Born on Tuesday, 3rd March – Famous Birthdays

03/03/2001

Jvke, American singer-songwriter

Jacob Dodge Lawson, known professionally as JVKE, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and social media personality. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, he started creating TikTok videos for his songs, one of which, "Upside Down", went viral in 2021. His debut album, This Is What ____ Feels Like , peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200, while the song "Golden Hour" peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lawson was named the MTV Push Artist for October 2022, and he performed "Golden Hour" live on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as well as making several performances in Europe for MTV.

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03/03/2000

Jevon Holland, Canadian-American football player

Jevon Holland is a Canadian-American professional football safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.

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03/03/1999

Corey Kispert, American basketball player

Corey James Kispert is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, where he was a consensus first-team All-American as a senior.

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03/03/1998

Jayson Tatum, American basketball player

Jayson Christopher Tatum Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a McDonald's All-American in high school in Missouri and played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. Tatum was selected by the Boston Celtics with the third overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft and was voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in the 2018 season. Tatum won the inaugural NBA Eastern Conference finals MVP in 2022, and won his first title in the 2024 NBA Finals.

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03/03/1997

Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress

Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence as a member of the pop girl group Fifth Harmony, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. While in the group, Cabello established herself as a solo artist with collaborative singles "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Bad Things", the latter making number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. She left Fifth Harmony in late 2016.

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David Neres, Brazilian footballer

David Neres Campos is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A club Napoli.

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03/03/1996

Cameron Johnson, American basketball player

Cameron Jordan Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the eleventh overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft, Johnson was traded to the Phoenix Suns on draft night. During his sophomore season, he reached the 2021 NBA Finals with the Suns. He spent three full seasons in Phoenix before being traded to the Brooklyn Nets in February 2023. After nearly three full seasons with Brooklyn, Johnson was traded to the Nuggets in 2025.

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Andile Phehlukwayo, South African cricketer

Andile Lucky Phehlukwayo is a South African professional cricketer. He is a left handed lower order batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. He made his international debut for South Africa in September 2016.

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03/03/1995

Bryan Cristante, Italian footballer

Bryan Cristante is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Roma and the Italy national team.

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Maine Mendoza, Filipina actress

Nicomaine "Maine" Dei Capili Mendoza-Atayde is a Filipino television host and actress. She is best known for her viral Dubsmash videos and her role as Yaya Dub in the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! segment "Kalyeserye", previously aired on GMA Network and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. Her rise to fame is often described as phenomenal and unconventional due to the unscripted forming of AlDub love team in Eat Bulaga! on July 16, 2015, where she was paired with Alden Richards. AlDub is a portmanteau of Richards' first name and Mendoza's character in "Kalyeserye".

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03/03/1994

Dilson Herrera, Colombian baseball player

Dilson José Herrera García is a Colombian former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Baltimore Orioles.

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Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress

Umika Kawashima is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She is a former member of the Japanese girl group 9nine. Her solo single "Maji de Koi Suru 5 Byō Mae/Ichigo Iro no Kimochi", on the Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai soundtrack, reached #46 on the Oricon chart. As an actress, she played in numerous Japanese TV series and movies.

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03/03/1993

Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player

Gabriela Vianna Cé is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 221, achieved on 9 September 2019 and a best doubles ranking of No. 109, reached on 18 April 2016. She has won one WTA Challenger title and multiple trophies on ITF Women's Tour.

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Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker

Josef Dostál is a Czech sprint canoeist.

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Antonio Rüdiger, German footballer

Antonio Rüdiger is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Germany national team. He is known for his aggressive playing style, speed, tackling ability and strong aerial presence.

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Michael Thomas, American football player

Michael William Thomas Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Ohio State and was selected by the Saints in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft. Thomas holds the record for the most receptions by a player in a single season with 149 in 2019. He led the league in receptions in both the 2018 and 2019 seasons, while also leading the league in yardage in the 2019 season. Thomas was also the NFL Offensive Player of the Year that year. His last four seasons were plagued by injuries.

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03/03/1991

Park Cho-rong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

Park Cho-rong, better known mononymously as Chorong, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actress. She is best known as the leader of the South Korean girl group Apink.

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Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress

Anri Sakaguchi is a Japanese variety entertainer.

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03/03/1990

Vlado Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player

Vladimir "Vlado" Janković is a Serbian–Greek professional basketball player and the team captain for Peristeri of the Greek Basketball League. Standing at 2.02 m, he mainly plays at the small forward position. He is the son of the late Serbian professional basketball player Boban Janković.

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03/03/1989

Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer

Erwin Gerardus Theodorus Franc Mulder is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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03/03/1988

Teodora Mirčić, Serbian tennis player

Teodora Mirčić is a Serbian former professional tennis player. Over her career, she won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team.

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Michael Morrison, English footballer

Michael Brian Morrison is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for and captains EFL League Two club Cambridge United.

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Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer

Jan-Arie van der Heijden is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Max Waller, English cricketer

Maximilian Thomas Charles Waller is an English professional cricketer who played first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket for the Somerset County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg break bowler.

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03/03/1987

Shraddha Kapoor, Indian actress, singer, and designer

Shraddha Kapoor is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. One of India's highest-paid actresses, Kapoor has been featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2014 and was featured by Forbes Asia in their 30 Under 30 list of 2016.

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Jesús Padilla, Mexican footballer

Jesús Andrés Padilla Cisneros is an American former soccer player who played as a striker.

