Famous Births on 17 Mar

Famous Births on 17 Mar

1231 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 - King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
1628 - François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1725 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864)
1780 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist (d. 1847)
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
1804 - Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
1846 - Kate Greenaway, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1901)
1856 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1862 - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
1866 - Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1883 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
1884 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1886 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1888 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
1892 - Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
1894 - Paul Green, American writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1901 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (d. 1970)
1902 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (d. 1971)
1907 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (d. 1991)
1908 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1912 - Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
1914 - Sammy Baugh, American football player
1915 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
1916 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1919 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
1922 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer
1928 - William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1932 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1936 - Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer
1936 - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
1937 - Adam Wade, American singer and actor
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
1938 - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Northern Irish clergyman
1938 - Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
1939 - Robin Knox-Johnston, British Yachtsman
1939 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1940 - Mark White, American politician
1941 - Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1941 - Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
1942 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1942 - Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor
1944 - John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter
1944 - Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager
1944 - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1945 - Michael Hayden, General USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1945 - Katri Helena, Finnish singer
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1947 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
1948 - Alex MacDonald, Scottish Footballer and football manager
1948 - William Gibson, American writer
1949 - Patrick Duffy, American actor
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1949 - Daniel Lavoie, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1950 - Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter
1951 - Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor
1951 - Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy)
1951 - Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1952 - Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer
1953 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1953 - Chuck Muncie, American former football running back
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, English actress
1955 - Gary Sinise, American actor
1955 - Cynthia McKinney, American politician
1956 - Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
1957 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (d. 2003)
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1959 - Danny Ainge, American basketball player and coach
1959 - Paul Black, American rock singer
1959 - Christian Clemenson, American actor
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1961 - Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Casey Siemaszko, American actor
1962 - Clare Grogan, Scottish actress-singer
1962 - Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician
1963 - Nick Peros, Canadian composer
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1964 - Rob Lowe, American actor
1964 - Lee Dixon, English footballer
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1969 - Mathew St. Patrick, American actor
1969 - Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer
1970 - Gene Ween, American Musician (Ween)
1970 - Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor
1971 - Bill Mueller, American baseball player
1972 - Mia Hamm, American soccer player
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1972 - Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician
1973 - Rico Blanco, Filipino singer (Rivermaya)
1973 - Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician
1973 - Vance Wilson, American baseball player
1973 - Jerome Woods, American Football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, TV show host
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1975 - Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness)
1976 - Stephen Gately, Irish singer, musician, and actor (Boyzone)
1976 - Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1976 - Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Scott Downs, American baseball player
1978 - Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and film director
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Coco Marie Austin, American glamor model
1980 - Danny Califf, American soccer player
1981 - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
1982 - Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
1986 - Olesya Rulin, American actress

Famous Births on 16 Mar

Famous Births on 16 Mar

1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
1631 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1654 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1839 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
1839 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
1857 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1869 - F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
1877 - Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1941)
1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946)
1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938)
1892 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
1897 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
1902 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
1903 - Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (d. 2001)
1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)
1906 - Henny Youngman, American comedian (d. 1998)
1906 - Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
1908 - René Daumal, French Surrealist writer (d. 1944)
1908 - Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966)
1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1911 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician
1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1920 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
1920 - John Addison, British composer (d. 1998)
1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1920 - Sid Fleischman, American author
1922 - Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
1927 - Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1967)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
1927 - Olga San Juan, American comedian
1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
1928 - Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1930 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001)
1931 - Betty Johnson, American singer
1932 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1932 - Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1936 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
1940 - Jan Pronk, Dutch politician
1940 - Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter
1941 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1941 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1943 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist
1946 - Michael Basman, English chess master
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1947 - Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
1948 - Richard Desjardins, Quebec singer, songwriter and film director
1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
1948 - Michael Bruce, American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1949 - Elliott Murphy, American Singer-Songwriter
1949 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
1950 - Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
1951 - Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
1953 - Richard Stallman, American free software activist
1954 - Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
1954 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart)
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1958 - Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1960 - Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur
1961 - Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1964 - Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist
1964 - Gore Verbinski, American movie director
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1965 - Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer
1965 - Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1970 - Paul Oscar (Páll Ã"skar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1973 - Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss)
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1974 - Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Paul Schneider, American actor
1976 - Nick Spano, American actor
1977 - Donal Ã"g Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress
1979 - Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Rashad Moore, National Football League player
1979 - Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
1981 - Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
1981 - Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
1983 - Brandon League, American baseball player
1984 - Levi Brown, American football player
1985 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
1986 - Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
1986 - T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
1989 - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer