Born on Friday, 27th March – Famous Birthdays

27/03/2002

Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player

Daria Serhiivna Snigur is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of world No. 105 in singles, achieved on 14 November 2022. Snigur has won 11 singles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.

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27/03/2001

Natanael Cano, Mexican rapper and singer

Natanael Rubén Cano Monge is a Mexican singer, musician and rapper. Natanael is known for his fusion of trap music and regional Mexican corridos, known as corridos tumbados. The idea to fuse the two genres was proposed by Dan Sanchez who wrote Natanael's first corrido tumbado, "Soy el Diablo".

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27/03/2000

Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress

Halle Lynn Bailey, also known mononymously as Halle, is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She first became known as a member of the musical duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chloe Bailey. They have released the albums The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020), and have together earned five Grammy Award nominations. In 2023, Bailey released her debut solo single "Angel", which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. On October 24, 2025, she released her debut solo studio album Love?... or Something Like It.

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Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress

Marie-Sophie Nélisse is a Canadian actress. She made her film debut in the French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar (2011), for which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Liesel Meminger in the 2013 war drama The Book Thief, young Joan Fischer in the biographical film Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Casey Caraway in the coming-of-age drama Mean Dreams (2016), Aster in The Rest of Us (2019), and Irena Gut in Irena's Vow (2023). Since 2021, she has starred as Shauna Shipman in the Showtime psychological thriller series Yellowjackets and as Rose Landry in the Canadian sports romance series Heated Rivalry.

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27/03/1999

Jesser, American YouTuber

Jesse Riedel, better known as Jesser, formerly known as JesserTheLazer, is an American YouTuber. He makes videos based primarily around basketball, being the largest basketball content creator on the platform. His videos usually include challenges or meeting professional athletes.

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Alex O'Connor, English media personality

Alex J. O'Connor, also known as CosmicSkeptic, is an English podcaster and YouTuber. He is known for his videos on philosophy on YouTube, most notably on the subjects of ethics, religion and atheism.

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27/03/1998

Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer

Giannis Bouzoukis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League club Volos.

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27/03/1997

Lisa, Thai rapper and dancer

Lalisa Manobal, known mononymously as Lisa, is a Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Blackpink, which debuted under YG Entertainment in August 2016 and became one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.

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27/03/1995

Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer

Bill Poni Tuiloma is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for A-League Men club Wellington Phoenix.

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27/03/1993

Brandon Nimmo, American baseball player

Brandon Tate Nimmo is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets. Nimmo was selected by the Mets in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut with them in 2016.

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27/03/1992

Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer

Marc Muniesa Martínez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays mainly as a centre-back or left-back for Qatari Stars League club Al Shahaniya.

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27/03/1991

London on da Track, American record producer

London Tyler Holmes, known professionally as London on da Track, is an American record producer and rapper. He is a frequent collaborator of fellow Atlanta rapper Young Thug, and has also produced songs for Kodak Black, Nicki Minaj, Tyga, Lil Wayne, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Rich Homie Quan, Gucci Mane, Birdman, Saweetie, Sfera Ebbasta, Post Malone, T.I., G-Eazy, 50 Cent, Summer Walker, Roddy Ricch and Ariana Grande, among others.

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27/03/1990

Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer

Erdin Demir is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a left back. He played in Sweden, Norway, and Belgium during a career that spanned between 2008 and 2021. A full international between 2012 and 2014, he won six caps for the Sweden national team.

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Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player

Benjamin Hunt is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a mix of hooker, five-eighth and halfback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, with whom he won the 2025 NRL Grand Final. He has also represented the Queensland Maroons at State of Origin level.

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Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer

Nicolas Julio Nkoulou Ndoubena is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer

Luca Zuffi is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as midfielder for Winterthur.

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Kimbra, New Zealand musician

Kimbra Lee Johnson, known mononymously as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. Known for mixing pop with R&B, jazz and rock musical elements, her accolades include four ARIA Music Awards, two Grammy Awards and seven New Zealand Music Awards.

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Brodha V, Indian rapper and music producer

Vighnesh Shivanand, better known by his stage name Brodha V, is an Indian rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Kanchipuram, the Bengaluru-based artist started rapping at the age of 18 and took part in online rap battles on Orkut. As an independent artist, Brodha V released a mixtape called Deathpunch! which had a limited release and which garnered him some attention from the hip hop fraternity and the independent music circuit in Southern India.

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27/03/1989

Matt Harvey, American baseball player

Matthew Edward Harvey, nicknamed "the Dark Knight", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Baltimore Orioles.

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Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player

Camilla Lees is a New Zealand netball player.

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27/03/1988

Jessie J, English singer-songwriter

Jessica Ellen Cornish, known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. After signing with Republic Records, Jessie J came to prominence with the release of her debut single, "Do It like a Dude", which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Her following single, "Price Tag", was an international success, topping the charts in nineteen countries, including the UK. It was followed by the release of her debut album, Who You Are (2011), which peaked at number two in the UK. Other singles from the album included "Nobody's Perfect", "Who You Are", "Domino" and "Laserlight", all of which peaked within the top ten in the UK, making Jessie J the first British female artist to have six top-ten singles from a sole studio album.

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Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer

Atsuto Uchida is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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Brenda Song, American actress

Brenda Song is an American actress. Born in Carmichael, California, Song began her career at the age of six, working as a child model. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the sitcom Thunder Alley (1995), and went on to roles such as the children's television series Fudge (1995) and the Nickelodeon series 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999). She starred in the Disney Channel original film The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000), which won her a Young Artist Award. She subsequently signed a contract with Disney Channel and earned widespread recognition for playing the titular character in the action film Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006), and London Tipton in The Suite Life franchise (2005–2011), earning her acclaim and two Young Hollywood Awards. She additionally played the recurring role of Tia in Phil of the Future (2004–2005), and had starring roles in the television film Get a Clue (2002), the sports comedy film Like Mike (2002) and the comedy film Stuck in the Suburbs (2004).

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Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer

Mauro Daniel Goicoechea Furia is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Uruguayan Primera División team Danubio.

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Holliday Grainger, English actress

Holliday Clark Grainger, also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the BBC One crime drama Strike, Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One conspiracy thriller The Capture, and Estella in Mike Newell's 2012 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.

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27/03/1987

Jefferson Bernárdez, Honduran footballer

Jefferson Jair Bernárdez Bennett is a Honduran football forward who currently plays for Parrillas One.

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Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter

Samuel Adelebari Francis is a sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He was born in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria. He is a naturalized Qatari and has competed for Qatar from July 2007. His personal best of 9.99 seconds is the former Asian record for the 100 m.

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Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter

Polina Sergeyevna Gagarina is a Russian singer and songwriter. She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with "A Million Voices" where she finished second with 303 points. In doing so, she became the first second-placed finisher to exceed 300 points. Gagarina also participated in the Chinese reality-competition Singer in 2019, where she was one of the finalists.

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Buster Posey, American baseball player

Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III is an American baseball executive and former professional baseball catcher. He is currently the president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Giants, from 2009 until his retirement at the conclusion of the 2021 season. Internationally, Posey represented the United States. In the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), he helped win Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament.

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27/03/1986

Manuel Neuer, German footballer

Manuel Peter Neuer is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper and is the captain of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Considered one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the sport, and one of the greatest ever and most influential goalkeepers of all time, Neuer has been described as a "sweeper-keeper" because of his playing style and speed when rushing off his line to anticipate opponents, going out of the penalty area. He was named the best goalkeeper of the decade from 2011 to 2020 by IFFHS.

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27/03/1985

Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player

Dustin Byfuglien, nicknamed "Big Buff", is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Thrashers, and Winnipeg Jets. Drafted as a defenseman, he played both forward and defense in his career, though he generally played defense in his later seasons. Byfuglien helped Chicago win the Stanley Cup in 2010. Byfuglien was the first Black American-born player to win the Stanley Cup. Byfuglien became a professional fisherman after his hockey career.

