Born on Tuesday, 31st March – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 306 notable people were born on 31st March — spanning from 1360 to 2005. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Jens Odgaard, the Danish professional footballer, marks one of the notable births recorded for 31 March. Born in 1999, Odgaard represents a generation of European athletes who have gone on to establish careers across major football leagues. The day also saw the arrival of Ewan McGregor in 1971, the Scottish actor who would become one of the most recognised figures in contemporary cinema, delivering performances across a spectrum of mainstream and independent productions.
Historically, 31 March witnessed significant moments in broader culture and science. In 1872, Sergei Diaghilev was born, the Russian impresario whose founding of the Ballets Russes revolutionised modern dance and theatrical presentation across Europe. Earlier, in 1596, René Descartes entered the world, the French mathematician and philosopher whose work established foundations for modern analytical geometry and rationalist philosophy, profoundly shaping Western intellectual thought.
On Tuesday, 31 March 2026, the waning crescent moon will be visible in the sky, with temperatures expected to be mild and dry across most regions. This date falls under the zodiac sign of Aries, characterising individuals born on this day with traits traditionally associated with that constellation. DayAtlas provides comprehensive information about weather conditions, significant historical events, notable births and deaths for any specific date and location worldwide.
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31/03/2005
Reed Baker-Whiting, American professional footballer
Reed Baker-Whiting is an American professional soccer player who plays as a right-back, left-back, or midfielder for Major League Soccer club Nashville SC.
31/03/2004
Samson Baidoo, Austrian professional footballer
Samson Baidoo is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Lens and the Austria national team.
Mateo Sanabria, Argentine professional footballer
Mateo Sanabria is an Argentine footballer currently playing as a winger for Esporte Clube Bahia.
Alex Luna, Argentine professional footballer
Alex Nahuel Luna is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Instituto, on loan from Atlético de Rafaela.
31/03/1999
Japhet Tanganga, English footballer
Japhet Manzambi Tanganga is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for and captains EFL Championship club Sheffield United.
Brooke Scullion, Irish Singer
Brooke Scullion, known professionally as Brooke, is a singer from Northern Ireland. She was a contestant on series 9 of The Voice UK, finishing in third place. She represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "That's Rich".
Jens Odgaard, Danish professional footballer
Jens Odgaard is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Bologna.
Denys Strekalin, Ukrainian-born pair skater
Denys Strekalin is a Ukrainian-born pair skater who competes for France with Megan Wessenberg.
Adam Chrzanowski, Polish professional footballer
Adam Chrzanowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for I liga club Odra Opole.
Santiago Chocobares, Argentine rugby union player
Santiago Chocobares is an Argentine professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Top 14 club Toulouse and the Argentina national team.
Ballou Tabla, Canadian professional soccer player
Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla is a professional soccer player who plays as a winger for Canadian Premier League side Atlético Ottawa. Born in Ivory Coast, he plays for the Canada national team.
Elžbieta Kropa, Lithuanian figure skater
Elžbieta Kropa is a Lithuanian figure skater. She is the 2017 Kaunas Ice Autumn Cup champion and a two-time Lithuanian national champion. She qualified for the final segment at the 2018 European Championships in Moscow, Russia, and finished 22nd overall. She also represented Lithuania at three World Championships.
Edon Zhegrova, professional footballer
Edon Lulzim Zhegrova is a professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for Serie A club Juventus. Born in Germany, he plays for the Kosovo national team.
Shiann Salmon, Jamaican track and field athlete
Shiann Salmon is a Jamaican track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. She represented Jamaica at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in women's 400 metres hurdles.
Ben Williams, Welsh professional footballer
Benjamin Joseph Williams is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Morecambe.
Luca Pizzul, Italian professional footballer
Luca Pizzul is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Serie D club Mestre.
Sander Raieste, Estonian professional basketball player
Sander Raieste is an Estonian professional basketball player for the UCAM Murcia of the Liga ACB. Standing at 2.04 m, he plays at the small forward position. He also represents the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
Jonas Røndbjerg, Danish ice hockey player
Jonas Røndbjerg is a Danish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). At the 2017 NHL entry draft, Røndbjerg was selected 65th overall by the Golden Knights.
Adele Tan, Singaporean sports shooter
Adele Tan Qian Xiu OLY is a Singaporean Olympic shooter. She competed in the women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Nuno Pina, Portuguese football player
Nuno Henrique Pina Nunes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Andorran Primera Divisió club Ordino.
Tereza Jančová, Slovak skier
Tereza Jančová is a Slovak former alpine skier. She competed for Slovakia at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017, winning silver in the team event. Jančová was named 'most successful athlete in Zvolen' in 2017, and was also named as the winner in the junior category in 2019. She announced her retirement in March 2019, after having won the Slovak championship slalom event the same month.
Maren Lutz, German female canoeist
Maren Lutz is a German female canoeist who won five medals at senior level at the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships.
Shehana Vithana, Sri Lankan-Australian professional squash player
Shehana Vithana is a Sri Lankan born Australian professional squash player .She achieved her highest career PSA singles ranking of 119 in October 2018 as a part of the 2018-19 PSA World Tour.
Providence Cowdrill, English cricketer
Providence Ann Courtenay Cowdrill is an English cricketer who plays as a right-arm leg break bowler. She has played for Hampshire and Southern Vipers.
Ricardo Felipe, Brazilian footballer
Ricardo Felipe da Silva is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Decisão.
Dimitris Dalakouras, Greek professional footballer
Dimitrios Dalakouras is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Panionios.
31/03/1998
Jakob Chychrun, American-born Canadian ice hockey player
Jakob Chychrun is a Canadian–American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 16th overall by the Arizona Coyotes at the 2016 NHL entry draft. He has also played for the Ottawa Senators.
31/03/1996
Liza Koshy, American actress, comedian, and television host
Elizabeth Shaila Koshy is an American YouTuber and actress. She has received four Streamy Awards, four Teen Choice Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award.
31/03/1995
Fiona Brown, footballer
Fiona Alison Brown is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward.
31/03/1994
Samira Asghari, Afghan member of the International Olympic Committee
Samira Asghari is a member of the International Olympic Committee for Afghanistan since 2018. Upon her election at the age of 24, Asghari became the first representative from Afghanistan and one of the youngest ever members to join the IOC. Before being selected for the IOC, Asghari played for the Afghanistan women's national basketball team and worked for the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee during the 2010s. With the ANOC, Asghari briefly held the finance director and Deputy Secretary General positions in the early to mid 2010s.
Tyler Wright, Australian surfer
Tyler Wright is an Australian professional surfer on the WSL World Tour. She is a consecutive WSL Women's World Champion. She qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Mads Würtz Schmidt, Danish road cyclist
Mads Würtz Schmidt is a Danish racing cyclist, who rides for gravel team PAS Racing. He rode at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. In June 2021, he won the Danish National Road Race Championships.
31/03/1993
Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer
Mikael Ishak is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań.
31/03/1992
Stijn de Looijer, Dutch footballer
Stijn de Looijer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He formerly played for FC Den Bosch and NEC.
Adam Zampa, Australian cricketer
Adam Zampa is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Australia national cricket team in both One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket. He also plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket and the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League. A right-arm leg-break bowler, he is the highest wicket-taker for Australia in T20I.
31/03/1991
Milan Milanović, Serbian footballer
Milan Milanović is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Bosnian Premier League club Sloga Meridian.
Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer
Rodney Sneijder is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for OSM '75 Maarssen. He is the brother of Wesley Sneijder and Jeffrey Sneijder.
31/03/1990
George Iloka, American football player
George Arinze Iloka is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Boise State Broncos and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL draft.
Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (died 2019)
Lyra Catherine McKee was a journalist from Northern Ireland who wrote for several publications about the consequences of the Troubles. She also served as an editor for Mediagazer, a news aggregator website. On 18 April 2019, McKee was fatally shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Derry.
Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player
Sandra Roma is a former tennis player from Sweden.
31/03/1989
Alberto Martín Romo García Adámez, Spanish footballer
Alberto Martín-Romo García-Adámez, known simply as Alberto Martín, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Linense as a midfielder.
Nejc Vidmar, Slovenian footballer
Nejc Vidmar is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer
Liu Zige is a Chinese competitive swimmer. She won gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Olympics, and is the current world record holder in the event.
31/03/1988
Thomas De Corte, Belgian footballer
Thomas De Corte is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right back. He formerly played for Lierse and AGOVV.
Conrad Sewell, Australian singer and songwriter
Conrad Ignatius Mario Maximilian Sewell is an Australian singer and songwriter. He is best known for his vocals on Kygo's single "Firestone" and his number-one single "Start Again".
Dorin Dickerson, American football player
Dorin R. Dickerson is an American former professional football player who was a tight end and wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He was selected by the Houston Texans in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL draft. He was also a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and Tennessee Titans.
DeAndre Liggins, American basketball player
DeAndre Desmond Liggins is an American professional basketball player for Dijlah Al-Jamiea of the Iraqi Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Kentucky.
Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer
Louis van der Westhuizen is a Namibian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. He has played first-class cricket for the senior Namibian cricket team since 2006, having previously lined up for the Under-19s. He made his first-class cricket debut on 11 May 2006, for Namibia against Scotland in the 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup.
31/03/1987
Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer
Noureddine "Nordin" Amrabat is a professional footballer who plays as a winger and captains Moroccan Botola Pro club Wydad AC. Amrabat played for Morocco, which he represented at two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, 2012 Olympics, and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer
Hugo Ayala Castro is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Amaury Bischoff, Portuguese footballer
Amaury Armindo Bischoff is a former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Humpy Koneru, Indian chess player
Koneru Humpy is an Indian chess grandmaster. Koneru is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and the reigning two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002, she became the youngest female player—and the first Indian female player—to achieve the title of Grandmaster, aged 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, a record only since surpassed by Hou Yifan. Koneru is a gold medallist at the Olympiad, Asian Games, and Asian Championship.
Kirill Starkov, Danish ice hockey player
Kirill Olegovich Starkov is a Russian-born Danish professional ice hockey forward who is currently coaching Dudingen Bulls in the Swiss MyHL league, the third tier of the Swiss hockey system. Starkov is also the Integrity Ambassador at IIHF
Nelli Zhiganshina, Russian figure skater
Nelli Nailevna Zhiganshina is a Russian-born German ice dancer. With Alexander Gazsi, she is a six-time German national champion and has won twelve international medals. They have placed as high as 6th at the European Championships and 10th at the World Championships.
31/03/1986
Andreas Dober, Austrian footballer
Andreas Dober is an Austrian footballer who plays for Rapid Wien II as a defender.
James King, Scottish rugby player
James King was a Scottish rugby union player who played for Edinburgh Rugby in the Pro14.
Paulo Machado, Portuguese footballer
Paulo Ricardo Ribeiro de Jesus Machado is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
31/03/1985
Steve Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
Steve Bernier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. Selected in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2003 NHL entry draft by the San Jose Sharks, Bernier would play for the Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils and the New York Islanders during his time in the NHL.
Jo-Lonn Dunbar, American football player
Jo-Lonn D. Dunbar is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He also played for the St. Louis Rams. He played college football at Boston College.
Jesper Hansen, Danish footballer
Jesper Hansen is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for AGF. He accumulated 18 youth caps for Denmark at six different age groups.
Ivan Mishyn, Ukrainian race car driver
Ivan Mishyn is a Ukrainian rally codriver, Ukrainian rally vice-champion, European rally champion in ERC Production Cup category, and The Boar ProRacing team codriver.
Kory Sheets, American football player
Kory Gerren Sheets is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers and he was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. Sheets was also a member of the Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers and Oakland Raiders of the NFL and the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL.
Jalmar Sjöberg, Swedish wrestler
Jalmar Leonard Sjöberg is an amateur Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He won a silver medal for the super heavyweight division at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania, and two bronze medals at the 2007 European Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and at the 2009 FILA World Championships in Herning, Denmark.
31/03/1984
David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
David Clarkson is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Columbus Blue Jackets. He is currently part owner and director of player development for the Colorado Grit in the NAHL south division. Clarkson was a member of the 2003 Memorial Cup-winning Kitchener Rangers.
Eddie Johnson, American soccer player
Edward Abraham Johnson is an American former soccer player. He played the majority of his fourteen-year club career in the U.S. with FC Dallas, the Kansas City Wizards, Seattle Sounders FC, and D.C. United. Johnson also spent three and a half years with several European clubs.
James Jones, American football player
James Deandre Jones is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the San Jose State Spartans and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft. With the Packers, he helped them win Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also played for the Oakland Raiders. After his playing career, Jones went into sports media and became an NFL Network analyst. In September 2024, he became a co-host on Fox Sports 1's (FS1) sports talk show The Facility.
Martins Dukurs, Latvian sled racer
Martins Dukurs is a former Latvian skeleton racer, currently a coach, who has competed since 1998. He is a six-time world champion in men's skeleton, a double Olympic silver winner, and the athlete with the most World Cup titles with a total of 11, having won eight consecutive titles between 2010 and 2017, plus another three consecutive titles between 2020 and 2022.
Kaie Kand, Estonian heptathlete
Kaie Kand is a retired Estonian heptathlete. Her personal best score is 5979 points, achieved in May 2009 in Götzis. In 2009, she set an Estonian national indoor record in the pentathlon. Her coach was Remigija Nazarovienė.
Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer
Alberto Junior Rodríguez Valdelomar, nicknamed El mudo, is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
Ed Williamson, English rugby player
Ed Williamson is a professional contemporary artist and former professional rugby union player. He retired in 2016 after playing for Union Athletic Libournaise. Williamson started his career with Newcastle Falcons who he had played for since the age of 18. He made his first team debut in the 2004/2005 season against Leicester Tigers. He went on to play over 80 games for the club. He has represented England at the U19 level.
31/03/1983
Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
Hashim Mahomed Amla OIS is a South African former international cricketer who captained the national team in Test matches and One Day Internationals (ODIs). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have played for South Africa, and one of the greatest top-order batsmen of his era.
Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress and musician
Ashleigh Adele Ball is a Canadian voice actress and musician. She is known for voicing characters in several toyetic movies and television series, notably the Barbie film series, Bratz, Johnny Test, Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot, Littlest Pet Shop, Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, LoliRock, The Deep, Sonic Prime and Ready Jet Go!. She is the subject of the documentary A Brony Tale directed by Brent Hodge, which follows her through her first interactions with the brony community at BronyCon 2012. She is also a member of the pop rock band Hey Ocean!.
Sophie Hunger, Swiss-German musician
Sophie Hunger is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, currently living in Berlin.
Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
Vlasios Maras, Athens, is a Greek gymnast.
Nigel Plum, Australian rugby league player
Nigel Plum is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Sydney Roosters, Canberra Raiders and Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He was known for his tackling technique.
31/03/1982
Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
Tal Ben Haim is an Israeli former professional footballer who played at either centre back or right back. He has played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Manchester City, Sunderland, Portsmouth, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Standard Liége, Beitar Jerusalem and Charlton Athletic.