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Andrei Zubarev, Russian ice hockey player

Andrey Sergeevich Zubarev is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He previously played in 4 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Atlanta Thrashers during the 2010–11 season.

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03/03/1986

Jed Collins, American football player

Jedidiah Gabriel Collins is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2008. After playing college football at Washington State. He was also a member of the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions, and Dallas Cowboys.

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Stacie Orrico, American singer-songwriter

Stacie Joy Orrico is an American singer and songwriter. After signing to ForeFront Records, Orrico recorded her first album, Genuine (2000). Her second studio album Stacie Orrico (2003), released by ForeFront and Virgin, debuted at No. 59 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold with over 500,000 sales in the United States. The first single "Stuck" reached No. 52 on Billboard Hot 100, and achieved greater success worldwide. Her second single "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer

Mehmet Topal is a Turkish professional football manager and former player. A defensive midfielder, he was nicknamed Örümcek for his ability to use his long legs to win loose balls or cut passes.

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03/03/1985

Toby Turner, American Internet personality

Tobias Joseph Turner, also known by his stage name Tobuscus, is an American Internet personality, actor, and musician. He is best known for his YouTube videos including vlogs, Let's Plays and music. As of August 2025, Turner has a total of nearly 14 million subscribers and over 3.937 billion video views over his three YouTube channels. Turner's career has seen him work together with multiple YouTube personalities on different projects.

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03/03/1984

Valerio Bernabò, Italian rugby player

Valerio Bernabò is a retired Italian rugby union player. He has also been selected for the Italian national team with 33 caps, making his debut in 2004 against the USA. He also captained the Italian under-21 team. His usual position was at lock.

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Santonio Holmes, American football player

Santonio Holmes Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) and current wide receivers coach for Central State University. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2006 NFL draft after playing college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. In 2009, Holmes was named the most valuable player (MVP) of Super Bowl XLIII as the Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals, catching the game-winning touchdown. In 2010, Holmes was traded to the New York Jets in exchange for the Jets' fifth round pick. Holmes also played a season for the Chicago Bears.

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Ivar, American wrestler

Todd James Smith is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Ivar. He is in a tag team with Erik called The War Raiders, where they are two-time World Tag Team Champions and a former one-time NXT Tag Team Champions. He is also a trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player

Alexander Valeryevich Semin is a Russian former professional ice hockey winger. He last played with HC Vityaz of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) the top league in Russia. He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Washington Capitals, Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens.

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03/03/1983

Ashley Hansen, Australian footballer

Ashley Hansen is a former Australian Rules footballer. He played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL)

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Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer

Sarah Poewe is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer who has competed internationally for both South Africa and Germany.

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03/03/1982

Jessica Biel, American actress, singer, and producer

Jessica Claire Timberlake is an American actress. Biel began her career as a vocalist appearing in musical productions until she was cast as Mary Camden in the family drama series 7th Heaven (1996–2007).

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Tolu Ogunlesi, Nigerian journalist and writer

Tolu Ogunlesi is a Nigerian journalist, poet, photographer, fiction writer, and blogger. Ogunlesi was appointed to the role of special assistant on digital/new media by President Muhammadu Buhari on 18 February 2016.

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Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player

Colton Douglas Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Having played nearly 500 games in the NHL, Orr was known as an enforcer for his physical style of play and for regularly fighting.

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Brent Tate, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Brent Tate is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre or winger in the 2000s and 2010s. An Australia international and Queensland State of Origin representative, he played his club football in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos, the New Zealand Warriors and the North Queensland Cowboys. Despite a career that was set back by a series of severe injuries, Tate kept coming back and was a member of the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013 State of Origin series-winning Queensland sides, as well as the 2008 and 2013 World Cup Australian sides, winning the 2013 edition with them.

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03/03/1981

Lil' Flip, American rapper, songwriter, and producer

Wesley Eric Weston Jr., better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is an American rapper. Raised in Houston, Texas, he began his musical career as a freestyle and battle rapper before signing with the local record label Suckafree Records in 1999. Three years later, he secured a joint venture with Columbia Records, achieving mainstream recognition for his 2004 singles "Game Over" and "Sunshine", which peaked at numbers 15 and two on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.

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Julius Malema, South African politician

Julius Sello Malema is a South African politician. He is the founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a communist and black nationalist political party since 2013. Before the foundation of EFF, he served as a president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) from 2008 until his expulsion from the party in 2012.

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Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer

Emmanuel Addoquaye Pappoe is a former Ghanaian professional footballer who played as a defender.

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03/03/1980

Katherine Waterston, English-American actress

Katherine Boyer Waterston is a British-born American actress. She made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynn and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), before her breakthrough performance in Inherent Vice (2014). She portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs (2015), and went on to star as Tina Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and its sequels. Her other film roles include Alien: Covenant (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), The Current War (2017), Mid90s (2018) and The World to Come (2020).

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03/03/1979

Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer

Albert Jorquera Fortià is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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03/03/1977

Ronan Keating, Irish singer-songwriter and actor

Ronan Patrick John Keating is an Irish singer, songwriter and media personality. He debuted in 1993 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the co-lead singer of Irish pop group Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999 and he has recorded eleven albums. He gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing At All" was featured in the film Notting Hill and reached number one in several countries.

