Famous Birthdays on March 14

Q: Who was born on March 14?

Famous people born on March 14 include: Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, Johann Georg Gichtel, Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, José Núñez de Cáceres, Ludwig Emil Grimm.

Q: What is Indu Malhotra known for?

Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court of India

186 people 1297 – 2008

March 14 has seen 186 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1297 – 2008. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 14 — Wikipedia

1956 — Indu Malhotra

Judge of the Supreme Court of India

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In 2018, she was the first woman to be elevated directly from the Bar as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India

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In 2007, she was the second woman to be designated as a Senior Counsel by the Supreme Court, after more than three decades

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She demitted office in March 2021 on completion of her term

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Indu Malhotra is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India

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Prior to her elevation, she was practicing as a Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of India, and various High Courts

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun

Mongol empress consort of the Ilkhanate.

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, also Öljei Qutlugh, Oljai Kutlugh or Uljaki, was a Mongol princess, and empress consort of the Ilkhanate as the principal wife of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan.

1297

Johann Georg Gichtel

German mystic (died 1710)

Johann Georg Gichtel was a German mystic and religious leader who was a critic of Lutheranism. His followers ultimately separated from this faith.

1638

Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus

Aromanian physician and noble (died 1828)

Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus was an Aromanian physician and noble. Born in Gramos, he migrated to Siatista and then to Vienna to complete his studies in medicine. He gained great popularity as a physician in Vienna, being…

1737

José Núñez de Cáceres

Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic against Spain in 1821 (died 1846)

José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor was a Dominican revolutionary and writer. Known for being the leader of the first Dominican independence movement against Spain in 1821, his actions preceded the Dominican War of…

1772

Ludwig Emil Grimm

German painter and engraver (died 1863)

Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.

1790

James Bogardus

American inventor and architect (died 1874)

James Bogardus was an American inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture, for which he took out a patent in 1850.

1800

Kristjan Jaak Peterson

Estonian poet (died 1822)

Kristjan Jaak Peterson, also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

1801

Johann Strauss I

Austrian composer and conductor (died 1849)

Johann Baptist Strauss I, also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father, was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he…

1804

Joseph P. Bradley

American lawyer and jurist (died 1892)

Joseph Philo Bradley was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1892. He was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876…

1813

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878)

Victor Emmanuel II was King of Sardinia from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held…

1820

Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (died 1889)

Dona Teresa Cristina, popularly known as “the Mother of the Brazilians”, was Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II, a position she held from her marriage in 1843 until the abolition of the monarchy in…

1822

Théodore de Banville

French poet and critic (died 1891)

Étienne Jean Baptiste Claude Théodore Faullain de Banville was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century.

1823

Frederic Shields

English painter and illustrator (died 1911)

Frederic James Shields was a British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.

1833

Lucy Hobbs Taylor

American dentist and educator (died 1910)

Lucy Hobbs Taylor was an American dentist, known for being the first woman to graduate from dental school.

1833

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910)

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of…

1835

Isabella Beeton

English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (died 1865)

Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in…

1836

Charles Ammi Cutter

American librarian (died 1903)

Charles Ammi Cutter was an American librarian. In the 1850s and 1860s he assisted with the re-cataloging of the Harvard College library, producing America's first public card catalog. The card system proved more…

1837

Umberto I of Italy (died 1900)

Umberto I was King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his assassination in 1900. His reign saw the creation of the Italian Empire, as well as the creation of the Triple Alliance among Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

1844

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

English poet and herpetologist (died 1881)

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy was a British poet and herpetologist. Of Irish descent, he was born in London. He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with…

1844

Castro Alves

Brazilian poet and playwright (died 1871)

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the Condorist movement, he wrote classics such as Espumas…

1847

Ferdinand Hodler

Swiss painter (died 1918)

Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a…

1853

Paul Ehrlich

German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)

Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Élie Metchnikoff "in…

1854

John Lane

English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (died 1925)

John Lane was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews. He published the Yellow Book newspaper. He established a New York branch of his publishing business and married American…

1854

Alexandru Macedonski

Romanian author and poet (died 1920)

Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement…

1854

Thomas R. Marshall

American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925)

Thomas Riley Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well-known member of the Democratic Party…

1854

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (died 1951)

Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norwegian geophysicist and meteorologist with esential contributions to the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are…

1862

Casey Jones

American engineer (died 1900)

John Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

1864

Emily Murphy

Canadian jurist, author, and activist (died 1933)

Emily Murphy was a Canadian women's rights activist and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada and the fifth in the British Empire after Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, Jane Price, E. Cullen and…

1868

Algernon Blackwood

English author and playwright (died 1951)

Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi…

1869

Anton Philips

Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951)

Anton Frederik Philips was a Dutch businessman. He is one of the co-founders of the Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His father and Gerard had…

1874

Albert Einstein

German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2,…

1879

Wacław Sierpiński

Polish mathematician and academic (died 1969)

Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.

1882

Raoul Lufbery

French-American soldier and pilot (died 1918)

Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army Air Service in World War I, he is…

1885

Firmin Lambot

Belgian cyclist (died 1964)

Firmin Lambot was a Belgian bicycle racer who twice won the Tour de France.

1886

Sylvia Beach

American-French bookseller and publisher, who founded Shakespeare and Company (died 1962)

Sylvia Beach, born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.

1887

Reginald Marsh

French-American painter and illustrator (died 1954)

Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and…

1898

K. C. Irving

Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (died 1992)

Kenneth Colin Irving, was a Canadian businessman whose business began with a family sawmill in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, in 1882. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

1899

Sid Atkinson

South African hurdler and long jumper (died 1977)

Sidney James Montford Atkinson was a South African athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

1901

Adolph Gottlieb

American painter and sculptor (died 1974)

Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a printmaker.

1903

Doris Eaton Travis

American actress and dancer (died 2010)

Doris Eaton Travis was an American dancer, stage and film actress, dance instructor, owner and manager, writer, and rancher, who was the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as…

1904

Raymond Aron

French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1983)

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

1905

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

Turkish composer and educator (died 1972)

Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a member of the pioneer group of symphonic composers in Turkey, born in the period 1904–1910, who later came to be called The Turkish Five. These composers, all trained in Europe took on the…

1906

Ed Heinemann

American designer of military aircraft (died 1991)

Edward Henry Heinemann was a military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company.

1908

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French philosopher and academic (died 1961)

Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he…

1908

Phil Vincent

English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (died 1979)

Philip Conrad Vincent was a British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Founder of Vincent Motorcycles, his designs influenced the development of motorcycles around the world.

1908

Koča Popović

Yugoslav politician and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans (died 1992)

Konstantin "Koča" Popović was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on…

1908

Akira Yoshizawa

Japanese origamist (died 2005)

Akira Yoshizawa was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more…

1911

Cliff Bastin

English footballer (died 1991)

Clifford Sydney Bastin was an English footballer who played as a winger for Exeter City and Arsenal. He also played for the England national team. Bastin is Arsenal's third-highest goalscorer of all time.

1912

Les Brown

American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2001)

Lester Raymond Brown was an American jazz musician who for over six decades (1938–2000) led his big band, later called Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

1912

W. Graham Claytor Jr. American lieutenant

lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1994)

William Graham Claytor Jr. was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, railroad executive, and administrator of railroad, transportation, and defense affairs for the United States government, working under the…

1912

W. Willard Wirtz

American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (died 2010)

William Willard Wirtz was a U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secretary of Labor between 1962 and 1969 under the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon…

1912

Dominik Tatarka

Slovak writer (died 1989)

Dominik Tatarka was a Slovak writer famous for his 1956 satirical text The Demon of Consent condemning Stalinism.

1913

Lee Hays

American singer-songwriter (died 1981)

Lee Elhardt Hays was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. He wrote or…

1914

Bill Owen

English actor and songwriter (died 1999)

William John Owen Rowbotham was an English actor and songwriter. He is best known for portraying Compo Simmonite in the Yorkshire-based BBC comedy series Last of the Summer Wine for over a quarter of a century. He died…

1914

Lee Petty

American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (died 2000)

Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family. He was one of the early pioneers of NASCAR and one of its first stars. He…

1914

Alexander Brott

Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2005)

Alexander Brott,, born Joël Brod, was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher.