Mira Bellwether, American author, artist, and sex educator
Mira Bellwether was an American author, artist, and sex educator best known for Fucking Trans Women, a single-issue zine in which she wrote and illustrated all articles. Described in Sexuality & Culture as "a comprehensive guide to trans women's sexuality", Fucking Trans Women was the first publication of note to focus on sex with trans women and was innovative in its focus on trans women's own perspectives and its inclusion of instructions for many of the sex acts depicted. Bellwether was also an advocate for transgender women and in opposition to trans-exclusionary feminism.
Bam Childress, American football player
Brandon "Bam" Childress is a former gridiron football wide receiver. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Ohio State. Childress was also a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Brian Tyree Henry, American actor
Brian Tyree Henry is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received nominations for an Academy Award, an Actor Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.
Audrey Kawasaki, American painter
Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her distinctive portrayals of young, adolescent women. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga, with primary influences like Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha, saying “The merging of realistically molded faces and bodies against the contrast of flat lines and patterns is so stimulating to me.”
Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
Chien-Ming Wang is a Taiwanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays, and Kansas City Royals. He also played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team, and is the current assistant pitching coach for CTBC Brothers.
31/03/1981
Ryan Bingham, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
George Ryan Bingham is an American singer, actor, songwriter, and guitarist whose music spans multiple genres. He is currently based in Los Angeles. As of 2019, Bingham has released six studio albums and one live album, the last four of which were released under his own label, Axster Bingham Records.
Thomas Chatelle, Belgian footballer
Thomas Chatelle is a retired Belgian footballer, who last played for Mons. He normally played as a winger and has gained 3 caps for the Belgium national team.
Han Tae-you, South Korean footballer
Han Tae-you is a South Korean football player.
Pa Dembo Touray, Gambian footballer
Pa Dembo Touray, is the goalkeeper coach of Prespa Birlik. He is a former Gambian football goalkeeper and national team player for Gambia.
Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
Maarten van der Weijden is a Dutch former long-distance and marathon swimmer born in Alkmaar. Van der Weijden won the Olympic gold in the 10 km open water marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2019, he swam the Elfstedentocht for charity, in which he raised more than €6.1 million.
31/03/1980
Martin Albrechtsen, Danish footballer
Martin Albrechtsen is a Danish former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre-back. He currently plays for Danish amateur club FK Prespa. He played four games for the Danish national team and is the older brother of Jacob Albrechtsen.
Karolina Lassbo, Swedish lawyer and blogger
Karolina Charlotte Lassbo is a Swedish blogger, internet personality and lawyer.
Matias Concha, Swedish footballer
Hernán Matias Arsenio Concha is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He started off his career with Malmö FF in 2000 and then represented Djurgårdens IF and VfL Bochum before returning to Malmö FF in 2012. A full international between 2006 and 2008, he won eight caps for the Sweden national team.
Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Kate Micucci is an American actress, comedian and musician who is half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates with Riki Lindhome.
Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
Michael Ryder is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, and New Jersey Devils.
Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime Little Twins, and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Leila Malcal in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Jeanne d'Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, Shiki Ryōgi in The Garden of Sinners, Eto in Tokyo Ghoul, Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Shinobu Oshino in Monogatari, Lunamaria Hawke in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Merlin in The Seven Deadly Sins, Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Quinella in season 3 of Sword Art Online, and Echidna in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
31/03/1979
Omri Afek, Israeli footballer
Omri Afek is a retired Israeli footballer who last played for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv.
Euan Burton, Scottish martial artist and coach
Euan Michael Burton MBE is a Scottish judoka. His best results include; 2010 World Championship bronze, 2010 Tokyo Grand Slam gold, and 2007 World Championship bronze.
Alexis Ferrero, Argentinian footballer
Alexis Javier Ferrero is an Argentine former football centre back.
Charlie Manning, American baseball player
Charles Nelson Manning is a former professional baseball relief pitcher who last played for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs. He played part of the 2008 season in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals. He went to the University of Tampa and is listed with a height of 6'2 and weight of 180 pounds. Manning throws and bats left-handed.
Jonna Mendes, American skier
Jonna Mendes is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She specialized in the speed events and raced for nine seasons on the World Cup circuit. Mendes competed in two Winter Olympics and four World Championships. She was the bronze medalist in the Super G at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Rhys Wesser, Australian rugby league player
Rhys Joseph Wesser is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a fullback. During his 14 seasons in the NRL, he played for the Penrith Panthers, with whom he won the 2003 NRL Premiership, and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. His 113 tries for the Penrith Panthers is a club record. Wesser was also a Queensland and Indigenous Dreamtime representative.
31/03/1978
Michael Clark, Australian cricketer and footballer
Michael Wayne Clark is an Australian former cricketer and Australian rules footballer.
Stephen Clemence, English footballer and manager
Stephen Neal Clemence is an English football coach and former player who made nearly 250 appearances in the Premier League and Football League playing as a midfielder.
Jarrod Cooper, American football player
Jarrod Alexander Cooper is an American former professional football player who was a safety with the Oakland Raiders and Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats and was selected by the Panthers in the fifth round of the 2001 NFL draft.
Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
Jérôme René Marcel Rothen is a French former professional footballer who played as a winger. He is a football pundit.
31/03/1977
Toshiya, Japanese bass player, songwriter, and producer
Dir En Grey is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in February 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. With a consistent lineup of vocalist Kyo, guitarists Kaoru and Die, bassist Toshiya, and drummer Shinya, they have released eleven full-length albums. Numerous stylistic changes have made the genre of their music difficult to determine, though it is generally considered to be a form of metal. Originally a visual kei band, the members later opted for more subtle attire, but have continued to maintain a dramatic image on stage.
Garth Tander, Australian race car driver
Garth Dirk Tander is an Australian former motor racing driver who competed in the Supercars Championship from 1998 to 2025. He was the 2007 champion for the HSV Dealer Team and claimed 57 wins, including six at Australia's most prestigious domestic race, the Bathurst 1000.
31/03/1976
Howard Frier, American basketball player
Howard Fletcher Frier is an American-Estonian former basketball player.
Igors Sļesarčuks, Latvian-Russian footballer
Igors Sļesarčuks is a Latvian-Russian football coach and former player.
Graeme Smith, Scottish swimmer
Graeme Smith is a former British freestyle swimmer.
31/03/1975
Makis Dreliozis, Greek basketball player
Prodromos "Makis" Dreliozis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player. At 2.01 m in height and 91 kg. (200 lbs.) in weight, he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions.
Adam Green, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Adam Green is an American actor, filmmaker and musician, best known for his work in horror and comedy films, including the Hatchet franchise, 2010's Frozen, and the television series Holliston. He was also the lead singer for the hard rock and metal band Haddonfield.
Nathan Grey, Australian rugby player and coach
Nathan Patrick Grey is a former Australian rugby union footballer, who played mostly at centre, sometimes flyhalf. He is currently the defence coach for the New South Wales Waratahs and the Australian national team.
Cameron Murray, Scottish rugby player
Cameron Murray is a Scottish former professional rugby union player who played as a wing. He won 24 caps for the Scotland national team between 1998 and 2001, scoring seven tries.
Ryan Rupe, American baseball player
Ryan Kittman Rupe is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Rupe played in the majors for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Boston Red Sox.
31/03/1974
Benjamin Eicher, German director, producer, and screenwriter
Benjamin Eicher is a film director famous for his cult film sequel Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II and further feature-length gangster comedies.
Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter
Natalia Anatolievna Rudina, née Minyayeva (Миняева), better known by stage name Natali (Натали), is a Russian singer, composer, songwriter, and TV presenter.
Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bass player
Bo Stefan Alexander Olsdal is a Swedish-Luxembourgish musician, best known as the bassist/guitarist of the alternative rock band Placebo, he is also part of the electronic band Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal and launched the electronic/dance remix at Hotel Persona.
Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer
Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In winning the World Championship 200m individual medley title in 1994, he established a new world record of 1:58.16 which lasted for almost nine years until it was broken by Michael Phelps (USA).
31/03/1973
Christopher Hampson, English ballet dancer and choreographer
Christopher Hampson is an English ballet choreographer and director and former ballet dancer. In August 2012, Hampson succeeded Ashley Page as artistic director of Scottish Ballet, and was appointed CEO/Artistic Director in 2015.
31/03/1972
Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish director and screenwriter
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos is a Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goya Awards—including Best Director for his 2001 film The Others—and two European Film Awards among other honors; he also accepted an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of Spain for The Sea Inside. He has written the screenplays to all seven of his films and composed almost all of their soundtracks.
Andrew Bowen, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Andrew Bowen is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on Mad TV and voices Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat.
Luca Gentili, Italian footballer and coach
Luca Gentili is a former Italian footballer.
Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
Hristos Polihroniou is a retired Greek hammer thrower.
Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter and Pyra Labs
Evan Clark Williams is an American internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Twitter, and was its CEO from 2008 to 2010, and a member of its board from 2007 to 2019. He founded Blogger and Medium. In 2014, he co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures. As of May 2025, his net worth is estimated at US$2 billion, according to Forbes.
31/03/1971
Demetris Assiotis, Cypriot footballer
Demetris Assiotis is a Cypriot former international football midfielder.
Martin Atkinson, English footballer and referee
Martin Atkinson is an English referee coach and former professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League. He is a member of the West Riding County Football Association.
Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
Pavel Vladimirovich Bure is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played the right wing position. Nicknamed "the Russian Rocket" for his exceptional speed and skill, Bure played for 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers between 1991 and 2003. Trained in the Soviet Union, he played three seasons with the Central Red Army team before his NHL career.
Craig McCracken, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
Craig McCracken is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Disney Channel and Disney XD's Wander Over Yonder, and Netflix's Kid Cosmic.
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his service to drama and charity.
31/03/1970
Alenka Bratušek, Slovenian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Slovenia
Alenka Bratušek is a Slovenian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014 as the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014. On 5 May 2014, Bratušek submitted her resignation as prime minister.
Linn Skåber, Norwegian actress and writer
Linn Skåber is a Norwegian actress, singer, comedian, text writer and TV personality. She made her stage début on Oslo Nye Teater (Centralteatret) in 1997, playing the title role in Goldoni's comic opera Mirandolina.
31/03/1969
Annabelle Neilson, British socialite (died 2018)
Iona Annabelle Neilson was a British socialite, fashion model, author and television personality. She first gained media attention as the muse of the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. She appeared as a cast member on the Bravo reality television series Ladies of London (2014–2015).
Nyamko Sabuni, Burundian-Swedish politician
Nyamko Ana Sabuni is a Swedish politician who was Leader of the Liberals between June 2019 and April 2022. She previously served as Minister for Integration from 2006 to 2010 and as Minister for Gender Equality from 2006 to 2013 in the Swedish government. A member of the Liberal Party, Sabuni was elected a Member of Parliament in 2002. Sabuni made history in June 2019 by becoming the first party leader in the Swedish parliament coming from an ethnic minority and the first party leader of a refugee background. In April 2022, Sabuni resigned as party leader.
Steve Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
Steven Delano Smith is an American former professional basketball player who is a basketball analyst for Turner Sports. After a collegiate career with Michigan State, he played with several teams in his 14-season National Basketball Association career, including the Miami Heat, the Portland Trail Blazers and the San Antonio Spurs, but is perhaps best known for his five-year stint with the Atlanta Hawks which included an All-Star Game appearance in 1998. He won a championship with the Spurs in 2003. Smith was widely regarded as an excellent three-point shooter, and is one of three players to make seven 3-pointers in a quarter.
31/03/1968
César Sampaio, Brazilian footballer
Carlos César Sampaio Campos, known as César Sampaio, is a Brazilian football pundit, coach and former player who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the current technical coordinator of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Santos.
31/03/1966
Roger Black, English runner and journalist
Roger Anthony Black MBE is an English former athlete who competed internationally for Great Britain and England. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4 × 400 metres relay gold medals at both the World and European Championships.
Nick Firestone, American race car driver
Nicholas Stanley Firestone is an American former race car driver.
31/03/1965
Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach
Thomas Patrick Barrasso is an American professional ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 18 seasons. Barrasso began his time in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, who selected him fifth overall in the 1983 NHL entry draft out of high school. He was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988, where he would best be remembered and spend the majority of his career. Barrasso spent parts of 12 seasons with the Penguins, and was a Stanley Cup champion in 1991 and 1992. After being traded to the Ottawa Senators in March 2000 and sitting out the 2000–01 season, his final two seasons were split playing for the Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St. Louis Blues. Barrasso was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2023.
Patty Fendick, American tennis player and coach
Patty Fendick is an American former professional tennis player and the former women's tennis program head coach at University of Texas and head coach at University of Washington.
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (died 2006)
Jean-Christophe Lafaille was a French climber noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall. He climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousanders, many of them alone or by previously unclimbed routes, but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
William McNamara, American actor and producer
William West McNamara is an American film and television actor.
Steven T. Seagle, American author and screenwriter
Steven T. Seagle is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game and animation industries.
31/03/1964
Mark Hoban, English accountant and politician
Mark Gerard Hoban is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a former Member of Parliament for Fareham (2001–2015) and former Minister of State for Work and Pensions (2012–2013).
31/03/1963
Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer
Paul Joseph Mercurio is an Australian actor, choreographer, dancer, TV presenter and politician. Mercurio is best known for his lead role in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom and his role as a judge on TV series Dancing with the Stars.
31/03/1962
Olli Rehn, Finnish footballer and politician
Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish public official who has been serving as governor of the Bank of Finland since 2018. A member of the Centre Party, he previously served as the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro from 2010 to 2014, and Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet from 2015 until 2016. Rehn ran for President of Finland as an independent candidate in 2024, but was not elected.
Georgios Stefanopoulos, Greek boxer
Georgios Stefanopoulos is a former boxer from Greece, who participated in two Summer Olympics for his native country in the men's heavyweight division, starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He twice won a medal at the European Championships in the early 1990s. Georgios also had some success in kickboxing, winning a gold medal in the Full-Contact heavyweight category at the W.A.K.O. European Championships 1986.
31/03/1961
Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player
Ronald James Brown is an American former athlete and professional football player. He won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Brown played as a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He went to Arizona State University.
Howard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer
Howard Gordon is an American screenwriter and producer.
31/03/1959
Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
Markus Hediger is a Swiss writer and translator.
31/03/1958
Andrea Kuntzl, Austrian politician
Andrea Kuntzl is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she has represented Vienna since December 2002. She was a Federal List member of the National Council from October 1999 to December 2002.
31/03/1957
Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Sir Alan James Carter Duncan is a British former politician who served as Minister of State for International Development from 2010 to 2014 and Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2016 to 2019, essentially serving as Deputy to Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutland and Melton from 1992 to 2019.
31/03/1955
Svetozar Marović, President of Serbia and Montenegro
Svetozar Marović is a Montenegrin lawyer and politician who served as the last head of state and head of government of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 until Montenegro's declaration of independence in 2006.
Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
Angus McKinnon Young is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Young was ranked 38th in the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all time list. In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
31/03/1953
Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (died 2014)
Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister. He was a three-time Grammy Award winner, and in 2009 he was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame.