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Buddy Valastro, American chef and television host

Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro Jr. is an American baker, reality television personality, and businessman. He has taken his small, family-owned bake shop, Carlo's Bakery, and turned it into a baking and restaurant empire. Valastro is best known as the star of the reality television series Cake Boss, which ran on the TLC cable channel from April 2009 until April 2020. He has also starred in Next Great Baker (2010), Kitchen Boss (2011), Buddy's Bakery Rescue (2013), Bake You Rich (2013), Bakery Boss (2013), Buddy vs. Duff (2019), Buddy vs. Christmas (2020) Buddy Valastro's Cake Dynasty (2023–present) and Legends of the Fork (2023–present)

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03/03/1976

Kampamba Mulenga Chilumba, Zambian politician

Kampamba Mulenga Chilumba is a Zambian politician and a member of the Patriotic Front. She is currently the member of parliament for Kalulushi constituency. She served as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, Minister of Fisheries and Livestock and Minister of Community Development and Social Welfare during the presidency of Edgar Lungu.

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Fraser Gehrig, Australian footballer

Fraser Gehrig is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Isabel Granada, Filipino-Spanish actress (died 2017)

Isabella Villarama Granada was a Filipino actress and singer.

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Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Estonian politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Keit Pentus-Rosimannus is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas between 26 January 2021 and 19 October 2022. She is also the vice-chairwoman of the biggest parliament party Reform Party and former chairwoman of its parliamentary faction.

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03/03/1975

Patric Chiha, Austrian film director and screenwriter

Patric Chiha is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and film editor of Hungarian and Lebanese origin. After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, Domain (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he directed his second feature film, Boys Like Us. His documentaries Brothers of the Night (2016), and If It Were Love (2020) were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival. His third feature film, The Beast in the Jungle, was released in 2023.

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03/03/1974

David Faustino, American actor

David Anthony Faustino is an American actor who played Bud Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. He has also voiced animated characters for Nickelodeon, including Mako on The Legend of Korra and Helia on Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club.

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03/03/1973

Xavier Bettel, Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish lawyer and politician who serves as the deputy prime minister of Luxembourg and as the minister for Foreign Affairs since 2023. He served as the prime minister of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2023. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2013 and mayor of Luxembourg City from 2011 to 2013.

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03/03/1972

Darren Anderton, English footballer and sportscaster

Darren Robert Anderton is an English former professional footballer and pundit.

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Martin Procházka, Czech ice hockey player

Martin Procházka is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. Procházka was drafted 135th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft and played 32 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Maple Leafs and Atlanta Thrashers. In his NHL career, he scored two goals and five assists for seven points, collecting eight penalty minutes. He tallied an assist on the first goal in Atlanta Thrashers history, a 4–1 loss to the New Jersey Devils on October 2, 1999, his only point as a Thrasher. He has also had spells in Sweden's Elitserien for AIK Hockey and the Russian Super League (RSL) for Avangard Omsk and Khimik Voskresensk. He won a gold medal with the Czech Republic in the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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03/03/1971

Charlie Brooker, English journalist, producer, and author

Charlton Brooker is an English screenwriter, producer, presenter, author, cartoonist, and social critic. He first became known for creating and presenting satirical television shows that featured criticism of modern society and the media, such as Screenwipe, Gameswipe, Newswipe, and Weekly Wipe.

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Tyler Florence, American chef and author

Tyler Florence is an American chef and television host of several Food Network shows.

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03/03/1970

Julie Bowen, American actress

Julie Bowen is an American actress. She is best known as Claire Dunphy in ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer and coach

Syed Inzamam-ul-Haq SI, also known as Inzi, is a former Pakistan cricketer and captain of Pakistan national cricket team. He is regarded as one of the greatest players Pakistan has produced and one of the best middle-order batsmen of all time. He was the former chief selector of the Pakistan cricket team before resigning in 2023. He was a part of the Pakistani squad which won the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

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03/03/1968

Brian Cox, English keyboard player and physicist

Brian Edward Cox is an English physicist and musician. He is a professor of particle physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of... series and for popular science books, including Why Does E=mc2? (2009) and The Quantum Universe (2011).

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Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player

Brian Joseph Leetch is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 18 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Boston Bruins. He has been called one of the top defensemen in NHL history.

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03/03/1966

Tone Lōc, American rapper, producer, and actor

Anthony Terrell Smith, better known by his stage name Tone Lōc, is an American rapper, voice artist, and actor. He is known for his raspy voice, his hit songs "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award, and for being featured in "We're All in the Same Gang", a collaborative single by the West Coast Rap All-Stars.

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Timo Tolkki, Finnish guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Timo Tapio Tolkki is a Finnish musician best known as the former guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer of the power metal band Stratovarius. With his tenure lasting for more than twenty years, he was the longest standing member of the band before his departure in 2008. After leaving Stratovarius he formed two supergroups named Revolution Renaissance and Symfonia, both of which have since disbanded. In a 2011 article by Guitar World magazine, Tolkki was included in the all-time top 50 list of the world's fastest guitarists.

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03/03/1965

Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer and manager

Dragan Stojković, also known by the nickname Piksi, is a Serbian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of the Serbia national team. Stojković was a long-time captain of the Yugoslavia national team and Red Star Belgrade, and is considered one of the greatest Yugoslav and Serbian footballers ever.