1915

Horton Foote

American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2009)

Albert Horton Foote Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee, and the film, Tender…

1916

Alan Smith

English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013)

Sir Alan Smith was a British Royal Air Force fighter ace who piloted a Supermarine Spitfire in World War II, and a businessman.

1917

Zoia Horn

American librarian (died 2014)

Zoia Markovna Horn was an American librarian who in 1972 became the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Horn, an outspoken member of the American…

1918

Max Shulman

American author and screenwriter (died 1988)

Maximilian Shulman was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.

1919

Hank Ketcham

American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (died 2001)

Henry King Ketcham was an American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip, writing and drawing it from 1951 to 1994, when he retired from drawing the daily cartoon and took up painting full-time in his…

1920

Dorothy Tyler-Odam

English high jumper (died 2014)

Dorothy Jennifer Beatrice Tyler, MBE was a British athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

1920

S. Truett Cathy

American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (died 2014)

Samuel Truett Cathy was an American businessman, investor, author, and philanthropist who founded the fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A in 1946.

1921

Ada Louise Huxtable

American author and critic (died 2013)

Ada Louise Huxtable was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the urban…

1921

Les Baxter

American pianist and composer (died 1996)

Leslie Thompson Baxter was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over…

1922

Diane Arbus

American photographer (died 1971)

Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class…

1923

William Clay Ford Sr.

American businessman (died 2014)

William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman who was on the boards of Ford Motor Company and the Edison Institute. Ford owned the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 until his death. He…

1925

Francis A. Marzen

Roman Catholic priest (died 2004)

Francis A. Marzen was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, former editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald and an information specialist for the City & County of Honolulu in the administration of Mayor Frank…

1925

Joseph A. Unanue

American sergeant and businessman (died 2013)

Joseph Andrew Unanue was an American businessman and president of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic–owned food company in the United States.

1925

François Morel

Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (died 2018)

François Morel was a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded the Prix…

1926

Chuck Share

American basketball player (died 2012)

Charles Edward Share was an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Share has the distinction of being the first NBA draft pick ever: he was selected by the Boston Celtics as the No. 1…

1927

Frank Borman

American astronaut (died 2023)

Frank Frederick Borman II was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the…

1928

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente

Spanish environmentalist (died 1980)

Félix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential television series El Hombre y la Tierra (1974–1980). A graduate in medicine and…

1928

Bob Goalby

American golfer (died 2022)

Robert George Goalby was an American professional golfer. He won 11 PGA Tour events including the 1968 Masters.

1929

Mark Murphy

American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)

Mark Howe Murphy was an American jazz singer based at various times in New York City, Los Angeles, London, and San Francisco. He recorded 51 albums under his own name during his lifetime and was principally known for…

1932

Naina Yeltsina

Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia

Anastasia Iosifovna "Naina" Yeltsina is a Russian civil engineer and the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. She was the First Lady of Russia during her husband's presidency (1991–1999).

1932

Michael Caine

English actor

Sir Michael Caine is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 130 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon. He has…

1933

Quincy Jones

American producer (died 2024)

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was an American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer, and bandleader. During his seven-decade career, he received dozens of…

1933

Eugene Cernan

American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)

Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.

1934

Paul Rader

American 15th General of The Salvation Army (died 2025)

Paul Alexander Rader, was an American religious leader, who was the 15th General of the Salvation Army from 1994 to 1999, and was the President of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, from 2000 to 2006.

1934

Bob Charles

New Zealand golfer

Sir Robert James Charles is a New Zealand professional golfer who won the 1963 Open Championship, the first left-handed player to win a major championship. He won the 1954 New Zealand Open as an 18-year-old amateur and…

1936

Peter van der Merwe

South African cricketer and referee (died 2013)

Peter Laurence van der Merwe was a South African cricketer. He played in fifteen Tests from 1963 to 1967, captaining South Africa to series victories against England in 1965 and Australia in 1966–67.

1937

Eleanor Bron

English actress and screenwriter

Eleanor Bron is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author. Her film roles include Ahme in the Beatles musical Help! (1965), the Doctor in Alfie (1966), Margaret Spencer in Bedazzled (1967) and…

1938

Jan Crouch

American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (died 2016)

Janice Wendell Crouch was an American religious broadcaster. Crouch and her husband, Paul, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973.

1938

John Gleeson

Australian cricketer (died 2016)

John William Gleeson was an Australian cricketer who played in 29 Test matches from 1967 to 1972. He is best known for his unique bowling style, which according to Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland "bamboozled…

1938

Árpád Orbán

Hungarian footballer (died 2008)

Árpád Orbán was a Hungarian Olympic champion football player.

1938

Raymond J. Barry

American actor

Raymond John Barry is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Steel City.

1939

Bertrand Blier

French director and screenwriter (died 2025)

Bertrand Blier was a French film director and writer. His 1978 film Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.

1939

Yves Boisset

French director and screenwriter (died 2025)

Yves Félix Claude Boisset was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed fiction films like The Assassination, Le prix du danger, as well as investigative documentaries. Boisset was known for his left wing…

1939

Wolfgang Petersen

German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Wolfgang Petersen was a German film and television director, screenwriter and producer. His international breakthrough was the war film Das Boot (1981), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and…

1941

Rita Tushingham

English actress

Rita Tushingham is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing…

1942

Anita Morris

American actress and singer (died 1994)

Anita Rose Morris was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

1943

Boris Brott

Canadian composer and conductor (died 2022)

Boris Brott, was a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker. He was one of the most internationally recognized Canadian conductors, having conducted on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and…

1944

Clyde Lee

American basketball player

Clyde Wayne Lee is an American former professional basketball player who had his most success as an All-American center at Vanderbilt University, where the two-time Southeastern Conference (SEC) Player of the Year was…

1944

Václav Nedomanský

Czech ice hockey player and manager

Václav Nedomanský is a Czech former ice hockey forward. Nedomanský was the first Czechoslovak hockey player to defect to North America for professional hockey, playing with the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey…

1944

Bobby Smith

English footballer and manager

Robert William Smith is an English former footballer and football manager. He was capped by England at Schoolboys and Youth level. He is the son of Conway Smith and grandson of Billy Smith, from whom he gets his middle…

1944

Tom Stannage

Australian historian and academic (died 2012)

Charles Thomas Stannage, was a prominent Western Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player. He edited the major work A New History of Western Australia, which was published in 1981.

1944

Jasper Carrott

English comedian, actor, and game show host

Robert Norman Davis, known by his stage name, Jasper Carrott, is an English comedian, writer, actor, singer and television presenter. His credits include An Audience With Jasper Carrott (1978), The Secret Policeman's…

1945

Michael Martin Murphey

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the founding artists of progressive country. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums including Cowboy Songs, the first album of…

1945

Walter Parazaider

American saxophonist

Walter Parazaider is an American retired woodwind musician who is a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He is best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James…

1945

Wes Unseld

American basketball player, coach, and manager (died 2020)

Westley Sissel Unseld Sr. was an American professional basketball player, coach and executive. He spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets. Unseld…

1946

Roy Budd

English pianist and composer (died 1993)

Roy Frederick Budd was an English jazz pianist and composer known for his film scores, including Get Carter and The Wild Geese.

1947

William J. Jefferson

American lawyer and politician

William Jennings Jefferson is an American former politician from Louisiana whose career ended amid a high-profile corruption scandal and subsequent conviction. A member of the Democratic Party, he served nine terms in…

1947

Jona Lewie

English singer-songwriter and keyboard player

Jona Lewie is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".

1947

Tom Coburn

American physician and politician (died 2020)

Thomas Allen Coburn was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015. A Republican, Coburn previously served as a United States representative from 1995 to…

1948

Billy Crystal

American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter

William Edward Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is known as a stand-up comedian and for his film and stage roles. Crystal has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and…

1948

Theo Jansen

Dutch sculptor

Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled Strandbeest. The kinetic sculptures appear to…

1948

Rick Dees

American actor and radio host

Rigdon Osmond Dees III, best known as Rick Dees, is an American radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song…

1950

Jerry Greenfield

American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's

Jerry Greenfield is an American businessman, philanthropist, and activist. He is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.

1951

Nick Keir

Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Nick Keir was a Scottish musician from Edinburgh, Scotland, who is best known for his work with The McCalmans. More recently Keir emerged as a singer-songwriter, producing three solo albums and performing as a soloist…

1953

Brian Smith

Australian rugby league player and coach

Brian Smith is an Australian rugby league coach and former player. He was also the Football Manager for the New Zealand Warriors.

