Born on Monday, 23rd March – Famous Birthdays

23/03/2001

Anna Hall, American world champion heptathlete

Anna Hall is an American athlete specializing in the combined events. She is the reigning World Champion in heptathlon, having won the title at the 2025 World Championships.

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23/03/1997

Ben Manenti, Australian cricketer

Benjamin Andrew Davey Manenti is an Italian-Australian cricketer. He is a right-arm off spin bowler who bats right-handed. He has played for Tasmania, South Australia, the Sydney Sixers, and the Adelaide Strikers. He has also represented the Italy national cricket team, qualifying as a citizen by descent.

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23/03/1996

Alexander Albon, Thai-British race car driver

Alexander Philippe Albon Ansusinha is a Thai and British racing driver who competes under the Thai flag in Formula One for Williams.

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Joel Kiviranta, Finnish ice hockey player

Joel Kiviranta is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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23/03/1995

Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer

Kevin Kauber is an Estonian footballer who plays as a forward for Vaprus.

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Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist

Jan Lisiecki is a Canadian classical pianist. He performs internationally with orchestras and conductors. He has been a recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon since the age of 15. At age 18, Lisiecki was the recipient of Gramophone’s Young Artist Award and the Leonard Bernstein Award.

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Victoria Pedretti, American actress

Victoria Pedretti is an American actress. She gained wide recognition for starring in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), which established her as a scream queen. She earned further recognition for playing Love Quinn in the Netflix thriller series You. For these roles, she received a MTV Award and nominations at the Critics' Choice and Saturn Awards.

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Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer

Ozan Tufan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor and the Turkey national team. His primary position is attacking midfielder, but he can also play as a striker or a right winger.

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23/03/1994

Nick Powell, English footballer

Nicholas Edward Powell is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for EFL League One club Bradford City.

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Oskar Sundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player

Oskar Sundqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Bridger Zadina, American actor

Bridger Zadina is an American model and actor from northern Wisconsin. He is known for roles on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bosch, and Better Things. He also starred in the 2014 movie Sins of Our Youth.

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23/03/1993

Quinn Cook, American basketball player

Quinn Alexander Cook is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was one of the top-rated basketball recruits in the class of 2011. Cook won the 2015 NCAA national championship with Duke, and won two NBA championships, one with the Golden State Warriors in 2018 and one with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. He has also played for the Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans, and Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Tomáš Hyka, Czech ice hockey player

Tomáš Hyka is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga (ELH). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vegas Golden Knights.

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Dmitrij Jaškin, Russian-Czech ice hockey player

Dmitrij Alexejevič Jaškin is a Russian-born Czech professional ice hockey player currently playing with Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He played five seasons for the St Louis Blues and one season with the Washington Capitals and Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Jaškin was selected first overall in the 2010 KHL Junior Draft by Sibir Novosibirsk, and was drafted by the Blues in the second round, 41st overall, in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

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Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer

Aytaç Kara is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Sarıyerspor.

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23/03/1992

Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer

Tolga Ciğerci is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for 3. Liga club Energie Cottbus. Born in Germany, he represented it at under-19 and under-20 level, before switching his allegiance to Turkey.

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Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player

Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. A nine-time All-Star and three-time member of the All-NBA Team, Irving won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016.

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Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress

Vanessa Morgan Mziray is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Beatrix "Bird" Castro in the MTV teen drama series Finding Carter, as Amanda Pierce in the Family teen comedy series The Latest Buzz, and as Sarah in the Disney Channel / Teletoon film My Babysitter's a Vampire and the television series of the same name. From 2017 to 2023, she played Toni Topaz in the CW teen drama series Riverdale.

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23/03/1991

Facundo Campazzo, Argentine basketball player

Facundo "Facu" Campazzo is an Argentine professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. At a height of 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall, he plays at the point guard position. He is also a member of the senior Argentina national basketball team.

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Erik Haula, Finnish ice hockey player

Erik Haula is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Minnesota Wild, Vegas Golden Knights, Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils. Haula was selected by the Wild in the seventh round, 182nd overall, of the 2009 NHL entry draft.

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Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer

Gregg Wylde is a Scottish footballer who plays for Camelon in the East of Scotland League Premier Division.

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23/03/1990

Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish race car driver

Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero, also known by his stage name Squire, is a Spanish former racing driver, broadcaster and DJ, who competed in Formula One from 2009 to 2011.

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Mark Barberio, Canadian ice hockey player

Mark Barberio is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Bolzano of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). Barberio was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the sixth round, 152nd overall, of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

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Princess Eugenie, English royal

Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, is a member of the British royal family. She is the younger daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. At birth, Eugenie was sixth in the line of succession to the British throne and is 12th as of 2026.

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Gordon Hayward, American basketball player

Gordon Daniel Hayward is an American former professional basketball player. He played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Utah Jazz, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets, and Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Robert Zickert, German footballer

Robert Zickert is a German footballer who plays for Chemnitzer FC.

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23/03/1989

Ayesha Curry, Canadian-American chef, author and television personality

Ayesha Disa Curry is a Canadian-American businesswoman, restaurateur, author, actress and philanthropist.

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Nikola Gulan, Serbian footballer

Nikola Gulan is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder.

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Luis Fernando Silva, Mexican footballer

Luis Fernando Silva Ochoa is a Mexican footballer who plays as a defender.

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23/03/1988

Dellin Betances, American baseball player

Dellin Betances is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and New York Mets from 2011 to 2021. Betances was named an MLB All-Star from 2014 to 2017.

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Jason Kenny, English cyclist

Sir Jason Francis Kenny is an English former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. Kenny is the winner of most Olympic gold medals (7) and medals (9) by a British athlete. Kenny's seven Olympic gold medals place him joint 15th in gold medals won in the Summer Olympic games since 1896. He holds the records for both most Olympic golds and most Olympic medals won by a cyclist.

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Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player

Michal Neuvirth is a Czech former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for the Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 34th overall by the Washington Capitals in the second round of the 2006 NHL entry draft.

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23/03/1987

Alan Toovey, Australian footballer

Alan Toovey is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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23/03/1986

Patrick Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player

Patrick Bordeleau is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who currently plays for the Jonquiere Marquis in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Colorado Avalanche.

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Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer

Andrea Dovizioso is an Italian former professional motorcycle racer. He raced with WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team for the 2022 season but announced his intended-retirement after the Misano round in September. Dovizioso was the 2004 125cc World Champion, but is best known for his time with the Ducati Team in the MotoGP class, finishing championship runner-up to Marc Márquez for three consecutive seasons in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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Brett Eldredge, American singer-songwriter and musician

Brett Ryan Eldredge is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Eldredge has had five No. 1 singles on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, three of which came from his debut album, Bring You Back: "Don't Ya", "Beat of the Music", and "Mean to Me".

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Kangana Ranaut, Indian actress

Kangna Amardeep Ranaut is an Indian actress, filmmaker, and politician serving as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Mandi since June 2024. Known for her portrayals of strong-willed, unconventional women in female-led Hindi films, she is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards, and has featured six times in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list. In 2020, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian award.

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23/03/1985

Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player

Maurice Christopher Jones-Drew, often called "MJD", is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning unanimous All-American honors in 2005.

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Bethanie Mattek-Sands, American tennis player

Bethanie Mattek-Sands is an American inactive professional tennis player. She has won nine Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal, and is a former world No. 1 in doubles. She held the top ranking for 32 consecutive weeks.

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23/03/1984

Ryan Araña, Filipino basketball player

Ryan T. Araña is a Filipino former professional basketball player. He played for four teams during his career in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Araña played college basketball at the De La Salle University. He was drafted with the twelfth overall pick in the second round of the 2007 PBA draft by the Welcoat Dragons.

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Brandon Marshall, American football player

Brandon Tyrone Marshall is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCF Knights, and was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL draft. Marshall has also played for the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, New York Giants, and the Seattle Seahawks. After his retirement from the NFL, Marshall became a TV personality, and is a former co-host on FS1's morning show First Things First. Marshall currently cohosts Showtime's Inside the NFL and has been on the show for seven seasons.

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23/03/1983

Hakan Balta, Turkish footballer

Hakan Kadir Balta is a retired Turkish professional footballer who played as a defender for Galatasaray in the Süper Lig. At the start of the 2018/19 season he was released from his contract after over 10 years with the club.

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Mo Farah, Somali-English runner

Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah is a British former long-distance runner. Considered one of the greatest runners of all time, he holds the record for the most global championship gold medals, making him the most successful male track distance runner in the history of the sport, and he is the most successful British track athlete in Olympic Games history.

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Sascha Riether, German footballer

Sascha Riether is a German former professional footballer who played as a right back. In addition to playing in the right-back position, Riether has also played in defensive midfield, center back and right midfield positions throughout his whole career.

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Jerome Thomas, English footballer

Jerome William Thomas is an English former footballer who is the head of academy recruitment at Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. He played predominantly as a left-winger during his career. He scored 25 goals in 292 league and cup appearances throughout a 16-year professional career in the English Football League and Premier League.

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23/03/1982

José Contreras Arrau, Chilean footballer

José Raúl Contreras Arrau is a Chilean former footballer who played as a right-back.

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Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer

Andrea Musacco is an Italian footballer.

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Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer

Evgeni Striganov is an Estonian ice dancer. With partner Marina Timofejeva, he is the 2003 & 2004 Estonian national champion. They were five time competitors at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, with the highest placement of 17th in 2003. They placed 22nd at the 2003 European Figure Skating Championships and 26th at the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships. They were coached by Lea Rand, the mother of fellow Estonian ice dancers Kristjan and Taavi Rand.

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23/03/1981

Pavel Brendl, Czech ice hockey player

Pavel Brendl is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who last played for the HKM Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga. He played in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes and Phoenix Coyotes.

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Erin Crocker, American race car driver

Erin Mary Crocker Evernham is an American race car driver and broadcaster with the Motor Racing Network's Winged Nation. In the past, she played soccer, tennis, and varsity lacrosse on both her high school and college teams. She eventually moved to focus more on building a family after starting a personal relationship with her team owner and superior, Ray Evernham, whom she eventually married.

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Tony Peña Jr., Dominican baseball player

Tony Francisco Peña is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Peña played shortstop until the 2009 season, when he converted to pitching. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals.

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Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder

Shelley Rudman is a skeleton athlete who in 2013 became the first British woman to win the world skeleton championship. She also won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and is a former World Cup and two-time European champion.

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Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer

Giuseppe Sculli is a retired Italian footballer who played in several positions; primarily a striker, he could play anywhere along the front-line, and also played as a winger, as a second striker, and even as a right-sided midfielder or as a wingback on the right flank.

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Brett Young, American singer-songwriter

Brett Charles Young is an American country pop singer, songwriter and guitarist from Anaheim, California. He was a college baseball pitcher but took up songwriting after an elbow injury. His self-titled debut EP, produced by Dann Huff, was released by Republic Nashville on February 12, 2016. The lead single, "Sleep Without You", was released on April 11 of that year and he had a major success with a follow-up single, "In Case You Didn't Know". He released his second major label album Ticket to L.A. in 2018, and the third, Weekends Look a Little Different These Days, in 2021.

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23/03/1979

Mark Buehrle, American baseball player

Mark Alan Buehrle is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played the majority of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Chicago White Sox, playing twelve seasons for the team and winning the World Series with them in 2005. Buehrle also pitched for the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays.

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Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player

Donncha O'Callaghan is an Irish retired rugby union player. He spent most of his career with his home province Munster, spending 17 seasons with the province and winning five major trophies, before finishing his career with Worcester Warriors in the English Premiership. Internationally, O'Callaghan represented Ireland and was part of the team that won the Six Nations grand slam in 2009. He also toured with the British & Irish Lions in 2005 and 2009, winning 4 caps. Throughout his career, O'Callaghan played primarily as a lock, though he occasionally provided cover at blindside flanker.

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23/03/1978

Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish illustrator

Simon Gärdenfors is a Swedish cartoonist, rapper, television presenter, and radio host.

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Perez Hilton, American blogger

Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., known professionally as Perez Hilton, is an American blogger, columnist, and media personality. His blog is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities, and for posting tabloid photos over which he has added his own captions or "doodles". His blog has garnered controversy for its attitude, its former practice of outing alleged closeted celebrities, and its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.

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Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer

Walter Adrián Samuel is an Argentine former professional footballer. Samuel has been regarded as one of the best centre-backs of his generation, and as one of football's toughest defenders, with former international teammate and Inter captain Javier Zanetti referring to him as the "hardest player" he has played with.

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Nicholle Tom, American actress

Nicholle Tom is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Maggie Sheffield on the CBS sitcom The Nanny (1993–1999). She appeared as Ryce Newton in the film Beethoven (1992), its sequel Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and additionally provided the voice of Ryce for the animated series, Beethoven (1994–1995). Tom voiced Supergirl in the DC Animated Universe and appeared in the role of Tara Wentzel in the sitcom The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman (2006–2007).

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Liu Ye, Chinese actor

Liu Ye is a Chinese actor. He made his feature film debut in Postmen in the Mountains (1999), and rose to fame for his role in Lan Yu (2001), which earned him a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor. His other notable works include the film Cock and Bull (2016), as well as the television series Blood Color Romance (2005) and All Quiet in Peking (2014).

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23/03/1977

Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and screenwriter

Miklos Perlus is a Canadian actor, writer, and story editor. Perlus has appeared on Canadian series Student Bodies, Road to Avonlea and Sidekick. He has written for Degrassi: The Next Generation and other series. He has also worked in television program development for several organizations.

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23/03/1976

Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

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Smriti Irani, Indian actress, producer and politician, Indian Minister of Human Resource Development

Smriti Zubin Irani is an Indian politician, actress, fashion model, and television producer. She received widespread acclaim for her role of Tulsi Virani in the soap opera Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi by Ekta Kapoor, which became the most watched show at its time and won her numerous accolades. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Irani has held various roles within the Indian Union Cabinet. Before entering politics, Irani had a successful career in the entertainment industry. In 2025, after nearly 2 decades away from acting, Irani reprised her role of Tulsi Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2.

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Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle racer

Douglas Martin Lampkin MBE is an English former professional motorcycle trials and endurocross rider. He competed in the FIM Trial World Championships from 1994 to 2006. Lampkin is notable for being a seven-time motorcycle trials world outdoor champion. He is the second most successful trials rider in history, after Toni Bou with 38. In 2012, Lampkin was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

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Michelle Monaghan, American actress

Michelle Lynn Monaghan is an American actress. She has starred in the films Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Made of Honor (2008), Eagle Eye (2008), Trucker (2008), Source Code (2011), Pixels (2015), and Patriots Day (2016). She also received recognition for her role in the action spy film series Mission: Impossible, making appearances in Mission: Impossible III (2006), Ghost Protocol (2011), and Fallout (2018).

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Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player

Joel Peralta Gutiérrez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Washington Nationals, Tampa Bay Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners and Chicago Cubs.

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Keri Russell, American actress

Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress. Working mainly in dramatic television since the 1990s, she has received a record eight nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1999 for her lead role in the drama series Felicity, and has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four additional Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in The Americans and The Diplomat. In 2017, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television.

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Benny Sa, Chinese television host

Benny Sa, also known as Sa Beining is a Chinese television host known for his work for China Central Television (CCTV). He served as the one-time anchor of the documentary program Legal Report (今日说法).

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Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver

Ricardo Luiz Zonta is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 10 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross for RCM Motorsport.

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23/03/1975

Burak Gürpınar, Turkish drummer

Burak Gürpınar is a Turkish drummer primarily known for his work with the influential Turkish rock band Kurban.

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Andy Turner, English footballer and manager

Andrew Peter Turner is a football coach and former professional football player and manager. He is currently Head of Youth Development at Northern Premier League Premier Division club Hednesford Town.

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23/03/1974

Mark Hunt, New Zealand mixed martial artist

Mark Hunt is a New Zealand former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. As a mixed martial artist, Hunt competed in Pride Fighting Championships from 2004 until 2006, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) from 2010 until 2018. As a kickboxer, Hunt achieved success as the winner of the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix. He is known as the "King of Walk-Offs" due to his popularisation of walking away and stopping attacks before the referee officially ends the match.

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Randall Park, American actor, director and screenwriter

Randall Park is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his roles as Agent Jimmy Woo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, FBI Special Agent Edwin Park in the Netflix series The Residence (2025), Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016, and for IKEA Heights, a comedy web series.

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23/03/1973

Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer

Jerzy Henryk Dudek is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Wim Eyckmans, Belgian race car driver

Wim Eyckmans is a Belgian racecar driver who starting in karting in 1986 has been in prototype racing since 2003. He participated in Formula 3000 in 1994 and 1995 and ran the Indy Lights series in 1998. In 1999, he competed in the Indianapolis 500 on behalf of Cheever Racing, finishing 23rd. He now owns a successful karting company.

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Jason Kidd, American basketball player and coach

Jason Frederick Kidd is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most versatile point guards ever, Kidd was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a six-time All-NBA Team member, and a nine-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. He won an NBA championship in 2011 as a member of the Dallas Mavericks and was a two-time gold medal winner in the Olympics with the U.S. national team in 2000 and 2008. He has been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame twice: in 2018 for his individual career, and in 2025 as a member of the Redeem Team. In 2021, Kidd was honored as one of the league's greatest players by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

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Bojana Radulović, Serbian-Hungarian handball player

Bojana Radulović, is a retired Serbian-Hungarian handball player who currently leads the handball academy of Dunaújváros.

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23/03/1972

Jonas Björkman, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player and coach

Jonas Lars Björkman is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 in doubles, and also a former world No. 4 in singles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup doubles championships. As of 2019, he was ranked in the top 40 on the all-time ATP prize money list with over $14.5 million. As of July 2024 he is still in the top 50 of the all-time ATP prize money list.

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Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer

Joseph William Calzaghe is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including unified and lineal titles at super-middleweight, and the Ring magazine light-heavyweight title.

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Judith Godrèche, French actress and author

Judith Godrèche is a French actress, author and feminist activist, who has appeared in more than 30 films.

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23/03/1971

Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model

Yasmeen Ghauri is a Canadian former fashion model. She had a prominent career in the 1990s, modeling for major fashion houses and appearing in campaigns and editorials for international magazines.

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Gail Porter, Scottish model and television host

Gail Porter is a Scottish television personality, former model and actress. She started her television career in children's TV, before branching out into modelling and presenting mainstream TV. In 1999, she posed nude for FHM, an image which was projected on to the Houses of Parliament. Later in her career, Porter has been affected by alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss.

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Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player

Alexander Yurievich Selivanov ; born March 23, 1971) is a Russian former professional ice hockey left winger who has played in the NHL and also in various European leagues. He quit playing after season 2011-2012. He is currently coaching Admiral Vladivostok of the KHL.

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Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler

Hiroyoshi Yamamoto is a Japanese professional wrestler who is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and is better known by his ring name Hiroyoshi Tenzan . With Satoshi Kojima, in 2008, they won the World's Strongest Tag Determination League in All Japan Pro Wrestling and the G1 Tag League in NJPW, becoming the only tag team which has done both. He is a four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion and a record twelve-time IWGP Tag Team Champion. He is also a former National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Champion.

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23/03/1970

Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian football administrator, president of FIFA

Giovanni Vincenzo Infantino is a football administrator and the president of FIFA since 2016. He has also been an International Olympic Committee member since 2020.

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23/03/1968

Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer and actor

Damon Albarn is an English musician. He is best known as the frontman, main vocalist, and lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.

