603 – K’inich Janaab’ Pakal [Sun Shield], Ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque (d. 683)
1736 – Iman Willem Falck, Dutch colonial governor of Ceylon (1765-85), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (d. 1785)
1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Les Thibault, 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1958)
1932 – Louisiana Red [Iverson Minter], American blues guitarist, and singer-songwriter (“Sweet Blood Call”), born in Bessemer, Alabama (d. 2012)
1940 – Brian Hastings, cricketer (NZ batsman in 70’s)
1946 – Alan Bleasdale, English author, playwright and scriptwriter (Are You Lonesome Tonight), born in Liverpool
1951 – Lis Howell, British broadcaster (director of programs GMTV), born in Liverpool. England
1960 – Terry Sweeney, American comedian and comedian (SNL), born in Queens, New York
1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider (7 x world outdoor champion; 4 x indoor world champion), born in Silsden, England
1992 – Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress (Riverdale), born in Ottawa, Ontario
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 22nd March 2024
1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1712 – Edward Moore, English dramatist (The Gamester) (d. 1757)
1813 – Gabriel René Paul, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1886)
1915 – Fen Cresswell, New Zealand cricket slow bower (3 Tests, 13 wickets; Wellington, Central Districts), born in Wanganui, New Zealand (d. 1966)
1933 – Michel Hidalgo, French soccer midfielder (1 cap; Monaco) and manager (France 1976-84; UEFA Euro 1984), born in Leffrinckoucke, France (d. 2020)
1935 – M[ichael] Emmet Walsh, American actor (Wildcats, War Party), born in Ogdensburg New York
1947 – Patrick Olive, Grenadian percussionist (Hot Chocolate – “You Sexy Thing”), born in Grenada
1956 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress (Enemies A Love Story), born in Stockholm, Sweden
1958 – Pete Wylie, English rocker (Sinful), born in Liverpool, England
1989 – J. J. Watt [Justin James], American NFL player (Houston Texans), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin
Famous Birthdays for 21st March 2024
1779 – Alexis Garaudé, French composer and pedagogue, born in Nancy, France (d. 1852)
1839 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition), born in Karevo, Russia (d. 1881)
1863 – George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp (d. 1934)
1865 – Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian and politician, born in London (d. 1940)
1901 – Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1936 – Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1944 – Jamary Oliveira, Brazilian composer (Sanctus; Piano Pièce), and music professor, born in Saúde, Bahia, Brazil (d. 2020)
1978 – Cristian Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier, 15 Olympic medals, 18 World Championship medals, born in Trondheim, Norway
1991 – Antoine Griezmann, French football player (Atlético Madrid, French national team), born in Mâcon, France
Famous Birthdays for 20th March 2024
1735 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1876 – Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1883 – Colin Campbell, Scottish actor (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys), born in Falkirk, Scotland (d. 1966)
1902 – David Lasser, American science fiction magazine editor (Wonder Stores, 1930-33), writer (The Conquest of Space), and workers’ rights activist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1996)
1931 – John Rae, British educator (Conscience and Politics)
1941 – Pat Corrales, American baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, SD Padres) and manager (Texas Rangers 1978–80, Philadelphia Phillies 1982–83, Cleveland Indians 1983–87), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2023)
1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano), born in Conyers, Georgia
1958 – Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
1973 – Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996)
1987 – Rollo Weeks, English actor
Famous Birthdays for 19th March 2024
1777 – Anton Reinhard Falck, Dutch statesman and diplomat (advisor to King William I), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1843)
1823 – Adelgunde of Bavaria, German princess and wife of Duke of Modena, born in Würzburg, Bavaria (d. 1914)
1848 – Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)
1865 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1888 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
1928 – (Allan Thomas) “Tom” Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), born in New York City (d. 2017)
1935 – Burt Metcalfe, Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir (Father of the Bride)
1942 – Robin Luke, American rockabilly singer (“Susie Darlin'”), and later college professor, born in Los Angeles, California
1942 – David Minge, American judge and politician (Rep-D-Minnesota 1993-2001), born in Clarkfield, Minnesota
1953 – Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic gold 1976, 80)
Famous Birthdays for 18th March 2024
1075 – Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari, Muslim scholar of Persian origin, born in Zamakhshar, Khwarezmia (d. 1144)
1578 – Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher, born in Frankfurt (d. 1610) date baptized