31/03/1950
András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author (died 2023)
András Adorján was a Hungarian Chess Grandmaster (1973) and author. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Adorján, in 1968.
Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
Ed Marinaro is an American actor and former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Cornell Big Red, where he was a unanimous All-America and won the Maxwell Award in 1971.
Sandra Morgen, American anthropologist and academic (died 2016)
Sandra Lynn Morgen was an American feminist anthropologist. At the end of her career, she was a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and previously served as vice provost for graduate studies and associate dean of the Graduate School, and director of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society.
31/03/1949
Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2023)
Gilles Gilbert was a Canadian professional goaltender in ice hockey who was drafted in the third round of the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft from the London Knights. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars and Detroit Red Wings, but most notably for the Boston Bruins.
31/03/1948
Gary Doer, Canadian politician and diplomat, 20th Premier of Manitoba
Gary Albert Doer is a former Canadian politician and diplomat from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He served as Canada's ambassador to the United States from 19 October 2009, to 3 March 2016. Doer previously served as the 20th premier of Manitoba from 1999 to 2009, leading a New Democratic Party government.
Al Gore, American soldier and politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize laureate
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Tennessee in both houses of the U.S. Congress, first as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985, and then as a U.S. senator from 1985 to 1993. Gore was the Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election; he lost to George W. Bush despite winning the popular vote.
Rhea Perlman, American actress
Rhea Jo Perlman is an American actress and author. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the popular sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning four, and was nominated for a record six Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. She has also appeared in films, including Canadian Bacon (1995), Matilda (1996), The Sessions (2012), Poms (2019) and Barbie (2023). In 2025, Perlman had a guest role in the second season of the crime mystery series Poker Face.
Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
Gustaaf (Staf) Van Cauter, is a former racing cyclist. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium. He competed in the team time trial at the 1972 Summer Olympics. As of 2010, Van Cauter is President of molecular imaging company Bioscan.
31/03/1947
Augustin Banyaga, Rwandan-American mathematician and academic
Augustin Banyaga is a Rwandan-born American mathematician whose research fields include symplectic topology and contact geometry. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
Wendy Overton, American tennis player
Wendy Overton is an American former professional tennis player active in the 1970s. She is known mostly for her performance in doubles.
Kristian Blak, Danish-Faroese pianist, composer, and producer
Kristian Blak is a Danish composer, musician, and record executive based in the Faroe Islands.
Don Foster, English academic and politician
Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, is a British politician and life peer who served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Comptroller of the Household from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1992 to 2015.
César Gaviria, Colombian economist and politician, 36th President of Colombia
César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party from 2005 to 2009. During his tenure as president, he summoned the Constituent Assembly of Colombia that enacted the Constitution of 1991.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and economist (died 2011)
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools.
31/03/1946
Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (died 1984)
Gonzalo Enrique Márquez Moya was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics (1972–73) and Chicago Cubs (1973–74). Although baseball references during his career showed the year of his birth as 1946, his birth certificate showed the true year to be 1940. Márquez presented an ID that showed 1946 when he turned professional.
Bob Russell, English politician
Sir Robert Edward Russell is a former Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament for Colchester from 1997 to 2015. He was first elected at the 1997 United Kingdom general election and won subsequent re-election in 2001, 2005 and 2010; he was defeated in the 2015 United Kingdom general election by the Conservative candidate Will Quince.
31/03/1945
Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist and engineer
Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been recognized for his contributions to 3-D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
Gabriel Weston Kaplan is an American actor, comedian, and professional poker player. He played the title character in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. He later became a professional poker player and a commentator for the series High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network.
Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (died 1995)
Myfanwy Talog Williams, known professionally as Myfanwy Talog, was a Welsh actress and the long-term partner of English actor David Jason.
31/03/1944
Pascal Danel, French singer-songwriter
Pascal Danel was a French pop singer and composer best known for the hit singles “La Plage aux romantiques” (1966) and “Kilimandjaro” (1967).
Angus King, American politician
Angus Stanley King Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Maine. A political independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, he served from 1995 to 2003 as the 72nd governor of Maine.
Mick Ralphs, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)
Michael Geoffrey Ralphs was an English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He was a founding member of English rock bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company. Despite not being a constant member, he appeared on every studio album released by both bands. In 2011 he formed the Mick Ralphs Blues Band with musicians he had met in a jam session.
31/03/1943
Roy Andersson, Swedish director and screenwriter
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.
Deirdre Clancy, English costume designer
Deirdre Clancy is a British costume designer. She has won the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design twice. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for Mrs. Brown.
Christopher Walken, American actor
Christopher Walken is an American actor. His work on stage and screen has earned him accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Actor Award, as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. His films have grossed more than $1.6 billion in the United States.
31/03/1942
Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
Ulla Hoffmann is a Swedish Left Party politician. Hoffmann was interim party leader for a short while in 2003 following the resignation of party leader Gudrun Schyman. Gudrun Schyman was forced to resign due to tax irregularities. She was a member of the Riksdag from 1994 to 2006.
Hugh McCracken, American guitarist and producer (died 2013)
Hugh Carmine McCracken was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally an arranger and record producer.
Michael Savage, American far-right radio host and author
Michael Alan Weiner known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American author, political commentator, activist, and former radio host. Savage is best known as the host of The Savage Nation, a nationally syndicated talk show that aired on Talk Radio Network across the United States until 2021, and in 2009 was the second most listened-to radio talk show in the country with an audience of over 20 million listeners on 400 stations across the United States. From October 23, 2012, to January 1, 2021, Michael Savage had been syndicated by Cumulus Media and Westwood One. He holds master's degrees from the University of Hawaii in medical botany and medical anthropology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine. As Michael Weiner, he has written books on nutrition, herbal medicine, and homeopathy; as Michael Savage, he has written several political books that have reached The New York Times Best Seller list.
31/03/1941
Franco Bonvicini, Italian author and illustrator (died 1995)
Bonvi, pen name of Franco Bonvicini, was an Italian comic book artist, creator of the comic strips Sturmtruppen and Nick Carter.
Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (died 2013)
Faith Yvonne Leech was an Australian freestyle swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100–metre freestyle relay and bronze in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
31/03/1940
Brian Ackland-Snow, English production designer and art director (died 2013)
Brian Ackland-Snow was an English production designer. He won an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View. He also won an Emmy for best art direction for a miniseries or special in 1995 for Scarlett on CBS. His son, Andrew Ackland-Snow, went on to become an art director in films.
Barney Frank, American lawyer and politician
Barnett Frank is a retired American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, was considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States during his time in Congress.
Patrick Leahy, American lawyer and politician
Patrick Joseph Leahy is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and again from 2021 to 2023.
31/03/1939
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (died 1993)
Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in May 1991.
Israel Horovitz, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2020)
Israel Horovitz was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.
Walker David Miller, American lawyer and judge (died 2013)
Walker David Miller was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
Volker Schlöndorff, German director and producer
Volker Schlöndorff is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer (died 2024)
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger was a German footballer who played as a defender. An athletic and hard-tackling player, with a strong physique, he was nicknamed the "Volkswagen" for his continuity of performance, both in quantity and in quality, and for his versatility; indeed, although he was usually deployed as a full-back, he was capable of playing anywhere along the back, and could also play as a centre-back, as a sweeper, or even as a defensive midfielder. He was one of the first successful German footballers abroad. In his prime he was often considered one of the best and most complete left-backs in the world in his era, rivaled only by Giacinto Facchetti, Nílton Santos and Silvio Marzolini.