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Mike Atherton, English cricketer and journalist

Michael Andrew Atherton is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, and occasional leg-break bowler, he achieved the captaincy of England at the age of 25 and led the side in a then record 54 Test matches. Known for his stubborn resistance during an era of hostile fast bowling, Atherton was described in 2001 as a determined defensive opener who made "batting look like trench warfare". He had several famed bouts with bowlers including South Africa's Allan Donald and Australia's Glenn McGrath. Atherton often played the anchor role at a time when England batting performances lacked consistency.

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Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer and manager

Fernando Ruiz Hierro is a Spanish football executive and former player who played as a centre-back, sweeper or defensive midfielder.

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Pierre Palmade, French actor and screenwriter

Pierre Palmade is a French actor, comedian, stage director and playwright.

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23/03/1966

Lorenzo Daniel, American sprinter

Lorenzo Daniel is an American retired track and field sprinter, best known for setting the 1985 world's best year performance in the men's 200 meters and being one of the fastest to run the event at the time. He did so on May 18, 1985, at a meet in Starkville, Mississippi, clocking 20.07. His fastest-ever 200m dash was 19.87 at Eugene, Oregon in 1988. He attended Mississippi State University, and majored in Sports Communication. Daniel was born in Avera, Georgia and grew up in Wrens, Georgia. He was once the third-fastest man in the world. Though he made the 1988 Olympics, he injured himself before he could attend The Games. He now resides in Dallas, Texas; has a wife, Sissy Sanders-Daniel and three children: Lauren, Lorenzo Jr., and Lorielle. He also founded and currently runs a sports agility company, Turbo Techniques.

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Marin Hinkle, American actress

Marin Hinkle is an American actress. Among many television and movie roles, she is best known for playing Judy Brooks in the ABC television drama Once and Again (1999–2002), Judith Harper-Melnick in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–2015), and Rose Weissman in the Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023). For her role in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hinkle was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2019 and 2020.

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Vasilis Vouzas, Greek footballer and manager

Vasilios Vouzas is a Greek professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of AEK Athens U19.

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23/03/1965

Richard Grieco, American actor, artist, and model

Richard John Grieco Junior. is an American actor, artist, and former fashion model. He played Detective Dennis Booker in the popular Fox series 21 Jump Street (1988–89) and its spin-off Booker (1989–90). He has also starred in various films, including If Looks Could Kill and Mobsters. He has voiced characters in several video games and appeared as either himself or his 21 Jump Street character in several films and television shows. Since 2009, he worked as a painter, working in a style he calls abstract emotionalism.. In 2000, he had a son, Tony Grieco, who is now a well-known artist and designer with a massive social media following.

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Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter

Gary Joseph Whitehead is an American poet and educator. He is the author of four books of poetry: Strange What Rises A Glossary of Chickens Measuring Cubits while the Thunder Claps and The Velocity of Dust. His work has appeared in journals, magazines and newspapers and most notably in The New Yorker and Poetry.

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23/03/1964

Hope Davis, American actress

Hope Davis is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.

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23/03/1963

Juan Ramón López Caro, Spanish footballer and manager

Juan Ramón López Caro is a Spanish football manager.

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Míchel, Spanish footballer and manager

José Miguel González Martín del Campo, known as Míchel, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder, currently a manager.

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Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban runner

Ana Fidelia Quirot Moré is a former track and field athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 400 m. At 800 metres, she is a two-time World Champion and a two-time Olympic medallist. Her best time of 1:54.44 from 1989 still ranks her fifth on the world all-time list. She is regarded as one of the best female 800 m runners of all time, and probably the best to not have an Olympic gold medal in the event.

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23/03/1962

Steve Redgrave, English rower

Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.

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23/03/1961

Roger Crisp, English philosopher and academic

Roger Stephen Crisp is fellow and tutor in philosophy at St. Anne's College, Oxford. He holds the university posts of Professor of Moral Philosophy and Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy. His work falls principally within the field of ethics, in particular metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. In addition, he is chairman of the Management Committee of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

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Craig Green, New Zealand rugby player

Craig Ivan Green is a New Zealand born former rugby union footballer and coach. He was part of the 1987 Rugby World Cup winning All Blacks team.

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Helmi Johannes, Indonesian journalist and producer

Helmi Johannes is an Indonesian television newscaster and executive producer. Helmi Johannes now works for the Indonesian service of the Voice of America (VOA), based in Washington, DC. Helmi is responsible for the overall production, program development, talent and day-to-day operations of VOA Indonesian television programming.

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23/03/1960

Haris Romas, Greek actor, screenwriter, and lyricist

Haris Romas is a Greek actor, screenwriter, television director, theatre director, lyricist and politician.

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Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen, Scottish lawyer and politician, 2nd Deputy First Minister of Scotland

Nicol Ross Stephen, Baron Stephen is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, he was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Aberdeen South from 1999 to 2011, and was leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2005 to 2008.

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23/03/1959

Catherine Keener, American actress

Catherine Keener is an American actress. She has portrayed disgruntled and melancholic yet sympathetic women in independent films, as well as supporting roles in studio films. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Being John Malkovich (1999) and for her portrayal of author Harper Lee in Capote (2005). Her performance as Gertrude Baniszewski in An American Crime (2007) earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Her other accolades include nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

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23/03/1958

Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist

Etienne De Wilde is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer. De Wilde won races on the road and on the track. He won a silver medal in the madison at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Hugh Grant, Scottish business executive

Hugh Grant is a Scottish business executive, who was the last CEO of Monsanto until its acquisition by Bayer.

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Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Bengt-Åke Gustafsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player. Gustafsson is the former head coach of the Sweden senior team, a post he held from February 2005 to May 2010.

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23/03/1957

Lucio Gutiérrez, Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador

Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa is an Ecuadorian politician and former military officer who served as the 43rd president of Ecuador from 2003 until his impeachment in 2005. In 2023, he was elected to the National Assembly.

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Robbie James, Welsh footballer and manager (died 1998)

Robert Mark James was a Welsh international footballer who played for many teams including Swansea City, Stoke City and Queens Park Rangers. He represented his country on 47 occasions over a period of ten years, scoring a total of seven goals.

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Amanda Plummer, American actress

Amanda Michael Plummer is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. She most recently appeared in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).

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23/03/1956

José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal

José Manuel Durão Barroso is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He served as the prime minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004 and as the president of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014.

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23/03/1955

Moses Malone, American basketball player (died 2015)

Moses Eugene Malone Sr. was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995. A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection. Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001. Malone is widely regarded as one of the greatest centers and players of all time.

