Thursday, 5th March 2026 in London

On this day, 273 notable people were born on 5th March — spanning from 1133 to 2007. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

05/03/2007

Roman Griffin Davis, English actor

Roman Griffin Davis is an English actor. He is best known for his title role in the film Jojo Rabbit (2019), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won a Critics' Choice Award.

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05/03/2000

Doug Edert, American basketball player

Douglas Ryan Edert is an American college basketball player who last played for the Bryant Bulldogs of the America East Conference. He also played for the Saint Peter's Peacocks. Edert is best known for his integral role in Saint Peter's historic underdog run to the Elite Eight in the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

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05/03/1999

Madison Beer, American singer-songwriter

Madison Elle Beer is an American singer-songwriter. Beer first gained media attention after Justin Bieber posted a link to her cover of "At Last" in 2012, when she was 13 years old. In 2018, she released her debut extended play (EP), As She Pleases. Beer signed with Epic Records in August 2019 and released her debut studio album, Life Support (2021), which included the RIAA Platinum certified single "Selfish". This was followed by her second studio album, Silence Between Songs (2023), which received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album. Beer's third studio album Locket (2026) included the singles "Make You Mine", which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Pop Recording and "Bittersweet", which marked her first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 68.

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Justin Fields, American football player

Justin Skyler Fields is an American professional football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). Following a stint with the Georgia Bulldogs, he played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he was twice named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and appeared in the 2021 National Championship Game.

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Yeri, South Korean singer and actress

Kim Ye-rim, better known by her stage name Yeri, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group Red Velvet. She made her acting debut with the drama Blue Birthday. Aside from her music and acting career, Yeri hosted Show! Music Core (2015) and The Viewable SM (2016). Yeri also appeared on variety show Secret Unnie (2018) and Law of the Jungle in Thailand (2019). In 2020, Yeri hosted her first reality-variety show Yeri's Room, which aired through the YouTube channel Dum Dum Studio.

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05/03/1998

Bo Bichette, American baseball player

Bo Joseph Bichette is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays. Bichette was selected by the Blue Jays in the second round of the 2016 MLB draft and made his MLB debut with them in 2019. He is a two-time MLB All-Star and twice led the American League (AL) in hits. His father, Dante Bichette, also played in MLB.

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05/03/1997

Milena Venega, Cuban rower

Milena Venega Cancio is a Cuban rower.

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05/03/1996

Taylor Hill, American model

Taylor Marie Hill is an American model. A former Victoria's Secret Angel, she appeared in the brand's annual fashion show from 2014 to 2018. She has worked for brands including Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Carolina Herrera. She has also appeared in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar.

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Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese-American basketball player

Emmanuel Kabeya Mudiay is a Congolese-American professional basketball player for the Piratas de Quebradillas of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played high school basketball for Grace Preparatory Academy and Prime Prep Academy in Texas, where he received media attention. He committed to play for the SMU Mustangs men's basketball team on August 24, 2013, but later made the decision to forgo college and joined the Guangdong Southern Tigers in China. After an injury-riddled season in China, he was selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

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05/03/1994

Daria Saville, Russian-Australian tennis player

Daria Saville is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She competed under her maiden name until her marriage to Luke Saville in 2021. On 28 August 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 20. On 25 September 2017, she peaked at No. 45 in the doubles rankings.

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MJ, South Korean singer and actor

Kim Myung-jun, known professionally as MJ (엠제이), is a South Korean singer and actor managed under the label of Fantagio. He debuted in 2016 as the main vocalist of the South Korean six-member boy group Astro. In August 2020, he debuted as one of the five members of an idol trot group named Super Five through MBC TV's reality trot show Favorite Entertainment.

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05/03/1993

El Hadji Ba, French footballer

El Hadji Ba is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Linense. Born in France, he plays for the Mauritania national team.

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Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer

Joshua Coyne is an American musician and composer.

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Fred, Brazilian footballer

Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos, known as Fred, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe.

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Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer

Ahmed Hassan Mohamed Abdelmonem Mohamed Mahgoub, known as Kouka or Koka, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Egypt national team.

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Harry Maguire, English footballer

Harry Jacob Maguire is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.

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Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player

Kyle Joseph Schwarber is an American professional baseball left fielder and designated hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs, Washington Nationals, and Boston Red Sox. Schwarber also plays for the United States national baseball team in international play.

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05/03/1992

Sam Bankman-Fried, American businessman and fraudster

Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried, commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur and convicted felon. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates. At the peak of his net worth, he was ranked the 41st-richest American in the Forbes 400.

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05/03/1991

Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentine footballer

José Ramiro Funes Mori is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Argentine Primera División club Estudiantes. He plays primarily as a centre-back but can also operate as a left-back and defensive midfielder.

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Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer

Daniil Olegovich Trifonov is a Russian pianist and composer. Trifonov's honors include a Grammy Award win in 2018 and the Gramophone Classical Music Awards' Artist of the Year Award in 2016.

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05/03/1990

Danny Drinkwater, English footballer

Daniel Noel Drinkwater is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Mason Plumlee, American basketball player

Mason Alexander Plumlee, nicknamed "Plumdog Millionaire", is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He primarily plays the center position. As a freshman in 2009–10, he was a back-up forward for the Duke Blue Devils national championship team, playing with his older brother Miles. He was a 2009 McDonald's All-American in high school. During his senior year at Duke, he also played with his younger brother Marshall. He was selected with the 22nd overall pick by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2013 NBA draft. Plumlee was also a member of the United States national team that won a gold medal in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

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Alex Smithies, English footballer

Alexander Smithies is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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05/03/1989

Sterling Knight, American actor, singer, and dancer

Sterling Sandmann Knight is an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is known for his role as Chad Dylan Cooper in the Disney Channel sitcom Sonny with a Chance and its spinoff So Random!, Zander Carlson in Melissa & Joey, and Christopher Wilde in the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck.

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Jake Lloyd, American actor

Jake Matthew Lloyd is an American former actor who portrayed young Anakin Skywalker in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Jamie Langston in Jingle All the Way (1996).

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05/03/1988

Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player

Jovana Brakočević Canzian is a Serbian volleyball player, who was a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and also the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. There she was named Best server of the tournament. She was also a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2011 European Championship in Serbia and Italy. There she was voted MVP of the tournament.

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Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer

Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba is a professional footballer who plays for Berre SPC. A versatile defender, he can operate as a right back, central defender or left back.

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05/03/1987

Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player

Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze is a Russian former professional tennis player.

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Chris Cohen, English footballer

Christopher David Cohen is an English former professional footballer and co-head coach at EFL Championship club Lincoln City with Tom Shaw.

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05/03/1986

Alexandre Barthe, French footballer

Alexandre Barthe is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He has won the Bulgarian league championship on six occasions in a row.

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Corey Brewer, American basketball player and coach

Corey Wayne Brewer is an American former professional basketball player who serves as an assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, winning back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007. He was named Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 NCAA tournament.

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Matty Fryatt, English footballer

Matthew Charles Fryatt is an English football coach and former professional footballer, who played as a striker.

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Shikabala, Egyptian footballer

Mahmoud Abdelrazek Hassan Fadlala, nicknamed Shikabala, is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is considered one of the best Egyptian football players of all time, having been named "Best Player in Egypt" in numerous polls on various football seasons. His playing style is characterized by dribbling, penetrating, playmaking, and shooting powerfully from long range with his left foot.

