1653 – Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, born in Copenhagen Castle, Denmark (d. 1708)
1923 – Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
1928 – Joseph Bernardin, American Cardinal of the Catholic Church, born in Columbia, South Carolina (d. 1996)
1930 – Girolamo Arriego, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy
1960 – Linford Christie, British athlete (Olympic gold men’s 100m 1992), born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica
1963 – Karl Beattie, English television director and producer (Most Haunted), born in Guildford, Surrey
1969 – Yj Nagata [Yuji], wrestler (NJPW)
1976 – Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer (US Masters 2007 runner-up, 6 PGA Tour titles, born in Durban, RSA
1976 – Evan McMullin, American independent candidate for President (2016), born in Provo, Utah
1982 – Marco Amelia, Italian soccer goalkeeper (9 caps; 2006 FIFA World Cup; Livorno), born in Frascati, Italy
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 1st April 2021
1809 – Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner
1905 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), born in Lier, Belgium (d. 1988)
1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate, (d. 2012)
1923 – Robert “Bobby” Jordan, American actor (Dead End Kids, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild), born in Harrison, New York (d. 1965)
1935 – John Murray, England cricket wicketkeeper (21 Tests; 55 dismissals), born in London, England (d. 2018)
1948 – Javier Irureta, Spanish soccer midfielder (6 caps; Atlético Madrid, Athletic Bilbao) and manager (Deportivo La Coruña 1998-2005), born in Irun, Spain
1949 – Sammy Nelson, Irish soccer left back (51 caps Northern Ireland; Arsenal), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1953 – Aftab Baloch, Pakistan cricket batsman (2 Tests; 7th player to pass the 400 first class run milestone, 428 for Sind 1974), born in Karachi, Pakistan
1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American drummer/percussionist (Toto – “Roxanna”; “Africa”), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 – Chris Evans, English disc jockey
Famous Birthdays for 31st March 2021
1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia by marriage to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1644)
1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1892 – Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing, coach (coach: LA Kings, Chicago Blackhawks), born in Newton Robinson, Ontario
1937 – Willem Duyn [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth and MacNeal)
1943 – Roy Andersson, Swedish film director (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1963 – Stephen Tataw, Cameroonian soccer right-back (63 caps; captain Cameroon national team FIFA World Cup 1990, 94), born in Yaoundé, Cameroon (d. 2020)
1964 – David Diaz-Infante, American NFL guard, coach, broadcaster (2-time Super Bowl winner, Denver Broncos, born in San Jose, CA
1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer best known for his solo self-rescue on Annapurna with a broken arm, born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes (d. 2006)
1984 – Jack Antonoff, American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Bleachers; fun.), born in Bergenfield, New Jersey
Famous Birthdays for 30th March 2021
1910 – Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I [John Lee], American blues musician (Down and Out Blues), born in Madison County, Tennessee (d. 1948)
1926 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor and son of Charlie Chaplin (Limelight, Adding Machine), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2009)
1929 – Richard Dysart, American actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law, The Last Days of Patton), born near Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
1933 – Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian actor and director (Églantine, Circle of Love, Cousins), born in Aumale, Algeria (d. 2007)
1937 – Jay W Macintosh, American actress (Sons and Daughters), born in Gainesville, Georgia
1949 – Dana [Richenda Antoinette de Winterstein] Gillespie, English actress and singer (Jesus Christ Superstar), born in Surrey, England
1957 – Paul Reiser, American actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You), born in NYC, New York
1970 – Mark Consuelos, Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
1993 – Lee Mi-hyang, South Korean golfer (ANA Inspiration 2019 runner-up), born in Seoul, South Korea
Famous Birthdays for 29th March 2021
1561 – Santorio Sanctorius, Venetian physiologist and physician (invented thermometer), born in Venice (d. 1636)
1725 – Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, Swiss composer, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1765)
1769 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal, 10th Prime Minister of France, born in Saint-Amans-la-Bastide, France (d. 1851)
1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1899)
1931 – Norman Tebbit, British Conservative party politician, cabinet minister and life peer, born in Ponders End, England
1936 – Richard Rodney Bennett, English pianist, classical and film score composer (Four Weddings And A Funeral), born in Kent, England (d. 2012)
1944 – James Diggle, British classicist, born in Rochadale
1946 – Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs), born in Manchester (d. 2007)
1949 – Keith Simpson, British politician and military historian, born in Norwich, Norfolk
1972 – Alex Ochoa, American football outfielder (NY Mets), born in Miami, Florida
Famous Birthdays for 28th March 2021