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23/03/1954

Geno Auriemma, Italian-American basketball player and coach

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the UConn Huskies women's basketball team. He holds the NCAA basketball records for wins and winning percentage with a minimum of 10 seasons. Auriemma also has the most NCAA Division I basketball championships at 12.

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Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions

Kenneth D. Cole is an American designer, social activist, business owner, and philanthropist. His global company, Kenneth Cole Productions, creates clothing and other products under the labels Kenneth Cole New York, Reaction Kenneth Cole, and Unlisted, as well as footwear under the label Gentle Souls.

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Mary Fee, Scottish Labour Party politician

Mary Christina Fee is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Scottish Labour Party, she was its deputy spokesperson for a number of portfolios from 2017 to 2019.

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Paul Price, English-Welsh footballer and manager

Paul Price is a former professional footballer. He played for Welwyn Garden City, Luton Town, Tottenham Hotspur, Swansea City, Minnesota Strikers, Peterborough United, St Albans City and was an international for Wales. He played in the position of central defender.

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23/03/1953

Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (died 1990)

Baudilio José Díaz Seijas was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1977 to 1989, most prominently with the Cleveland Indians where he rose to prominence as an American League (AL) All-Star player in 1981 and, later with the Philadelphia Phillies where he was a member of the 1983 National League pennant winning team. He earned his second All-Star game berth with the Cincinnati Reds in 1987. Diaz began his career with the Boston Red Sox. He was the first Venezuelan to play regularly as a catcher in Major League Baseball. In 2006, Díaz was posthumously inducted into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter

Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer and songwriter. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Do You Love What You Feel", and the platinum-certified "Ain't Nobody". Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit "I'm Every Woman". Khan scored another R&B charts hit with "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You". More of Khan's hits include "Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, "Higher Love".

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian zoologist and businesswoman

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In 2014, she was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the progress of science and chemistry. She was on the Financial Times 2011 top 50 women in business list. In 2019, she was listed as the 68th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020.

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23/03/1952

Francesco Clemente, Italian painter and illustrator

Francesco Clemente is an Italian contemporary artist. He has lived at various times in Italy, India and New York City. Some of his work is influenced by the traditional art and culture of India. He has worked in various artistic media including drawing, fresco, graphics, mosaic, oils and sculpture. He was among the principal figures in the Italian Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, which was characterized by a rejection of Formalism and conceptual art and a return to figurative art and Symbolism.

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Kim Stanley Robinson, American author

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."

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Rex Tillerson, American businessman, engineer and diplomat; 69th United States Secretary of State

Rex Wayne Tillerson is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.

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23/03/1951

Ron Jaworski, American football player and sportscaster

Ronald Vincent Jaworski, nicknamed "Jaws", is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He played college football for the Youngstown State Penguins and was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the second round of the 1973 NFL draft. After spending four seasons mostly as a backup for the Rams, Jaworski was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1977, where he would lead the Eagles to four consecutive playoff appearances, including a division title and the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance in 1980. After 10 seasons with the Eagles, Jaworski signed with the Miami Dolphins, where he would spend two seasons as a backup.

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Adrian Reynard, English businessman, founded Reynard Motorsport

Adrian John Reynard is a businessman and commercial astronaut. He is the founder of Reynard Motorsport, which was a successful racing car manufacturer before it went bankrupt in 2002.

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23/03/1950

Corinne Cléry, French actress

Corinne Marie-Madeleine Geneviève Pierrette Picolo, better known as Corinne Cléry, is a French actress. Her breakthrough role was as the title character in Story of O (1975), based on the novel of the same name. She subsequently had significant career in Italian cinema, and also played Corinne Dufour in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

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Phil Lanzon, English keyboard player and songwriter

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. Their current lineup consists of guitarist Mick Box, keyboardist Phil Lanzon, lead vocalist Bernie Shaw, drummer Russell Gilbrook, and bassist Dave Rimmer. They have experienced numerous lineup changes throughout their 57-year career, leaving Box as the only remaining original member. Former members of the band are vocalists David Byron, John Lawton, John Sloman and Peter Goalby; bassists Paul Newton, Mark Clarke, Gary Thain, John Wetton, Trevor Bolder and Bob Daisley; drummers Alex Napier, Nigel Olsson, Keith Baker, Iain Clark, Lee Kerslake and Chris Slade; and keyboardists Ken Hensley, Gregg Dechert and John Sinclair.

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Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author and translator

Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.

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23/03/1948

Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer

Wasim Bari is a Pakistani former international cricketer who played in 81 Test matches and 51 One Day Internationals from 1967 to 1984. Bari was a wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman. He captained Pakistan in Test matches and one-day internationals. At the end of his 17-year career, he was the most-capped player in Pakistani Test history.

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Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and politician

Marie Malavoy is a Canadian politician and teacher. She was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taillon in the Montérégie region for the Parti Québécois. Following the PQ victory in 2012, Malavoy entered the cabinet as Minister of Education.

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23/03/1947

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, American author

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy and Registered Nurse who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She has published over 40 novels, as well as collaborating with Anne McCaffrey on multiple series.

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23/03/1946

Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and producer

Alan George Bleasdale is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. Bleasdale's plays typically represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life in Liverpool than was usually seen in the media.

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23/03/1945

Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter and director (died 2021)

Francesco "Franco" Battiato was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes, and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimalism, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack.

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David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer

David Jay Grisman is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which releases his recordings and those of other acoustic musicians. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in Owensboro, Kentucky in 2023.

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23/03/1944

Tony McPhee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

Anthony Charles McPhee was an English guitarist and singer. He was the founder of the British blues and rock band the Groundhogs.

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Michael Nyman, English composer of minimalist music and pianist

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.

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Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2019)

Richard Theodore Otcasek, known as Ric Ocasek, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was the primary lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the American new wave band the Cars. In addition to his work with the Cars, Ocasek recorded seven solo studio albums. Ocasek's 1986 single, "Emotion in Motion", was a top 20 hit in the United States.

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23/03/1943

Andrew Crockett, Scottish-English economist and banker (died 2012)

Sir Andrew Duncan Crockett was a British banker, economist and public servant. He was the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

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Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish singer, author and director (died 2001)

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, known as Áilu in the Northern Sámi language and with the stage name of Áillohaš, was a Finnish Sámi writer, musician and artist. He was one of the most internationally recognised contributors of Sámi culture. He was mostly known for his joiks and poems. He was the official provincial artist of Lapland from 1978 to 1983. He was given the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1991 for his work called Beaivi, áhčážan.

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23/03/1942

Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter

Michael Haneke is a German-born Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, German, and English and has worked in television and theatre. He also teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna.