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03/03/1964

Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist

Raúl Alcalá Gallegos is a Mexican former professional road racing cyclist, who competed between 1985 and 1999 and again in 2008 and 2010. As an amateur, Alcalá competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, finishing in eleventh place and 17th with his team in the 100 km team time trial. In 1986, Alcalá became the first Mexican cyclist to compete in the Tour de France and to date has been the most successful Mexican cyclist. In the 1987 Tour de France, he won the young rider classification. In both 1989 and 1990, he won a stage in the Tour de France and finished in 8th place. A capable General Classification rider Alcalá finished in the top 10 during five different Grand Tours. In 2008, Alcalá returned to professional racing by competing in the Vuelta Chihuahua. In 2010, he won the national time trial championship at the age of 46. In early 2011, he stated his intention to race at the 2011 Pan American Games, but eventually did not compete.

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Laura Harring, Mexican-American model and actress, Miss USA 1985

Laura Elena Harring is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1985 and later began acting in television and film. She is best known for her lead role as Rita in the 2001 movie Mulholland Drive. Her other films include The Forbidden Dance (1990), John Q (2002), Willard (2003), The Punisher (2004), The King (2005), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Ghost Son (2007), The Caller (2008), Drool (2009), Sex Ed (2014), and Inside (2016). She also played Carla Greco in General Hospital (1990–1991), Paula Stevens on Sunset Beach (1997), and Rebecca "Becca" Doyle in The Shield (2006).

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Glenn Kulka, Canadian ice hockey player and wrestler

Glenn Kulka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, hockey, and football player who competed in Canadian independent promotions during the late 1990s and had a brief stint in the World Wrestling Federation in 1997.

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03/03/1963

Khaltmaagiin Battulga, Mongolian politician and wrestler, 5th President of Mongolia

Khaltmaagiin Battulga, also referred to as Battulga Khaltmaa, is a Mongolian politician and sambo wrestler who served as the fifth president of Mongolia from 2017 to 2021. He served as a member of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2016 and Minister of Roads, Transportation, Construction and Urban Development from 2008 to 2012.

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Martín Fiz, Spanish runner

Martín Fiz Martín is a Spanish former long-distance runner.

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03/03/1962

Glen E. Friedman, American photographer

Glen Ellis Friedman is an American photographer and artist. He became known for his activities within rebellious skateboarding and music cultures. Photographing artists Fugazi, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Misfits, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Run-DMC, KRS-One, and Public Enemy, as well as classic skateboarding originators Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Alan Gelfand, Duane Peters, and Stacy Peralta, among others.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American heptathlete and long jumper

Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee, née Joyner, is an American former track and field athlete who competed in both the heptathlon and long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals at four different Olympic Games. Joyner-Kersee was also a four-time gold medalist at the world championships. Since 1988, she has held the world record for heptathlon.

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Herschel Walker, American football player, mixed martial artist, and activist

Herschel Junior Walker is an American former professional football player, political candidate, and diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he ran unsuccessfully as the party's nominee in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Georgia. During his football career, he played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons as a running back.

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03/03/1961

Mary Page Keller, American actress and producer

Mary Page Keller is an American actress known for roles on television. She began her career on the daytime soap operas Ryan's Hope (1982–83) and Another World (1983–1985) and later starred in a number of television sitcoms. She starred as Laura Kelly in the Fox comedy series Duet (1987–1989) and in the show's spin-off, Open House (1989–90). Keller later had lead roles in the short-lived sitcoms Baby Talk (1991–92), Camp Wilder (1992–93), and Joe's Life (1993).

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John Matteson, American biographer

John Matteson is an American professor of English and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father.

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Perry McCarthy, English race car driver

Perry Edward McCarthy is a British racing driver, who drove for the Andrea Moda team in Formula One in 1992, though never making it into a race, before moving into sportscars, including driving in the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times between 1996 and 2003.

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Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower

Fatima Whitbread, is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of 77.44 m in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athlete to set a world record in a throwing event. Whitbread went on to win the European title that year, and took the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships. She is also a two-time Olympic medallist, winning bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics and silver at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She won the same medals, respectively, in the Commonwealth Games of 1982 and 1986.

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03/03/1960

Neal Heaton, American baseball player and coach

Neal Heaton is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, and New York Yankees from 1982 to 1993.

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03/03/1959

Ira Glass, American radio host and producer

Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series This American Life and has participated in NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. His work in radio and television has won him awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio and the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting.

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Duško Vujošević, Montenegrin basketball player and coach

Duško Vujošević is a Montenegrin former basketball coach. He is currently active as coach consultant of the Montenegrin ABA League club Studentski centar since 2022.

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03/03/1958

Johnny Moore, American basketball player and coach

John Brian Moore is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily with the San Antonio Spurs. He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns under head coaches Leon Black and Abe Lemons from 1975 to 1979. He spent his entire NBA career playing point guard for the Spurs, save for one game for the New Jersey Nets. A rare illness caused Moore to have his career put on hold in early 1986.

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Miranda Richardson, English actress

Miranda Jane Richardson is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre.

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03/03/1957

Stephen Budiansky, American historian, journalist, and author

Stephen Budiansky is an American writer, historian and biographer, best known for his books on animal behaviour and his criticism of animal rights. He is also the author of a number of scholarly publications about the history of cryptography, military and intelligence history, and music.

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Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer

Thomas Antonius Cornelis Ancion, known by the pseudonym Thom Hoffman, is a Dutch actor and photographer.