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05/03/1985

David Marshall, Scottish footballer

David James Marshall is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor

Kenichi Matsuyama is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010.

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Brad Mills, American baseball player

Bradley Aaron Mills is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Oakland Athletics and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Orix Buffaloes.

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05/03/1984

Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player

Branko Cvetković is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He also represented the Serbian national team internationally. He is 2.00 m tall and plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions.

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Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer

Guillaume Hoarau is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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05/03/1983

Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer

Edgar Esteban Dueñas Peñaflor is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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05/03/1982

Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player

Daniel William Carter is a New Zealand retired rugby union player. Carter played for the Crusaders in Super Rugby and for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks. He is the highest point scorer in test match rugby, and is considered by many experts as the greatest ever first five-eighth (fly-half) in the history of the game. He was named the International Rugby Board Player of the Year in 2005, 2012 and 2015.

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Philipp Haastrup, German footballer

Philipp Haastrup is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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05/03/1981

Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player

Barret D. Jackman is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues and the Nashville Predators. Jackman was selected 17th overall in the 1999 NHL entry draft by the St. Louis Blues. Jackman was born in Trail, British Columbia and grew up in Salmo, British Columbia & later Fruitvale, British Columbia. Jackman was often known for his physical style of play and fighting abilities.

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Paul Martin, American ice hockey player

Paul Joseph Martin is an American former ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the second round, 62nd overall, of the 2000 NHL entry draft, playing six seasons for the organization before joining the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2010 and later the San Jose Sharks in 2015.

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Karolina Wydra, Polish-American actress and model

Karolina Wydra is a Polish-American actress and model. She is best known for her television roles as Dominika Petrova in House, the vampire Violet Mazurski in True Blood, detective Dianne Kubek in Wicked City, the alien Izel in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Zosia in Pluribus, winning the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the latter. Her film work includes leading parts in the fantasy horror After (2012) and the sci-fi thriller Europa Report (2013).

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05/03/1980

Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios

Shay Carl Butler is an American YouTuber. He has three YouTube channels, two of which have over three million subscribers. Butler and Corey Vidal developed a documentary called Vlogumentary on a $200,000+ budget that was funded with an Indiegogo campaign and raised by mostly from his viewers. Vlogumentary was released on April 20, 2016. Forbes called Butler one of the "most successful video entrepreneurs on YouTube" and in 2011 The New York Times featured Butler's production company Maker Studios.

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05/03/1979

Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer

Erik Martin "Axe" Axenrot is a Swedish death metal drummer, best known as the former drummer for progressive metal band Opeth (2005-2021). Since 2004, he is the drummer for Bloodbath. Known for his intricate playing style, his drumming has been highly praised by Opeth members and fans, with Mikael Åkerfeldt calling him "a joy to play with." Axenrot has also been jokingly referred to as The Lord of the Rings character Legolas by band members and fans.

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Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player

Érik Joseph Bédard is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, and Tampa Bay Rays. Bédard was the staff ace with Baltimore in 2007, setting the franchise single-season strikeouts per nine innings record and record for strikeouts since relocating to Baltimore. He was traded after that season to the Mariners for a package that included future All-Stars Adam Jones and George Sherrill. After several injury-filled seasons, Seattle traded him to Boston in 2011.

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Lee Mears, English rugby player

Lee Mears is an English former professional rugby union player who played as a hooker. He played his club rugby for Bath from 1998 until his retirement in 2013. He also played for the England national team from 2004 to 2012; he earned 42 caps and played in two Rugby World Cups, and played for the British & Irish Lions on their 2009 tour to South Africa.

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05/03/1978

Jared Crouch, Australian footballer

Jared Crouch is a former Australian football player with the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League (AFL), who is colloquially known as "Crouchie" to Swans fans and the media. He currently serves as a development coach at the Sydney Swans.

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Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach

Michael Steven Hessman is an American former professional baseball first baseman and third baseman. He is currently a hitting coach for the Toledo Mud Hens. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes. Hessman served as an interim manager for the Toledo Mud Hens for six games in the 2026 season.

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Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer

Kimberly Anne McCullough is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her role as Robin Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital, a role which she originated at age seven, playing the character on and off from 1985 to 2000 and 2004 to 2018, in addition to 2021. She has subsequently taken a step back from acting in order to focus on directing.

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Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer

Carlos Augusto Ochoa Mendoza is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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05/03/1977

Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player

Taismary Agüero Leiva is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. She is the only player to have represented two women's national volleyball teams that won major titles.

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Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player

Bryan Wallace Berard is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. Berard was the first overall pick in the 1995 NHL entry draft by the Ottawa Senators. He is most noted for a debilitating eye injury he received early in his career. Berard underwent several operations, and played 619 games in his NHL career despite the seriousness of the injury.

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Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player and sportscaster

Walter Robert Szczerbiak Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and current color analyst for the New York Knicks on MSG Network. He played 10 seasons for four teams in the National Basketball Association. Szczerbiak played college basketball for the Miami RedHawks, and is one of five basketball players whose jerseys have been retired by the university.

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05/03/1976

Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

Neil Jackson is an English actor, singer, musician and writer who has appeared in several television series and films, but is probably best known for his role as Marcus van Sciver on Blade: The Series and Sasha on Make It or Break It.

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Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

Šarūnas "Šaras" Jasikevičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Fenerbahçe Beko of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi and the EuroLeague. During his playing career, standing at a height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall, he played at the point guard position.

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Paul Konerko, American baseball player

Paul Henry Konerko is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman from 1997 to 2014, most prominently as a member of the Chicago White Sox, where he was a six-time American League All-Star and team captain for the 2005 World Series winning team. Konerko began his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds. In 2014, Konerko was named the recipient of the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award.

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Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player

Norman Michael Clifford Maxwell is a former New Zealand rugby union player.

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05/03/1975

Jolene Blalock, American model and actress

Jolene Blalock, later credited mononymously as Jolene, is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing the Vulcan first officer and science officer T'Pol on the science-fiction series Star Trek: Enterprise. Her other work includes guest-star appearances on television series and in films.

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Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster

Luciano Pucci Burti is a Brazilian former racing driver who raced in Formula One in 2000 and 2001. He was later a commentator for TV Globo.

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Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer

Sasho Petrovski is an Australian former soccer player who played as a forward. He has two caps for the Australian national team. He was known in the A-League as one of the most prolific strikers, scoring 41 goals between the 3 clubs.

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Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach

Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood is an English former international cricketer and coach. He is a former head coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket Team and previously the England Cricket Team.

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05/03/1974

Kevin Connolly, American actor and director

Kevin Connolly is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Eric Murphy in the HBO series Entourage, and his role as the eldest son Ryan Malloy in the 1990s television sitcom Unhappily Ever After. Connolly is also a director, having directed many television episodes as well as the films Gardener of Eden, Dear Eleanor, and Gotti.

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Jens Jeremies, German footballer

Jens Jeremies is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

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Matt Lucas, English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality

Matthew Richard Lucas is an English actor, comedian, writer and television host. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011).

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Eva Mendes, American model and actress

Eva de la Caridad Méndez, known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American former actress. Her acting career began in the late 1990s with a series of roles in films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).

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05/03/1973

Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager

Giannis Anastasiou is a Greek professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Super League club Panetolikos.