1887 – Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
1919 – Laila Schou Nilsen, Norwegian alpine skier (Olympic bronze combined; won the non-medal downhill 1936) and speed skater (unofficial World C’ship gold 1935, 37, 38; 5 x WR), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1998)
1933 – Unita Blackwell, 1st African American mayor in Mississippi
1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor (Melodrama Habibi), born in Paris, France
1956 – Juan Meza, Mexican boxer (WBC Super Bantamweight champion 1984-85), born in Mexicali, Mexico (d. 2023)
1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1985 – Vince Lia, Australian Footballer
1991 – J.T. Realmuto, American MLB baseball catcher, 2014-present, 3X All-Star (Florida Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Del City, Oklahoma
Famous Birthdays for 17th March 2024
1777 – Roger B. Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-64) who delivered the majority Dred Scott decision, born in Calvert, Maryland (d. 1864)
1900 – Alfred Newman, American film music arranger, conductor and composer, winner of 9 Academy Awards (The Robe; How The West Was Won; Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1970)
1927 – Patrick Allen, British actor (Roman Holiday;Dial “M” for Murder), born in Nyasaland, Africa (d. 2006)
1939 – Shahid Mahmoud, Pakistani cricketer (opener scored 16 and 9 in only Pak Test)
1940 – Mark White, American politician, lawyer, and 43rd Governor of Texas (1983-7), born in Henderson, Texas (d. 2017)
1948 – Pat Lloyd, English rocker (The Equals), born in London, England
1956 – Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist (Mutts), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
1962 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (1st woman of Indian origin into space, later died in Columbia disaster), born in Karnal, India (d. 2003)
1964 – Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Olympics 1998)
1997 – Katie Ledecky, American swimmer (6 x Olympic gold 2012, 2016, 2021; World C’ships gold x 15; WR 400m, 800m, 1500m), born in Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthdays for 16th March 2024
1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1905 – Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
1910 – Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1991)
1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary to Adolf Hitler, born in Munich (d. 2002)
1943 – Ursula Goodenough, American biologicst, Evolutionary Scholar, author and educator, born in New York City
1954 – Dav Whatmore, Australian cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Victoria) and coach (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1971 – Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1973 – Zef Eisenberg, British ultra-speed racer (world’s fastest motorbike on sand 201.5mph; fastest wheel powered vehicle 210.33mph) and founder Maximuscle, born in London, England (d. 2020)
1974 – Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1979 – Édison Méndez, Ecuadorian soccer midfielder (111 caps; Deportivo Quito, LDU Quito, PSV), born in Ibarra, Ecuador
Famous Birthdays for 15th March 2024
1844 – Bransby Cooper, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 2 dismissals; Middlesex CCC, Kent CCC, Victoria), born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (d. 1914)
1873 – Lee Shubert, American theatre producer (theatres in NY and LA named after him), born in Lithuania (d. 1953) birth date disputed
1878 – Reza Shah Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), born in Alasht, Savad Kooh, Mazandaran, Persia (d. 1944)
1935 – Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
1942 – The Iron Sheik (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri), Iranian pro wrestler (WWF Heavyweight C’hip 1983-84; WWF Tag Team C’ship 1985 [Nikolai Volkoff], born in Damghan, Iran (d. 2023)
1944 – David Costell, American rock bassist (Gary Lewis and The Playboys – “This Diamond Ring”), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1958 – Laura Carrington, American actress (Louisa-Alphabet City, General Hospital), born in New York City
1961 – Moungi Bawendi, French-Tunisian-American chemist (2023 Nobel Prize for discovery of quantum dots), born in Paris, France
1985 – F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
1989 – Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
Famous Birthdays for 14th March 2024
1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist (1866), and women’s rights activist, born in Constable, New York (d. 1910)
1864 – Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
1900 – Ernest Hill, American jazz double-bassist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
1913 – Witold Rudzinski, Polish composer, born in Sebezh, Russia Empire (d. 2004)
1954 – Gary Palmer, American politician (Rep-R-Alabama 2015-), born in Hackleburg, Alabama
1961 – Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)
1964 – Richard Migliore, American jockey and commentator, born in Babylon, New York
1974 – Justine Joyce, Australian rower (World C’ship gold LW2- 1997), born in Melbourne, Australia
1979 – Chris Klein, American actor (American Pie films), born in Hinsdale, Illinois
1984 – Antoni Porowski, Canadian chef and TV personality (Queer Eye), born in Montreal, Quebec