1954

Jonathan Kaufer

American director and screenwriter (died 2013)

Jonathan David Kaufer was an American film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. Kaufer received his first job while in his late teens as a writer for the sitcom Mork & Mindy. Filmmaker Howard Zieff later hired…

1955

Butch Wynegar

American baseball player and coach

Harold Delano "Butch" Wynegar Jr. is an American former professional baseball catcher who played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees and California Angels, and…

1956

Tad Williams

American author

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, Shadowmarch series, and The Bobby Dollar series, as…

1957

Albert II

Prince of Monaco

Albert II is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005.

1958

Laila Robins

American actress

Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), An Innocent Man (1989), Live Nude Girls (1995), True Crime (1999), She's Lost…

1959

Tamara Tunie

American actress

Tamara Tunie is an American film, stage, and television actress, singer, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and as medical…

1959

Heidi Hammel

American astronomer and academic

Heidi B. Hammel is an American planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She was part of the team imaging Neptune from Voyager 2 in 1989. She led the team using the Hubble Space Telescope to…

1960

Kirby Puckett

American baseball player (died 2006)

Kirby Puckett was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995). Puckett was instrumental in helping the Twins to win World…

1960

Mike Lazaridis

Greek–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited

Mike Lazaridis, OC, FRS is a Canadian businessman who co-founded Research In Motion, the company that created and manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He has gone on to become a major supporter of…

1961

Bruce Reid

Australian cricketer and coach

Bruce Anthony Reid is a former Australian international cricketer. A 203 cm tall left-arm fast-medium bowler, Reid also played domestically for his home state Western Australia. He was a part of the Australian team that…

1963

Chris Johns

Australian rugby league player and administrator

Chris Johns is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played in the centres, achieving representative honors for Australia and New South Wales. His club football career was…

1964

Kevin Brown

American baseball player and coach

James Kevin Brown is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2005 for the Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres,…

1965

Aamir Khan

Indian film actor, producer, and director

Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi films. Referred to as "Mr. Perfectionist" in the media, through his career spanning over 30 years, Khan has established…

1965

Billy Sherwood

American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

William Wyman Sherwood is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, record producer and mixing engineer. He is best known as the current bassist and backing vocalist in English progressive rock band Yes,…

1965

Kevin Williamson

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is known for writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream (1996)—which launched the Scream franchise—along with those for Scream 2 (1997) and…

1965

Jonas Elmer

Danish actor, director, and screenwriter

Jonas Elmer is a Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of Family Business, starring Sean Connery.

1966

Elise Neal

American actress and producer

Elise Demetria Neal is an American actress known for her work in television and film. She rose to prominence in 1997 with roles in Rosewood, Money Talks, and Scream 2. She later starred as Yvonne Hughley in the ABC/UPN…

1966

Megan Follows

Canadian-American actress

Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian actress and director. She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels. From 2013 to 2017,…

1968

Magnús Árni Magnússon

Icelandic politician

Magnús Árni Skjöld Magnússon is an Icelandic academic, politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Reykjavík constituency from October 1998 to May 1999.

1968

Larry Johnson

American basketball player and actor

Larry Demetric Johnson is an American former professional basketball player who spent his career as a power forward with the Charlotte Hornets and the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). An…

1969

Kristian Bush

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kristian Merrill Bush is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bush is one half of the country music duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles, and was a member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Andrew…

1970

Irom Chanu Sharmila

Indian poet and activist

Irom Sharmila Chanu, also known as the "Iron Lady of Manipur" or "Mengoubi" is an Indian civil rights activist and poet from the state of Manipur. In 2000, she began a hunger strike to abolish the Armed Forces Act,…

1972

Rohit Shetty

Indian film director and producer

Rohit Shetty is an Indian director, screenwriter, stuntman, producer and television personality who works in Hindi cinema. A notable director of Hindi cinema, his movies often mix the genres of action comedy and masala…

1973

Santino Marella

Canadian wrestler

Anthony Carelli, better known by the ring name Santino Marella, is a Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he works as the on-screen…