31/03/1938
Patrick Bateson, English biologist and academic (died 2017)
Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, was an English biologist with interests in ethology and phenotypic plasticity. Bateson was a professor at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the Zoological Society of London from 2004 to 2014.
Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician, 22nd Governor of Kerala (died 2019)
Sheila Dikshit was an Indian politician. The longest-serving chief minister of Delhi, as well as the longest-serving female chief minister in Indian history, she served for a period of 15 years beginning in 1998. Dikshit led the Indian National Congress party to three consecutive electoral victories in Delhi.
Antje Gleichfeld, German runner
Antje Gleichfeld, née Antje Braasch, is a retired German middle-distance runner.
Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2005)
William Lawrence Hicke was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Hicke played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins, winning the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1959 and 1960. Hicke's younger brother is Ernie Hicke.
Jimmy Johnson, American football player (died 2024)
James Earl Johnson was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1961 to 1976. He was named to the first team on the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team, and in 1994, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (died 2005)
Tõnno Lepmets was an Estonian professional basketball player, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won gold with the Soviet basketball team at the 1963 and 1967 EuroBasket. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010. He was he long-time center (194 cm) of Estonian national team.
Arthur B. Rubinstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2018)
Arthur Benjamin Rubinstein was an American Emmy Award-winning composer. He composed several television series soundtracks and songs for film scores. He was frequently hired by film director John Badham, and the majority of his movie soundtracks are found in Badham's work, including Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), WarGames (1983), Blue Thunder (1983), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1986), Stakeout (1987), The Hard Way (1991), Another Stakeout (1993), and Nick of Time (1995). He was also member of the band The Beepers.
David Steel, Scottish academic and politician
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood is a Scottish retired politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, followed by Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale, he served as the final leader of the Liberal Party, from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party, which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988. As an MP, he introduced the Abortion Act 1967 which legalised abortion in the UK.
31/03/1936
Marge Piercy, American poet and novelist
Marge Piercy is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Marxist social and political activism, and feminist ideals.
Walter E. Williams, American economist and academic (died 2020)
Walter Edward Williams was an American economist, commentator, and academic. Williams was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, a syndicated columnist, and author. Williams held classical liberal and libertarian views, and wrote frequently for Townhall, WND, and Jewish World Review. Williams was also a popular guest host of The Rush Limbaugh Show when Limbaugh was unavailable.
31/03/1935
Herb Alpert, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
Herb Alpert is an American musician who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.
Judith Rossner, American author (died 2005)
Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).
31/03/1934
Richard Chamberlain, American actor (died 2025)
George Richard Chamberlain was an American actor and singer whose career on stage and in film and television spanned over 60 years. He was the recipient of many accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, two Drama Desk Award nominations, and a Grammy Award nomination.
Shirley Jones, American actress and singer
Shirley Mae Jones is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
John Dee Loudermilk Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. Although he had his own recording career during the 1950s and 1960s, he was primarily known as a songwriter.
Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut (died 1966)
Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until the advent of Soviet glasnost in the late 1980s. He killed himself on 18 February 1966.
Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
Kamala Surayya, Indian poet and author (died 2009)
Kamala Surayya , popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her fame in Kerala primarily stems from her short stories and autobiography, My Story, whereas her body of work in English, penned under the pseudonym Kamala Das, is renowned for its poems and candid autobiography. Her works are known for originality, versatility and indigenous flavour of the soil. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics, etc. Her liberal treatment of female sexuality, marked her as an iconoclast in popular culture of her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at Jehangir Hospital in Pune.
31/03/1933
Anita Carter, American singer-songwriter and bassist (died 1999)
Ina Anita Carter was an American singer who played upright bass, guitar, and autoharp. She performed with her sisters, Helen and June, and her mother, Maybelle, initially under the name The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle. Carter had three top 10 hits as well as other charting singles. She was the first to record the songs "Blue Boy" and "Ring of Fire". Carter was also a songwriter, most notably co-writing the Johnny Cash hit "Rosanna's Going Wild."
Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (died 1983)
Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist.
31/03/1932
John Jakes, American author (died 2023)
John William Jakes was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 2013)
Nagisa Ōshima was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave, alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality.
31/03/1931
Miller Barber, American golfer (died 2013)
Miller Westford Barber Jr. was an American professional golfer. He enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s, and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour in the 1980s.
Tamara Tyshkevich, Belarusian shot putter (died 1997)
Tamara Andreevna Tyshkevich was a Soviet shot putter. She won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and placed fourth in 1952, losing to her long-term rival Galina Zybina. At the European championships she won a bronze medal in 1954 and a silver in 1958.
31/03/1930
Yehuda Nir, Polish-American psychiatrist (died 2014)
Yehuda Nir was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood. Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during World War II. Nir's ordeal led him to a career as a psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and severely ill children. He immigrated to the United States in 1959 to complete medical residencies in New York City and Philadelphia. He served as the chief of child psychiatry of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 until 1986.
Jim Mutscheller, American football player and coach (died 2015)
James "Bucky" Mutscheller was an American professional football player who played tight end and split end for nine seasons with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
31/03/1929
Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (died 2007)
Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that could be mixed and matched. Claiborne co-founded Liz Claiborne Inc., which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 list. Claiborne was the first woman to become chair and CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Bert Fields, American lawyer and author (died 2022)
Bertram Harris Fields was an American lawyer noted for his work in the field of entertainment law. He represented many of the leading film studios, as well as numerous celebrities, and lectured at both Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. Fields was also a musician and an author of both fiction and non-fiction books.
31/03/1928
Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1975)
William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter.
Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2016)
Gordon Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is often considered the most complete player ever to play the game and one of the greatest of all time. At his retirement, his 801 goals, 1,049 assists, and 1,850 total points were all NHL records that stood until they were broken by Wayne Gretzky, who himself has been a major champion of Howe's legacy. A 23-time NHL All-Star, he shares the NHL record for seasons played with Chris Chelios, and his all-time NHL games played record of 1,767 was only surpassed in 2021 by Patrick Marleau. In 2017, Howe was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players".
31/03/1927
Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader and activist (died 1993)
Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftism with Catholic social teaching.
William Daniels, American actor
William David Daniels is an American actor, known for his television roles, notably as Mark Craig on the drama series St. Elsewhere, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards; the voice of KITT on the television series Knight Rider; and George Feeny on the sitcom Boy Meets World, which earned him four People's Choice Award nominations. He reprised his Knight Rider role in the sequel TV movie Knight Rider 2000 and his Boy Meets World role in the sequel series Girl Meets World. He also portrayed Carter Nash in Captain Nice.
Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal (died 2021)
Eduardo Martínez Somalo was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the Roman Curia, first in the Secretariat of State from 1956 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1988, and then leading two of its principal dicasteries: the Congregation for Divine Worship from 1988 to 1992 and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life from 1992 to 2004.
Vladimir Ilyushin, Russian pilot (died 2010)
Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin was a Russian military officer and a test pilot in the former Soviet space program. Ilyushin was a son of the famous aviation designer Sergey Ilyushin, and whose career was mostly as a test pilot for the Sukhoi OKB. After retiring from the space program, Ilyushin became a sports administrator and was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2013.
Elmer Diedtrich, American businessman and politician (died 2013)
Elmer Diedtrich was an American politician and businessman.
Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1988)
James Albert "Bud" MacPherson was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He played 259 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1949 to 1957. With Montreal, he won the Stanley Cup in 1953. The rest of his career lasted from 1947 to 1961 and was spent in the minor leagues. He was inducted to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2005 as a member of the 1947-48 Edmonton Flyers Hockey Team.
31/03/1926
John Fowles, English novelist (died 2005)
John Robert Fowles was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, author, and illustrator (died 2001)
Beni Montresor was an Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator. He won the 1965 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing May I Bring a Friend?. The Italian government knighted him in 1966 for his contributions to the arts.