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Danny Vukovic, Australian footballer

Daniel Vukovic is a former Australian professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach for Central Coast Mariners FC. Vukovic also represented the Australian national team during his career. Vukovic is the holder of several A-League records: he has the most clean sheets of any goalkeeper in A-League history (103), and he is the only goalkeeper to score in the A-League.

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27/03/1984

Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player

Adam Ashley-Cooper, nicknamed "Swoop" and "Mr. Versatile", is an Australian former rugby union player who last played for the LA Giltinis of Major League Rugby (MLR). He has played in 121 matches for Australia, the third most of any Australia player at the time of his retirement. He was the senior assistant coach for backs with the LA Giltinis.

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Ben Franks, Australian-born New Zealand rugby player

Ben John Franks is an Australian-born New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. He played as a prop. He is one of only 43 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions.

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Brett Holman, Australian footballer

Brett Trevor Holman is an Australian former professional soccer player who last played for Brisbane Roar in the A-League as an attacking midfielder.

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27/03/1983

Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter

Yuliya Alekseyevna Golubchikova is a Russian pole vaulter.

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Vasily Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player

Vasily Vladimirovich Koshechkin is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played exclusively in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

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Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer

Román Fernando Martínez Scharner is an Argentine former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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27/03/1982

Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer

Shawn Beveney is a Guyanese footballer who plays for Haringey Borough F.C.

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27/03/1981

Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer

Terence Martin "Terry" McFlynn is a retired footballer from Northern Ireland who is most well known for playing for the A-League club Sydney FC. He is the director of football for A-League expansion club Auckland FC.

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Akhil Kumar, Indian boxer

Akhil Kumar is an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards. He practices an "open guarded" boxing style. In 2005, the Indian government gave him the Arjuna Award for his achievements in international boxing. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed Akhil Kumar along with Mary Kom as national observers for boxing.

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Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner

Jukka Pekka Sakari Keskisalo is a Finnish athlete competing in 3000 m steeplechase and 1500 m. He won the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg and was also an Olympian in 2012.

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Hilda Kibet, Kenyan runner

Hilda Kibet is a Dutch runner of Kenyan birth. She is the sister of Sylvia Kibet and the niece of Lornah Kiplagat. She obtained Dutch nationality in October 2007.

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Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer

Claudemir Jerônimo Barreto, known as Cacau, is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Brazil, he represented Germany at international level.

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JJ Lin, Singaporean singer-songwriter

Wayne Lim Junjie, professionally known as JJ Lin, is a Singaporean singer, songwriter, record producer, and businessman. Known for his vocal performances in the Chinese-speaking world, Lin achieved recognition with his pop ballads, songwriting, and emotional vocal delivery.

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27/03/1980

Sean Ryan, American football player

Sean P. Ryan is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL draft.

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Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player

Michaela Paštiková is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic.

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Maksim Shevchenko, Kazakhstani footballer

Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko is a Kazakhstani professional football coach and former player. He works as a deputy director at the academy of the Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow. He also holds Russian citizenship.

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27/03/1979

Tom Palmer, English rugby union player

Tom Palmer is a former English rugby union player. His position is a lock

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Mohsen Moeini, Iranian author and director

Mohsen Moeini is an Iranian author and director. His work mainly centers around his philosophical and historical preoccupations. As well as directing his own plays, he has directed plays by foreign authors such as Peter Handke and Rainer Werner Fassbinder whose works he staged in Iran for the first time. He has directed the first play to be staged in the Milad Tower.

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Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer

Mohammad Imran Tahir is a South African former international cricketer. A spin bowler who predominantly bowls googlies and a right-handed batsman, Tahir played for South Africa in all three formats of cricket.

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Jennifer Wilson, Zimbabwean-South African field hockey player

Jennifer "Jen" Wilson is a former South Africa international field hockey player who became a coach after retiring as a player. She was appointed Head Coach for Scotland on a 3-year contract, starting on 1 August 2018.

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27/03/1978

Gabriel Paraschiv, Romanian footballer

Gabriel Ioan Paraschiv is a Romanian former football player, currently the manager of Liga III side Flacăra Moreni.

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Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner

Marius Bakken is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the 5000 metres, having run distances from 800 to 10,000 metres in his early career. He represents IL Runar.

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Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player

Amélie Cocheteux is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career-high ranking of No. 55 in the world on 10 May 1999. She defeated world No. 10, Nathalie Tauziat in the Prostějov tournament in 1999. As a junior, she won the 1995 French Open title.

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27/03/1977

Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver

Vítor Meira is a Brazilian former auto racing driver. He formerly competed in the IndyCar Series and has twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500.

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Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek artistic gymnast

Ioannis Melissanidis is a retired Greek artistic gymnast and the 1996 Olympic champion on the floor exercise. He was also the first Greek gymnast ever to medal at the World Championships. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year.

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27/03/1976

Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania

Roberta Alma Anastase is a Romanian politician and former first female President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania between 19 December 2008 and 3 July 2012.

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Danny Fortson, American basketball player

Daniel Anthony Fortson is an American former professional basketball player. He played the power forward and center positions in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1997 to 2007.

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Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer

Adrian Gheorghe Anca is a former Romanian football striker and manager.

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27/03/1975

Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player

Andrew Francis Blowers is a former rugby union player who played in the back row as either a flanker or number 8. He earned 11 caps for the New Zealand national team between 1996 and 1999. He retired from playing in 2009.

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Kim Felton, Australian golfer

Kim Felton is an Australian professional golfer.

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Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Stacy Ann "Fergie" Ferguson is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. After earning recognition as a child actress in the 1980s, Fergie achieved international fame as a member of the Black Eyed Peas from 2002 to 2018. During her tenure with the group, she also achieved success with her solo career, film and television appearances, and business ventures.

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Christian Fiedler, German footballer and manager

Christian Fiedler is a German football coach and former player who is goalkeeper coach at Greuther Fürth. A goalkeeper, he spent his entire playing career with Hertha BSC.

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27/03/1974

Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager

Marek Citko is a Polish former professional footballer who played as an offensive midfielder. During the professional career Citko represented numerous clubs in Poland and outside the native country, including Włókniarz Białystok, Jagiellonia Białystok, Widzew Łódź, Legia Warsaw, Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, FC Aarau, Cracovia and Polonia Warsaw.

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George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer

Georgios "George" Koumantarakis is a South African former soccer player of Greek descent. He was born in Athens, Greece but grew up in Durban, South Africa. He studied BCom & LLB degrees from the University Of Kwazulu Natal.

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Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer

Gaizka Mendieta Zabala is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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27/03/1973

Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer

Roger Telemachus is a former South African international cricketer. He played 37 One Day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals for his country.

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27/03/1972

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer, coach, and manager

Jerrel "Jimmy" Floyd Hasselbaink is a professional football manager and former player who is now an assistant coach for the Suriname national team.

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Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler

Charles Doyle Haas II is an American professional and former amateur wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2000 to 2009 and Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2010 to 2013. In WWE he was a member of Team Angle, which later became a Tag team duo with Shelton Benjamin known as "The World's Greatest Tag Team".

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27/03/1971

David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster

David Marshall Coulthard is a British former racing driver and broadcaster from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1994 to 2008. Nicknamed "DC", he was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2001 with McLaren, and won 13 Grands Prix across 15 seasons.

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Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor

Nathan Christopher Fillion is a Canadian and American actor. He played the leading roles of Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds on Firefly and its film continuation Serenity, and Richard Castle on Castle. As of 2018, he stars as Officer John Nolan on The Rookie and is an executive producer on the show, as well as its spin-off series, The Rookie: Feds during its run, as well as being a producer on an upcoming spin-off, The Rookie: North.

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27/03/1970

Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (died 2001)

Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran and the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.

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Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player (died 2020)

Derek Alfred Aucoin was a Canadian professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in two games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos during the 1996 season. He had a 0–1 record, in 2+2⁄3 innings, with a 3.38 ERA. He was signed by the Montreal Expos as an amateur free agent in 1989.