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03/03/1956

Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer and manager

Zbigniew Kazimierz Boniek is a Polish former footballer and was most recently a UEFA vice-president. A former midfielder, who was also capable of playing mostly as a right winger and second striker, he is considered one of the greatest Polish players of all time, and was selected by Pelé as one of the 100 best living footballers in 2004.

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John Fulton Reid, New Zealand cricketer (died 2020)

John Fulton Reid was a New Zealand cricketer. He was born in Auckland.

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03/03/1955

Michele Singer Reiner, American film producer (died 2025)

Michele Singer Reiner was an American photographer, political activist, and film producer. Reiner was the second wife of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner. She was originally a photographer, taking the cover picture of The Art of the Deal (1987). While working on When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Reiner met her future husband and inspired him to revise the film's ending.

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John Ribot, Australian rugby league player and administrator

John Ribot, also known by the nickname of "Reebs", is an Australian sports administrator and former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger, Ribot was the 1980 NSWRFL season's equal top try-scorer. Also a member of the 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroo touring squad, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League for Fortitude Valley, Wests and Redcliffe, and in the New South Wales Rugby League for Sydney clubs Newtown, Wests and Manly-Warringah.

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Darnell Williams, English-American actor and director

Darnell Williams is a British television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Jesse Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children from 1981 to 1988, and from 2008 to 2011, a role which has earned him two Daytime Emmy Awards.

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03/03/1954

Keith Fergus, American golfer

Keith Carlton Fergus is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Champions Tour.

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Robert Gossett, American actor

Robert Gossett is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Commander Russell Taylor on the TNT crime drama The Closer and on its successor series Major Crimes.

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John Lilley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

John Lilley is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for being a member of rock band the Hooters.

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Édouard Lock, Moroccan-Canadian dancer and choreographer

Édouard Lock is a Canadian dance choreographer and the founder of the Canadian dance group, La La La Human Steps.

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03/03/1953

Robyn Hitchcock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English musician. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the influential Underwater Moonlight with them in June 1980, Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career.

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Zico, Brazilian footballer and coach

Arthur Antunes Coimbra, better known as Zico, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. Often called the "White Pelé", he was a creative playmaker with excellent technical skills, vision and an eye for goal. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he is also considered to be one of the best free kick specialists in history, able to bend the ball in all directions. By one estimate, Zico is the player that scored the most goals from direct free kicks, with 101 goals including friendlies, among which 62 verified in official games.

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03/03/1952

Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor and producer (died 2008)

Rodolfo Valentino Padilla Fernandez, better known as Rudy Fernandez or Daboy, was a Filipino actor and producer. He came to prominence as an action star in Philippine cinema during the 1970s up to the 1990s.

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03/03/1951

Lindsay Cooper, English composer, bassoon and oboe player (died 2013)

Lindsay Cooper was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983), and Music For Other Occasions (1986).

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Andy Murray, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Andy Murray is a Canadian former professional ice hockey coach, who last served as the head coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's ice hockey team of the NCAA Division I National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). He is a former head coach of the Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League.

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Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist and politician

Heizō Takenaka is a Japanese economist, and key figure in Junichiro Koizumi's administration (2001-2006), played a significant role in Japan's structural reforms, including labor market deregulation. As Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy and later Financial Services, he advocated for policies aimed at increasing economic flexibility, such as amending the Worker Dispatching Act. These changes, enacted in 2003 and 2004, expanded the use of temporary (dispatched) workers by relaxing restrictions. Takenaka's reforms indirectly facilitated the replacement of regular government employees with temporary staff in public sectors, such as education, administrative services, and local government offices. Takenaka's affiliation with Pasona Group, Japan's largest temporary staffing agency, has sparked allegations of embezzlement from government and private sectors, stemming from claims that he replaced permanent employees with Pasona's temporary workers. He joined Pasona as a special advisor in February 2007 and became chairman in August 2009, serving until 2022. Takenaka benefited from the expanded dispatch market post-deregulation, securing government and private contracts in areas like administrative support, COVID-19 measures, and the Tokyo Olympics—leading to personal profits. Takenaka serves on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.

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03/03/1950

Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and screenwriter

Timothy James Kazurinsky is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live and for his role as Carl Sweetchuck in the Police Academy films.

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Kamal Ahmed Majumder, Bangladeshi politician

Kamal Ahmed Majumder is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-15 since its inception in 2009 until 2024. He served as a State Minister of Industries during 2019–2024 at the fourth Hasina ministry.

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03/03/1949

Ron Chernow, American historian, journalist, and author

Ronald Chernow is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies.

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Bonnie J. Dunbar, American engineer, academic, and astronaut

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station.

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Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player (died 2011)

Jesse Harrison Jefferson was an American professional baseball pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles (1973-1975), Chicago White Sox (1975-1976), Toronto Blue Jays (1977-1980), Pittsburgh Pirates (1980) and California Angels (1981) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Jefferson batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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03/03/1948

Snowy White, English guitarist

Terence Charles "Snowy" White is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy and with Pink Floyd, and later for Roger Waters' band. He is also known for his 1983 single "Bird of Paradise", which became a UK Singles Chart Top 10 hit single.

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Steve Wilhite, American computer scientist, developer of the GIF image format at CompuServe in 1987 (died 2022)

Stephen Earl Wilhite was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative. The format later became the subject of a patent assertion by Unisys on its use of the LZW compression algorithm. Known as the inventor or creator of the GIF, Wilhite received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.