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Jimmy Miller, American record producer and musician (died 1994)

Jimmy Miller was an American record producer and musician. While he produced albums for dozens of different bands and artists, he is known primarily for his work with several key musical acts of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar and activist (died 1980)

Walter Anthony Rodney was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. He was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1980.

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23/03/1938

Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (died 2012)

Jon Douglas Finlayson was an Australian stage and screen character actor, radio performer, writer, director, producer and singer

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23/03/1937

Craig Breedlove, American race car driver (died 2023)

Norman Craig Breedlove Sr. was an American professional race car driver and a five-time world land speed record holder. He was the first person in history to reach 500 mph (800 km/h), and 600 mph (970 km/h), using several turbojet-powered vehicles, all named Spirit of America.

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Tony Burton, American actor, comedian, boxer and football player (died 2016)

Anthony Mabron Burton was an American actor and professional boxer. He was best known for his role as trainer Tony "Duke" Evers in the Rocky films.

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Robert Gallo, American physician and academic

Robert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.

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23/03/1936

Jannis Kounellis, Greek painter and sculptor (died 2017)

Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.

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23/03/1935

Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor and screenwriter (died 2022)

Barry Charles Cryer was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Ronnie Corbett, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

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23/03/1934

Alan Baddeley, English psychologist

Alan David Baddeley CBE FRS is a British psychologist. He is known for his research on memory and for developing the three-component model of working memory. He is a professor of psychology at the University of York.

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Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 2017)

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the quantum-mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path-integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction of the Faddeev–Popov ghosts. He led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.

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23/03/1933

Norman Bailey, English opera singer and educator (died 2021)

Norman Stanley Bailey was a British operatic bass-baritone who appeared in leading roles in major opera venues. After an early career in Austria and Germany, he settled in England and was associated with the English National Opera. One of his signature roles was Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he performed at La Scala in Milan in 1968 and at the Bayreuth Festival the following year. Later that year he was called upon at the last minute to play the part at the Royal Opera House in London when Hubert Hoffman had to pull out with a sore throat. He also played this part in his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1976.

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Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic (died 2024)

Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored more than 500 articles, chapters, textbooks, and trade books covering a wide range of topics, including time perspective, cognitive dissonance, the psychology of evil, persuasion, cults, deindividuation, shyness, and heroism. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later criticized as being based on biased science. He authored various widely used, introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including Shyness, The Lucifer Effect, and The Time Paradox.

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23/03/1932

Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2024)

Donald Robert Marshall was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

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23/03/1931

Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (died 2005)

Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin was a Soviet and Russian speedskater. Grishin trained for the largest part of his speedskating career at CSKA Moscow. A four-time Olympian, he became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 meter and 1500 meter events in both 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics, competing for the USSR team. Along with his compatriot Lidiya Skoblikova, he was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Winter Olympics.

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Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and author (died 2016)

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi was a Soviet and Swiss chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.

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Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (died 2013)

Yevdokiya Panteleyevna Mekshilo was a female Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s for Armed Forces sports society. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, she won a gold in the 3 × 5 km relay and a silver in the 10 km event. She was born in Gorno-Altaysk.

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23/03/1929

Roger Bannister, English middle-distance runner, neurologist and academic (died 2018)

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.

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Michael Manser, English architect and engineer (died 2016)

Michael Manser was a British architect. He was a president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and established his own successful architecture practice in 1961.

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Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer

Mark Rydell is an American film director, producer and actor. He has directed several Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979) and The River (1984). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981).

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23/03/1928

Lee Sexton, American banjo player (died 2021)

Lee Sexton was an American banjoist from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and was proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" (clawhammer) traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sang and played fiddle. His Whoa Mule album includes recordings from a 1952 home recording with fiddler Fernando Lusk to recordings made in 2001. Four solo songs also appear on Smithsonian Folkways album Mountain Music of Kentucky.

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23/03/1925

David Watkin, English cinematographer (died 2008)

David Watkin BSC was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack.

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23/03/1924

Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (died 2013)

Rodney Mims Cook was an American politician who served for over twenty years as Atlanta alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

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Olga Kennard, English crystallographer and academic (died 2023)

Olga Kennard, Lady Burgen was a Hungarian-born British scientist who specialised in crystallography. She was the founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

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John Madin, English architect (died 2012)

John Hardcastle Dalton Madin was an English architect. His company, known as John H D Madin & Partners from 1962 and the John Madin Design Group from 1968, was active in Birmingham for over 30 years.

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Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor of Liquid Paper (died 1980)

Bette Nesmith Graham was an American inventor, entrepreneur, businesswoman, and philanthropist from the state of Texas. While working as a secretary in the 1950s, she developed the correction fluid known as Liquid Paper. Graham founded the Liquid Paper Company in 1958, built it into a multimillion-dollar business with international reach, and sold it to Gillette Corporation in 1979. She was the mother of musician Michael Nesmith.

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23/03/1923

Angelo Ingrassia, American soldier and judge (died 2013)

Angelo Ingrassia was an American jurist.

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23/03/1922

Marty Allen, American comedian and actor (died 2018)

Morton David Alpern, better known as Marty Allen, was an American comedian, actor, and philanthropist. He worked as a comedy headliner in nightclubs, as a dramatic actor in television roles, and was once called "The Darling of Daytime TV". He also appeared in films, notably the 1966 spy comedy The Last of the Secret Agents?. During his comedy career, Allen also toured military hospitals, and performed for veterans and for active military personnel.

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Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (died 1990)

Ottavio "Ugo" Tognazzi was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.

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23/03/1921

Donald Campbell, English race car driver (died 1967)

Donald Malcolm Campbell, was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England.

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Peter Lawler, Australian public servant (died 2017)

Sir Peter James Lawler was an Australian senior public servant and diplomat. He served in senior roles under Prime Ministers Menzies, Holt, McEwen, Gorton, McMahon, Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke, and ended his career as Ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See.

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23/03/1920

Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (died 2013)

Tetsuharu Kawakami was a Japanese baseball player and manager, known for his red bat, and his nickname dageki no kamisama .

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Neal Edward Smith, American pilot, lawyer and politician (died 2021)

Neal Edward Smith was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from Iowa from 1959 until 1995, the longest-serving Iowan in the United States House of Representatives.

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23/03/1919

Carl Graffunder, American architect and educator (died 2013)

Carl Graffunder was a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota in 1942 and Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1948. Graffunder was the chief draftsman for Antonin Raymond in New York City from 1946 to 1947. Graffunder taught for the University of Minnesota School of Architecture from 1948 until his retirement in the 1980s.

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Subhadra Joshi, Indian freedom activist and politician (died 2003)

Subhadra Joshi was an Indian freedom activist, politician and parliamentarian from Indian National Congress. She took part in the 1942 Quit India movement, and later remained the president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC). She was from Sialkot.