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Brent Fitz, Canadian-American multi-instrumentalist and recording artist

Brent Fitz is a Canadian-American musician and multi-instrumentalist. In his career, he has worked with Slash, Myles Kennedy, Theory of a Deadman, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil, Union, Gene Simmons, The Guess Who, Brad Whitford from Aerosmith, Derek St. Holmes, Ronnie Montrose, Indigenous, Lamya, Streetheart, Harlequin, and Econoline Crush.

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Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby league player

Jarrod McCracken is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He is a former captain of the New Zealand national rugby league team and is the son of New Zealand rugby league international, Ken McCracken. McCracken played club football in Australia, captaining both the Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers during his career which ended with a spear tackle which he successfully sued for. During his time in the game, McCracken was regarded as one of the hardest running and most damaging centres in the world.

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Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress

Elizabeth Mitchell is an American actress. She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her lead role as Juliet Burke on the ABC mystery drama series Lost (2006–2010). She also had lead roles on the television series V (2009–2010), Revolution (2012–2014), Dead of Summer (2016), and The Santa Clauses (2022–2023), for which she received a Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination. She had recurring roles on the television series ER (2000–2001), Once Upon a Time (2014), The Expanse, and Outer Banks (2021–present).

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Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza

Uwe Rosenberg is a German game designer and the co-founder of Lookout Games. He initially became known for his card game Bohnanza, which was successful both in Germany and internationally. He is now renowned for developing many highly-acclaimed strategy games, such as Agricola and A Feast for Odin. As of May 2025, six of his games are on BoardGameGeek's top 100 board games of all time, the most of any designer.

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27/03/1969

Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer and manager

Gianluigi Lentini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Pauley Perrette, American actress

Pauley Perrette is an American retired actress and singer. She played Abby Sciuto in the television series NCIS from 2003 to 2018.

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Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Songbird Supreme", Carey is known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, signature use of the whistle register, and diva persona. An influential figure in popular culture, she was ranked as the fifth-greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.

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27/03/1968

Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete

Irina Nikolaevna Belova is a retired heptathlete from Russia. In her early career she represented USSR, with a fourth place at the 1990 European Championships and a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships. Her career highlight came in 1992 as she won an Olympic silver medal. In February the same year she set the world record in indoor pentathlon with 4991 points. She "won" the pentathlon at the 1993 World Indoor Championships, but failed a drug test and received a four-year suspension and her performance for the competition was nullified and she was forced to return the gold medal. Upon returning she won two silver medals at the European and World Indoor Championships respectively. She retired after the 2001 season.

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27/03/1967

Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler

Kenta Kobashi is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired wrestler. Broadly referred to by the nickname "Tetsujin" , he is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He is best known for his two runs in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and Pro Wrestling Noah, of which he captured AJPW's Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship thrice, and Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship once. He is the winner of numerous Match of the Year and Wrestler of the Year awards, including from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) and Tokyo Sports.

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Talisa Soto, American actress

Talisa Soto is an American retired actress and model. She is known for portraying Bond girl Lupe Lamora in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill and Kitana in the 1995 fantasy action film Mortal Kombat and its 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Prior to her acting career, Soto worked as a model, appearing in magazines such as Mademoiselle, Glamour and Elle.

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27/03/1966

Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player

Žarko Paspalj is a Serbian former professional basketball player and sports administrator, who is currently the sporting director for Partizan of the Serbian Serbian League (KLS), the ABA League, and the EuroLeague. The EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 1994, his sixteen and a half seasons career was mostly spent in Yugoslavia and Greece, along with several short stints in the NBA, France, and Italy.

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27/03/1965

Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver

Gregor Foitek is a Swiss former racing driver. He won the 1986 Swiss Formula 3 Championship. Foitek participated in 22 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 26 March 1989. He scored no championship points. He later made two CART starts for Foyt Enterprises in 1992 but was knocked out of both races by mechanical issues.

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27/03/1963

Cory Blackwell, American basketball player

Cory Blackwell is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 1984 NBA draft.

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Randall Cunningham, American football player, coach, and pastor

Randall Wade Cunningham Sr. is an American pastor and former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons. He spent the majority of his career with the Philadelphia Eagles and is also known for his Minnesota Vikings tenure. A four-time Pro Bowl selection, Cunningham is fourth in NFL quarterback rushing yards, which he led at the time of his retirement.

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Georgios Katrougalos, Greek jurist and politician

Georgios Katrougalos is a Greek jurist and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from February to July 2019. He is currently UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. He previously served as an Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs from 5 November 2016 to 15 February 2019, as the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity from 23 September 2015 to 5 November 2016 and from 18 July 2015 to 28 August 2015. From 27 January 2015 to 17 July 2015 he served as an Alternate Minister of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction in Tsipras's first cabinet.

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Filippos Sachinidis, Greek-Canadian economist and politician

Filippos Sachinidis is a Greek politician of the Movement for Change. Elected on the list of his former party PASOK, he served as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 2007 to 2014. In 2012, he briefly served as Minister of Finance in the Coalition Cabinet of Lucas Papademos.

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Gary Stevens, English-Australian footballer and physiotherapist

Michael Gary Stevens is an English physiotherapist and retired footballer who played as a right-back.

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Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to popular culture. His work has earned a cult following alongside critical and commercial success; he has been named by some as the most influential director of his generation and has received numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. His films have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide.

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Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, businesswoman and television presenter

Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel is a Brazilian TV host, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Nicknamed "The Queen of Children", Xuxa built the largest Latin and South American children's entertainment empire. In the early 1990s, she presented television programs in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and the United States simultaneously, reaching around 20 million viewers daily. According to different sources, the singer's sales range between 30 and 50 million copies.

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27/03/1962

Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter

Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author and actress. She is best known for her signature ballads, "Could I Be Your Girl" and "Insensitive", which is her biggest hit to date, as well as other ballads, such as "Cherry Popsicle" and "I Would Die for You".

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Brett French, Australian rugby league player

Brett French is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s. A Queensland State of Origin representative, he played club football in Brisbane, Sydney and the Gold Coast, plus in England for St Helens R.F.C. He is also the brother of fellow Queensland Maroon Ian French.

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Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player

Rob Hollink is a professional poker player based in Groningen. He has won both a European Poker Tour (EPT) title and World Series of Poker bracelet, becoming the first person from the Netherlands to do so, first was at the EPT's inaugural Grand Final of the European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo in 2005 and then he won his first bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship, becoming the first Dutch bracelet winner.

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John O'Farrell, English journalist and author

John O'Farrell is a British author, comedy scriptwriter and political campaigner. Previously a lead writer for such shows as Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You, he is now best known as a comic author for such books such as The Man Who Forgot His Wife and An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. He is one of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and nonfiction. His books have been translated into around thirty languages and adapted for radio and television.

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Brad Wright, American-Spanish basketball player

Bradford William Wright, is an American former professional basketball player. He attended Daniel Murphy High School in Los Angeles, and played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Wright was drafted by the NBA's Golden State Warriors with the 49th pick of the 1985 NBA draft. He played 14 games with the New York Knicks and 2 games with the Denver Nuggets before injury.

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Kevin J. Anderson, American science fiction writer

Kevin James Anderson is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequel series. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award–nominated Assemblers of Infinity. He has also written several comic books, including the Dark Horse Star Wars series Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Dark Horse Predator titles, and The X-Files titles for Topps. Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman, and The Last Days of Krypton, telling the story of how Superman's planet Krypton came to be destroyed.

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27/03/1961

Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach

Cuthwyn Ellery Hanley is an English former rugby league player and coach. Over a nineteen-year professional career (1978–1997), he played for Bradford Northern, Wigan, Balmain, Western Suburbs and Leeds. He won 36 caps for Great Britain, captaining the team from 1988 to 1992, and 2 for England. Nicknamed 'Mr Magic' and 'The Black Pearl', he played most often as a stand-off or loose forward after starting out as a centre or wing.