1851 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26), born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1944)
1862 – George William Louis Marshall-Hall, English composer, born in London (d. 1915)
1868 – Wojciech Gawroński, Polish pianist and composer, born in Sejmany, Russian Empire [now Lithuania] (d. 1910)
1908 – Grégoire Aslan, American actor (The Return of the Pink Panther, King of Kings), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1982)
1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer (“Buttons and Bows”; “Mona Lisa”; “Tammy”), born in McDonald, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
1948 – Matthew Corbett, English retired actor (The Sooty Show), born in Guiseley, West Riding of Yorkshire
1951 – Chip Reese, American poker player (3 x World Series of Poker bracelets), born in Centerville, Ohio (d. 2007)
1969 – James Atkin, rocker (EMF-Unbelievable), born in Birmingham
1971 – Wesley Person, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 – Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
Famous Birthdays for 27th March 2021
1816 – George Elvey, English composer, born in Canterbury, England (d. 1893)
1851 – Ruperto Chapi, Spanish composer, born in Villena, Spain (d. 1909)
1914 – Budd Schulberg, American novelist and screenwriter (On the Waterfront), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1917 – Harry West, Irish politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (1974-79), born in Enniskillen, Ireland (d. 2004)
1926 – Louis Blom-Cooper, barrister specialising in public and administrative law and co-editor of The Judicial House of Lords 1876–2009, born in London
1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist and writer (Bird Watching), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
1956 – Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross country skier (4 Olympic gold 1980, 84, 88), born in Lennartsfors, Värmland, Sweden
1969 – Tom Beer, American NFL running back (Detroit Lions), born in Detroit, Michigan
1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname
1981 – JJ Lin, Chinese singer (Music Voyager), born in Singapore
Famous Birthdays for 26th March 2021
1833 – Betsy Perk [Christina Elizabeth], Dutch journalist, writer and pioneer of the Dutch women’s movement, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1906)
1873 – Gerald du Maurier, British actor (Power, Escape!, Masks and Faces), born in London, England (d. 1934)
1880 – Duncan Hines, American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1959)
1888 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse who helped POWs in Siberia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (d. 1948)
1923 – Bob Elliott, American comedian (Bob and Ray, Get a Life), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
1939 – Phillip R. Allen, American stage and screen actor (Hardy Boys Mysteries – “Harry”; Star Trek III – “Captain Esteban”), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
1940 – Rod Lauren, American rocker (If I Had a Girl), born in Fresno, California (d. 2007)
1971 – Jesús Taváres, Dominican MLB outfielder, 1993-98 (Florida Marlins, and 2 other teams), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1979 – Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer (Rangers), born in Ferrol, Spain
1981 – Anaïs Mitchell, American singer-songwriter and playwright (Hadestown – 2019 Tony for Best Musical), born in Vermont
Famous Birthdays for 25th March 2021
1653 – Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning “able to be heard”, born in La Flèche, France (d. 1716)
1848 – William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1875 – Spencer Charters, American actor (3 Faces West, Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania (d. 1943)
1881 – Béla Bartok, Hungarian composer and pianist (Concerto for Orchestra), born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)
1906 – Jean Sablon, French singer-songwriter, born in Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris (d. 1994)
1919 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), born in NYC, New York (d. 1984)
1928 – Hilton Kramer, American art critic, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1959 – Vince Guerra, American jockey, born in Tucson
1969 – Scott Sanders, Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
Famous Birthdays for 24th March 2021
1888 – Jameson Thomas, British actor (Piccadilly, Farmer’s Wife), born in London, England (d. 1939)
1904 – Martin Kosleck, German actor (Pursuit to Algiers, Agent for H.A.R.M.), born in Barkotzen, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1994)
1912 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights and women’s rights activist (National Council of Negro Women), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2010)
1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor called “The King of Cool” during the 1960s (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape), born in Beech Grove, Indiana (d. 1980)
1937 – Bill Tillman, basebal player
1938 – David Irving, British historian
1949 – Nick Lowe, British rock bassist, singer, songwriter (Brinsley Schwarz – “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding”; Rockpile – “Teacher, Teacher”; solo-“Cruel To Be Kind”), and producer (Elvis Costello; Graham Parker), born in , Walton-on-Thames, England
1970 – Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
1976 – Peyton Manning, American NFL quarterback (Super Bowl 2006, 15; 5 x NFL MVP; 14 x Pro Bowl; Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1992 – Thomas Law, English actor