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Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he won two FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a Ballon d'Or.
Famous Birthdays on March 21
1980 — Ronaldinho
Brazilian footballer
March 21 has 293 recorded notable births across history, from 927 to 2007. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 21
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- 1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. Source
- 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Source
- 1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. Source
- 1983 The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. Source
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
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Brian Clough won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest and is one of four managers to have won the English league with two different clubs.
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In 2020, she became the first black woman and the first WNBA player to host a national radio show for ESPN.
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After a break from television, she became a correspondent for The Insider.
More major people born on March 21
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1685
Johann Sebastian Bach
German Baroque composer and musician (died 1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
1935
Brian Clough
English footballer and manager (died 2004)
Brian Howard Clough was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest.
1992
Chiney Ogwumike
American basketball player
Chinenye Joy "Chiney" Ogwumike is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
1973
Ananda Lewis
American television host (died 2025)
Sarasvati Ananda Lewis was an American broadcast journalist, veejay and carpenter. She was a two-time NAACP Image Award recipient.
1944
Mike Jackson
English general (died 2024)
General Sir Michael David Jackson was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War.
1969
Jonah Goldberg
American journalist and author
Jonah Jacob Goldberg is an American conservative journalist, author, and political commentator. The founding editor of National Review Online, from 1998 until 2019, he was an editor at National Review.
1992
Kristýna Plíšková
Czech tennis player
Kristýna Plíšková is a Czech former professional tennis player. In her career, she won one singles title and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, with three titles on the WTA Challenger Tour.
1939
Kathleen Widdoes
American actress
Kathleen Effie Widdoes is an American actress. She is known for playing the role of Emma Snyder on the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns.
1880
Hans Hofmann
German-American painter and academic (died 1966)
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher.
1968
Scott Williams
American basketball player and sportscaster
Scott Christopher Williams is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 6' 10", he was capable of playing as a power forward or a center.
1897
Salvador Lutteroth
Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (died 1987)
Salvador Lutteroth González was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter of the mid-twentieth century.
1948
Scott Fahlman
American computer scientist and academic
Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department.
1942
Patcha Ramachandra Rao
Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (died 2010)
Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only vice-chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty…
1959
Nobuo Uematsu
Japanese keyboard player and composer
Nobuo Uematsu is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix. A self-taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of twelve.
1961
Kassie DePaiva
American actress
Katherine Virginia "Kassie" DePaiva is an American actress and singer.
1866
Antonia Maury
American astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1952)
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary.
1956
Ingrid Kristiansen
Norwegian runner
Ingrid Kristiansen is a Norwegian former athlete. She was one of the best female long-distance runners during the 1980s. She is a former world record holder in the 5000 metres, 10,000 metres and the marathon.
1975
Fabricio Oberto
Argentinian-Italian basketball player
Fabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto is an Argentine-Italian color analyst and former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he played as a center and power forward.
1988
Solomon Alabi
Nigerian basketball player
Makafan Solomon Alabi is a Nigerian former professional basketball player. He moved to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Montverde Academy.