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Tony Rominger, Swiss professional cyclist

Tony Rominger is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.

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27/03/1960

Hans Pflügler, German footballer

Johannes Christian "Hans" Pflügler is a German former professional footballer. He could operate as either a left-back or a central defender, and played solely for Bayern Munich, winning ten major titles and appearing in nearly 400 official games.

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Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1996)

Renato Russo was a Brazilian musician who was the lead singer of the post-punk band Legião Urbana. A Brazilian film depicting his life and career was released in 2013, called Somos Tão Jovens.

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27/03/1959

Andrew Farriss, Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist

Andrew Charles Farriss is an Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist, backing vocalist, and main composer for rock band INXS. He released his debut solo album in 2021.

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Ivan Savvidis, Russian-Greek oligarch and politician

Ivan Ignatyevich Savvidi, also known as Ivan Savvidis, is a Russian-Greek businessman who has been called an oligarch. He is one of Russia's wealthiest men and was a member of the Russian Parliament, closely linked to the President Vladimir Putin. According to Forbes, his fortune is estimated to $1.4 billion.

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27/03/1958

Didier de Radiguès, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer

Didier de Radiguès is a Belgian former professional motorcycle racer, auto racing driver and current artist. He also serves as a television sports color commentator for Belgium television, a Moto GP riders manager and as the owner of a motorcycle riding school. He competed in the FIM motorcycle Grand Prix world championships from 1980 to 1991.

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27/03/1957

Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager

Kostas Vasilakakis is a Greek football manager and former footballer. His career began in 1973 at the age of 16 when he signed a contract with Panthrakikos. He was transferred to Doxa Drama in 1981 and fought in Alpha Ethniki for thirteen years. He ended his career as footballer of Doxa Drama in 1995 at the age of 38.

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Stephen Dillane, English actor

Stephen John Dillane is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2015) and Thomas Jefferson in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination. An experienced stage actor who has been called an "actor's actor", Dillane won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing (2000) and gave critically acclaimed performances in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1990), and a one-man Macbeth (2005). His television work has additionally garnered him BAFTA and International Emmy Awards for best actor.

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27/03/1956

Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician

Leung Kwok-hung, also known by his nickname "Long Hair" (長毛), is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council, representing the New Territories East. A Trotskyist in his youth, he was a founding member of the Revolutionary Marxist League. He became a political icon with his long hair and Che Guevara T-shirt in the protests before he was elected to the Legislative Council in 2004. In 2006, he co-founded a social democratic party, the League of Social Democrats (LSD) of which he was the chairman from 2012 to 2016.

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Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross country skier

Lars Thomas Wassberg is a Swedish former cross-country skier. A fast skating style – push for every leg – is still called "Wassberg" after him in several countries. Wassberg's skiing idols when growing up were Sixten Jernberg and Oddvar Brå. He has described his mental strength and physical fitness as his greatest abilities as a skier, with his main weakness being a lack of sprinting ability.

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27/03/1955

Patrick McCabe, Irish writer

Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.

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Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain

Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018. A member of the People's Party, he served as the party's president from 2004 to 2018. At a total of nearly 15 years, Rajoy was the longest-serving politician in the Spanish government since the transition to democracy, having held ministerial offices continuously from 1996 to 2004 and from 2011 to 2018.

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Susan Neiman, American-German philosopher and author

Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

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27/03/1954

Gerard Batten, English lawyer and politician

Gerard Joseph Batten is a British politician who served as the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2018 to 2019. He was a founding member of the party in 1993, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2004 to 2019.

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27/03/1953

Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist

Herman Ponsteen is a retired track cyclist from the Netherlands. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics, at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany and 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

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27/03/1952

Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Austrian skier

Annemarie Moser-Pröll is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively. She had most success in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former alpine Olympian.

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Maria Schneider, French actress (died 2011)

Maria-Hélène Schneider, known professionally as Maria Schneider, was a French actress.

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27/03/1951

Andrei Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia

Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev is a Russian politician and businessman who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Boris Yeltsin, during the Russian SFSR from 1990 and during the Russian Federation from 1992, in office until 1996. Kozyrev was seen as supporting Yeltsin's liberal democratic outlook and tried to develop Russia's foreign policy immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union to no longer see NATO as a threat, pursue integration with the West, and not assert itself in the former Soviet countries. Kozyrev's pro-Western and liberal foreign policy fell out of favor because of NATO expansion that began from 1995, and he was replaced by Yevgeny Primakov in early 1996, who represented Russian "security state" interests.

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Chris Stewart, English musician and author

Christopher Stewart is a British author who was the original drummer and a founding member of Genesis. When not writing, he runs a farm, where he lives, near Orgiva in Spain.

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27/03/1950

Tony Banks, English keyboardist and songwriter

Anthony George Banks is an English musician primarily known as the keyboardist and founding member of the rock band Genesis. Banks is also a prolific solo artist, releasing six solo studio albums that range through progressive rock, pop, and classical music.

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Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs

Petros Efthymiou is a Greek academic and politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement. A former minister and MEP, he is currently the parliamentary spokesman of his party.

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Maria Ewing, American soprano (died 2022)

Maria Louise Ewing, Lady Hall was an American opera singer. In the early part of her career she performed solely as a lyric mezzo-soprano; she later assumed full soprano parts as well. Her signature roles were Blanche, Carmen, Dorabella, Rosina and Salome. Some critics regarded her as one of the most compelling singing actresses of her generation.

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Terry Yorath, Welsh international footballer and international manager (died 2026)

Terence Charles Yorath was a Welsh professional football player and manager at both club and international level.

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27/03/1948

Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish lawyer and politician (died 2021)

Jens-Peter Rossen Bonde was a Danish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the June Movement. He resigned as an MEP in May 2008. Bonde was elected to the European Parliament in the first election in 1979 with the People's Movement against the EU. He was re-elected 6 times consecutively. In 1992 he co-founded the June Movement which he chaired until his retirement in May 2008.

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27/03/1947

Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author, critic, poet and philosopher (died 2020)

Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri, attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics. From philosophy, he was mostly interested in epistemology and existentialism.

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Brian Jones, English balloonist and pilot

Brian George Jones is an English balloonist.

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Walt Mossberg, American journalist

Walter S. Mossberg is an American retired technology journalist and moderator.

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Doug Wilkerson, American football player (died 2021)

Douglas Wilkerson was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers and San Diego Chargers. Named to the Pro Bowl three times, he was also a three-time All-Pro, including a first-team selection in 1982. He was inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame. He also played one season in the Austrian Football League for the Graz Giants in 1987.

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27/03/1946

Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (died 1999)

Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, who would later become State Counsellor of Myanmar.

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Andy Bown, British singer, songwriter and musician

Andrew Steven Bown is an English musician, who has specialised in keyboards and bass guitar. He is a member of the rock band Status Quo, initially working with them as a session/touring musician during the late 1970s and becoming an official member in the early 1980s. Prior to joining Status Quo, he was a member of The Herd during the 1960s.

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27/03/1944

Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (died 2002)

Jesse Brown was an American politician and Marine Corps veteran who served as the second United States secretary of veterans affairs under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

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Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player

Bryan Albert Campbell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 260 games in the National Hockey League and 433 games in the World Hockey Association between 1967 and 1978. He played for the Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Black Hawks, Vancouver Blazers, Cincinnati Stingers, Indianapolis Racers, and Edmonton Oilers. He retired to Deerfield Beach, Florida, with his wife Jo-anne.

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27/03/1943

Mike Curtis, American football player and coach (died 2020)

James Michael Curtis, nicknamed "Mad Dog" or "the Animal," was an American professional football player for the Baltimore Colts, Seattle Seahawks, and Washington Redskins. He played a total of 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), running from 1965 to 1978.