1974

Patrick Traverse

Canadian ice hockey player

Patrick Traverse is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 279 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with five teams including the Ottawa Senators, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Boston Bruins,…

1974

Steve Harper

English footballer and referee

Stephen Alan Harper is an English former professional footballer, and currently first team coach for Newcastle United and goalkeeping coach for the Northern Ireland national team. He is best known for his time playing…

1975

Dmitri Markov

Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter

Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder. His gold medal winning jump at the 2001 World Championships made him the third person ever…

1975

Brian Quinn

American improvisational comedian and actor

Brian Michael "Q" Quinn is an American improvisational comedian and actor. He is a member of The Tenderloins, a comedy troupe consisting of Sal Vulcano, James Murray, and formerly Joe Gatto. Along with Vulcano and…

1976

Phil Vickery

English rugby player and sportscaster

Philip John Vickery MBE DL is an English former rugby union player. A tighthead prop he won 73 international caps for England squad and was a member of England's World Cup winning squad in 2003, playing in all seven…

1976

Vadims Fjodorovs

Latvian footballer and coach

Vadims Fjodorovs is a Latvian former football goalkeeper, currently a goalkeeping coach for Daugava Daugavpils in the Latvian Higher League.

1977

Naoki Matsuda

Japanese footballer (died 2011)

Naoki Matsuda was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a central defender for the Japan national team.

1977

Jeremy Paul

New Zealand-Australian rugby player

Jeremy Paul is a former professional rugby union player. He played hooker for the Wallabies and the ACT Brumbies.

1977

Pieter van den Hoogenband

Dutch swimmer

Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.

1978

Viesturs Kleinbergs

Latvian politician

Viesturs Kleinbergs is a Latvian politician and social worker currently serving as the chairman of the Riga city council.

1978

Nicolas Anelka

French footballer and manager

Nicolas Sébastien Anelka is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a forward. As a player, he regularly featured in his country's national team, often scoring at crucial moments. Known…

1979

Dan Avidan

American musician and internet personality

Leigh Daniel Avidan, also known by his stage name Danny Sexbang, is an American musician, internet personality, actor, and comedian. He is one half of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party with Brian Wecht, as well as…

1979

Chris Klein

American actor

Frederick Christopher Klein is an American actor. He made his on-screen debut with a supporting role in the dark comedy film Election (1999) before his breakout starring role as Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the teen sex…

1979

Sead Ramović

German-Bosnian footballer

Sead Ramović is a German football manager and former player who manages Algerian club CR Belouizdad. He played as a goalkeeper.

1979

Aaron Brown

English footballer and coach

Aaron Wesley Brown is an English professional footballer who played as a left-back or left winger. His late younger brother Marvin also played professionally and both were with Bristol City at the same time.

1980

Ben Herring

New Zealand rugby player and coach

Ben Herring is a rugby union coach and former professional player.

1980

Bobby Jenks

American baseball player (died 2025)

Robert Scott Jenks was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox from 2005 through 2011, and was a two-time All-Star. A relief…

1981

George Wilson

American football player

George Eugene Wilson Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was signed by the Detroit…

1981

Carlos Marinelli

Argentine footballer

Carlos Ariel Marinelli is an Argentine former footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder.

1982

François Sterchele

Belgian footballer (died 2008)

François Sterchele was a Belgian professional footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006–07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident…

1982

Bakhtiyar Artayev

Kazakh boxer

Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics.…

1983

Elton Chigumbura

Zimbabwean cricketer

Elton Chigumbura is a Zimbabwean former cricketer, who played for the national cricket team between 2004 and 2020.

1986

Jessica Gallagher

Australian skier and cyclist

Jessica Gallagher is an Australian Paralympic alpine skier, track and field athlete, tandem cyclist and rower. She was Australia's second female Winter Paralympian, and the first Australian woman to win a medal at the…

1986

Andy Taylor

English footballer

Andrew Taylor is an English former footballer who played as a defender. He is currently the B Team head coach at Bolton Wanderers.

1986

Stephen Curry

American basketball player

Wardell Stephen Curry II, also known as Steph Curry, is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he plays as a point guard. Nicknamed…

1988

Rico Freimuth

German decathlete

Rico Freimuth is a retired German athlete who specialised in the decathlon. He won two medals at World Championships, bronze in 2015 and silver in 2017.