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03/03/1947

Clifton Snider, American author, poet, and critic (died 2021)

Clifton Mark Snider was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator.

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Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter and producer

Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer and songwriter who has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks. She has won two Grammy Awards, in 1983 for the Joe Cocker duet "Up Where We Belong", and in 1987 for the Bill Medley duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Warnes also collaborated closely with Leonard Cohen.

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Willie Wise, American basketball player

Willie M. Wise is an American former professional basketball player. After a successful ABA tenure, which eventually resulted in him making the ABA All-Time Team, Wise's NBA career was ended prematurely by a knee injury.

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03/03/1945

George Miller, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter

George Miller is an Australian filmmaker. Over the course of four decades he has received critical and popular success, and is widely known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979, including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time according to Metacritic. He has earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award from six nominations in five different categories.

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Hattie Winston, American actress

Hattie Winston is an American film, television and Broadway actress. She is known for her roles as Margaret Wyborn on Becker, Lucy Carmichael in Rugrats, The Rugrats Movie, and the spin off series All Grown Up! and as a cast member of the PBS children's series The Electric Company.

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03/03/1941

Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael John Prendergast, known professionally by the stage name Mike Pender, is an English musician. He was an original founding member of Merseybeat group the Searchers. He is best known as the lead vocalist on many hit singles by the Searchers, including the song "Needles and Pins" and "What Have They Done to the Rain?".

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03/03/1940

Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian author and journalist (died 2021)

Germán Castro Caycedo was a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena.

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Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis (died 1986)

Perry Edwin Ellis was an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Ellis's influence on the fashion industry has been called "a huge turning point" because he introduced new patterns and proportions to a market which was dominated by more traditional men's clothing.

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Jean-Paul Proust, French-Monégasque police officer and politician, 21st Minister of State of Monaco (died 2010)

Jean-Paul Proust was a French and Monegasque civil servant. He served as the Minister of State of Monaco.

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03/03/1939

Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (died 2003)

Larry Burkett was an American radio personality whose work focused on financial counseling from a Christian point of view.

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M. L. Jaisimha, Indian cricketer (died 1999)

Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha was an Indian test cricketer.

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03/03/1935

Mal Anderson, Australian tennis player

Malcolm James Anderson is an Australian former tennis player who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur ranking of No. 2 in 1957. He became a professional after the 1958 season and won the Wembley World Professional Tennis Championships in the 1959 season. In the Open Era, he was runner-up at the 1972 Australian Open.

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Michael Walzer, American philosopher and academic

Michael Laban Walzer is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and sits on the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.

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Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (died 2015)

Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first democratically elected and non-Communist president of Bulgaria, from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the most prominent figures of the 1989 Bulgarian Revolution, which ended the 35 year rule of President Todor Zhivkov. A member of the Union of Democratic Forces, he was elected as president by the 7th Grand National Assembly. Two years later, he won Bulgaria's first direct presidential elections. He lost his party's nomination for his 1996 reelection campaign after losing a tough primary race to Petar Stoyanov.

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03/03/1934

Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2023)

Peter Leonard Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a member of Parliament (MP) representing London and Westminster from 1977 to 2001.

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Jimmy Garrison, American bassist and educator (died 1976)

James Emory Garrison was an American jazz double bassist. He is best remembered for his association with John Coltrane from 1961 to 1967.

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03/03/1933

Lee Radziwill, American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (died 2019)

Princess Caroline Lee Radziwill, previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.

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03/03/1932

Roy Fisher, Australian rugby league player

Roy Fisher is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played for Parramatta and North Sydney as a prop.

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03/03/1930

Ion Iliescu, Romanian engineer and politician, 2nd President of Romania (died 2025)

Ion Iliescu was a Romanian politician and engineer who served as the first and the third President of Romania since the country's transition to democracy. He occupied the office from 1990 until 1996 and again from 2000 until 2004. Iliescu was also a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he founded and where he became the honorary president for the rest of his life.

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03/03/1927

Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician (died 2016)

Pierre Aubert was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987) from the canton of Neuchâtel. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).

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03/03/1926

James Merrill, American poet and playwright (died 1995)

James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.

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03/03/1924

Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese soldier and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Japan (died 2025)

Tomiichi Murayama was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He was the country's first socialist premier since Tetsu Katayama in 1948, and is best remembered for the Murayama Statement on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, in which he officially apologized for Japan's past colonial wars and aggression.

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03/03/1923

Tamara Lisitsian, Soviet film director and screenwriter (died 2009)

Tamara Nikolaevna Lisitsian was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, who received the Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1985.

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Barney Martin, American police officer and actor (died 2005)

Barney Martin was an American actor, best known for playing Morty Seinfeld, father of Jerry, on the sitcom Seinfeld (1991–1998). He also played supporting roles in Mel Brooks's The Producers (1967), and the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur (1981). He originated the role of Amos Hart in the 1976 Broadway production of Chicago.

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Doc Watson, American bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician (died 2012)

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. His fingerpicking and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as well as for over 15 years with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.

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03/03/1922

Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 2002)

Nándor Hidegkuti was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a key member of the Hungary national team known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a deep-lying centre-forward, a position which has retroactively been compared to the modern false 9 role, he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6–3 at Wembley Stadium. Playing from deep, Hidegkuti was able to distribute the ball to the other attackers and cause considerable confusion to defences. This was an innovation at the time and revolutionised the way the game was played.