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Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (died 2009)

Nelly Arcan was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

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Juan Esnáider, Argentine footballer and manager

Juan Eduardo Esnáider Belén is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker, currently a manager.

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Ryan Franklin, American baseball player

Ryan Ray Franklin is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. Louis Cardinals. Franklin currently works in the Cardinals’ front office.

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Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster

Nicole Pratt is a retired tennis player from Australia.

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Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier

Špela Pretnar is a Slovenian former alpine skier.

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05/03/1972

Brian Grant, American basketball player

Brian Wade Grant is an American former professional basketball player. He played the power forward and center positions for five teams during 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He was known for his tenacious rebounding and blue-collar defense. During his career, he played with the Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, and Phoenix Suns.

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05/03/1971

Greg Berry, English footballer and coach

Greg Berry is an English retired footballer who played as a winger. He is the head coach and technical director at Peace Arch Soccer Club and is also coaching at Coastal WFC in British Columbia, Canada.

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Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout

Jeffrey Bryan Hammonds is an American former professional baseball player. Hammonds was an outfielder and played for the Baltimore Orioles (1993–1998), Cincinnati Reds (1998–1999), Colorado Rockies (2000), Milwaukee Brewers (2001–2003), San Francisco Giants (2003–2004) and the Washington Nationals (2005) in Major League Baseball (MLB). Before playing professionally, Hammonds played for Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and Stanford University.

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Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter

Yuri Lowenthal is an American voice actor known for his work in cartoons, anime, and video games. Some of his prominent voice roles in video games include Peter Parker / Spider-Man in various video games associated with the character, notably the incarnation featured in the Marvel's Spider-Man series by Insomniac Games and in Marvel Rivals by NetEase Games, Lorath Nahr in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III, The Prince in Ubisoft's Prince of Persia, Hayate/Ein in Dead or Alive, Courier 6 in Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas, Matt Miller in Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, The Protagonist in Persona 3, Yosuke Hanamura in Persona 4, Pure Vanilla Cookie in Cookie Run: Kingdom, and Dainsleif in Genshin Impact. His roles in animation include Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto, teenage Ben Tennyson in Ben 10, Jinnosuke in Afro Samurai, Simon in Gurren Lagann and Suzaku Kururugi in Code Geass.

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Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist

Filip Meirhaeghe is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. His primary focus was in mountain bike racing, however, he has also taken part in elite road, cyclo-cross and track cycling. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals, one Olympic medal and a total of eleven mountain bike World Cup events. In the final years of his racing career he raced for the bicycle manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components on the mountain bike and for the professional team Domina Vacanze-Elitron on the road.

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Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player

Mark Protheroe is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played most of his career at the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, but he also played for South Queensland Crushers. He started his career on the wing, but he later shifted to the forwards playing mostly in the second-row.

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05/03/1970

Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach

Michael Burton Brown is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously the head coach of the Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Los Angeles Lakers, as well as an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors. Brown also served as the head coach of the Nigeria men's national team from 2020 until 2022, coaching the team at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

John Anthony Frusciante is an American musician who is the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has released 11 solo albums and 7 EPs, ranging in style from acoustic guitar to electronic music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Chili Peppers in 2012. Rolling Stone named Frusciante among the greatest guitarists of all time.

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Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator

Yuu Watase is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1989 at the age of 18 with the short story "Pajama de Ojama" and has since published more than 50 volumes of one-shots and long-running manga series. One of her most popular titles is Fushigi Yûgi. In 1998, Watase won the 43rd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo (girls') category for Ceres, Celestial Legend. In 2008, she began her first shōnen (boys') serialization, Arata: The Legend.

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Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president

Aleksandar Vučić is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, First Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014, and Prime Minister of Serbia from 2014 to 2017.

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05/03/1969

Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer

Paul Blackthorne is an English actor. Although born in Shropshire, he spent his early childhood on UK military bases in Britain and Germany.

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Danny King, English author and playwright

Daniel Michael King is a British novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of more than a dozen books and the writer of the BAFTA-nominated film Wild Bill.

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Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager

Moussa Saïb is an Algerian football manager and former player.

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M.C. Solaar, Senegalese-French rapper

Claude Honoré M'Barali, professionally known as MC Solaar, is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists. Some consider him the best French rapper of all time.

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05/03/1968

Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary

György Gordon Bajnai is a Hungarian entrepreneur and economist, who served as the Prime Minister of Hungary from 2009 to 2010. Prior to that, he functioned as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development from 2007 to 2008, then as Minister of National Development and Economy from 2008 to 2009. In March 2009, following Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's announced resignation, Bajnai was nominated by the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) to become Hungary's next head of government. Bajnai became prime minister when the parliament passed a constructive motion of no-confidence against Ferenc Gyurcsány on 14 April 2009. He held the office until the formation of the Second Orbán Government following the 2010 parliamentary election.

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Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Dame Theresa Anne Villiers is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet from 2005 to 2024, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, Villiers was Minister of State for Rail and Aviation from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2020.

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05/03/1966

Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer

Oh Eun-sun is a South Korean mountaineer. She was the first South Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits. On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna; upon doing so, she claimed to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, which would have made her the first woman to achieve this feat. However, her claim to have ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts. Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga, and so the Korean Alpine Federation ruled that she had not summited. The mountaineering site ExplorersWeb officially considers the Basque Edurne Pasaban as the first woman to have successfully climbed all fourteen peaks.

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Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Robert H. Halkidis is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.

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Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor

Michael Jerome Irvin is an American sports commentator and former professional football player. He played as a wide receiver for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Aasif Hakim Mandviwala, known professionally as Aasif Mandvi, is a British actor. He was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2017. Mandvi's other television work includes the HBO comedy series The Brink and the CBS/Paramount+ psychological drama Evil. His film roles include playing Mr. Aziz in Spider-Man 2 and Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender. His stage work includes appearing on Broadway as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma! and in productions of Disgraced (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

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Zachary Stevens, American singer-songwriter

Zachary Trussell, known professionally as Zachary "Zak" Stevens, is an American singer, best known as the second lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Savatage. He currently performs with the heavy metal bands Circle II Circle and Archon Angel. Stevens has a degree in psychology, but is not a practicing psychologist.

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05/03/1965

José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach

José Orlando Vinha Rocha Semedo is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central midfielder.

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05/03/1964

Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter

Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat is a French singer, and songwriter. Known for being the former frontman of the rock band Noir Désir, in 2003, he was proven guilty and convicted of the manslaughter of French actress Marie Trintignant, which occurred in a hotel room in Vilnius. To some controversy, Cantat returned to Noir Désir after his release from prison in 2007, playing with the group until it disbanded in 2010. He subsequently formed a musical duo with Pascal Humbert, calling themselves Détroit.

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Scott Skiles, American basketball player and coach

Scott Allen Skiles Sr. is an American former professional basketball coach and player. A first-round draft pick from the Michigan State Spartans, Skiles played ten seasons as a point guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He holds the NBA record for assists in one game with 30, set with the Orlando Magic during a December game in the 1990–1991 season. After that season, he earned the NBA Most Improved Player Award. Skiles also played in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Washington Bullets and Philadelphia 76ers before he finished his playing career with PAOK Thessaloniki of Greece in 1997. He became a coach after his playing retirement and was the head coach for the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic.

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Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager

Gerald Mervin Vanenburg is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the assistant coach of the Indonesia national team and the head coach of the Indonesia under-23 national team.

