseball player and current coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 2009 to 2011 for the Oakland Athletics. Powell is the current head baseball coach of the North Greenville Trailblazers. He played college baseball at South Carolina from 2001 to 2004. He was the Athletics' catcher on May 9, 2010, when pitcher Dallas Braden threw a perfect game.
Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian-Singaporean businessman
Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist, known for co-founding Facebook. Based in Singapore, he is the co-founder and co-CEO of the venture capital firm B Capital.
19/03/1981
Steve Cummings, English cyclist
Stephen Philip Cummings is an English former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Landbouwkrediet–Colnago, Discovery Channel, Barloworld, Team Sky, BMC Racing Team and Team Dimension Data squads, and rode for Great Britain at the Summer Olympic Games, the UCI Road World Championships, and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Casey Jacobsen, American basketball player and sportscaster
Casey Gardner Jacobsen is an American retired professional basketball player who played four seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also had an extensive European basketball career, mostly while playing with Brose Baskets Bamberg, in Germany. With Brose, he won the Bundesliga championship in 2007 and 2010, while also receiving the German League Finals MVP award. He won Bundesliga championships in 2011, 2012, and 2013. He also won the German Cup with Bamberg, in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and the German Supercup four times. Following his retirement in 2014, Brose Baskets retired his jersey number 23.
Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
Kolo Abib Touré is an Ivorian professional football manager and former player who is currently an assistant manager at Premier League club Manchester City.
19/03/1980
Luca Ferri, Italian footballer
Luca Ferri is an Italian former footballer who played as a defender.
Taichi Ishikari, Japanese wrestler
Taichiro Maki is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Taichi , shortened from his previous ring name Taichi Ishikari . He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former two-time NEVER Openweight Champion, a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, former four-time IWGP Tag Team Champions, and a former KOPW Champion.
Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
Mikuni Shimokawa is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. She is best known for her songs used for anime theme music, particularly the opening and ending themes of the Full Metal Panic! series. In addition to her vocal talents, Shimokawa can also play the piano. She is a former member of the girl group Checkicco.
Theo Von, American stand-up comedian
Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, known professionally as Theo Von, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He hosts the This Past Weekend podcast. He has appeared on MTV and Comedy Central shows.
19/03/1979
Abby Brammell, American actress
Abby Brammell is an American television and stage actress.
Sheldon Brown, American football player
Sheldon Dion Brown is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Brown was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2002 NFL draft and also played for the Cleveland Browns.
Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian former professional tennis player, coach and Tennis TV commentator. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 3 singles ranking on 1 May 2006. His career highlights include reaching a major semifinal at the 2006 French Open, and a Masters title at the Indian Wells Masters in 2010. He also contested three other Masters finals, two in 2005 at Madrid and Paris, and the other at the 2006 Miami Open.
Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
Christos Patsatzoglou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right-back or defensive midfielder.
Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğlu is a Turkish basketball executive and former professional player. A 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) forward, Türkoğlu played for six teams in his 15-season career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 2007–08 NBA season and played in the NBA Finals for the Magic in 2009. He also played for Turkey's national team in international competition. Türkoğlu has served as president of the Turkish Basketball Federation since October 2016.
19/03/1978
Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter
Cydonie Camille Mothersille is a female former track and field sprinter from the Cayman Islands. Her speciality at the beginning of her career was the 100 metres, while the 200 metres gradually became her main event. She represented her country at four Olympic Games from 1996 to 2008, six World Championships in Athletics, and three Commonwealth Games. Her greatest achievements were in the 200 m, including a bronze at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics), Commonwealth gold in 2010 and a silver at the 2003 Pan American Games. Her World Championship medal was the first ever for her nation. It was achieved several years after the event, following doping disqualifications of Marion Jones and Kelli White of the United States.
Virginia Williams, American actress
Virginia Williams is an American actress known for playing C.J. Harbenberger in the Netflix sitcom Fuller House.
19/03/1977
David Ross, American baseball player and manager
David Wade Ross is an American former professional baseball catcher and manager. He managed the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2020 to 2023. He played in MLB for 15 seasons.
19/03/1976
Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
Rachel Louise Blanchard is a Canadian actress. Her television roles include Nancy in the British sitcom Peep Show, Emma in the American comedy-drama series You Me Her and Susannah in the American romantic drama series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Derek Chauvin, American criminal and former police officer
Derek Michael Chauvin is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Andre Miller, American basketball player
Andre Lloyd Miller is an American former professional basketball player who most recently served as the head coach for the Grand Rapids Gold of the NBA G League. Miller has played professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards, Sacramento Kings, Minnesota Timberwolves, and San Antonio Spurs. Currently, he ranks eleventh all-time in NBA career assists and only missed three games to injury in his 17-year career.
Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager
Alessandro Nesta is an Italian professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He was most recently the head coach of Serie A club Monza. Nesta is widely considered as one of the greatest defenders of all time, and was known for his pace, artistic tackles, elegance on the ball, distribution and tight marking of opponents.
19/03/1975
Antonio Daniels, American basketball player
Antonio Robert Daniels is an American former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the television color analyst for the New Orleans Pelicans on the Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network and co-host/analyst on SiriusXM NBA Radio.
19/03/1973
Bun B, American rapper and songwriter
Bernard James Freeman, known professionally as Bun B is an American rapper. He is best known as one half of the Southern rap duo UGK, which he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C. Aside from his work with UGK, Bun B has released five solo albums, including 2010's Trill OG, which received the rare 5-mic rating from The Source.
Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach
Ashley Fraser Giles is a former English first-class cricketer, who played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
19/03/1970
Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (died 2011)
Harald Gill Johnsen was a Norwegian jazz double bassist, known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio, and a series of recordings with such as Sonny Simmons, Sigurd Køhn, Nils-Olav Johansen, Jan Erik Kongshaug, Frode Barth, Per Oddvar Johansen and Ditlef Eckhoff.
Michael Krumm, German race car driver
Michael Krumm is a German former professional racing driver and current team manager at TOM'S in Super GT. Krumm is best-known for his successes in the All-Japan GT Championship, where he triumphed in the GT500 class in 1997 and 2003 for TOM'S and Nismo, respectively. He also won the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2011.
Janne Laukkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
Janne Laukkanen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise, the Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Tampa Bay Lightning. He played a total 407 regular season games scoring 22 goals and 121 points with 335 penalty minutes. He also played 59 playoff games, scoring 7 goals and 16 points.
19/03/1969
Connor Trinneer, American actor
Connor Wyatt Trinneer is an American film, stage, and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Charles "Trip" Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise, Michael on the series Stargate Atlantis, and Professor Moynihan on the web series Guilty Party.
19/03/1968
Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach
Tyrone Hill is an American former professional basketball player and former assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks. Hill spent four years playing collegiately at Xavier University, in his last season averaging 20.2 points and 12.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 58.1% from the field. The Golden State Warriors selected him with the eleventh pick of the 1990 NBA draft.
19/03/1967
Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee
Sandra Frey is a Swiss retired ice hockey player and referee. After playing for the Swiss national team, she became the first female referee to work in the men's Swiss League. She later became the first woman to referee a gold-medal game at the IIHF Women's World Championship, doing so in 1992, 1994, and 1997. She retired from on-ice officiating after the 1998 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey tournament, then worked as a referee supervisor for the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player
Vladimir Nikolaevich Konstantinov is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career, from 1991 to 1997 with the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, he had played for Soviet club CSKA Moscow. His career was ended in a limousine crash six days after the Red Wings' 1997 Stanley Cup victory.
19/03/1966
Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician
Michael Bruce Crockart is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West from 2010 to 2015.
Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager
Olaf Marschall is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager
Andrew Sinton is an English football manager and former professional footballer, who is club ambassador for Queens Park Rangers.
19/03/1964
Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer of soundtracks for anime series, video games, television dramas and movies. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Terror in Resonance, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Turn A Gundam and Darker than Black. Kanno is a keyboardist and the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of her compositions.
19/03/1963
Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter
Neil N. LaBute is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play which he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997) winning awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002), The Shape of Things (2003), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015).
Mary Scheer, American actress and comedian
Mary Scheer is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her work in television. She had recurring roles as Marissa Benson on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly and as Gladys on the Disney Channel series Bunk'd. She voiced Alice the Zookeeper on DreamWorks animated series The Penguins of Madagascar, was part of the original cast on the sketch comedy show Mad TV, voiced every female character on Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and appeared in GEICO commercials.
19/03/1960
Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
Eliane Elias is a Brazilian jazz pianist, singer, composer and arranger.
19/03/1958
Andy Reid, American football player and coach
Andrew Walter Reid is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was previously the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999 to 2012. From 2001 to 2012, Reid was also the Eagles' executive vice president of football operations. He is the longest tenured coach in the league, and the only NFL coach to win 100 games with two different franchises and also the only coach to appear in four consecutive conference championships with two different franchises. Reid is considered one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time.