Rocco Petrone, American colonel and engineer (died 2006)
Rocco Anthony Petrone was an American mechanical engineer, U.S. Army officer and NASA official. He served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from 1966 to 1969, as Apollo program director at NASA Headquarters from 1969 to 1973, as third director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center from 1973 to 1974, and as NASA Associate Administrator from 1974 until his retirement from NASA in 1975.
31/03/1925
Jean Coutu, Canadian actor and director (died 1999)
Jean Coutu was a Canadian actor. Born in Montreal, his career included many movies and TV series in Quebec, including episodes of La famille Plouffe in 1953. He also played in a Disney production Nikki, Wild Dog of the North, becoming one of the few Quebecers of his era to have appeared in Hollywood productions.
31/03/1924
Leo Buscaglia, American author and academic (died 1998)
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.
Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (died 2002)
Charles Eli Guggenheim was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was the most honored documentary filmmaker in the academy history, winning four Oscars from twelve nominations.
31/03/1923
Don Barksdale, American basketball player (died 1993)
Donald Argee Barksdale was an American professional basketball player. He was a pioneer as an African-American basketball player, becoming the first to be named NCAA All-American, the first to play on a United States men's Olympic basketball team, and the first to play in a National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
François Sermon, Belgian footballer (died 2013)
François Sermon was a Belgian footballer who played as a midfielder for Anderlecht and the Belgium national team. He died on 17 March 2013, at the age of 89.
31/03/1922
Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (died 1999)
Richard Paul Kiley was an American stage, film, and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kiley originated the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and as such was one of the quartet who sang "And This Is My Beloved". He also won four Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his five-decade career and his "sonorous baritone" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as "one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors" and as "an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between."
Patrick Magee, Irish actor (died 1982)
Patrick George Magee was an Irish actor. He was noted for his collaborations with playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, sometimes called "Beckett's favourite actor," as well as creating the role of the Marquis de Sade in the original stage and screen productions of Marat/Sade.
31/03/1921
Lowell Fulson, African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)
Lowell Fulson was an American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. He also recorded for contractual reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, he was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
Peggy Rea, American actress and casting director (died 2011)
Peggy Jane Rea was an American actress known for her many roles in television, often playing matronly characters.
John Ugelstad, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor (died 1997)
John Ugelstad was a Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor, known for discovering a process to manufacture monodisperse micropellets or microbeads and dynabeads. He was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and consultant for DuPont.
31/03/1920
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, British aristocrat, socialite and author (died 2014)
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,, was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of British society in the 1930s and 1940s.
31/03/1919
Frank Akins, American football player (died 1993)
Frank Scott Akins was an American football running back who played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Washington State University and was drafted in the 30th round of the 1943 NFL draft. He taught history and drivers education at Anderson High School, Anderson, CA.
31/03/1918
Ted Post, American director (died 2013)
Theodore Ian Post was an American film, television, and theatre director. He directed numerous episodes of well-known television series during the 1950s and '60s, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and two Directors Guild of America Awards for his work. His feature film directing credits included the Clint Eastwood vehicles Hang 'Em High (1968) and Magnum Force (1973), the Planet of the Apes film Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), the Vietnam War film Go Tell the Spartans (1978), and the Chuck Norris action picture Good Guys Wear Black.
31/03/1917
Dorothy DeLay, American violinist and educator (died 2002)
Dorothy DeLay was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Cincinnati.
31/03/1916
Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (died 2012)
Lucille Theresa Bliss was an American actress, known in the Bay Area and in Hollywood as the "Girl With a Thousand Voices".
Tommy Bolt, American golfer (died 2008)
Thomas Henry Bolt was an American professional golfer. He did not join the PGA Tour until he was in his thirties, but he went on to win 15 PGA Tour titles, including the 1958 U.S. Open. He played in the Ryder Cup in 1955 and 1957.
John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (died 1979)
John Howland Wood Jr. was an American lawyer and judge from Texas. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in 1970 until his assassination in 1979. His murder was the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century.
31/03/1915
Albert Hourani, English historian and author (died 1993)
Albert Habib Hourani, was a Lebanese British historian, specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies.
Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant (died 1997)
Shōichi Yokoi was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. He was discovered in the jungles of Guam on 24 January 1972, almost 28 years after U.S. forces had regained control of the island in 1944.
31/03/1914
Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Dagmar Lange, Swedish author (died 1991)
Dagmar Maria Lange was a Swedish author of crime fiction under the pen name Maria Lang. She was one of the first detective novelists in the Swedish language, and her books helped make the genre popular in Sweden.
31/03/1913
Etta Baker, African-American singer and guitarist (died 2006)
Etta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina.
31/03/1912
William Lederer, American soldier and author (died 2009)
William Julius Lederer, Jr. was an American author and naval officer.
31/03/1911
Freddie Green, American guitarist (died 1987)
Frederick William Green was an American swing jazz guitarist who played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra for almost fifty years.
Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (died 1986)
Elisabeth Grümmer was a German soprano. She has been described as "a singer blessed with elegant musicality, warm-hearted sincerity, and a voice of exceptional beauty".
31/03/1908
Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (died 1999)
Red Norvo was an American musician, one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone as jazz instruments. His recordings included "Dance of the Octopus", "Bughouse", "Knockin' on Wood", "Congo Blues", and "Hole in the Wall".
31/03/1906
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
Shinichiro Tomonaga , usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".
31/03/1905
Robert Stevenson, English director and screenwriter (died 1986)
Robert Edward Stevenson was a British-American screenwriter and film director.
George Treweek, Australian rugby league player (died 1991)
George Treweek was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a towering second-row in his time, who formed an integral part of the champion South Sydney teams of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia.
31/03/1900
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a member of the British royal family. He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served as the 11th governor-general of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only prince to hold the post.
31/03/1895
Vardis Fisher, American author and academic (died 1968)
Vardis Alvero Fisher was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writers' Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published in 1937. In 1939, Fisher wrote Children of God, a historical novel concerning the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The novel won the Harper Prize. In 1940, Fisher relocated to Hagerman, Idaho, and spent the next twenty years writing the 12-volume Testament of Man (1943–1960) series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cavemen to civilization. Fisher's novel Mountain Man (1965) was adapted into the film Jeremiah Johnson (1972).
31/03/1893
Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (died 1954)
Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted it until 1954.
Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German physician and historian (died 1982)
Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt was a German internist, art historian, and cultural historian.
31/03/1891
Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor and director (died 1976)
Victor Varconi was a Hungarian actor who initially found success in his native country, as well as in Germany and Austria, in silent films, before relocating to the United States, where he continued to appear in films throughout the sound era. He also appeared in British and Italian films.
31/03/1890
Ben Adams, American jumper (died 1961)
Benjamin Willard Adams was an American athlete who competed mainly in the standing jumps. At the 1912 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the standing high jump and a bronze in the standing long jump, while his elder brother Platt Adams won a gold and a silver, respectively. Ben also competed in the exhibition baseball tournament for Sweden.
William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays," an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
31/03/1885
Pascin, Bulgarian-American painter and illustrator (died 1930)
Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, also known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist of the School of Paris, known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen. His most frequent subject was women, depicted in casual poses, usually nude or partly dressed.
31/03/1884
Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (died 1946)
Adriaan van Maanen was a Dutch-American astronomer. Born in Friesland, he studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht, earning his Ph.D. in 1911, and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1911, he came to the United States to work as a volunteer in an unpaid capacity at Yerkes Observatory. Within a year he got a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory, where he remained active until his death in 1946.