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Reggie Williams, American basketball player and coach

Reggie Williams is an American former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an All-American college player at Georgetown University and was a member of their 1983–84 National Championship team.

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05/03/1963

Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host

Joel Scott Osteen is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author based in Houston, Texas, United States. Known for his weekly televised services and several best-selling books, Osteen is one of the more prominent figures associated with prosperity theology and the Word of Faith movement.

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05/03/1960

Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology

Paul Rudd Drayson, Baron Drayson is a British businessman, amateur racing driver and Labour politician. He was Minister of Science in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills until May 2010, where he replaced Ian Pearson. In June 2009 he was additionally appointed as Minister of State for Strategic Defence Acquisition Reform at the Ministry of Defence. After losing his ministerial positions in the General Election 2010 he decided to devote himself totally towards his motorsports company Drayson Racing Technology. He is chairman and CEO of Drayson Technologies Ltd.

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Mike Munchak, American football player and coach

Michael Anthony Munchak is an American former professional football player and coach. After playing college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, he played as a guard for the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1982 to 1993 and was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection. Munchak was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.

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05/03/1959

Talia Balsam, American actress

Talia Balsam is an American actress.

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Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (died 1999)

Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan was an Armenian military commander and politician. He was the first Defence Minister of Armenia from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1995 to 1999. He served as Armenia's prime minister from 11 June 1999 until his assassination on 27 October of that year. He rose to prominence during the mass movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia in the late 1980s and led Armenian volunteer groups during the early clashes with Azerbaijani forces. Appointed defence minister by President Levon Ter-Petrosyan soon after Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union in late 1991, Sargsyan became the most prominent commander of Armenian forces during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. In different positions, he regulated the military operations in the war area until 1994, when a ceasefire was reached ending the war with Armenian forces controlling almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts.

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05/03/1958

Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager

Volodymyr Vasylyovych Bezsonov is a Ukrainian football manager and former player who played for the former Soviet Union national team. The most recent team he was managing was FC Dnipro in the Ukrainian Premier League.

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Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Robert D. Forward is an American writer, producer, and director. He is the production director and president of his independent company, Detonation Films. Forward has been the writer of many animated television series, as well as a film, The Owl, based on his novel of the same name, which was republished in 2014.

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Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1988)

Andrew Roy Gibb was an English singer. He rose to international fame in the late 1970s as a teen idol and pop star. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, Gibb achieved major success in close collaboration with his brothers. He was the first solo artist to have his first three singles reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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05/03/1957

Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician (died 2018)

Mark Edward Smith was an English singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall. Smith formed the band after attending the Sex Pistols' 20 July 1976 gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, and was its leader until his death. During their 42-year existence, the Fall's line-up included some sixty musicians, with whom Smith released 32 studio albums and numerous singles and EPs.

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Ray Suarez, American journalist and author

Rafael Suarez, Jr., known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and author. He is currently host of the PBS series "Wisdom Keepers" set to premiere on the public network in June 2025. He was a visiting professor at NYU Shanghai in 2022, and was previously the John J. McCloy Visiting professor of American Studies at Amherst College. For 7 years from 2018 to 2025, Suarez hosted a radio program and several podcast series: On Shifting Ground for KQED-FM, Going for Broke for the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and "The Things I Thought About When My Body Was Trying to Kill Me" on cancer and recovery for Evergreen Podcasts. His latest book, on modern American immigration to the US, "We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century," was published by Little, Brown in 2024. He was the host of Inside Story on Al Jazeera America Story, a daily news program on Al Jazeera America, until that network ceased operation in 2016. Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and was a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network until 2013. He was also host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International. He was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993 to 1999. In his more than 40-year career in the news business, he has also worked as a radio reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, and as a reporter for the NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. From 2020-2022, he was one of the US correspondents for Euronews.

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05/03/1956

Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress

Adriana Barraza González is a Mexican actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Babel (2006).

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Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010)

Mary Christine Brockert, known professionally as Teena Marie, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. She was known by her childhood nickname Tina before taking the stage name Teena Marie and later acquired the nickname Lady T, given to her by her collaborator and friend Rick James.

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Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic

Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden, is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University (2005–2015), and of the University of Southampton (2015–2019). He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015. He is currently the chairman of the ERA Foundation.

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05/03/1955

Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author

Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, entertainer and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller. Known as Penn & Teller, the duo has been featured in numerous stage and television shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, and is as of 2026, celebrating 25 years headlining in Las Vegas at The Rio. Jillette serves as the act's orator and raconteur.

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05/03/1954

João Lourenço, Angolan politician, 3rd President of Angola

João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço is an Angolan politician who is currently serving as the third president of Angola since 26 September 2017. Previously, he was the minister of defence from 2014 to 2017. In September 2018, he became the chairman of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the ruling party. He was the party's secretary-general from 1998 to 2003.

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Marsha Warfield, American actress

Marsha Francine Warfield is an American actress and comedian. She grew up on Chicago's South Side, graduating from Calumet High School. She is best known for playing tough, no-nonsense bailiff Roz Russell on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1986 to 1992, reprising the role on a guest basis for its 2023 revival. Warfield also starred in the sitcom Empty Nest as Dr. Maxine Douglas (1993–1995). Before Night Court, she was a writer and performer on the short-lived Richard Pryor Show.

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05/03/1953

Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author

Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault is a Swedish poet and writer. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019. In 2003, Frostenson was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France in recognition of her services to literature.

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Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic

Michael Joseph Sandel is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the 2011 "most influential foreign figure of the year".

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Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng

Mosima Gabriel "Tokyo" Sexwale is a South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former political prisoner. For many years, Sexwale was imprisoned on Robben Island for his anti-apartheid activities, alongside figures such as Nelson Mandela. After the 1994 general election—the first fully democratic election in South Africa—Sexwale became the Premier of Gauteng Province.

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05/03/1952

Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (died 2010)

Petar Borota was a Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for Serbian clubs OFK Beograd and Partizan and English club Chelsea.

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Alan Clark, English musician and songwriter

Alan Clark is an English musician who was the first keyboardist and co-producer of the rock band Dire Straits. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a significant member of the band.

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Robin Hobb, American author

Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm, is an American writer of speculative fiction. As Hobb, she is best known for her fantasy novels set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which comprise the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, the Rain Wild Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Lindholm's writing includes the urban fantasy novel Wizard of the Pigeons and science fiction short stories, among other works. As of 2018, her fiction has been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 4 million copies.

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Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout

Michael Lynn Squires is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for the Chicago White Sox primarily as a first baseman in 1975 and from 1977 to 1985. He won the American League Gold Glove Award at first base in 1981. Squires was best known as a defensive player, often coming on in late inning situations when the White Sox had a slim lead. He did not have the typical power associated with a corner infielder, never hitting more than two home runs in a season. Nonetheless, he was a valuable member of the White Sox of the early Tony La Russa era, particularly in their 1983 AL West championship run.

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05/03/1951

Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach

Rodney Malcolm Hogg is an Australian former cricketer. He was a fast bowler. Hogg played in 38 Test matches and 71 One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1985. In Tests he took 123 wickets at an average of 28.47. He is best remembered for taking 41 wickets in his first six tests during the 1978–79 Ashes.

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05/03/1950

Bernard Vera, French politician

Bernard Vera is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Essonne department from 2004 to 2011 and from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group.

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05/03/1949

Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. Arnault is one of the richest individuals in the world; as of December 2025, he has an estimated net worth of US$190.4 billion according to Forbes and US$203 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence

Franz Josef Jung is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He became Federal Minister of Defence in the Grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel on 22 November 2005. In October 2009 he became Minister of Labour and Social Affairs but resigned a month later.

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Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Thomas George Russell is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Americana music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, rock, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Johnny Cash, The Texas Tornados, k.d. lang, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Jason Boland, Nanci Griffith, Katy Moffatt, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sailcat, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, and Suzy Bogguss.

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05/03/1948

Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician

Edmond Montague Grant is a British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Noted for his genre-blending style and socially conscious lyrics, he is the creator of the musical genre known as ringbang.

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Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (died 2008)

Richard Sidney Hickox was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.

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Elaine Paige, English singer and actress

Dame Elaine Paige is an English singer and actress, best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, Hertfordshire, Paige attended the Aida Foster Theatre School, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut.

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Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (died 1984)

Francisco Rivera Pérez, better known as Paquirri, was a Spanish bullfighter. He died after being gored by a bull named Avispado at the Pozoblanco bullring. During his career, he was six times borne shoulder-high out through the Great Gate at Las Ventas.

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Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (died 2011)

Jan van Beveren was a Dutch footballer and coach, who played as a goalkeeper.

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05/03/1947

Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress (died 2025)

Clodagh Rodgers was a Northern Irish singer, best known for her hit singles including "Come Back and Shake Me", "Goodnight Midnight" and "Jack in the Box" and albums including You Are My Music, It's Different Now and Save Me.

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Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster

Kenton Charles Tekulve, nicknamed "Teke", is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Pitching with an unusual submarine delivery, Tekulve was known as a workhorse relief pitcher who holds several records for number of games pitched and innings pitched.

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05/03/1946

Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (died 2007)

Richard Bell was a Canadian musician best known as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band. He was also a keyboardist with the Band during the 1990s.

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Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter (died 2018)

Guerrino Boatto was an Italian illustrator and painter, specialized in Airbrush or spray painting.

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Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager (died 2016)

Graham Norman Hawkins was an English football player and manager. During a 16-year playing career in the English Football League, he made 502 league and cup appearances, scoring eleven goals. He spent 14 years coaching and eight years in management and spent the later years of his life working as a football administrator.

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Murray Head, English actor and singer

Murray Seafield St George Head is an English actor and singer. Head has appeared in a number of films, including a starring role as the character Bob Elkin in the BAFTA award-winning and Oscar-nominated 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday. As a musician, he is most recognised for his international hit songs "Superstar" and "One Night in Bangkok". He has been involved in several projects since the 1960s and continues to record music, perform concerts, and make appearances on television either as himself or as a character actor.

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05/03/1945

Wilf Tranter, English footballer

Wilfred Tranter is an English former footballer who played as a half-back. Born in Pendlebury, Lancashire, he played for Manchester United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Fulham, Baltimore Bays and St. Louis Stars. He made his Football League debut for Manchester United two days after his 19th birthday on 7 March 1964, when regular centre-half Bill Foulkes missed the trip to West Ham United due to injury; Tranter was praised for his defensive handling of West Ham forward Johnny Byrne as Manchester United won 2–0. It proved to be his only appearance for the club and he left for Brighton in May 1966. He spent two and a half years on the south coast, including a four-month loan spell with the Baltimore Bays in the North American Soccer League (NASL) between April and August 1968, before joining Fulham in January 1969. At the end of his three-and-a-half-year stay in London, he went back on loan to the United States during the 1972 NASL season to play for the St. Louis Stars.

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05/03/1944

Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor

Peter Brandes was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and photographer.

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Roy Gutman, American journalist and author

Roy Gutman is an American journalist and author.

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05/03/1943

Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)

Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting.

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05/03/1942

Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain

Felipe González Márquez is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister of Spain.

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Mike Resnick, American author and editor (died 2020)

Michael Diamond Resnick was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct magazine Jim Baen's Universe, and the creator and editor of Galaxy's Edge magazine.

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05/03/1941

Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist

Des Wilson is a New Zealand-born British campaigner, political activist, businessman, sports administrator, author and poker player. He was one of the founders of the British homelessness charity Shelter and was for a while an activist in, and President of, the British Liberal Party.

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05/03/1940

Tom Butler, English bishop

Thomas Frederick Butler is a British retired Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Anglican Bishop of Southwark. He was enthroned in Southwark Cathedral on 12 September 1998. He retired from this position on 5 March 2010. In 2014, Butler was involved in the transition process for the new Diocese of Leeds as "mentor bishop"; he remains an honorary assistant bishop of that diocese.

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Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (died 1990)

Kenneth John Irvine, also nicknamed "Mongo", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. For 56 years he held the Australian record for the most tries in a first-grade career – 212, until it was surpassed by Alex Johnston in 2026.

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Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver (died 2021)

Graham Peter McRae was a racing driver from New Zealand.

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Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager (died 2026)

Josef Emanuel Hubertus "Sepp" Piontek was a German football player and manager. Most famous for his time as the head coach of the Denmark national team, he was included in the Danish Football hall of fame in 2011 as the first foreigner to be so.

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05/03/1939

Samantha Eggar, English actress (died 2025)

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar was an English actress. After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre she rose to fame for her performance in William Wyler's thriller The Collector (1965), which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, a Sant Jordi Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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Tony Rundle, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (died 2025)

Anthony Maxwell Rundle AO was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from March 1996 until September 1998. He succeeded Ray Groom and was succeeded himself by Jim Bacon. He was a Liberal who held the seat of Braddon between 1986 and 2002. A former journalist, he was married to Caroline Watt. He had twin daughters from his first marriage.

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Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (died 1995)

Benyamin Sueb was an Indonesian comedian, actor and singer. He released 46 studio albums and starred in more than 50 films. He received two Citra Awards for Intan Berduri in 1973 and Si Doel Anak Modern in 1977.

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Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (died 2010)

David Michael Krueger, best known by his birth name Peter Woodcock, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He gained notoriety for the murders of three young children in Toronto in the late 1950s, as well as for a murder in 1991 on his first day of unsupervised release from the psychiatric institution in which he had been incarcerated for his earlier crimes.

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Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef

Pierre Wynants is a Belgian chef. He owned and led the Comme chez Soi restaurant in Brussels.

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05/03/1938

Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paul Evans is an American rock and roll singer and songwriter, who was most prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. As a performer, he had hits with the songs "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat", "Midnight Special," and "Happy-Go-Lucky Me".

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Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (died 2011)

Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, who was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed biologists' understanding of the evolution of the Eukaryotes, organisms with nuclei in their cells. She proposed that they came into being by symbiotic mergers of bacteria. Margulis was the co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with the British chemist James Lovelock, proposing that the Earth functions as a unified self-regulating system, and the principal defender and promulgator of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.

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Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Frederick Robert Williamson, nicknamed "the Hammer", is an American actor, filmmaker, and former football player. He played professional football as a defensive back, primarily in the American Football League (AFL) during the 1960s. He was a top sports star during the decade, and became a leading man in blaxploitation and action films beginning in the 1970s.

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05/03/1937

Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria

Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo is a Nigerian politician, statesman, agriculturalist, and former army general who served as Nigeria's Military Head of State from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1998 to 2015, and since 2018.

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05/03/1936

Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)

Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's independence. In 1987, he stepped down as president and was succeeded by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became the country's executive president. In 1997, Banana was accused of being a homosexual, and after a highly publicised trial, was convicted of 11 counts of sodomy and "unnatural acts", serving six months in prison.

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Dale Douglass, American golfer (died 2022)

Dale Dwight Douglass was an American professional golfer who won tournaments at both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour level.

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Dean Stockwell, American actor (died 2021)

Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor and collage artist, whose career in film and television spanned seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), The Secret Garden (1949), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway play Compulsion and its 1959 film version; and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won two Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his starring role in the 1960 film version of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.

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05/03/1935

Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist (died 2022)

Letizia Battaglia was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia.

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Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer (died 2021)

Philip Kenyon Chapman was an Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).

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Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (died 1996)

Shamsuddin Qasemi was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author and educationist. He was the founding president of the Khatme Nabuwwat Andolan Council, former secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, former principal of Jamia Madania Chittagong and Jamia Hussainia Arzabad, and the founding chief-editor of the monthly Paygam-e-Haqq and weekly Jamiat magazines. He is also noted for his contributions during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

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05/03/1934

Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman's published empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as the "grandfather of behavioral economics."

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James B. Sikking, American actor (died 2024)

James Barrie Sikking was an American actor, best known for his roles as Lt. Howard Hunter on the 1980s television series Hill Street Blues and Dr. David Howser on Doogie Howser, M.D. His career spanned six decades.

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05/03/1933

Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian

Walter Kasper is a German Catholic prelate who served as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 2001 to 2010. He was previously Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart from 1989 to 1999.

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05/03/1932

Paul Sand, American actor

Paul Sand is an American actor and comedian.

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05/03/1931

Fred, French author and illustrator (died 2013)

Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès, known by his pseudonym Fred, was a French cartoonist in the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. He is best known for his series Philémon.

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Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator (died 2020)

Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States. He is generally considered to have been one of the world's leading horn players.

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05/03/1930

John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 2008)

John George Ashley was a Canadian referee in the National Hockey League.

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Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager (died 2021)

Delmar Wesley Crandall was an American professional baseball player and manager. Crandall played as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1949 to 1966, most prominently as a member of the Boston / Milwaukee Braves where, he was an 11-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1957 World Series winning team.

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05/03/1929

Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (died 2015)

Erik Hilding Carlsson was a Swedish rally driver for Saab. He was nicknamed "Carlsson på taket" as well as Mr. Saab.

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J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967)

J. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.

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05/03/1928

J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic (died 2021)

Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. was an American literary critic and scholar who advanced theories of literary deconstruction. He was part of the Yale School along with scholars including Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Geoffrey Hartman, who advocated deconstruction as an analytical means by which the relationship between literary text and the associated meaning could be analyzed. Through his career, Miller was associated with the Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and University of California, Irvine, and wrote over 50 books studying a wide range of American and British literature using principles of deconstruction.

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05/03/1927

Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (died 1976)

John Joseph Edward Cassidy was an American actor, singer and theatre director. He received multiple Tony Award nominations and won a Tony Award as well as a Grammy Award for his work on the Broadway production of the musical She Loves Me. He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He was the father of teen idols David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy.

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Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician (died 2023)

Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, 12th Earl of Balcarres, Baron Balniel,, known by courtesy as Lord Balniel between 1940 and 1975, was a Scottish hereditary peer and Conservative politician who was a member of Parliament from 1955 to 1974. He was chief of Clan Lindsay and also acted, from 1975 to 2019, as Premier Earl of Scotland.

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05/03/1924

Roger Marche, French footballer (died 1997)

Roger Gaston Louis Marche was a French footballer who played as a defender. He was part of the France national team during the 1954 and 1958 World Cup tournaments. He was nicknamed Le Sanglier des Ardennes for the region from which he came.

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05/03/1923

Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (died 2014)

Dr. Juan Arturo Rivero Quintero was a Puerto Rican biologist who founded the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo at the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus.

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Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (died 2003)

Laurence Alan Tisch was an American billionaire businessman and investor. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of Loews Corporation.

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05/03/1922

James Noble, American actor (died 2016)

James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, dense, naive Governor Eugene X. Gatling on ABC's 1979–1986 sitcom Benson.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1975)

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, writer, film director, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure. He is known for directing The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the films from Trilogy of Life and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

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05/03/1921

Arthur A. Oliner, American physicist and electrical engineer (died 2013)

Arthur Aaron Oliner was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who was professor emeritus at department of electrical and computer engineering at New York University-Polytechnic. Best known for his contributions to engineering electromagnetics and antenna theory, he is regarded as a pioneer of leaky wave theory and leaky wave antennas.

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Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (died 1998)

Elmer William Valo, born Imrich Valo, was a Slovak American professional baseball right fielder, coach, and scout in Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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05/03/1920

José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (died 2009)

José Aboulker was an Algerian Jew and the leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in French Algeria during World War II. He received the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the Croix de Guerre, and was made a Companion of the Liberation and a Commander of the Légion d'honneur. After the war, he became a neurosurgeon and a political figure in France, who advocated for the political rights of Algerian Muslims.

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Virginia Christine, American actress (died 1996)

Virginia Christine was an American stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress. Though Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, she may be best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" in a string of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Rachel Gurney, English actress (died 2001)

Rachel Gurney was an English actress. She began her career in the theatre towards the end of World War II and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active, mostly in television and theatre work, into the early 1990s. She is best remembered for playing the elegant Lady Marjorie Bellamy in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

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Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (died 1997)

Wang Zengqi was a contemporary Chinese novelist, essayist and Peking Opera playwright. He is known for his short stories and essays with an elegant style and content infused by both traditional literature and folklores of his hometown. He was referred to as a "master stylist of modern Chinese", along with his literary mentor Shen Congwen. He is regarded as a successor of the "Beijing School" heralded by Zhou Zuoren and Shen Congwen in the 1940s.

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05/03/1918

Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2017)

Milton Conrad Schmidt was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach and general manager, mostly for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL), He was a member of the famed "Kraut Line" with teammates Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumart. The trio led the Bruins to two Stanley Cup championships and became the first line to finish first, second and third in NHL scoring, in 1939–40. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961. In 2017, Schmidt was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (died 2006)

Roy Alvin "Red" Storey was a Canadian athlete, referee and broadcaster. He played football, lacrosse and ice hockey. While active as an athlete, he turned to officiating in all three sports, and continued as an official after the end of his playing career. While he was a member of the Toronto Argonauts, the team won the Grey Cup championship twice. He refereed in the National Hockey League, and later became a radio and television commentator for Canadian television.

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James Tobin, American economist and academic (died 2002)

James Tobin was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Yale University. He contributed to the development of key ideas in the Keynesian economics of his generation and advocated government intervention in particular to stabilize output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. He also proposed an econometric model for censored dependent variables, the well-known tobit model.

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05/03/1917

Raymond P. Shafer, American attorney and politician, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 2006)

Raymond Philip Shafer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 39th governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. Prior to that, he served as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967 and as a Pennsylvania state senator from 1959 to 1962. He was a national leader of the moderate wing of the Republican Party in the late 1960s.

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05/03/1915

Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1990)

Henry Davies Hicks was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia.

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Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (died 2002)

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1950 for pioneering the theory of distributions or generalized functions, giving a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.

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05/03/1912

Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1988)

Sir John Ross Marshall was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He entered Parliament in 1946 and was first promoted to Cabinet in 1951. After spending eleven years as the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, he served as the 28th prime minister from February until December 1972.

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05/03/1911

Subroto Mukerjee, Indian Air Marshall, Father of the Indian Air Force (died 1960)

Subroto Mukerjee was an Indian military officer who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Air Force. He was awarded several honours during the course of a three-decade-long career, ended by his untimely demise in 1960. Mukerjee has been called the "Father of the Indian Air Force."

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05/03/1910

Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman and inventor, founded Nissin Foods (died 2007)

Momofuku Ando , born Go Pek-Hok, was a Taiwanese-born, ethnic Chinese, Japanese inventor and businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. He is known as the inventor of Nissin Chikin Ramen, the first brand of commercially available prepackaged instant noodles, and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles.

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Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (died 1972)

Ennio Flaiano was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), and 8½ (1963). He received the inaugural 1947 Strega Prize for his novel A Time to Kill.

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05/03/1908

Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (died 1999)

Fritz Fischer was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the thesis that responsibility for the outbreak of the war rested solely on Imperial Germany. Fischer's claims sparked a major historiographical debate in postwar West Germany, known as the Fischer Controversy.

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Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (died 1990)

Irving L. Fiske was an American playwright, writer, and public speaker. He worked for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, where he was a writer and rewrite man on The WPA Guide to New York City, in print today. He corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, wrote an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake," and translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English. He and his wife Barbara Fiske Calhoun co-founded the artist's retreat and intentional community Quarry Hill Creative Center, on the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont.

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Rex Harrison, English actor (died 1990)

Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He returned to Broadway portraying Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956) where he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

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05/03/1905

László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (died 1992)

László Benedek was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing The Wild One (1953).

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05/03/1904

Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (died 1984)

Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th-century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner, also a Jesuit scholar.

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05/03/1901

Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (died 1971)

Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg was the final head of the House of Schwarzburg and heir to the formerly sovereign principalities of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

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Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (died 1970)

Julian Przyboś was a Polish poet, essayist and translator, one of the most important poets of the Kraków Avant-Garde.

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05/03/1900

Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (died 1944)

Lilli Jahn was a German-Jewish medical doctor and victim of Nazism in Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children which she wrote during her imprisonment in the Breitenau concentration camp. She was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and was murdered there.

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Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (died 1974)

Johanna Langefeld was a Nazi German guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for her role in the Holocaust, but she escaped prison and was never tried.

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05/03/1898

Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)

Zhou Enlai was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and aided the Communist Party in rising to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.

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Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (died 2015)

Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of 31 May 2026, the oldest-known living Japanese person is Shigeko Kagawa, who is aged 115 years, 3 days. The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second-oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

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05/03/1894

Henry Daniell, English-American actor (died 1963)

Charles Henry Pywell Daniell was an English actor who had a long career in the United States on stage and in cinema. He came to prominence for his portrayal of villainous roles in films such as Camille (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Holiday (1938), and The Sea Hawk (1940). Daniell was given few opportunities to play sympathetic or 'good guy' roles; an exception was his portrayal of Franz Liszt in the biographical film of Robert and Clara Schumann, Song of Love (1947). His name is sometimes spelled "Daniel".

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05/03/1887

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 1959)

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has globally become one of the most recognizable South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929), dedicated to Andrés Segovia, and his 5 Preludes (1940), dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha", are important works in the classical guitar repertory.

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05/03/1886

Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (died 1975)

Dong Biwu was a Chinese communist revolutionary, long-time ally of Mao Zedong and politician, who served as acting Chairman of the People's Republic of China between 1972 and 1975.

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Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (died 1927)

Freddie Welsh was a Welsh World boxing champion. The lightweight boxer was born in Pontypridd, Wales, nicknamed the "Welsh Wizard". Brought up in a tough mining community, Welsh left a working-class background to make a name for himself in America. He turned professional as a boxer in Philadelphia in 1905, and spent the best part of his career fighting in the United States.

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05/03/1885

Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (died 1969)

Charles Marius Barbeau,, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. A Rhodes Scholar, he is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia, and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.

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05/03/1883

Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (died 1967)

Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician.

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05/03/1882

Dora Marsden, English author and activist (died 1960)

Dora Marsden was an English suffragette, editor of literary journals, and philosopher of language. Beginning her career as an activist in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), Marsden eventually broke off from the suffragist organization in order to found a journal that would provide a space for more radical voices in the movement. Her prime importance lies with her contributions to the suffrage movement, her criticism of the Pankhursts' WSPU, and her radical feminism, via The Freewoman. There are those who also claim she has relevance to the emergence of literary modernism, while others value her contribution to the understanding of egoism.

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05/03/1880

Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1968)

Sergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.

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05/03/1879

William Beveridge, English economist and academic (died 1963)

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, was a British economist and Liberal politician who played a central role in designing the British welfare state. His 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services served as the basis for the welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.

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Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (died 1943)

Andres Larka VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and a politician.

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05/03/1876

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1947)

Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, was a British Conservative politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940. Despite legal posts dominating his career for all but four years, he is most prominently remembered for serving as Minister for Coordination of Defence from 1936 until 1939.

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Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (died 1959)

Elisabeth 'Bessie' Holmes Moore was an American tennis champion who was active at the beginning of the 20th century. Moore won the singles title at the U.S. Championships on four occasions. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.

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05/03/1875

Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (died 1952)

Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG, was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924. He later entered federal politics, serving as a Senator for Victoria from 1929 to 1935, and was briefly a minister in the Lyons government. He was a member of the Nationalist Party until 1931, when it was subsumed into the United Australia Party.

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05/03/1874

Henry Travers, English-American actor (died 1965)

Travers John Heagerty, known professionally as Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor who specialised in portraying slightly bumbling but amiable and likeable older men. His best known role to today's audiences was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. He also received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Mrs. Miniver (1942). Other notable films include The Invisible Man (1933), Dark Victory (1939), High Sierra (1941), and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945).

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05/03/1873

Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (died 1961)

Olav Bjaaland was a Norwegian ski champion and polar explorer. In 1911, he was one of the first five men to reach the South Pole as part of Amundsen's South Pole expedition.

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05/03/1871

Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919)

Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League, which evolved into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). An influential member of the international socialist movement, she is remembered for her writings on imperialism and revolution, and as a champion of socialist democracy.

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Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (died 1941)

Konstantinos Pallis was a staff officer of the Hellenic Army, who served as chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor in 1920–22, and as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff during the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41.

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05/03/1870

Frank Norris, American journalist and author (died 1902)

Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).

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Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (died 1953)

Professor Yevhen Oksarovych Paton, also known as Evgeny Oskarovich Paton, was a Russian Empire and Soviet Union engineer who established in 1934 the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953). He was the father of Borys Paton.

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05/03/1869

Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (died 1952)

Michael von Faulhaber was a German Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising for 35 years, from 1917 to his death in 1952.

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05/03/1867

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (died 1952)

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was the 14th premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. A member of the Parti libéral du Québec, Taschereau's near 16-year tenure remains the longest uninterrupted term of office among Quebec premiers.

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05/03/1862

Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (died 1934)

Siegbert Tarrasch was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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05/03/1853

Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (died 1911)

Howard Pyle was an American illustrator, painter, and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.