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03/03/1921

Diana Barrymore, American actress (died 1960)

Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe was an American film and stage actress.

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03/03/1920

Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant (died 1994)

Julius Nicholas Boros was an American professional golfer noted for his effortless-looking swing and strong record on difficult golf courses, particularly at the U.S. Open.

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James Doohan, Canadian-American actor and soldier (died 2005)

James Montgomery Doohan was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise has become one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise, and inspired many fans to pursue careers in engineering and other technical fields. He also made contributions behind the scenes, such as the initial development of the Klingon and Vulcan languages.

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Ronald Searle, English-French soldier and illustrator (died 2011)

Ronald William Fordham Searle was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.

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03/03/1918

Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)

Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995.

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03/03/1917

Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (died 1952)

Sameera Moussa or Samira Musa Ali was an Egyptian atomic scientist and physicist, she is the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Moussa held a doctorate in atomic radiation.

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03/03/1916

Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (died 2006)

Paul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and probabilist who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis. He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. He has been described as one of The Martians.

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03/03/1914

Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (died 1973)

Asger Oluf Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International.

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03/03/1913

Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer (died 1972)

Margaret Allison Bonds was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. One of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best remembered today for her popular arrangements of African-American spirituals and frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes. She was the first African American woman to perform with the all-White and all-male Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the first African American women to have her music broadcast on European radio, the first African American woman to have her music performed widely in Africa, only the second African American woman in classical music to be elected to full membership in ASCAP, and the first woman, Black or white, to win three awards from ASCAP.

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Harold J. Stone, American actor (died 2005)

Harold J. Stone was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor.

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03/03/1911

Jean Harlow, American actress (died 1937)

Jean Harlow was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", Harlow was popular for her "Laughing Vamp" screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, whose image has endured in the public eye. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow number 22 on its greatest female screen legends list.

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Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1982)

Hugues Lapointe was a Canadian lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.

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03/03/1906

Artur Lundkvist, Swedish poet and critic (died 1991)

Nils Artur Lundkvist was a Swedish writer, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1968.

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03/03/1903

Vasily Kozlov, Belarusian general and politician (died 1967)

Vasily Ivanovich Kozlov was a Soviet Belarusian partisan, politician, and recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union (1942).

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03/03/1902

Ruby Dandridge, African-American film and radio actress (died 1987)

Ruby Jean Dandridge was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium. She is recognized for her role in the 1959 movie A Hole in the Head as Sally. In the 1999 film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Ruby is portrayed by Loretta Devine.

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03/03/1901

Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (died 2011)

Claude Stanley Choules was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War. He served with the Royal Navy from 1915 until 1926. After having emigrated to Australia he served with the Royal Australian Navy, from 1926 until 1956, as a chief petty officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen. He was the last surviving military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 and the last surviving veteran to have served in both world wars. At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. He was the seventh-oldest living man in the world. Choules became the oldest man born in the United Kingdom following the death of Stanley Lucas on 21 June 2010. Choules died at the age of 110 years and 63 days. He had been the oldest British-born man; following his death, that honour went to the Reverend Reginald Dean. In December 2011, the landing ship HMAS Choules was named after him, only the second Royal Australian Navy vessel named after a sailor.

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03/03/1900

Edna Best, British stage and film actress (died 1974)

Edna Clara Best was a British actress.

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03/03/1898

Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (died 1962)

Emil Artin was an Austrian mathematician of Armenian descent.

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03/03/1895

Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems, as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933, for describing individual and aggregate economic systems, respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Later work on the model, together with Jan Tinbergen, won the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.

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Matthew Ridgway, American general (died 1993)

Matthew Bunker Ridgway was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955). Although he saw no combat service in World War I, he was intensively involved in World War II, where he was the first Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. He held the latter post until the end of the war in mid-1945, commanding the corps in the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity and the Western Allied invasion of Germany.

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03/03/1893

Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter (died 1998)

Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada".

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03/03/1891

Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop (died 1949)

Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou, was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King George II to Greece in 1946. His rule was between the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War.

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03/03/1887

Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (died 1915)

Lincoln Beachey was a pioneer American aviator and barnstormer. He became famous and wealthy from flying exhibitions, staging aerial stunts, helping invent aerobatics, and setting aviation records.

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03/03/1883

Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist (died 1971)

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ.

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Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (died 1977)

Charles Alfred Paul Marais de Beauchamp, 5th Baron Soye, was a French zoologist.

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03/03/1882

Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (died 1974)

Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg was a German educator and resistance fighter against Nazism. She provided shelter to around 80 Jews during the Holocaust and was consequently recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman and convicted con man (died 1949)

Charles Ponzi was an Italian charlatan and con artist who operated in the United States and Canada. His aliases included Charles Ponci, Carlo, Benny Broncko and Charles P. Bianchi.

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03/03/1880

Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (died 1962)

Florence Auer was an American theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1946)

Yōsuke Matsuoka was a Japanese diplomat and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war.

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03/03/1873

William Green, American union leader and politician (died 1952)

William B. Green was an American trade union leader. Green is best remembered as the president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) from 1924 to 1952. He was a strong supporter for labor-management co-operation and was on the frontline for wage and benefit protections and industrial unionism legislation.

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03/03/1872

Frida Felser, German opera singer and actress (died 1941)

Frida Felser was a German soprano opera singer and actress.