1988

Marwin González

Venezuelan baseball player

Marwin Javier González is a Venezuelan former professional baseball utility player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees, and in Nippon…

1989

Kevin Lacroix

Canadian race car driver

Kevin Lacroix is a Canadian racing driver from Saint-Eustache, Quebec. He currently competes in the NASCAR Canada Series, driving the No. 74 Dodge for Innovation Auto Sport, a team he formed with fellow driver Mathieu…

1989

Patrick Patterson

American basketball player

Patrick Davell Patterson is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the NBA for the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, Toronto Raptors, Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Clippers.

1989

Joe Allen

Welsh footballer

Joseph Michael Allen is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is a first-team coach at Swansea City.

1990

Tamás Kádár

Hungarian footballer

Tamás Kádár is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club MTK Budapest. He is a defender and is equally capable at centre-back or left-back. He made his debut for Zalaegerszegi TE at the…

1990

Haru Kuroki

Japanese actress

Haru Kuroki is a Japanese actress. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her performance in the film The Little House.

1990

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson

Icelandic footballer

Kolbeinn Sigþórsson is an Icelandic former professional footballer who played as a forward.

1990

Emir Bekrić

Serbian hurdler

Emir Bekrić is a former Serbian hurdler. He specialises and holds the Serbian national record for the 400 metres hurdles. He is coached by Mirjana Stojanović. In 2013, Bekrić became the first male track and field…

1991

Shotzi Blackheart

American wrestler

Ashley Louise Alfaro, better known by the ring name Shotzi Blackheart, is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW), where she is the current MLW World Women's Featherweight…

1992

Erik Gustafsson

Swedish ice hockey player

Erik Gustafsson is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman for the Grand Rapids Griffins in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He…

1992

Anthony Bennett

Canadian basketball player

Anthony Harris Bennett is a Canadian professional basketball player for Al-Najma of the Bahraini Premier League. He played college basketball for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) for one year. He was the first…

1993

J. T. Miller

American ice hockey player

Jonathan Tanner Miller is an American professional ice hockey player who is a forward and captain for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Rangers in the first round, 15th…

1993

Ansel Elgort

American actor and DJ

Ansel Elgort is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013). He gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic…

1994

Brandon Aubrey

American multi-sport athlete

Brandon Scott Aubrey is an American multi-sport athlete who plays as a placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He has also played professional association football as a center back.

1995

Nick Eh 30

Canadian live streamer and professional gamer

Nicholas Amyoony, better known online as Nick Eh 30, is a Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer. Amyoony began making gaming videos as a student at Dalhousie University, and later dropped out to…

1995

Batuhan Altıntaş

Turkish footballer

Mustafa Batuhan Altıntaş is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for TFF 2. Lig club Güzide Gebzespor.

1996

Simone Biles

American gymnast

Simone Arianne Biles Owens is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts…

1997

Tyson Jost

Canadian ice hockey player

Tyson Jost is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

1998

Marvin Bagley III

American basketball player

Marvin Bagley III is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was a 2018 Consensus…

1999

Olivia Dean

English singer-songwriter

Olivia Lauryn Dean is an English singer and songwriter. Her accolades include four Brit Awards and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

1999

Chrisean Rock

American rapper and reality television personality

Chrisean Eugenia Malone, known professionally as Chrisean Rock, is an American rapper and reality television personality. She is best known for appearing on Zeus Network's reality series Baddies (2022–2026) for four…

2000

Jihoon

South Korean singer

Park Ji-hoon, known mononymously as Jihoon, is a South Korean singer. He debuted in Treasure on August 7, 2020, and its single album entitled The First Step: Chapter One.

2000

Nico Mannion

Italian-American basketball player

Niccolò "Nico" Mannion is an Italian-American professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. He attended…

2001

Abby Ryder Fortson

American actress

Abby Ryder Fortson is an American actress. She played Ella Novak in Transparent, Harper Weil in The Whispers, Sophie Pierson in Togetherness, Cassie Lang in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Margaret…

2008

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Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Announcement - March 14, 1915

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Known forPost retirement, she is practicing as a full-time arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations

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