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05/03/1834

Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (died 1915)

Baron Félix de Blochausen, was a Luxembourgish politician. An Orangist, he was prime minister of Luxembourg, serving for ten years, from 26 December 1874 until 20 February 1885.

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Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (died 1899)

Marietta Piccolomini was an Italian soprano. She was most famous for the role of Violetta in La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, which she performed in England, France, and the United States, as well as her native Italy. After her marriage in 1863, she retired from performing, making only rare charity or courtesy appearances thereafter.

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05/03/1830

Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (died 1904)

Étienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.

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Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (died 1882)

Sir Charles Wyville Thomson was a Scottish natural historian and marine zoologist. He served as the chief scientist on the Challenger expedition; his work there revolutionized oceanography and led to his being knighted.

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05/03/1817

Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (died 1894)

Sir Austen Henry Layard was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his discoveries are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations.

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05/03/1815

John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (died 1888)

John Wentworth, was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, publisher of an extensive Wentworth family genealogy, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives.

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05/03/1814

Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (died 1889)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Giesebrecht was a German historian.

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05/03/1800

Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (died 1875)

Georg Friedrich Daumer was a German poet and philosopher.

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05/03/1794

Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1872)

Jacques Babinet was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics.

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Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (died 1870)

Robert Cooper Grier was an American judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1846 to 1870.

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05/03/1785

Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (died 1841)

Carlo Odescalchi was an Italian prince and priest, Archbishop of Ferrara, cardinal of the Catholic Church and Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome. For years a close collaborator of popes Pius VII and Gregory XVI, in 1838 he renounced his titles in order to become a Jesuit.

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05/03/1779

Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (died 1865)

Benjamin Gompertz was an English self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825. He was the brother of the early animal rights activist and inventor Lewis Gompertz and the poet Isaac Gompertz.

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05/03/1774

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (died 1842)

Christoph(er) Ernst Friedrich Weyse was a Danish composer during the Danish Golden Age.

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05/03/1751

Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (died 1829)

Jan Křtitel Kuchař was a Czech organist, mandolinist, harpsichordist, music composer, operatic conductor and teacher.

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05/03/1750

Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (died 1805)

Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France.

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05/03/1748

Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (died 1810)

Jonas Carlsson Dryander was a Swedish botanist.

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William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829)

William Shield was an English composer, violinist and violist. His music earned the respect of Haydn and Beethoven.

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05/03/1739

Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (died 1819)

Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge was an American medical doctor, lawyer, farmer, and military officer who served as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War. Woodbridge was a commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and also owned a rum still, a wood lot, a grazing meadow, and a mill, and came to be the wealthiest man in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Colonel Woodbridge was also a member of the Massachusetts legislature for many years.

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05/03/1733

Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (died 1816)

Vincenzo Galeotti was an Italian-born Danish dancer, choreographer and ballet master, who was influential as the director of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1775 until his death.

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05/03/1723

Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1773)

Mary of Great Britain was the second-youngest daughter of George II of Great Britain and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, and Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel as the wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

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05/03/1713

Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 1776)

Lieutenant-General Edward Cornwallis was a British Army officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom of the Chamber for King George II. He was then made Governor of Nova Scotia (1749–1752), one of the colonies in North America, and assigned to establish the new town of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later Cornwallis returned to London, where he was elected as MP for Westminster and married the niece of Robert Walpole, Great Britain's first Prime Minister. Cornwallis was next appointed as Governor of Gibraltar.

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Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (died 1783)

Frederick Cornwallis was a British clergy member who served as Archbishop of Canterbury after a career in the Church of England. He was born the seventh son of an aristocratic family.

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05/03/1703

Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (died 1768)

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature.

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05/03/1696

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.

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05/03/1693

Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (died 1754)

Johann Jakob Wettstein was a Swiss theologian, best known as a New Testament critic.

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05/03/1658

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (died 1730)

Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer, military officer, and colonial administrator in New France.

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05/03/1637

Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (died 1712)

Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He painted a number of still lifes in the beginning and at the end of his career.

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05/03/1585

John George I, Elector of Saxony (died 1656)

John George I, was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656. He led Saxony through the Thirty Years' War, which dominated his 45-year reign.

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Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (died 1638)

Frederick I of Hesse-Homburg, was the first Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg and founder of the eponymous family line.

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05/03/1575

William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (died 1660)

William Oughtred, also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. He is credited with inventing the slide rule in about 1622. He also introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication and the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions.

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05/03/1563

John Coke, English civil servant and politician (died 1644)

Sir John Coke MP JP PC was an English civil servant and naval administrator, described by one commentator as "the Samuel Pepys of his day". He was MP for various constituencies in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629, and served as Secretary of State under Charles I, playing a key part in government during the eleven years of Personal Rule from 1629 to 1640.

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05/03/1539

Christoph Pezel, German theologian (died 1604)

Christoph Pezel was an influential Reformed Theologian who introduced the Reformed confession to Nassau-Dillenburg and Bremen.

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05/03/1527

Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1603)

Ulrich III, Duke of Mecklenburg or Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-Güstrow was Duke of Mecklenburg (-Güstrow) from 1555-56 to 1603.

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05/03/1523

Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (died 1600)

Rodrigo de Castro Osorio was a Spanish cardinal and churchman. He was Bishop of Zamora (1574–1578) and the Diocese of Cuenca (1578–1581), Archbishop of Seville, (1581–1600), a member of the Council of State of Spain and the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition during the reign of Philip II of Spain. He was the Great-uncle of Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade, Conde de Lemos. He was closely linked to the city of Monforte de Lemos in Galicia, where he was the founder of the College of Our Lady of Antigua.

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05/03/1512

Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594)

Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.

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05/03/1451

William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (died 1491)

William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke was an English nobleman and politician.

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05/03/1340

Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (died 1375)

Cansignorio della Scala was Lord of Verona from 1359 until 1375, initially together with his brother Paolo Alboino.

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05/03/1326

Louis I of Hungary (died 1382)

Louis I of Hungary, also known as Louis the Great or Louis the Hungarian, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 until his death in 1382. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of Poland, to survive infancy. A 1338 treaty between his father and Casimir III of Poland, Louis's maternal uncle, confirmed Louis's right to inherit the Kingdom of Poland if his uncle died without a son. In exchange, Louis was obliged to assist his uncle in reoccupying the lands that Poland had lost in previous decades. He bore the title Duke of Transylvania between 1339 and 1342 but did not administer the province.

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05/03/1324

David II of Scotland (died 1371)

David II was King of Scotland from 1329 until his death in 1371. Upon the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David succeeded to the throne at the age of five and was crowned at Scone in November 1331, becoming the first Scottish monarch to be anointed at his coronation. During his childhood, David was governed by a series of guardians, and Edward III of England sought to take advantage of David's minority by supporting an invasion of Scotland by Edward Balliol, beginning the Second War of Scottish Independence. Following the English victory at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, King David, Queen Joan and the rump of his government were evacuated to France, where he remained in exile until it was safe for him to return to Scotland in 1341.

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05/03/1224

Saint Kinga of Poland (died 1292)

Kinga of Poland or Kinga of Hungary, also Saint Kinga was a Hungarian princess at birth and gained the title of Grand Duchess Of Poland, once the marriage pact between her and Boleslaw V was completed. Kinga is a saint in the Catholic Church and patroness of Poland and Lithuania.

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05/03/1133

Henry II of England (died 1189)

Henry II was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France, an area that was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland for a time and the Duchy of Brittany.

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