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03/03/1871

Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (died 1957)

Maurice-François Garin was an Italian-French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating. He was of Italian origin but adopted French nationality on 21 December 1901.

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03/03/1869

Henry Wood, English conductor (died 1944)

Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. After his death, the concerts were officially renamed in his honour as the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts", although they continued to be generally referred to as "the Proms".

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03/03/1868

Émile Chartier, French philosopher and journalist (died 1951)

Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain, was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist, pacifist, and teacher of philosophy.

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03/03/1866

Fred A. Busse, American lawyer and politician, 39th Mayor of Chicago (died 1914)

Fred A. Busse was the mayor of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois, from 1907 to 1911.

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03/03/1860

John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (died 1925)

John Montgomery Ward, also known as Monte Ward, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, shortstop, second baseman, third baseman, manager, executive, union organizer, owner and author. Ward, of English descent, was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and grew up in Renovo, Pennsylvania. He led the formation of the first professional sports players union and a new baseball league, the Players' League.

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03/03/1847

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the telephone (died 1922)

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

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03/03/1845

Georg Cantor, Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (died 1918)

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a European mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved that the real numbers are more numerous than the natural numbers. Cantor's method of proof of this theorem implies the existence of an infinity of infinities. He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest, a fact he was well aware of.

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03/03/1841

John Murray, Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (died 1914)

Sir John Murray was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of modern oceanography.

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03/03/1839

Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (died 1904)

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He established the city of Jamshedpur.

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03/03/1831

George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (died 1897)

George Mortimer Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips.

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03/03/1825

Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (died 1879)

Shiranui Kōemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kikuchi, Higo Province. He was the sport's 11th yokozuna. He gives his name to one of the two styles for the yokozuna's in-ring ceremony, although the question of whether he himself practiced this style is highly debated.

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03/03/1819

Gustave de Molinari, Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (died 1912)

Gustave de Molinari was a Belgian political economist and French Liberal School theorist associated with French laissez-faire economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

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03/03/1816

William James Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (died 1858)

William James Blacklock was an English landscape painter, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders.

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03/03/1805

Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (died 1861)

Jonas Furrer was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Federal Council, from 1848 to 1861, and as the first president of the Swiss Confederation from 1848 to 1849, and again in 1852, 1855 and 1858. He was one of the leading figures in the foundation of Switzerland as a federal state. He was a member of the Radical Party.

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03/03/1803

Thomas Field Gibson, English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the Spitalfields silk weavers (died 1889)

Thomas Field Gibson FGS was a Unitarian silk manufacturer and philanthropist. He supported several novel initiatives to enhance British manufacturing quality and international trade while improving life for working people during the Industrial Revolution – particularly in Spitalfields where his business was centred. He also made important contributions to geology.

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03/03/1800

Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1862)

Heinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretations, as also a chapter critiquing the work.

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03/03/1793

William Macready, English actor and manager (died 1873)

William Charles Macready was an English stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End performer during the Regency era.

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03/03/1778

Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1841)

Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1841 as the wife of King Ernest Augustus. She was a German princess who married successively Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels, and her first cousin Ernest Augustus. Through her 1815 marriage to Ernest, then Duke of Cumberland, Frederica became a British princess and Duchess of Cumberland. Ernest was the fifth son and eighth child of Queen Charlotte and King George III of the United Kingdom, Frederica's paternal aunt and her husband.

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03/03/1756

William Godwin, English journalist and author (died 1836)

William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions, and Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, an early mystery novel that criticizes aristocratic privilege. Based on the success of both works, Godwin featured prominently in the radical circles of London in the 1790s. He wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his life.

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03/03/1678

Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian rebel leader (died 1747)

Marie-Madeleine Jarret, known as Madeleine de Verchères was a woman of New France credited with repelling a raid on Fort Verchères when she was 14 years old.

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03/03/1652

Thomas Otway, English playwright and author (died 1685)

Thomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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03/03/1606

Edmund Waller, English poet and politician (died 1687)

Edmund Waller, 3 March 1606 to 21 October 1687, was a poet and politician from Buckinghamshire. He sat as MP for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and was one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons. Although considered a major poet by contemporaries, his literary reputation declined after his death, and he is now rarely read.

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03/03/1589

Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch minister, theologian, and academic (died 1676)

Gisbertus Voetius was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, pastor, and professor.

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03/03/1583

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English-Welsh soldier, historian, and diplomat (died 1648)

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury KB was an English soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher.

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03/03/1520

Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian and reformer (died 1575)

Matthias Flacius Illyricus or Francovich was a Lutheran reformer from Istria, present-day Croatia. He was notable as a theologian, sometimes dissenting strongly with his fellow Lutherans, and as a scholar for his editorial work on the Magdeburg Centuries.

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03/03/1506

Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja (died 1555)

Infante Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja was the second son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his second wife, Maria of Aragon. He participated in the Conquest of Tunis.

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03/03/1455

John II of Portugal (died 1495)

John II, called the Perfect Prince, was King of Portugal from 1481 until his death in 1495, and also for a brief time in 1477. He is known for reestablishing the power of the Portuguese monarchy, reinvigorating the economy of Portugal, and renewing the Portuguese exploration of Africa and Asia.

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Ascanio Sforza, Catholic cardinal (died 1505)

Ascanio Maria Sforza Visconti was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Generally known as a skilled diplomat who played a major role in the election of Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI, Sforza served as Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church from 1492 until 1505.

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