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27/03/1942

Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (died 2007)

Michael James Jackson was an English beer and whiskey writer. He was a regular contributor to a number of broadsheets, particularly The Independent and The Observer.

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John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

Sir John Edward Sulston was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He was a leader in human genome research and Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. Sulston was in favour of science in the public interest, such as free public access of scientific information and against the patenting of genes and the privatisation of genetic technologies.

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Michael York, English actor

Michael York, OBE is a British film, television, and stage actor. After performing on stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). He played leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films, especially in the 1970s.

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27/03/1941

Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia

Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was the third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.

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Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior (died 2006)

Liesel "Liese" Prokop-Sykora was an Austrian athlete and, later in her life, a politician. She competed mainly in the pentathlon.

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27/03/1940

Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver (died 2026)

Alessandro Munari, also nicknamed Il Drago, was an Italian motor racing and rally driver.

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Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright

Austin Campbell Pendleton is an American actor, playwright, and theatre director.

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27/03/1939

Jay Kim, South Korean-American engineer and politician

Jay Chang Joon Kim is a Korean-American politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California. He was the first Korean American to be elected to the United States Congress.

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Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman (died 2023)

William Caleb Yarborough was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner, businessman, farmer, and rancher. He was the first driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, winning in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He was one of the preeminent stock car drivers from the 1960s to the 1980s and also competed in IndyCar events. His fame was such that a special model of the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II was named after him.

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27/03/1937

Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 2021)

William Alan Hawkshaw was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for films and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV.

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27/03/1936

Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer

Malcolm Goldstein is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.

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27/03/1935

Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest and missionary (died 1981)

Stanley Francis Rother was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 before being assigned to Guatemala.

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Julian Glover, English actor

Julian Wyatt Glover is an English actor with many stage, television, and film roles. Classically trained, he is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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27/03/1934

István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (died 2012)

István Csurka was a Hungarian nationalist politician, journalist and writer. He was the founder and inaugural leader of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) from 1993 until his death. He was also a Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2002.

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Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Greek politician (died 2021)

Ioannis Palaiokrassas was a Greek politician.

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27/03/1933

Lê Văn Hưng, South Vietnamese Brigadier general (died 1975)

Lê Văn Hưng was an infantry general of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Hưng was perhaps best known as the "Hero of An Lộc" in 1972 when he commanded the 5th Division in defense of the city of An Lộc from the coordinated attacks of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces in the Battle of An Lộc.

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27/03/1932

Junior Parker, American singer and harmonica player (died 1971)

Herman "Junior" Parker, also known as Little Junior Parker, was an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best remembered for his voice which has been described as "honeyed" and "velvet-smooth". One music journalist noted, "For years, Junior Parker deserted down home harmonica blues for uptown blues-soul music". In 2001, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Parker is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

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Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (died 1999)

Bailey Olter was a Micronesian political figure. He was elected to the Senate of Micronesian Congress from Ponape district. He served as Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1983 to 1987, and as the third president of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1991 to 1996.

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27/03/1931

David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (died 1980)

David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O'Hara, U.S. Treasury; and Harry O.

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27/03/1930

Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer, writer and artist (died 2024)

Daniel Spoerri was a Romanian-born Swiss visual artist and writer. He is considered to be an important figure among the artists within the so-called "second wave" of the Pop art movement.

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27/03/1929

Anne Ramsey, American actress (died 1988)

Anne Ramsey-Mobley was an American actress. She was best known for her film roles as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies (1985) and as Mrs. Lift in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), the latter of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, Ramsey's respective turns in both aforementioned films earned her two Saturn Awards.

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Reg Evans, Australian actor (died 2009)

Reginald Evans was a British-born actor active in Australian radio, theatre, television and cinema from the 1960s, after having started his career in his native England.

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27/03/1928

Jean Dotto, French cyclist (died 2000)

Jean-Baptiste Dotto was the first French racing cyclist to win the Vuelta a España. He rode the Tour de France 13 times, coming fourth in 1954.

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27/03/1927

Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (died 2013)

Joseph Anthony Lewis was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States.

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Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (died 2007)

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was a Russian cellist and conductor. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist before or since. He inspired and premiered over 100 pieces, forming long-standing friendships and artistic partnerships with composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutosławski, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Norbert Moret, Andreas Makris, Leonard Bernstein, Aram Khachaturian, and Benjamin Britten.

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27/03/1926

Frank O'Hara, American writer (died 1966)

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School, an informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration from jazz, surrealism, abstract expressionism, action painting, and contemporary avant-garde art movements.

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27/03/1924

Sarah Vaughan, American singer (died 1990)

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", and the "Queen of Bebop", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".

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Ian Black, Scottish international footballer and lawn bowls player (died 2012)

Ian Henderson Black was a Scottish professional footballer who made over 260 appearances in the Football League for Fulham as a goalkeeper. He also played for Southampton and was capped by Scotland at international level.

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Margaret K. Butler, American mathematician and computer programmer (died 2013)

Margaret Kampschaefer Butler was a mathematician who participated in creating and updating computer software. During the early 1950s, Butler contributed to the development of early computers. Butler was the first female fellow at the American Nuclear Society and director of the National Energy Software Center at Argonne. Butler held leadership positions within multiple scientific organizations and women's groups. She was the creator and director of the National Energy Software Center. Here, Butler operated an exchange for the editing of computer programs in regards to nuclear power and developed early principles for computer technology.

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27/03/1923

Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (died 1996)

Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.

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Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet, translator, and academic (died 2012)

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.

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27/03/1922

Dick King-Smith, English author (died 2011)

Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was an English writer of children's books. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983), which was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education degree by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

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Stefan Wul, French author and surgeon (died 2003)

Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of the French science fiction writer Pierre Pairault, born in Paris.

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Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (died 2007)

Jevel Demikovski, known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

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27/03/1921

Phil Chess, Polish-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (died 2016)

Philip Chess was a Polish-born American record company executive, the founder of Chess Records alongside his brother Leonard.

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Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (died 2000)

Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His career spanned 22 years. He was regarded as one of the world's best goalkeepers in the 1940s and 1950s, and was known for not wearing gloves, as would be typical. Barbosa is mainly associated with Brazil's defeat against underdogs Uruguay in the decisive match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup, an upset dubbed the Maracanazo. Barbosa is also known for his achievements at Vasco da Gama, especially the first South American Championship, and the club's domination in the Campeonato Carioca in 1940s and 1950s.

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Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (died 2000)

Harold Lloyd Nicholas was an American dancer specializing in tap. Nicholas was the younger half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas. Nicholas was featured in such musicals as An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), and The Five Heartbeats (1991).

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27/03/1920

Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (died 1999)

Colin Rowe was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician and teacher. He is acknowledged to have been a major theoretical and critical influence in the second half of the twentieth century on world architecture and urbanism. During his life he taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin and, for one year, at the University of Cambridge in England. For most of his life he was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Many of Rowe’s students became important architects and extended his influence throughout the architecture and planning professions. In 1995 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects, its highest honor. He was also awarded the Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism posthumously in 2011.

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27/03/1917

Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (died 2002)

Cyrus Roberts Vance was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 57th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to serving in that position, he was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Johnson administration. During the Kennedy administration he was Secretary of the Army and General Counsel of the Department of Defense.

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Mary Watt, New Zealand landscape architect and gardener (died 2005)

Muriel Mary Watt was a New Zealand landscape architect and gardener.

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27/03/1915

Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (died 2006)

Robert Lockwood Jr., a.k.a. Robert Jr. Lockwood, was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Robert Lockwood was one of the first professional black entertainers to appear on radio in the South, on the King Biscuit Time radio show. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.

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27/03/1914

Richard Denning, American actor (died 1998)

Richard Denning was an American actor who starred in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957). Denning also appeared in the film An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and on radio with Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of I Love Lucy. He's more well-known as Governor Paul Jameson in late 1968-1980 police procedural TV series Hawaii Five-O.