19/03/1957
Dudley Bradley, American basketball player
Dudley Leroy Bradley is an American former professional basketball player who played nine seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
19/03/1956
Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2009)
Yegor Timurovich Gaidar was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author who was the acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992 and simultaneously held several other cabinet roles. Gaidar was also in the State Duma from 1993 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2003 as a member of Democratic Choice of Russia and the Union of Right Forces.
19/03/1955
Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer
Walter Bruce Willis is a retired American actor. Widely recognised as a Hollywood icon of the action genre, he first achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989) and has appeared in over one hundred films, gaining widespread recognition as an action hero for his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988–2013).
19/03/1954
Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager
Cho Kwang-rae is a former South Korean football midfielder and manager. He is the current director of Daegu FC.
Scott May, American basketball player
Scott Glenn May is an American former professional basketball player. As a college player at Indiana University, May led the Hoosiers to an undefeated record and national championship in the 1975–76 season. He was a two-time first-team All-American and was named the national player of the year in his senior season. May also won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
19/03/1953
Ian Blair, English police officer (died 2025)
Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, was a British police officer who held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008.
Peter Hendy, English businessman, Minister of State for Rail
Peter Gerard Hendy, Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill,, is a British transport executive and politician who has served as Minister of State for Rail since July 2024.
Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1985)
Ricky Helton Wilson was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52s. Born in Athens, Georgia, Wilson was the brother of fellow member Cindy Wilson. The B-52s were founded in 1976, when Ricky, Cindy, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland and Fred Schneider shared a tropical flaming volcano drink at a Chinese restaurant and, after an impromptu music session at the home of their friend Owen Scott III, played for the first time at a Valentine's Day party for friends. Wilson's unusual guitar tunings were a large contribution to the band's quirky sound.
19/03/1952
Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach
Warren Kenneth Lees is a New Zealand cricketer and coach. He played 21 Test matches and 31 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1976 and 1983 as a wicket-keeper batsman. He was coach of the New Zealand national cricket team between 1990 and 1993.
Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic (died 2022)
Martin Ravallion was an Australian economist. He was the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and had previously been director of the research department at the World Bank. He held a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and sex offender
Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
19/03/1950
José S. Palma, Filipino archbishop
José Serofia Palma is a Filipino prelate who served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Cebu from 2011 to 2025. He had previously served as Metropolitan Archbishop of Palo in Leyte from 2006 to 2010, and as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 2011 to 2013.
19/03/1949
Blase J. Cupich, American theologian and cardinal
Blase Joseph Cupich is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Chicago since 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2016.
19/03/1948
David Schnitter, American saxophonist and educator
David Schnitter is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
19/03/1947
Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer
Glenn Close is an American actress. In a career spanning five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for eight Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer and coach (died 2023)
Mário Peres Ulibarri, known as Marinho Peres, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a centre-back, in particular with Sport Club Internacional and the Brazil national team. He captained the Brazil team to fourth place at the World Cup 1974. He became a coach after retiring.
19/03/1946
Ruth Pointer, American musician
Ruth Esther Pointer is an American singer best known as the eldest member of the family vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer joined her sisters in 1972 to make the group a quartet.
19/03/1945
John Holder, English cricketer and umpire
John Wakefield Holder is a Barbadian-born English former first-class cricketer and international cricket umpire. Holder was born in Saint George, Barbados. After completing his education, he emigrated to England in search of work with London Transport. After impressing in club cricket in London, Holder began playing county cricket for Hampshire as a fast-medium bowler, in a first-class county career that lasted from 1968 to 1972. Injury forced Holder to retire from professional cricket, though he later returned to play professionally in the Lancashire League and for Western Province in South Africa. After the conclusion of his playing career, Holder became an umpire at the domestic and international levels. He would stand as an umpire in both Test and One Day International cricket from 1988 to 2001. Holder retired from umpiring in 2009, having stood in over 400 first-class and List A one-day matches apiece. As of 2021, he remained the only non-white English umpire in nearly 150 years of Test cricket.
Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
Modestas "Iron Modė" Paulauskas is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player and coach.
19/03/1944
Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Belize
Said Wilbert Musa is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was the third prime minister of Belize from 28 August 1998 to 8 February 2008.
Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-Jordanian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election on June 5, 1968. Sirhan was 24 years old at the time. On April 17, 1969, he was convicted of first-degree murder, among other charges. He was subsequently sentenced to death by gas chamber. In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of People v. Anderson. The circumstances surrounding the attack, which took place five years after President Kennedy's assassination, have led to numerous conspiracy theories.
19/03/1943
Nate Bowman, American basketball player (died 1984)
Nathan "Nate the Snake" Bowman was an American basketball player born in Fort Worth, Texas.
Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican-born person to receive a Nobel prize.
Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy
Mario Monti is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the prime minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a technocratic government in the wake of the Italian debt crisis.
Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver
Vernon John Schuppan is an Australian former motor racing driver. Schuppan drove in various categories, participating in Formula One, the Indianapolis 500 and most successfully in sports car racing.
19/03/1942
Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (died 2014)
Heather Margaret Robertson was a Canadian journalist, novelist and non-fiction writer. She published her first book, Reservations are for Indians, in 1970, and her last book, Walking into Wilderness, in 2010. She was a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and launched the Robertson v Thomson Corp class action suit regarding freelancers' retention of electronic rights to their work.
19/03/1938
Joe Kapp, American football player, coach, and actor (died 2023)
Joseph Robert Garcia Kapp was an American football player, coach, and executive. He played college football as a quarterback for the California Golden Bears. Kapp played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Calgary Stampeders and the BC Lions and then in the National Football League (NFL) with the Minnesota Vikings and the Boston Patriots. Kapp led the BC Lions to their first Grey Cup Championship victory in 1964. With the Vikings, he led them to victory in the 1969 NFL Championship Game, the only league championship in team history. Kapp returned to his alma mater as head coach of the Golden Bears from 1982 to 1986. He was the general manager and president of the BC Lions in 1990.
19/03/1937
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2024)
Clarence Henry II, known as Clarence "Frogman" Henry, was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, best known for his hits "Ain't Got No Home" (1956) and "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do" (1961).
Egon Krenz, German politician, briefly leader of East Germany
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic during the Revolutions of 1989. He succeeded Erich Honecker as the General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) but was forced to resign only weeks later when the Berlin Wall fell.
19/03/1936
Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress
Ursula Andress is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986).
Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (died 1988)
Benjamin Lexcen AM was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to Australia II which, in 1983, became the first non-American challenger to win the prestigious America's Cup in the competition's 132-year history.
19/03/1935
Nancy Malone, American actress, director, and producer (died 2014)
Nancy Malone was an American television actress from the 1950s to 1970s, who later moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s.
19/03/1933
Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (died 2019)
Phyllis Newman was an American actress and singer. She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the musical Subways Are for Sleeping on Broadway, received the Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2009 and was nominated for another Tony for Broadway Bound (1987), as well as two nominations for Drama Desk Awards.
Philip Roth, American novelist (died 2018)
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
Renée Taylor, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
Renée Adorée Taylor is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. Taylor was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for the film Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). She also played Sylvia Fine on the television sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999).
Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Richard Edmund Williams was a Canadian and British animator, voice actor, and painter. A three-time Academy Award winner, he is best known as the animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)—for which he won two Academy Awards—and as the director of his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993).
19/03/1932
Gay Brewer, American golfer (died 2007)
Gay Robert Brewer Jr. was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament.
Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (died 2014)
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall was an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and president of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association. Hall was one of the most prolific and influential urbanists of the twentieth century.
Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (died 2013)
Gail Kobe was an American actress and television producer.
19/03/1931
Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet, writer and painter
Emma Andijewska is a Ukrainian modern poet, writer and painter living in Germany. Her works are marked with surreal style. Some of Andijewska's works have been translated to English and German. Andijewska lives and works in Munich. She is a member of the National union of writers of Ukraine, Ukrainian PEN Club, Free academy in Munich and Federal association of artists.
19/03/1928
Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author (died 2021)
Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic.
Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)
Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor, director and screenwriter of film, television, and theatre.
19/03/1927
Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1997)
Don Richard Ashburn, also known by the nicknames "Putt-Putt", "the Tilden Flash", and "Whitey", was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1948 to 1962, most prominently as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, where he was a four-time All-Star player and member of the 1950 National League pennant winning team known as the Whiz Kids.
19/03/1925
Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat, 9th United States National Security Advisor (died 2020)
Brent Scowcroft was a United States Air Force officer, and a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, and advised President Barack Obama on choosing his national security team.
19/03/1924
Joe Gaetjens, Haitian footballer (died 1964)
Joseph Edouard Gaetjens was a professional soccer player who played as a center forward. Born in Haiti, he represented its national team before and after playing for the United States team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, in which he scored the winning goal in the 1–0 upset of England.
19/03/1923
Pamela Britton, American actress (died 1974)
Pamela Britton was an American actress, best known for appearing as Lorelei Brown in the television series My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) and for her female lead in the film noir classic D.O.A. (1950). Throughout her acting career, Britton appeared often on Broadway and in several Hollywood and television films.
Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator (died 1997)
Benito Jacovitti was an Italian comics artist.
Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (died 2013)
Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler was a Polish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada. As a Jewish youth during World War II, Morgentaler was imprisoned at the Łódź Ghetto and later at the Dachau concentration camp.
19/03/1922
Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Guy Vernon Lewis II was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston from 1956 to 1986. Lewis led his Houston Cougars to five appearances in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, in 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, and 1984. His 1980s teams, nicknamed Phi Slama Jama for their slam dunks, were runners-up for the national championship in back-to-back seasons in 1983 and 1984. He was inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (died 2014)
Hiroo Onoda 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. One of the last Japanese holdouts, Onoda continued fighting for nearly 29 years after the war's end in 1945, carrying out guerrilla warfare on Lubang Island in the Philippines until 1974.
19/03/1921
Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop comedian (died 1984)
Thomas Frederick Cooper was a Welsh prop comedian and magician. He was large and lumbering at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and habitually wore a red fez when performing. He served in the British Army for seven years before developing his conjuring skills and becoming a member of The Magic Circle. Although he spent time on tour performing his magical act, which specialised in magic tricks that appeared to fail, he rose to international prominence when his career moved into television, with programmes for London Weekend Television and Thames Television.
19/03/1920
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter (died 2002)
Kjell Aukrust was a Norwegian author, poet, artist and humorist. Aukrust is principally known for his Flåklypa stories and Flåklypa drawings.
19/03/1919
Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 1978)
Leonard Joseph Tristano was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation.
19/03/1917
Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (died 1998)
László Szabó was a Hungarian chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in 1950, when it was instituted by FIDE.
19/03/1916
Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (died 2000)
Eric Cuthbert Christmas was an English actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He is probably best known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of Angel Beach High School, in the 1981 comedy films Porky's, the 1983 sequel Porky's II: The Next Day, and the 1985 sequel Porky's Revenge!. He was also known for his sporadic role as Reverend Diddymoe in the NBC sitcom, Amen.
Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme.
19/03/1915
Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1944)
Robert George Cole was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Normandy in World War II. Cole, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, successfully led his outgunned unit in a daring bayonet charge against an entrenched German force. He was killed in action three months later during Operation Market Garden.
Patricia Morison, American actress and singer (died 2018)
Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer. She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage, and amongst her most renowned were The Fallen Sparrow, Dressed to Kill opposite Basil Rathbone and the screen adaptation of The Song of Bernadette. She was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and subsequently in The King and I.
19/03/1914
Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (died 1981)
Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu was a Canadian-American mathematician and operations researcher. During his six-year stint as a mathematician from 1938 to 1944, Alaoglu studied several topics, including topology, number theory, and the geometry of polyhedra. His best known result, which he proved during this period, was Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space. After 1944, he left academia for the world of operations research.
Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach (died 2002)
John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger was an American college football player and referee. In 1935, Berwanger was the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, renamed the Heisman Trophy the following year. At its inception, the award was given to "the most valuable player east of the Mississippi." In 1936, Berwanger became the first player drafted into the National Football League in its inaugural 1936 NFL draft, although he did not play professionally due to a salary dispute.
19/03/1912
Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1980)
Hugh Watt was a New Zealand politician who was a Labour member of Parliament and the acting prime minister of New Zealand between 31 August and 6 September 1974, following the death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk. He had been the fifth deputy prime minister of New Zealand since 8 December 1972. Watt later served as high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
19/03/1910
Joseph Carroll, American general (died 1991)
Lieutenant General Joseph Francis Carroll was the founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the first commander of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
19/03/1909
Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (died 1985)
Louis Charles Hayward was a South African-born, British-American actor.
Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (died 1997)
Marjorie Linklater was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney. She gave up acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to get involved in conservation, education, and health matters as a county councillor for Ross and Cromarty County Council. In 1975, Linklater was elected chairman of the Orkney Heritage Society, devoting herself to campaigning for the arts environment, local heritage, and politics. She successfully opposed the mining of uranium and the dumping of nuclear waste off Orkney's west coast and was a founding member of the St Magnus Festival. The Orkney Heritage Society named a senior school award in Linklater's honour following her death.
