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March 18 – Famous Birthdays

Queen Latifah (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1970

Adam Levine (POP SINGER) 1979

Lily Collins (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1989

March 18 – Famous Birthdays

1380 Liduina van Schiedam Dutch “Christ’s bride”/saint
1483 Raphael painter (Sistine Madonna)
1548 Cornelis Ketel Dutch portrait painter/poet
1556 François-Hercule de Valois French duke of Anjou/Brabant
1578 Adam Elsheimer German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1609 Frederick III king of Denmark & Norway (1648-70), absolutist
1644 Gottfried Wegner composer
1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian composer
1690 Christian Goldbach German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1734 Joseph Schmitt composer
1756 Johann Christoph Vogel composer
1765 David H Chassé Dutch baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1781 Gustave Vogt composer
1782 John Caldwell Calhoun Abbeville SC, Andrew Jackson’s Vice President (1829-37)
1809 Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido], Cuban poet
1813 Friedrich Hebbel writer
1829 William Robertson Boggs Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges French historian/sociologist
1837 [Stephen] Grover Cleveland Caldwell NJ, 22nd & 24th President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
1838 Jan B Stobbaerts Flemish painter
1838 Sir Randal Cremer Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1839 Francis Fessenden Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1842 Stéphane Mallarmé French poet (L’Après-midi d’un faune)
1843 Jules Vandenpeereboom premier of Belgium (1899)
1844 Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov Tikhvin Russia, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Scheherazade)
1848 Nathaniel Herreshoff America Cup yacht designer
1858 Rudolph C K Diesel German engineer (Diesel motor)
1864 Karl M Lybeck Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer
1866 John Loudon Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
1867 Michael G de Boer historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
1869 [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40)
1872 Frank Hoyt Losey composer
1877 Clem Hill cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1880 Christopher K H de Nerée tot Babberich cartoonist
1881 Oliver Seibert hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
1881 Paul Le Flem composer
1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero composer
1886 Edward Everett Horton Brooklyn NY, actor/narrator (Bullwinkle Show)
1886 Kurt Koffka Germany, Gestalt psychologist
1886 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1888 Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor
1889 F Rijkens oldest living person in Netherlands
1890 Gerardus van der Leeuw Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin poet/reporter (WWII)
1893 Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
1897 Betty Compson actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)
1898 Otto Jochum composer
1899 Lavrenti Beria chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
19– Geoffrey Owens actor (Elvin-Cosby Show)
19– Jeff LaBar rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
19– Margueritte Ray actress (To Sleep With Anger)
1901 Piotr Perkowski composer
1905 John Kirkpatrick New York NY, pianist (Concord Sonata)
1905 Mollie Parnis New York NY, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
1905 Robert Donat Withington Manchester England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
1906 Roy L Johnson US Admiral (WWII-Pacific Ocean)
1907 Eleanor L “Betty” Compton US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
1908 Louis Gaste songwriter
1910 Chiang Ching-huo son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek
1911 Smiley Burnette Summum IL, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1913 Margaret Hesse princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 Rene Clement Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 William Hutchinson Murray mountaineer/author
1914 Cesar Guerra Peixe composer
1914 James Pack naval officer museum curator
1915 Richard Thomas Condon author
1916 Louis Toebosch composer
1919 Laila Schou Nilsen Norway, downhill skier (Olympics-gold-1936)
1919 Len Johnson cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1920 Eric Halsall sheepdog trial commentator
1922 Egon Bahr German journalist/politician
1924 Madhussudan Rege cricketer (15 runs in only Test India vs West Indies 1948-49)
1925 Peter Graves Minneapolis MN, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1927 George Plimpton New York NY, sports writer (Paper Lion)
1927 John Harold Kander composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1928 Fidel V Ramos President (Philippines)
1928 William R Boggs Georgia, Brigadier General/chief of engineers under Bragg
1929 Christa Wolf German novelist (Divided Heaven)
1929 Ctirad Kohoutek composer
1929 Kai Winding rocker
1930 Maurice Peress New York NY, conductor (Kansas City Philharmonic 1974-80)
1931 Howard Coble (Representative-Republican-NC, 1985- )
1932 F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk President South Africa (1989-94)
1932 John Updike Shillington PA, poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil, The Centaur, Rabbit Run)
1933 Unita Blackwell 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1934 Pavle Despalj composer