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Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (died 2009)

Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947), as well as his screenplays for On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), receiving an Academy Award for the former.

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27/03/1913

Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (died 1945)

Theodor Dannecker was a German SS-captain, a key aide to Adolf Eichmann in the deportation of Jews during World War II.

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27/03/1912

James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2005)

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is the only person to have held all four Great Offices of State, having also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970 and Foreign Secretary from 1974 to 1976. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1987.

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27/03/1911

Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (died 1965)

Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnóva was a Soviet poet and member of the Soviet Union of Writers. After completing her medical school studies, she found little satisfaction in being a doctor and turned her attention to writing.

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27/03/1910

Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author (died 1996)

Ai Qing, born Jiang Zhenghan and styled Jiang Haicheng, was a 20th-century Chinese poet. He was known under his pen names Linbi, Ke'a and Ejia.

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27/03/1909

Golo Mann, German historian and author (died 1994)

Golo Mann was a popular German historian and essayist. After completing a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann, and other members of his family in emigrating first to France, then to Switzerland and, on the eve of war, to the United States. From the late 1950s he re-established himself in Switzerland and West Germany as a literary historian.

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Ben Webster, American saxophonist (died 1973)

Benjamin Francis Webster was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He performed in the United States and Europe and made many recordings with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Johnny Hodges, and others.

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Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator (died 1937)

Valery Marakou was a Belarusian poet and translator.

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27/03/1906

Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (died 1969)

Charles Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell was an American jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet.

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27/03/1905

Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1935)

Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. Music historian Elijah Wald has called him "the most influential male blues singer and songwriter of the first half of the 20th century". He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues", his debut recording released by Vocalion Records in 1928.

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Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (died 1980)

Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff was an officer in the German Army. As a Wehrmacht intelligence officer, he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. That same month, soldiers from his unit discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre.

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Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American author and engineer (died 1980)

Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was a Canadian engineer. She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War. There she oversaw manufacturing of 1,451 Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force, then 835 Curtiss Helldivers for the U.S. Navy, which contributed greatly to the war effort and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft manufacturing. After her work at CC&F, she ran a successful aeronautical engineering consulting business. Between 1967 and 1970, she was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, which published a report in 1970.

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27/03/1903

Leif Tronstad, Norwegian chemist and military leader (died 1945)

Leif Hans Larsen Tronstad was a Norwegian inorganic chemist, intelligence officer and military organizer. He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1927 and was a prolific researcher and writer of academic publications. A professor of chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1936, he was among the pioneers of heavy water research, and was instrumental when a heavy water plant was built at Vemork.

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Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (died 1950)

Xavier Villaurrutia y González was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953. Starting in the late 1930s, Villaurrutia's work reflects his preoccupation with death. He wrote about feeling a nostalgia for death, and about invitations to death.

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27/03/1902

Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (died 1975)

Sidney Robert Buchman was an American screenwriter and film producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He received four Oscar nominations and won once for Best Screenplay for the fantasy romantic comedy film Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), sharing the award with Seton I. Miller.

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Charles Lang, American cinematographer (died 1998)

Charles Bryant Lang Jr., A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.

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27/03/1901

Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (died 2000)

Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (died 1963)

Erich Ollenhauer was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1952 until 1963. He was a key leader of the opposition to Konrad Adenauer in the Bundestag. In exile under the Nazis, he returned to Germany in February 1946, becoming vice chairman of the SPD. He was a close ally of the chairman Kurt Schumacher, and worked on party organization. Where Schumacher was a passionate intellectual, Ollenhauer was a thorough and efficient bureaucrat. He became party leader after Schumacher's death in 1952. Besides attending to organizational details, his main role was moderating the tension between the left-wing and right-wing factions. He remained party leader until his death, but yielded to the charismatic Berlin mayor Willy Brandt in 1961 as the party's candidate for chancellor.

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Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)

Eisaku Satō was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. He was the third longest-serving and second longest-uninterrupted–serving Japanese prime minister. Satō is best remembered for securing the return of Okinawa in 1972, and for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, which stirred controversy. He was a former elite bureaucrat like his elder brother Nobusuke Kishi and a member of the Yoshida school like Hayato Ikeda. Like his predecessor he also supported Keynesian economic policies.

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Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (died 1971)

Kenneth Adolphe Slessor was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.

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27/03/1899

Francis Ponge, French poet and author (died 1988)

Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge was a French poet. He developed a form of prose poem, minutely examining everyday objects. He was the third recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.

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Herbert Arthur Stuart, German-Swiss physicist and academic (died 1974)

Herbert Arthur Stuart was a German experimental physicist who made contributions in molecular physics research. During World War II, he was director of the experimental physics department at the Technische Hochschule Dresden. From 1955, he was the head of the high polymer physics laboratory at the University of Mainz.

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Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (died 1983)

Gloria Mae Josephine Swanson was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.

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27/03/1897

Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (died 1958)

Douglas Rayner Hartree was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyser using Meccano.

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Fred Keating, American magician, stage and film actor (died 1961)

Frederic Serrano Keating, best known as Fred Keating, was an American magician, stage, and film actor.

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27/03/1895

Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (died 1915)

Roland Aubrey Leighton was a British poet and soldier, made posthumously famous by his fiancée Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.

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27/03/1894

René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (died 1953)

Colonel René Paul Fonck was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Entente fighter ace and, when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonck still holds the title of "all-time Allied Ace of Aces". He received confirmation for 75 victories out of 142 claims. Taking into account his probable claims, Fonck's final tally could conceivably be nearer 100 or above. He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1918 and later a Commander of the Legion of Honor after the war, and raised again to the dignity of Grand Officer.

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27/03/1893

Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (died 1947)

Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim is best known for his book Ideology and Utopia (1929/1936), in which he distinguishes between partial and total ideologies, the latter representing comprehensive worldviews distinctive to particular social groups, and also between ideologies that provide support for existing social arrangements, and utopias, which look to the future and propose a transformation of society.

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G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (died 1981)

George Lloyd Spencer was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state in the United States Senate from 1941 to 1943.

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George Beranger, Australian-American actor and director (died 1973)

George Beranger, was an Australian-born silent film actor, director and film writer in New York and Hollywood. He is also sometimes credited under the pseudonym George Andre de Beranger and multiple variations of the same.

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27/03/1892

Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (died 1972)

Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, known as Ferde Grofé was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist. He is best known for his 1931 five-movement symphonic poem the Grand Canyon Suite, and for orchestrating George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for its 1924 premiere.

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Thorne Smith, American author (died 1934)

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, frequent drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.

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27/03/1891

Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian novelist and playwright (died 1974)

Lajos Zilahy was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front – an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners.

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Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski, Belarusian-Lithuanian architect, journalist, and diplomat, created the Flag of Belarus (died 1959)

Klawdziy Stsyapanavich Duzh-Dushewski was a Belarusian civil engineer, architect, diplomat and journalist. He is believed to be the creator of the national flag of Belarus in 1917.

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27/03/1890

Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (died 1967)

Harald Sigfrid Alexander Julin was a Swedish swimmer and water polo player who competed at the 1906, 1908, 1912 and 1920 Olympics. In 100 m freestyle swimming he won a bronze medal in 1908, and failed to reach the finals in 1906 and 1912; he finished fifth in the 4×250 m freestyle relay in 1906. In water polo he won bronze medals in 1908 and 1920 and a silver at the 1912 Summer Olympics in his native Stockholm. His sons Åke and Rolf also became Olympic water polo players.

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Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (died 1974)

Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton, KCB was a British admiral who served in World War I and World War II. He was captain of HMS Rodney when it engaged the Bismarck on 27 May 1941.

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27/03/1889

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (died 1974)

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu was a Turkish novelist, journalist, diplomat, and member of parliament.

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Leonard Mociulschi, Romanian general (died 1979)

Leonard Mociulschi was a Romanian Major General of Polish origin during World War II.

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27/03/1888

George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (died 1978)

George Alfred Lawrence Hearne was an English born South African cricketer who played Test cricket.