19/03/1907
Elizabeth Maconchy, British/Irish composer (died 1994)
Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu was an English-Irish composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
19/03/1906
Clara Breed, American librarian and activist (died 1994)
Clara Estelle Breed was an American librarian remembered chiefly for her support for Japanese American children during World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, many residents of California who were of Japanese descent were moved to remote Japanese American internment camps where they stayed until the end of the war. Breed kept in communication with many of the children who were sent to the camps, sending reading materials and visiting them regularly.
Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust (died 1962)
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and apprehended by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial before the Supreme Court of Israel. The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
19/03/1905
Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer (died 2010)
Joseph Rollino was an American decorated World War II veteran, weightlifter, and strongman. The son of Italian immigrants, Rollino dubbed himself the world's strongest man in the 1920s, moving 3,200 pounds (1,500 kg) with his back during the prime of his career.
Albert Speer, German architect and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1981)
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served 20 years in prison.
19/03/1904
John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (died 1992)
John Joseph Sirica was an American lawyer and jurist who was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1957 to 1992. Sirica became known in the early 1970s for presiding over the federal criminal trials relating to the origins of the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
19/03/1901
Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer (died 1976)
Joseph Mielziner was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He was described as "the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway", and worked on both stage plays and musicals.
19/03/1900
Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (died 1988)
Carmen Carbonell Nonell (1900–1988) was a Spanish stage and film actress. She received the National Theater Award twice, in 1950 and 1980.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after his parents-in-law, to win the Nobel Prize, adding to the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Joliot-Curie and his wife also founded the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, part of the Paris-Saclay University.
19/03/1894
Moms Mabley, American comedian and singer (died 1975)
Loretta Mary Aiken, known by her stage name Jackie "Moms" Mabley, was an American stand-up comedian and actress. Mabley began her career on the theater stage in the 1920s and became a veteran entertainer of the Chitlin' Circuit of black vaudeville. Mabley later recorded comedy albums and appeared in films and on television programs including The Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
19/03/1893
Gertrud Dorka, German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director (died 1976)
Gertrud Dorka was a German archaeologist, prehistorian, museum director and teacher. She was the museum director of the State Museum for Prehistory and Early History between 1947 and 1958.
19/03/1892
Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (died 1967)
Theodore Sizer was an American professor of the history of art at Yale University and a director of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. He was named the first Pursuivant of Arms for Yale University in 1963.
Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (died 1961)
Ado Vabbe was an Estonian painter, printmaker, and teacher.
James Van Fleet, American general and diplomat (died 1992)
General James Alward Van Fleet was a United States Army officer who served during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida and graduated from the United States Military Academy. He served as a regimental, divisional and corps commander during World War II and as the commanding general of United States Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War.
19/03/1891
Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1974)
Earl Warren was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953, and as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, which has been recognized by many as a "constitutional revolution" in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Miranda v. Arizona (1966), and Loving v. Virginia (1967). Warren also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Warren is the last Chief Justice to have served in an elected office before nomination to the Supreme Court, and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States.
19/03/1888
Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (died 1976)
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.
Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (died 1969)
Léon Scieur was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1921 Tour de France, along with stages 3 and 10. His first great victory was the 1920 Liège–Bastogne–Liège; he won a stage and finished fourth in the 1919 and 1920 Tours de France.
19/03/1885
Attik, Greek composer (died 1944)
Attik was a significant Greek composer of the early 20th century.
19/03/1883
Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)
Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins.
Joseph Stilwell, American general (died 1946)
Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India theater during World War II. Stilwell served as commander of the US forces in the theater, and also as deputy for both Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader.
19/03/1882
Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (died 1935)
Gaston Lachaise was a French-born sculptor, active in America in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he is most noted for his robust female nudes such as his heroic Standing Woman. Gaston Lachaise was taught the fundamentals of European sculpture while living in France. While still a student, he met and fell in love with an older American woman, Isabel Dutaud Nagle, then followed her after she returned to America. There, he became profoundly impressed by the great vitality and promise of his adopted country. Those life-altering experiences clarified his artistic vision and inspired him to define the female nude in a new and powerful manner. His drawings, typically made as ends in themselves, also exemplify his remarkably new treatment of the female body.