1936 Hans Peter Bleuel writer (Sex and Society in Nazi Germany)
1936 Robert Lee Smith US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
1936 Tony Nash England, bobsled (Olympics-gold-1964)
1937 Mark Donohue auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1937 Robin Wright race horse trainer
1938 Carl Gottlieb comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1938 Charley Pride Sledge MS, country singer (Just Between You And Me, Sweet Country)
1938 Shashi Kapoor Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939 Travis Pritchett rocker (Travis & Bob)
1940 Kathy Hutchinson race horse trainer
1941 Wilson Pickett Prattville AL, R&B singer (Funky Broadway)
1941 Wolfgang Bauer writer
1942 Ann Packer England, 800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Kevin Dobson Jackson Heights NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1945 Aleksey Vakhonin USSR, bantam weight (Olympics-gold-1964)
1945 Eric Woolfson Glasgow Scotland, composer/musician (Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson Entertainment Group)
1946 Michael Reagan talk show host, Ronald’s son
1947 Barry Wilson England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 David Lloyd cricketer (England opener, 214 vs India 1974)
1947 Robert Harrison rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 Steven H Schiff (Representative-Republican-NM)
1948 Eknath Solkar cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1949 Alex “Hurricane” Higgins Irish snooker player (2X world-champion)
1949 Starr Danias New York NY, ballerina (Turning Point)
1950 Brad Dourif Huntington WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
1950 James Conlon New York NY, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
1950 John Hartman Falls Church VA, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers-Taking it to the Streets)
1953 Helmer C Koetje Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1953 Jamie West-Oram rocker (Fixx)
1953 Margaret L Augustine Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1953 Nicholas Wisdom cricketer (son of comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
1954 James F Reilly II Mount Home AFB ID, PhD/astronaut (STS 89)
1955 Graham Porter cricketer (1 day international for Australia 1979)
1956 “The Model” Rick Martel [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1956 Ingamar Stenmark Sweden, slalom (Olympics-2 gold-1980)
1957 Christer Fuglesang Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957 Melvin Gentry vocalist/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1958 Andreas Wenzel Liechtenstein, skier (Olympics-silver-1980)
1959 Irene Cara Bronx New York NY, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)
1960 Claudia Udy Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1960 Guy Carbonneau Sept-Iles Québec Canada, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1960 Patricia Farinelli Los Angeles CA, playmate (December, 1981)
1960 Richard Biggs Columbus OH, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives)
1961 Kevan James cricketer (all-rounder 4 wickets/4 balls & ton vs India 1996)
1961 Mark Van Thillo Wilrijk Belgium, co-captain (Biosphere 2)
1961 Todd Nelson Dalles OR, tennis star
1962 Thomas Ian Griffith actor (Vampires, Catlin-Another World)
1962 Trevor Franklin cricketer (opened for New Zealand mid-80’s)
1963 Vanessa L Williams Tarrytown NY, 1st black Miss America (1984)/singer (Colors of the Wind)/actress (Eraser)
1964 Bonnie Blair Champaign IL, speed skater (Olympics-5 gold/bronze-88, 92, 94)
1964 Christina Ferguson Phoenix AZ, playmate (April 1983)
1965 Geronimo Berroa Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Oakland A’s)
1965 Jeff Labarr rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 Jerry Cantrell US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1967 Andre Rison NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs)
1967 Derrick Graham NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Car Panthers, Seat Seahawks)
1968 Joseph Ouellet hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1968 Pat Terrell NFL strong safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1969 Michael Dumas NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Shaun Udal cricketer (Hants off-spinner, England tourist to Australia 1994-95)
1969 Sheila Taormina 4X200 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 Michael Rapaport actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1970 Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] Newark NJ, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)
1970 Sarah Thorsett Winona MN, 1.5k runner
1971 Mariaan de Swardt Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Australia)
1973 Marlon Kerner NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1973 Rob Johnson NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Petra Kamstra Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Tina Krizan Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Torrian Gray safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 Claude N’Goran Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1975 Kimmo Timonen hockey defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998)
1978 Dionne Bainbridge Brisbane Queensland Australia, New Zealand 200 meter swimmer (Olympics-96)
1996 ? son of woman in coma raped by John Horace

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