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27/03/1887

Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (died 1932)

Väinö Villiam Siikaniemi was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He finished fifth in the conventional javelin throw and won the silver medal in the two-handed javelin throw, a one-time Olympic event in which the total was counted as a sum of best throws with the right hand and with the left hand.

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27/03/1886

Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (died 1934)

Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member of the Politburo.

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Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (died 1917)

Vladimir Davydovych Burliuk was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist and book illustrator from the Russian empire. He died at the age of 32 in 1917 in World War I.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (died 1969)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German and American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.

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27/03/1885

Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras (died 1957)

Julio Lozano Díaz, was first Vice President of Honduras (1949–1954) and then President of Honduras, from 5 December 1954 until 21 October 1956.

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Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (died 1961)

Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, was a British Liberal then Labour politician. He was Minister of Civil Aviation under Clement Attlee between 1945 and 1946 and Governor of Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.

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27/03/1884

Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant (died 1953)

Gordon Lindsay Thomson was an English rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. During the First World War, he served as a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force.

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27/03/1883

Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (died 1980)

Marie Under was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times in 15 separate years.

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27/03/1882

Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (died 1965)

Thomas Graham Brown FRS was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist, most famous for finding three new routes up the east face of Mont Blanc.

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27/03/1881

Arkady Averchenko, Russian playwright and satirist (died 1925)

Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko was a Russian playwright and satirist. He published his stories in the journal Satirikon, of which he was also an editor, in the series of New Satirikon, and other publications. He published a total of around 20 books. Averchenko's satirical writings can be described as liberal. After the Russian Civil War, he emigrated to Central Europe and died in Prague.

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27/03/1879

Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1947)

Sándor Garbai was a Hungarian socialist politician who was the de jure leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic as both its head of state and prime minister.

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Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (died 1929)

Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships.

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Edward Steichen, Luxembourger-American painter and photographer (died 1973)

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, designating him the “greatest living portrait photographer” even as he turned to painting. Steichen worked for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world.

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27/03/1878

Kathleen Scott, British sculptor (died 1947)

Edith Agnes Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS was a British sculptor. Trained in London and Paris, Scott was a prolific sculptor, notably of portrait heads and busts and also of several larger public monuments. These included a number of war memorials plus statues of her first husband, the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her as "the most significant and prolific British women sculptor before Barbara Hepworth", her traditional style of sculpture and her hostility to the abstract work of, for example Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, has led to a lack of recognition for her artistic achievements.

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27/03/1877

Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (died 1947)

Oscar Grégoire Jr. was a Belgian water polo player and backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics, in the 1908 Summer Olympics, and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Belgian water polo team and was able to win two silver and one bronze medal. In 1908 and 1912 he also participated in the 100-metre backstroke events, but was eliminated in the first round in both.

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27/03/1875

Albert Marquet, French painter (died 1947)

Albert Marquet was a French painter. He initially was one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more impressionist style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.

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27/03/1871

Heinrich Mann, German author and poet (died 1950)

Luiz Heinrich Mann, best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his sociopolitical novels. From 1930 until 1933, he was president of the fine poetry division of the Prussian Academy of Arts. His fierce criticism of the growing Fascism and Nazism forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power during 1933. He was the elder brother of writer Thomas Mann.

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Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and Nazarene minister (died 1939)

Joseph G. Morrison (1871–1939) was an American minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician, Minister of Labour (died 1948)

Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 31 December 1934.

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27/03/1869

James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1938)

James McNeill was an Irish colonial administrator, politician, and diplomat, who served as the first High Commissioner to London and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

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J. R. Clynes, English trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (died 1949)

John Robert Clynes was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 35 years, and as Leader of the Labour Party (1921–1922), led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election.

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27/03/1868

Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (died 1946)

Patty Smith Hill was an American composer and teacher who is perhaps best known for co-writing, with her sister Mildred Hill, the tune that later became popular as "Happy Birthday to You". She was an American nursery school, kindergarten teacher, and key founder of the National Association for Nursery Education (NANE) which now exists as the National Association For the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

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27/03/1866

John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (died 1936)

John Allan was an Australian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Victoria. He was born near Lancefield, where his father was a farmer of Scottish origin, and educated at state schools. He took up wheat and dairy farming at Wyuna and was director of a butter factory at Kyabram. In 1892 he married Annie Stewart, with whom he had six children.

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27/03/1863

Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (died 1933)

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines that had a reputation for reliability and longevity. He and his two business associates Charles Rolls (1877–1910) and Claude Johnson (1864–1926) together founded the Rolls-Royce Limited company in 1904.

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27/03/1862

Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polyglot (died 1945)

Jelena Dimitrijević was a Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist, and a polyglot. She is considered to be the first woman in modern Serbian history to publish a work of travel related prose in 1894. During the years 1926 to 1927 she traveled around the world, including the Far East, East Asia, and India, where she was the guest of Rabindranath Tagore.

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Arturo Berutti, Argentinian composer (died 1938)

Arturo Berutti was an Argentine composer of classical music and librettos. He was best known for his notable theme Pampa (1897). The opera was based on the life of Juan Moreira. One of the influential Argentine opera composers of the late 19th and early 20th century and his music was influenced by the Italian opera. In 1895, he composed the opera Taras Bulba inspired on the novel by Nikolai Gogol.

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27/03/1860

Frank Frost Abbott, American-Swiss scholar and academic (died 1924)

Frank Frost Abbott was an American classical scholar.

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27/03/1859

George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927)

George Giffen was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. An all-rounder who batted in the middle order and often opened the bowling with medium-paced off-spin, Giffen captained Australia during the 1894–95 Ashes series and was the first Australian to score 10,000 runs and take 500 wickets in first-class cricket. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame on 26 February 2008. At the end of his test career in 1896 Griffin scored 1,238 runs with 1131 runs coming in the Ashes tests making him at the time the leading run getter in Ashes tests.

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27/03/1857

Karl Pearson, English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (died 1936)

Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics, and his thought is an example of what is today described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885) and Isaac Todhunter's History of the Theory of Elasticity, Vol. 1 (1886–1893) and Vol. 2 (1893), following their deaths.

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27/03/1855

William Libbey, American target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist (died 1927)

William A. Libbey III was an American professor of physical geography at Princeton University. He was twice a member of the U.S. Olympic Rifle Team, and rose to the rank of colonel in the New Jersey National Guard. He is also known for his first ascent of Mount Princeton in 1877. He also competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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27/03/1854

Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (died 1925)

Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1895 until his death. His first major research on the taxonomy and biology of termites earned him the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1896.

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27/03/1852

Jan van Beers, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1927)

Jean Marie Constantin Joseph "Jan" van Beers was a Belgian painter and illustrator, son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger. In 1884, Jan Van Beers produced the pen-and-ink sketches for the edition de luxe of his father's poetry.

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27/03/1851

Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (died 1909)

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers.

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Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (died 1931)

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. His students included Albéric Magnard, Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Yvonne Rokseth, and Erik Satie, as well as Cole Porter.

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27/03/1847

Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)

Otto Wallach was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds.

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27/03/1845

Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1923)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. In 1901, Röntgen became the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him." The element roentgenium is named in his honor.

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Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899)

Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup was a Norwegian bishop and politician. Born into a prominent local family and well-educated, Jakob followed in the footsteps of his father Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and his uncle Johan Sverdrup by pursuing both a theological and political life. He served five terms in the Norwegian Parliament between 1877 and 1898, and was a cabinet member on several occasions. Originally a member of the Liberal Party, he later joined the Moderate Liberal Party, having partially been the cause of the split that formed the Moderate Liberal Party. He has been referred to as "one of the most controversial figures in modern Norwegian history".