19/03/1881
Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician (died 1960)
Edith Rogers was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served as a Republican in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Until 2012, she was the longest serving congresswoman and was the longest serving female representative until 2018. In her 35 years in the House of Representatives she was a powerful voice for veterans and sponsored seminal legislation, including the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, which provided educational and financial benefits for veterans returning home from World War II, the 1942 bill that created the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), and the 1943 bill that created the Women's Army Corps (WAC). She was also instrumental in bringing federal appropriations to her constituency, Massachusetts's 5th congressional district.
19/03/1880
Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate (died 1961)
Ernestine Rose was a librarian at the New York Public Library responsible for the purchase and incorporation of the Arthur A. Schomburg collection.
19/03/1876
Felix Jacoby, German philologist (died 1959)
Felix Jacoby was a German classicist and philologist. He is best known among classicists for his highly important work Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, a collection of text fragments of ancient Greek historians.
19/03/1875
Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (died 1928)
Zhang Zuolin was a Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria from 1916 until his assassination in 1928. He led the Fengtian clique, one of the most powerful factions during the Warlord Era. In 1927, he became the leader of the Beiyang government and was declared Generalissimo of the Republic of China.
19/03/1873
Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1916)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
19/03/1872
Anna Held, Polish singer (died 1918)
Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife. From 1896 through 1910, she was one of Broadway's most celebrated leading ladies, presented in a succession of musicals as a charming, coquettish Parisian singer and comedienne, with an hourglass figure and an off-stage reputation for exotic behavior, such as bathing in 40 gallons of milk a day to maintain her complexion. Detractors implied that her fame owed more to Ziegfeld's promotional flair than to any intrinsic talent, but her audience allure was undeniable for over a decade, with several of her shows setting house attendance records for their time. Her uninhibited style also inspired the long-running series of popular revues, the Ziegfeld Follies.
19/03/1871
Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (died 1921)
Schofield Haigh was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for nineteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, sporadically for England from 1898–99 to 1912, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901.
19/03/1868
Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator (died 1954)
Senda Berenson Abbott was a figure of women's basketball and the author of the first Basketball Guide for Women (1901–07). She was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor on July 1, 1985, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
19/03/1865
William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (died 1937)
William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and professor at Harvard University.
19/03/1864
Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor (died 1926)
Charles Marion Russell, also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. He is known as "the cowboy artist" and was also a storyteller and author. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.
19/03/1861
Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (died 1929)
Sir Jean Lomer Gouin was a Canadian politician. He served as 13th premier of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th lieutenant governor of Quebec.
19/03/1860
William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (died 1925)
William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He served in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895 and as the secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915. Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, Bryan was often called "the Great Commoner", and because of his rhetorical power and early fame as the youngest presidential candidate, "the Boy Orator".
19/03/1858
Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and politician (died 1927)
Kang Youwei was a Chinese political thinker and reformer in the late Qing dynasty. His increasing closeness to and influence over the young Guangxu Emperor sparked conflict between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the regent Empress Dowager Cixi. His ideas were influential in the abortive Hundred Days' Reform. Following the coup by Cixi that ended the reform, Kang was forced to flee. He continued to advocate for a Chinese constitutional monarchy after the founding of the Republic of China.
19/03/1849
Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral and politician (died 1930)
Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz was a German grand admiral and State Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office, the administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916.
19/03/1848
Wyatt Earp, American police officer (died 1929)
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws. While Earp is usually depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was both the U.S. Marshal and the Tombstone city marshal and had decided to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in public and to disarm the Cowboys.
19/03/1847
Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as a precursor to modernism.
19/03/1844
Minna Canth, Finnish journalist, playwright, and activist (died 1897)
Minna Canth was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. The Worker's Wife and The Pastor's Family are her best known plays, but the play Anna Liisa is the most adapted to films and operas. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view.
19/03/1829
Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman (died 1901)
Carl Frederik Tietgen was a Danish financier and industrialist. He played an important role in the industrialisation of Denmark as the founder of numerous prominent Danish companies, many of which are still in operation today. Tietgen notably formed conglomerates, thus several of Tietgen's companies attained monopoly-like status, cementing their durability.
19/03/1824
William Allingham, Irish poet, author, and scholar (died 1889)
William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known artist, watercolourist and illustrator.
19/03/1823
Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (died 1891)
Sir Arthur Blyth was Premier of South Australia three times; 1864–65, 1871–72 and 1873–75.