31/03/1878
Jack Johnson, American boxer (died 1946)
John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.
31/03/1876
Borisav Stanković, Serbian author (died 1927)
Borisav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian writer belonging to the school of realism. His novels and short stories depict the life of people from South Serbia. He belongs to an exceptional group of storytellers that appeared at the turn of the 20th century, Ivo Ćipiko, Petar Kočić, Milutin Uskoković, Svetolik Ranković, Veljko Milićević and others.
31/03/1874
Benjamín G. Hill, Mexican revolutionary general, governor of Sonora (died 1920)
Gen. Benjamín Guillermo Hill Salido was a military commander during the Mexican Revolution. He was a cousin of revolutionary general and later president Álvaro Obregón Salido, whom he supported from the beginning of his rise to power. He was called "Obregón's lost right arm," alluding to the arm his cousin lost in the 1915 Battle of Celaya, defeating General Pancho Villa.
Henri Marteau, French violinist and composer (died 1934)
Henri Marteau was a French violinist and composer.
31/03/1872
Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet manager and critic, founded the Ballets Russes (died 1929)
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
31/03/1871
Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (died 1922)
Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and served as the president of Dáil Éireann from January 1922 until his death that August.
31/03/1865
Anandi Gopal Joshi, Indian physician (died 1887)
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine along with Kadambini Ganguly.
31/03/1859
Emil Fenyvessy, Hungarian actor and screenwriter (died 1924)
Emil Fenyvessy was a Hungarian actor.
31/03/1855
Alfred E. Hunt, American businessman (died 1899)
Alfred Ephraim Hunt (1855-1899) was a 19th-century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum.
31/03/1851
Francis Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1936)
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell was a New Zealand lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of New Zealand from 14 to 30 May 1925. He was the first New Zealand-born prime minister, holding office in a caretaker capacity following the death of William Massey.
31/03/1847
Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (died 1904)
Count Hermann Alexander de Pourtalès was a Swiss sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1878)
Yegor (Egor) Ivanovich Zolotaryov was a Russian mathematician.
31/03/1835
John La Farge, American artist (died 1910)
John La Farge was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge made stained glass windows, mainly for churches on the American east coast, beginning with a large commission for Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston in 1878, and continuing for thirty years. La Farge designed stained glass as an artist, as a specialist in color, and as a technical innovator, holding a patent granted in 1880 for superimposing panes of glass. That patent would be key in his dispute with contemporary and rival Louis Comfort Tiffany.
31/03/1833
Mary Abigail Dodge, American writer and essayist (died 1896)
Mary Abigail Dodge was an American writer and essayist, who wrote under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Her writing is noted for its wit and promotion of equality of education and occupation for women. She was an abolitionist.
31/03/1823
Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (died 1886)
Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern planter society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to James Chesnut Jr., a lawyer who served as a United States senator and officer in the Confederate States Army.
31/03/1819
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (died 1901)
Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, usually referred to as the Prince of Hohenlohe, was a German statesman, who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1894 to 1900. Prior to his appointment as Chancellor, he had served in a number of other positions, including as minister-president of Bavaria (1866–1870), German Ambassador to Paris (1873–1880), Foreign Secretary (1880) and Imperial Lieutenant of Alsace-Lorraine (1885–1894). He was regarded as one of the most prominent liberal politicians of his time in Germany.
31/03/1813
Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860–1862) (died 1898)
Félix María Zuloaga Trillo was a Mexican conservative general and politician who played a key role in the outbreak of the Reform War in early 1860, a war which would see him elevated to the presidency of the nation. President Zuloaga was unrecognized by, and fought against, the liberal supporters of President Benito Juárez.
31/03/1809
Edward FitzGerald, English poet and translator (died 1883)
Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best-known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.
Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (died 1864)
Otto Jonas Lindblad, was a Swedish composer. He is most famous for the musical score of Kungssången, the Swedish royal anthem.
31/03/1794
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1852)
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan was a 19th-century politician and lawyer who served briefly as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.
31/03/1778
Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (died 1858)
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch patrician, zoologist and museum director.
31/03/1777
Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (died 1859)
Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour was a French engineer and physicist. Charles Cagniard was born in Paris, and after attending the École Polytechnique became one of the ingénieurs géographiques. He examined the mechanism of voice-production, invented a blowing machine and contributed to quantitative acoustics by inventing an improved siren. He also studied yeast.
31/03/1747
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer (died 1800)
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz was a German musician. He is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poems "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and "Wir pflügen und wir streuen", and the Christmas carol "Ihr Kinderlein kommet".
31/03/1740
Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (died 1849)
Panoutsos Notaras was a Greek revolutionary and politician who was a leading figure of the Greek War of Independence, serving several times as president of the Greek national assemblies and legislative bodies.
31/03/1732
Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1809)
Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet".
31/03/1730
Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (died 1783)
Étienne Bézout was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon, France.
31/03/1723
Frederick V of Denmark (died 1766)
Frederick V was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 6 August 1746 until his death in 1766. A member of the House of Oldenburg, he was the son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
31/03/1718
Mariana Victoria of Spain (died 1781)
Mariana Victoria of Spain was an Infanta of Spain by birth and was later the Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Joseph I. She acted as regent of Portugal in 1776–1777, during the last months of her husband's life, and as advisor to her daughter, Maria I of Portugal, during her reign.
31/03/1685
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (died 1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the Cello Suites and Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schübler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. He is known for his mastery of counterpoint, as heard in The Musical Offering and The Art of Fugue. Felix Mendelssohn precipitated the Bach Revival with a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. Ever since, Bach has been acclaimed as one of the greatest composers of classical music.
31/03/1675
Pope Benedict XIV (died 1758)
Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death on 3 May 1758.
31/03/1651
Charles II, Elector Palatine, German husband of Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (died 1685)
Charles II was Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685. He was the son of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine of the House of Wittelsbach, and Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel.
31/03/1621
Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician (died 1678)
Andrew Marvell was an English poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. A metaphysical poet, his poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland", and the later personal and political satires "Flecknoe" and "The Character of Holland".
31/03/1601
Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer (died 1654)
Jakov Mikalja, was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer. He was born in the town of Peschici (Apulia), at that time under the Kingdom of Naples. He said about himself to be "an Italian of Slavic language".
31/03/1596
René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1650)
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
31/03/1536
Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shōgun (died 1565)
Ashikaga Yoshiteru , also known as Yoshifushi or Yoshifuji, was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 13th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the eldest son of the 12th shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, and his mother was a daughter of Konoe Hisamichi. When he became shogun in 1546 at age 11, Yoshiteru's name was Yoshifushi ; but some years later in 1554, he changed his name to the one by which he is conventionally known today. His childhood name was Kikubemaru (菊童丸). His younger brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shōgun.
31/03/1519
Henry II of France (died 1559)
Henry II was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.
31/03/1504
Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (died 1552)
Guru Angad was the second of the ten Sikh gurus of Sikhism. After meeting Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with Nanak for many years, Nanak gave Lehna the name Angad, and chose Angad as the second Sikh Guru.
31/03/1499
Pope Pius IV (died 1565)
Pope Pius IV, born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death, in December 1565. Born in Milan, his family considered itself a branch of the House of Medici and used the same coat of arms. Although modern historians have found no proof of this connection, the Medici of Florence recognised the claims of the Medici of Milan in the early 16th century.
31/03/1360
Philippa of Lancaster (died 1415)
Philippa of Lancaster was Queen of Portugal from 1387 until 1415 as the wife of King John I. Born into the royal family of England, her marriage secured the Treaty of Windsor and produced several children who became known as the "Illustrious Generation" in Portugal. She was the only Queen of Portugal of English origin.