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23/03/1918

Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (died 1992)

Stanley Armour Dunham was an American furniture salesman and the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, a former President of the United States. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Helene Hale, American politician (died 2013)

Helene Eleanor Hale was an American politician from the state of Hawaii.

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Naoki Kazu, Japanese football player (died 1940s)

Kazu Naoki was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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23/03/1917

Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (died 1998)

Harry Cranbrook Allen was a British historian of the United States.

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23/03/1915

Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (died 2014)

Mary Evelyn Hungerford Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, born Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, by his marriage to Lady Peggy Primrose, one of the first seven women appointed as magistrates in 1919 following the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Her maternal grandparents were Hannah de Rothschild and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

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Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (died 1991)

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was a Soviet sniper who served in World War II.

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23/03/1914

Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (died 1984)

Milbourne Christopher was a prominent American illusionist, magic historian, and author.

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23/03/1913

Abidin Dino, Turko-French painter and illustrator (died 1993)

Abidin Dino was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter.

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23/03/1912

Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American children's author and critic (died 1996)

Eleanor Frances (Butler) Cameron was a children's author and critic. She published 20 books in her lifetime, including The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954) and its sequels, a collection of critical essays called The Green and Burning Tree (1969), and The Court of the Stone Children (1973), which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books.

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Neil McCorkell, English-South African cricketer and coach (died 2013)

Neil Thomas McCorkell was an English first-class cricketer. A successor as Hampshire wicket-keeper to George Brown, McCorkell made his debut in first-class cricket in 1932. He played for Hampshire either side of the Second World War, with distinction as both a wicket-keeper and opening batsman. In 396 first-class matches, he scored over 16,000 runs and made 717 dismissals behind the stumps. He was Hampshire's most successful wicket-keeper until his records were surpassed by Bobby Parks. McCorkell never played Test cricket for England, largely due to the concurrent careers of the Kent wicket-keeping duo Les Ames and Godfrey Evans.

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Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle (died 1977)

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect. He became a member of the Nazi Party and then the Allgemeine SS to support his rocket work. He led the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, and later of rocket and space technology in the US.

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23/03/1910

Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial officer and educator (died 2001)

John Frederick Cornes also known as Jerry Cornes was an English middle distance runner, colonial officer, and schoolmaster. He was born in Darjeeling, British India.

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Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (died 1998)

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as a hands-on filmmaker, he was heavily involved with all aspects of production as a director, writer, producer, and editor.

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23/03/1909

Charles Werner, American cartoonist (died 1997)

Charles George Werner was an American editorial cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and later worked 47 years for the Indianapolis Star.

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23/03/1907

Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)

Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, the pharmacology of curare, and other neuropharmacological interests.

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23/03/1905

Lale Andersen, German chanson singer-songwriter (died 1972)

Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Lehe. She is best known for her interpretation of the song "Lili Marleen" in 1939, which by 1942 transcended the conflict to become World War II's biggest international hit. Popular with both the Axis and the Allies, Andersen's original recording spawned versions, by the end of the War, in most of the major languages of Europe, and by some of the most popular artists in their respective countries.

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23/03/1903

Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (died 1982)

Frank Sargeson was a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. Born in Hamilton, Sargeson had a middle-class and puritanical upbringing, and initially worked as a lawyer. After travelling to the United Kingdom for two years and working as a clerk on his return, he was convicted of indecent assault for a homosexual encounter and moved to live on his uncle's farm for a period. Having already written and published some short stories in the late 1920s, he began to focus on his writing and moved into his parents' holiday cottage where he would live for the rest of his life.

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23/03/1901

Bhakti Hridaya Bon, Indian guru and religious writer (died 1982)

Bhakti Hridaya Bon, also known as Swami Bon, was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Gaudiya Vaishnava theology. At the time of his death, he left behind thousands of Bengali disciples in India.

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23/03/1900

Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)

Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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23/03/1899

Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (died 1943)

Dora Gerson was a German cabaret singer and stage and motion picture actress of the silent film era. She was murdered at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

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23/03/1898

Louis Adamic, Slovenian-American author, translator and politician (died 1951)

Louis Adamic was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of the United States.

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Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (died 1984)

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza was the titular Duchess of Parma and Piacenza and was also Carlist Queen of Spain as the wife of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne.

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23/03/1895

Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (died 2001)

Encarnación Amoranto Alzona was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragist. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D., she was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines.

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Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, author and composer (died 1985)

Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.

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23/03/1894

Arthur Grimsdell, English international footballer and cricketer (died 1963)

Arthur Grimsdell was an English professional footballer. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire and played at centre-half and later wing-half for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He captained both teams during the 1920s.

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23/03/1893

Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art director and production designer (died 1960)

Austin Cedric Gibbons was an American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, but tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. He was nominated 39 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times, both of which are records.

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Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (died 1974)

G. D. Naidu was an Indian technical redesigner and industrial pioneer who transformed imported technologies into practical and affordable innovations for India. He is referred to as one of "the wealth creators of Coimbatore". He is credited with the manufacture of the first electric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrial but also spanned the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural and automobile engineering. Naidu developed an independently internal combustion four stroke engine. He had only primary education but excelled as a versatile genius. He is also known as "Miracle Man".

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23/03/1891

Po Kya, Burmese author and educationist (died 1942)

U Po Kya is considered one of the top Burmese authors and education reformists in 20th century Myanmar. He is regarded as the father of Burmese short stories, a key member of the Nationalist Education movement of the 1930s and also a literary genius. His works continue to be popular with both the young and old in Myanmar.

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23/03/1887

Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (died 1945)

Josef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.

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Rudolf Kinau, German author (died 1975)

Rudolf Kinau, also known as Rudi Kinau was a Low German writer.

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Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1927)

José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.

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Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born American labor leader (died 1946)

Sidney Hillman was an American labor leader. He was the head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party.

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23/03/1886

Frank Irons, American long jumper (died 1942)

Francis Cleveland Irons was an American athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Palatine, Illinois.

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23/03/1885

Platt Adams, American jumper and politician (died 1961)

Platt Adams was an American athlete. He competed in various events at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in jumping events in 1912.

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Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) (died 1962)

Roque Victoriano González Garza was a Mexican general and politician who served as acting President of Mexico from January to June 1915. He was appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes during the Mexican Revolution, and had previously been an important advisor to President Francisco Madero and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was later a founder of the anti-communist, xenophobic, antisemitic, nationalist Revolutionary Mexicanist Action party and its leader from 1933 to 1934.