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27/03/1844

Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1935)

Adolphus Washington Greely was a United States Army officer and polar explorer. He attained the rank of major general and was a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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27/03/1843

George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (died 1934)

Major-General George Frederick Leycester Marshall was the son of William Marshall and his wife Louisa Sophia, also brother of C. H. T. Marshall and uncle of Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall. He became a colonel in the Indian Army and was a naturalist interested in the birds and butterflies of India. Marshall described several new species of butterflies, along with Lionel de Nicéville, and discovered the white-tailed iora, sometimes referred to as Marshall's iIora. He wrote The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.

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27/03/1839

John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1893)

John Ballance was a New Zealand politician who served as the 14th premier of New Zealand from January 1891 until his death in April 1893. He governed as the leader of New Zealand's first organised political party, the New Zealand Liberal Party, which was formed shortly after the 1890 election.

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27/03/1824

Virginia Minor, American women's suffrage activist (died 1894)

Virginia Louisa Minor was an American women's suffrage activist in Missouri. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. And the first president of the Women's suffrage Association in Missouri.

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27/03/1822

Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (died 1861)

Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger, was a French novelist and poet.

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27/03/1820

Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (died 1894)

Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield was a Royal Navy officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline, including Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and Lancaster Sound.

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27/03/1814

Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist, anthologist, and author (died 1889)

Charles Mackay was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

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27/03/1811

Edward William Cooke, English painter and illustrator (died 1880)

Edward William Cooke was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.

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27/03/1809

Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer, urban planner, and politician (died 1891)

Georges-Eugène Haussmann, known as Baron Haussmann, was a French official who supervised a radical urban renewal programme of new boulevards, parks, and public works in Paris, referred to as Haussmann's renovation of Paris, aimed at introducing grandeur in the city. First a prefect in Var (1849–1850), Yonne (1850–1851), and Gironde (1851–1853), his skills as an administrator led to his appointment in Paris by Emperor Napoleon III in 1853.

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27/03/1802

Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (died 1874)

Charles-Mathias Simons was a Luxembourgish politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1853 until 1860.

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27/03/1801

Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (died 1846)

Alexander Barrow I was a lawyer, slave owner, and United States senator from Louisiana. He was a member of the Whig Party. He was the half-brother of Washington Barrow, sharing the same father.

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27/03/1797

Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1863)

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.

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27/03/1785

Louis XVII of France (died 1795)

Louis XVII was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. His older brother, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, died in June 1789, a little over a month before the start of the French Revolution. At his brother's death he became the new Dauphin, a title he held until 1791, when the new constitution accorded the heir apparent the title of Prince Royal.

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27/03/1784

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (died 1842)

Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933. He was born in Kőrös, Grand Principality of Transylvania. His birth date is often given as 4 April, although this is actually his baptism day and the year of his birth is debated by some authors who put it at 1787 or 1788 rather than 1784. The Magyar ethnic group, the Székelys, to which he belonged believed that they were derived from a branch of Attila's Huns who had settled in Transylvania in the fifth century. Hoping to study the claim and to find the place of origin of the Székelys and the Magyars by studying language kinship, he set off to Asia in 1820 and spent his lifetime studying the Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy. Csoma de Kőrös is considered as the founder of Tibetology. He was said to have been able to read in seventeen languages. He died in Darjeeling while attempting to make a trip to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

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27/03/1781

Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist and academic (died 1864)

Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov was a Russian philologists. He was among the first serious scholars of Russian verse and versification.

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27/03/1765

Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (died 1841)

Franz von Baader, born Benedikt Franz Xaver Baader, was a Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mining engineer from Germany. Resisting the empiricism of his day, he denounced most Western philosophy since Descartes as trending into atheism and has been considered a revival of the Scholastic school. He was an important theorist of androgyny.

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27/03/1746

Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (died 1767)

Michael Bruce was a Scottish poet and hymnist.

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Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican-French lawyer and politician (died 1785)

Carlo Maria Buonaparte, also known as Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Charles-Marie Bonaparte, was a Corsican attorney and politician, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte and grandfather of Napoleon III.

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27/03/1724

Jane Colden, American botanist and author (died 1766)

Jane Colden was an American botanist, described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by Asa Gray in 1843. Although not acknowledged in contemporary botanical publications, she wrote a number of letters resulting in botanist John Ellis writing to Carl Linnaeus of her work applying the Linnaean system of plant identification to American flora, for which botanist Peter Collinson stated "she deserves to be celebrated". Contemporary scholarship maintains that she was the first female botanist working in America, which ignores, among others, Maria Sibylla Merian or Catherine Jérémie. Colden was respected as a botanist by many prominent botanists including John Bartram, Peter Collinson, Alexander Garden, and Carl Linnaeus. Colden is most famous for her untitled manuscript, housed in the British Museum, in which she describes the flora of the Hudson Valley in the Newburgh region of New York state, including ink drawings of 340 different species.

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27/03/1714

Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (died 1795)

Francesco Antonio Zaccaria was an Italian theologian, historian, and prolific writer.

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27/03/1712

Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and author (died 1779)

Claude Bourgelat was a French veterinary surgeon. He was a founder of scientifically informed veterinary medicine, and he created the world's first two veterinary schools for professional training.

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27/03/1710

Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (died 1805)

Joseph Abaco was an Italian violoncellist and composer. He was born and baptised in Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, on 27 March 1710, and was musically trained by his father, Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco.

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27/03/1702

Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (died 1762)

Johann Ernst Eberlin was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a composer of church organ and choral music. Marpurg claims he wrote as much and as rapidly as Alessandro Scarlatti and Georg Philipp Telemann, a claim also repeated by Leopold Mozart - though Eberlin did not live nearly as long as either of those two composers.

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27/03/1681

Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish-Italian cardinal (died 1760)

Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero y Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Almenara, 9th Count of Palma del Río was a Grandee of Spain who served Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor as Viceroy of Sicily and interim Viceroy of Naples, before entering the priesthood in his late forties and rising to the rank of cardinal, ending his life as Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina.

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27/03/1679

Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (died 1741)

Sebastiano Biancardi, known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist. Amongst the many libretti he produced, largely for the opera houses of Venice, were those for Vivaldi's Ottone in villa and Alessandro Scarlatti's Tigrane. A member of the Accademia degli Arcadi, he also wrote under his arcadian name "Ortanio". Lalli was born and raised in Naples as the adopted son of Fulvio Caracciolo but fled the city after being implicated in a bank fraud. After two years wandering about Italy in the company of Emanuele d'Astorga, he settled in Venice in 1710 and worked as the "house poet" of the Grimani family's theatres for the rest of his career. In addition to his stage works, Lalli published several volumes of poetry and a collection of biographies of the kings of Naples. He died in Venice at the age of 62.

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27/03/1676

Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (died 1735)

Francis II Rákóczi was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Today he is considered a national hero in Hungary.

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27/03/1627

Stephen Fox, English politician (died 1716)

Sir Stephen Fox of Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was a royal administrator and courtier to King Charles II, and a politician, who rose from humble origins to become the "richest commoner in the three kingdoms". He made the foundation of his wealth from his tenure of the newly created office of Paymaster-General of His Majesty's Forces, which he held twice, in 1661–1676 and 1679–1680. He was the principal force of inspiration behind the founding of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, to which he contributed £13,000.

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27/03/1546

Johannes Piscator, German theologian (died 1625)

Johannes Piscator was a German Reformed theologian, known as a Bible translator and textbook writer.

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27/03/1509

Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German nobleman (died 1578)

Count Wolrad II "the Scholar" of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German: Wolrad II. 'der Gelehrte' Graf von Waldeck-Eisenberg, was Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg from 1539.

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27/03/1416

Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded Order of the Minims (died 1507)

Francis of Paola, O.M., was a Roman Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Calabria who founded the Order of Minims. He was named after Francis of Assisi and like him Francis of Paola was never ordained a priest.

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27/03/1401

Albert III, duke of Bavaria (died 1460)

Albert III the Pious of Bavaria-Munich, was Duke of Bavaria-Munich from 1438 to 1460. He was the son of Ernest, Duke of Bavaria and Elisabetta Visconti, daughter of Bernabò Visconti.

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