March 8 - Births

Births

1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1293 – Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)
1495 – John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550)
1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1566 – Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
1712 – John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1726 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1799)
1746 – André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1748 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806)
1783 – Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
1799 – Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
1804 – Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)
1814 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1822 – Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1935)
1847 – John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
1856 – Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
1859 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)
1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1882 – Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (d. 1914)
1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, (d. 1925)
1897 – Margot Bryant, British actress, (d. 1988)
1891 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)
1892 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)
1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
1898 – Kame Nakamura, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2012)
1899 – Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984)
1900 – Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
1902 – Jennings Randolph, America politician, United States Senator from West Virginia (d. 1998)
1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
1908 – Lucio and Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twins (b. 1936)
1910 – Bernard Benjamin, British statistician (d. 2002)
1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1911 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
1912 – Preston Smith, America politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1916 – John W. Seybold, American businessman, father of computer typesetting (d. 2004)
1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1920 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985)
1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1921 – Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983)
1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor
1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (d. 2003)
1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and manga artist
1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010)
1925 – Warren Bennis, American educator and author
1926 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian film and theatre director (d. 1984)
1926 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
1927 – Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
1927 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
1929 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012)
1930 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1931 – Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player
1931 – John McPhee, American writer and professor
1931 – Gerald Potterton, British/Canadian director, producer and animator
1931 – Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
1933 – Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008)
1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director
1934 – Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
1937 – Richard Farina, American folksinger (d. 1966)
1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player
1938 – Hans Fogh, Canadian competition sailor
1938 – Bruno Pizzul, Italian sports journalist
1939 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author
1939 – Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater
1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
1940 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress
1940 – Jacques Doucet, radio play-by-play voice for the Montreal Expos (1972-2004)
1941 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1942 – Dick Allen, American baseball player
1942 – Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
1942 – Ann Packer, British athlete
1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer
1944 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist
1945 – Bruce Broughton, American composer
1945 – Jim Chapman, American politician
1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician, singer, songwriter, actor. (The Monkees)
1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter
1946 – Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles and Poco)
1947 – Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter (Blue Effect, Flamengo)
1947 – Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive
1948 – Gyles Brandreth, British broadcaster and former Conservative Member of Parliament
1948 – Peggy March, American pop singer
1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
1949 – Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete
1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic
1950 – Dimitris Spentzopoulos, Greek footballer
1952 – George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player
1953 – Don Werner, American baseball player
1954 – Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 – Bob Brozman, American musician (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
1954 – David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
1955 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1955 – Joellyn Auklandus, American writer
1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
1956 – John Kapelos, Canadian actor
1957 – Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden)
1957 – John Butcher, American baseball player
1957 – Billy Childs, American composer/pianist
1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress
1957 – Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
1958 – Nick Capra, American baseball player
1958 – Gary Numan, British singer (Tubeway Army)
1959 – Lester Holt, American television journalist
1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor
1960 – Jeffrey Eugenides, American novelist
1960 – Max Metzker, Australian swimmer
1960 – Buck Williams, American basketball player
1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961 – Larry Murphy, Canadian hockey player
1961 – Mark Salas, American baseball player
1962 – Kim Ung-Yong, Korean child prodigy
1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian hockey player
1964 – Kate Betts, American fashion editor
1964 – Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director
1964 – Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1965 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player
1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-n-Pepa)
1967 – Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1968 – Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968 – Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1968 – Ellen Forney, American cartoonist
1968 – Shawn Mullins, American singer/songwriter
1970 – Jason Elam, American football player
1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer
1971 – Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
1972 – Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
1972 – Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid)
1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-born American actor and former model
1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
1973 – Kurt Mollekens, Belgian race car driver
1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player
1974 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1974 – Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
1974 – Stefan Müller, German footballer
1975 – Mauro Briano, Italian footballer
1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats)
1976 – Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player
1976 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player
1976 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
1976 – Hines Ward, American football player
1977 – Michael Tarver, American wrestler
1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1978 – Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan assassin
1978 – Nick Zano, American actor
1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1979 – Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress
1979 – Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
1979 – Apathy (rapper), American rapper
1980 – Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5)
1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer
1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
1981 – Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (d. 2005)
1981 – Joost Posthuma, Dutch professional cyclist
1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver
1982 – Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
1982 – Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
1982 – Kat Von D, Mexican-born American tattoo artist
1983 – André Santos, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Mark Worrell, American baseball player
1984 – Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
1984 – Dave Moffatt, Canadian singer and actor (The Moffatts)
1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
1984 – Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
1985 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer
1986 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, Japanese princess
1988 – Armanti Edwards, American college football player
1988 – Elly Jackson, British singer and songwriter (La Roux)
1989 – Robbie Hummel, American basketball player
1990 – Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer
1990 – Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
1990 – Ben Tozer, English footballer
1991 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor and musician
1992 – Charlie Ray, American actress
1997 – Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer (AKB48, SKE48)