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23/03/1884

Joseph Boxhall, English sailor, officer aboard the Titanic (died 1967)

Commander Joseph Groves Boxhall was a British merchant seaman and naval officer who was the fourth officer on the RMS Titanic. When the ship struck the iceberg, Boxhall was on watch and subsequently became the only on-duty officer that night to survive the sinking. At the time of his death, Boxhall was the last surviving former officer of Titanic.

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23/03/1882

Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic (died 1935)

Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

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23/03/1881

Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (died 1969)

Lacey Earnest Hearn was an American athlete and middle distance runner who competed in the early twentieth century. Individually he specialized in the 1500 Metres, and he won a bronze medal in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics, held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Hearn's Compatriot James Lightbody took gold. Hearn was also a member of the American distance team which won the silver medal at the 1904 Olympics, competing in the Chicago American team in the 4-mile team race, consisting of James Lightbody, Frank Verner, Hearn, Albert Corey and Sidney Hatch.

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Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)

Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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23/03/1880

Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician, Finnish Minister of the Interior (died 1922)

Heikki Ritavuori was a Finnish lawyer, a politician from the National Progressive Party, a member of the Parliament of Finland and Minister of the Interior. He was the closest colleague of President K. J. Ståhlberg and was Minister of the Interior in J. H. Vennola's first and second cabinets from 1919 to 1922 for a total of 526 days. Minister Ritavuori was shot dead at the door to his home in Helsinki in February 1922.

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23/03/1878

Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1934)

Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality, timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

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23/03/1876

Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and activist (died 1924)

Mehmet Ziya Gökalp was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp, which he retained for the rest of his life. As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology".

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Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet, writer and political leader (died 1964)

Thakin Kodaw Hmaing is considered one of the greatest Burmese poets, writers and political leaders in the 20th century history of Burma. He is regarded as the Father of Burmese nationalist and peace movements as well as a literary genius. His legacy and influence on the post-war generations can still be felt in both literature and the ongoing political situation in Myanmar (Burma).

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23/03/1874

Grantley Goulding, English hurdler (died 1947)

Grantley Thomas Smart Goulding was a British athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

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J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1951)

Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the United States. He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories. He is best known for his 80 covers for Collier's Weekly, 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, and advertising illustrations for B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing and Arrow brand shirts and detachable collars. He was one of the few known gay artists working in the early-twentieth century United States.

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23/03/1872

Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1940)

Michael Joseph Savage was an Australian-born New Zealand politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of New Zealand, heading the First Labour Government from 1935 until his death in 1940.

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23/03/1869

Calouste Gulbenkian, Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (died 1955)

Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Following the "Red Line Agreement", a fixed 5% of the shares of the Turkish Petroleum Company were to be consistently owned by him, for which he earned the nickname "Mr. Five Per Cent". Gulbenkian travelled extensively and lived in a number of cities including his birth city of Constantinople and later London, Paris, and finally Lisbon.

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23/03/1868

Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (died 1923)

Dietrich Eckart was a German völkisch poet, playwright, journalist, publicist, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, and the lyricist of the first party anthem, "Sturmlied". He was a participant in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and died on 26 December of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, of a heart attack.

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23/03/1862

Nathaniel Reed, American criminal (died 1950)

Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed was a 19th-century American outlaw responsible for many stagecoach, bank, and train robberies throughout the American Southwest during the 1880s and 1890s. He acted on his own and also led a bandit gang, operating particularly in the Rocky Mountains and Indian Territory.

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23/03/1860

Horatio Bottomley, British politician and businessman (died 1933)

Horatio William Bottomley was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his editorship of the popular magazine John Bull, and for his nationalistic oratory during the First World War. His career came to a sudden end when, in 1922, he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.

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23/03/1858

Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

Ludwig Quidde was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: Otto von Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888–1918), the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and Nazi Germany. In 1927, Quidde was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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23/03/1842

Friedrich Amelung, Estonian-German historian, businessman and composer (died 1909)

Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung was a Baltic German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer.

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Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (died 1921)

Susan Jane Cunningham was an American mathematician instrumental in the founding and development of Swarthmore College. She was born in Maryland, and studied mathematics and astronomy with Maria Mitchell at Vassar College as a special student during 1866–67. She also studied those subjects during several summers at Harvard University, Princeton University, Newnham College, Cambridge, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Williams College.

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23/03/1838

Marie Adam-Doerrer, Swiss women's rights activist and unionist (died 1908)

Marie Adam-Doerrer was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist.

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23/03/1834

Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (died 1858)

Friedrich Julius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, renowned as one of the finest organ works in the romantic repertoire.

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23/03/1826

Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1917)

Ludwig Minkus, also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus, was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violinist and teacher of music.

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23/03/1823

Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (died 1885)

Schuyler Colfax Jr. was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Originally a Whig, then part of the short-lived People's Party of Indiana, and later a Republican, he was the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district from 1855 to 1869.

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23/03/1769

Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general and diplomat (died 1832)

Augustin Daniel Belliard, comte Belliard et de l'Empire was a French general.

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William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (died 1839)

William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map of any country. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society. Financially ruined, Smith spent time in debtors' prison. It was only late in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments, and became known as the "father of English geology".

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23/03/1754

Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (died 1802)

Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega was a Slovene mathematician, physicist, and artillery commissioned officer.

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23/03/1750

Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (died 1812)

Johannes Matthias Sperger, also often Johann, was an Austrian double bassist and composer.

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23/03/1749

Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. Laplace also popularized and further confirmed Sir Isaac Newton's work. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace.

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23/03/1732

Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (died 1800)

Adélaïde de France was a French princess, the sixth child and fourth daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska.

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23/03/1643

Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic (died 1731)

Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, was a 17th-century Spanish Dominican lay sister, mystic and visionary. She was widely known as La Siervita in the Canary Islands. She lived a life that was austere and simple. Many miracles were attributed to her.

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23/03/1614

Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess (died 1681)

Jahanara Begum was a princess of the Mughal Empire. She was the second and the eldest surviving child of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal.

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23/03/1599

Thomas Selle, German composer (died 1663)

Thomas Selle was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer.

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23/03/1514

Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (died 1548)

Lorenzino de' Medici, also known as Lorenzaccio, was an Italian politician, writer, and dramatist, and a member of the Medici family. He became famous for assassinating his cousin, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence in 1537. He was in turn murdered in 1548 in retaliation for his deed.

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23/03/1430

Margaret of Anjou (died 1482)

Margaret of Anjou was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René of Anjou, King of Naples, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.

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23/03/1338

Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (died 1374)

Emperor Go-Kōgon was the 4th of the Emperors of Northern Court during the Period of the Northern and Southern Courts. According to pre-Meiji scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1352 through 1371.

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