19/03/1821
Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (died 1890)
Sir Richard Francis Burton, KCMG, FRGS, was a British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as his extensive knowledge of languages and cultures, speaking up to 29 different languages.
19/03/1816
Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor (died 1891)
Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.
19/03/1813
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (died 1873)
David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status as a Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, he became one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.
19/03/1809
Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (died 1891)
Fredrik Pacius ; in German and in Estonian Friedrich Pacius; 19 March 1809 – 8 January 1891) was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music".
19/03/1784
José Prudencio Padilla López, Colombian naval commander and politician (died 1828)
Admiral José Prudencio Padilla López was a Neogranadine military leader who fought in the Spanish American wars of independence and a hero in the battles of independence for Gran Colombia . He was the foremost naval hero of the campaign for independence led by Simón Bolívar, and the creator of the first Navy and Admiral of Great Colombia. He is best known for his victory in the Battle of Lake Maracaibo on 24 July 1823, in which a royalist Spanish fleet was defeated.
19/03/1778
Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (died 1815)
Major-General Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, was a British Army officer and politician. He was the son of the Baron Longford and the brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he served in the Peninsular War. During the War of 1812, he was the commander of British forces attempting to take the Southern port of New Orleans (1814–15). On 8 January 1815, Pakenham was killed in action while leading his men at the Battle of New Orleans.
19/03/1748
Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and theologian (died 1830)
Elias Hicks was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed unorthodox by many which led to lasting controversy, and caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends.
19/03/1742
Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (died 1781)
Túpac Amaru II, c. 1742 – May 18, 1781) was an Indigenous cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru as self-proclaimed Sapa Inca of the new Inca Empire. He was later elevated to a mythical status in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement, as well as an inspiration to myriad causes in Spanish America and beyond.
19/03/1739
Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (died 1824)
Charles-François Lebrun, 1st duc de Plaisance was a French statesman who served as Third Consul of the French Republic and was later created Arch-Treasurer by Napoleon I.
19/03/1734
Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1817)
Thomas McKean was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father. During the American Revolution he was a Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where he signed the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation. He served as President of Congress for four months in 1781. McKean was at various times a member of the Federalist and the Democratic-Republican parties and served as president of Delaware, chief justice of Pennsylvania, and the second governor of Pennsylvania. He also held numerous other public offices.
19/03/1721
Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (died 1771) (baptised on this day)
Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later generations of British novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others.
19/03/1684
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (died 1766)
Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. Astruc was the first to propose and hypothesize, by using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics, the theory that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach now called the documentary hypothesis.
19/03/1661
Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (died 1727)
Francesco Gasparini was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in the Holy Roman Empire and England.
19/03/1641
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (died 1731)
Shaykh 'Abd al-Ghani ibn Isma′il al-Nabulsi (an-Nabalusi), was an eminent Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, and author on works about Sufism, ethnography and agriculture.
19/03/1604
John IV of Portugal (died 1656)
Dom John IV, also known by the Portuguese as John the Restorer, was the King of Portugal from 1640 until his death in 1656. He restored the independence of Portugal from Habsburg Spanish rule by terminating the 60-year-old Iberian Union in which Portugal and Spain shared the same monarch, and by establishing the House of Braganza on the Portuguese throne.
19/03/1601
Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1667)
Alonso Cano Almansa was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.
19/03/1542
Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)
Jan Sariusz Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st ordynat of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown from 1578, and Great Hetman of the Crown from 1581.
19/03/1534
José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (died 1597)
José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its European discovery, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo in 1554 and of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. He is the first playwright, the first grammarian and the first poet born in the Canary Islands, and is considered the father of Brazilian literature.
19/03/1488
Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (died 1544)
Johannes Magnus was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.
19/03/1434
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (died 1443)
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463). His childhood name was Chiyachamaru (千也茶丸). Hino Tomiko, wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, at first was betrothed to Yoshikatsu.
19/03/1206
Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1248)
Güyük Khan or Güyüg Khagan, mononymously Güyüg, was the third Khagan of the Mongol Empire, the eldest son of Ögedei Khan and a grandson of Genghis Khan. He reigned from 1246 to 1248. He started his military career by participating in the conquest of Eastern Xia in China and later in the invasion of Europe. When his father died, he was enthroned as Khagan in 1246. During his almost two year reign, he reversed some of his mother's unpopular edicts and ordered an empire-wide census; he also held some authority in Eastern Europe, appointing Andrey II as the grand prince of Vladimir and giving the princely title of Kiev to Alexander Nevsky.