March 22

March 22 – Famous Birthdays

William Shatner (TV ACTOR) 1931

Reese Witherspoon (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1976

James Patterson (NOVELIST) 1947

March 22 – Famous Birthdays

1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1599 Sir Anthony Van Dyck Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1609 John II Casimir Vasa cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1700 Giuseppe Sellitto composer
1728 Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 Giacomo Insanguine composer
1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler composer
1767 Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance
1771 Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1785 Adam Sedgwick Dent Yorkshire England, British geologist
1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I German emperor (1871-88)
1799 F W A Argelander Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 Anthonie Waldrop Dutch painter/lithographer
1813 Gabriel Rene Paul Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1814 Thomas Crawford US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 Braxton Bragg General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1819 William Wirt Adams Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 Isaac D Fransen van de Putte Dutch premier (1866)
1822 Seth Williams Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 William Henry Chase Whiting Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 Francis Asbury Shoup Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1842 Carl A N Rosa German violinist/composer
1842 Mykola Vytal’yevich Lysenko composer
1846 Randolph Caldecott England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 Arnold Sauwen Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 Paul Doumer Governor-General of Indo-China/13th President of France (1931-32)
1865 Theophile Ysaye composer
1867 Meijer Linnewiel [Professor Kokadorus], Amsterdam’s pitchman
1868 Hamish MacCunn composer
1868 Henry W Methorst lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 Robert A Millikan US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1874 Ellen Glasgow novelist
1885 Adriano Lualdi composer
1885 Jakabs Medins composer
1887 Chico [Leonard] Marx New York NY, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1895 Joseph Schildkraut Vienna Austria, actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents)
1896 Giulia D De Albertis writer
19– Veleka Gray New Orleans LA, actress (Young & Restless)
1902 Ellin Berlin [MacKay] Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1903 James S Russell US pilot/Admiral (WWII Pacific Ocean)
1903 Jochen Klepper writer
1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini composer
1905 Grigorij M Kosinzev Russian director
1905 Phyllis McGinley poet
1905 Ruth Page US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 James Gavin US, 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 Paul J Steenbergen Netherlands, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague’s Comedy)
1908 Albrecht Goes writer
1908 Louis D L’Amour Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 Maurice H Stans Shakope MN, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 Gabrielle Roy French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1909 Jack Popplewell composer/playwright
1910 Nicholas Monsarret England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 Henri Rousselot Admiral
1912 Lord Alport
1912 Wilfrid Brambell Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day’s Night)
1913 James Westerfield Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 Karl Malden Chicago IL, actor (Mike-Streets of San Francisco, American Express)
1913 Martha Mödl German singer/soprano (Wagner)
1914 Cec Burke cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner vs Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 Lord Stokes
1914 Masao Maruyama social scientist
1915 Forest Sagendorf cartoonist
1915 George Cresswell cricketer (3 Tests for New Zealand aged 35)
1916 George Wyle New York NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 Josephine van Gasteren Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 C S Pick publisher
1917 Paul Rogers Plympton Devon England, actor (Looking Glass War, Billy Budd)
1917 Virginia Grey Los Angeles CA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot’s Delight, Idaho)
1918 Cheddi B Jagan dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 Harry Kay vice-chancellor (Exeter University)
1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen composer
1920 Fanny Waterman concert pianist & teacher
1920 James Brown Desdemona TX, actor (Targets)
1920 Ross Martin Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer Netherlands, foreign minister (KVP)
1922 Mujib ur-Rahman Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 Stewart Stern screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 Bryan Clieve Roberts lawyer/civil servant
1923 Cor N van Dis Jr Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 Marcel Marceau Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
1924 Al Neuharth newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 Bill Wendell New York NY, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
1925 Colin Spedding CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes)
1925 Wolfgang Bächler writer
1926 Julius Marmur biochemist/geneticist
1926 Lawrence Jackson Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
1927 George Thoms cricketer (1 Test Australia against West Indies 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1927 Viscount Bolingbroke
1928 Betty Callaway figure skating trainer
1928 Bill Archer (Representative-Republican-TX, 1971- )
1928 DC Ingman CEO (British Waterways Board)
1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov soldier/historian
1928 Ed Macauley NBA’er (Boston Celtics)
1930 Derek Bok college president (Harvard)
1930 Lynden O Pindling Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 Pat Robertson televangelist (700 club, Presidential candidate-Republican-1989)
1930 Stephen Sondheim New York NY, lyricist/composer (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, West Side Story, A Little Night Music)
1931 Igor Hajek translator/writer
1931 Leslie Thomas author
1931 William Shatner Montréal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1932 Richard Thomas Admiral
1933 Buddy MacKay (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- )
1933 Chris Duckworth cricketer (South African batsman vs England 1956-57)
1934 Leslie Turnberg President (Royal College of Physicians)
1934 Orrin G Hatch (Senator-Republican-UT, 1977- )
1934 Sheila Cameron QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1935 M[ichael] Emmet Walsh Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1936 Alan Bleasdale author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)
1936 May Britt [Maybritt Wilkens] Lidinga Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 Philip Ely President (British Law Society)
1936 Roger Whittaker Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
1936 Ron Carey union president (Teamsters)
1937 Jon Hassell composer
1938 Vivian Pulliam horse trainer
1940 William Ritchie vice-chancellor (Lancaster University)
1941 Bruno Ganz Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 Gary Lewis horse trainer
1942 Barbara Parkins Vancouver British Columbia, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum)
1942 Jon Arthur English composer
1943 George Benson Pittsburgh PA, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
1943 Joseph Schwantner composer
1943 Keith Relf Richmond London England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1944 Jeremy Clyde Buckinghamshire England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday’s Gone)
1944 R P Mardling headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
1944 T S “Tony” McPhee rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 Alan Opie baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1945 Charles “Chuck” Jackson US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 Paul Schockemöhle showjumper
1946 Don Chaney NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 Laraine Ashton fashion models’ agent (London)
1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1946 Serge [Ruud Schaap] Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 Harry Vanda [Vandenberg] Hague Netherlands, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 Patrick Olive percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1947 Priscilla Yates director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber London England, composer (Evita, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar)
1948 Randy Hobbs rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1949 Brian Hanrahan British TV newsman (BBC)
1949 D Watson director (Brighton University)
1949 Fanny Ardant Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1950 Mary Tamm Dewsbury Yorkshire England, actress (Odessa File, Doctor Who)
1951 Howard Reitzes Southgate CA, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 Musa Khiramanovich Manarov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1952 Bob Costas Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1953 Peter McEvoy Australia, actor (Against the Innocent)
1953 Thomas H Andrews (Representative-Democrat-ME)
1956 Lena Olin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1956 Lyndsay Stephen Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer
1957 Stephanie Mills singer/actress (Wiz)
1958 Joyce Lester Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 Pete Wylie Liverpool England, rocker (Sinful)
1959 Matthew Modine Loma Linda CA, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights)
1960 Laurie Sargent rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1962 Diane Pavich Melbourne Australia, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Australia Ladies)
1962 Juan Aguilera Spain, tennis star
1962 Tim Elliott Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1963 Hannu Virta Turku Finland, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 Rich Monteleone Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 Suzanne Sulley Sheffield South Yorkshire, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 Jeffrey Wagner Sydney New South Wales Australia, Australasia golfer
1966 Brad Edwards NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Brian Shaw NBA guard (Orlando Magic, San Francisco Warriors)
1966 Sean Berry Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Todd Ewen Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 Yahya Ayyash militant
1968 Ramon Martinez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1969 Russell Maryland NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders)
1970 Jason Rouser Tucson AZ, 200 meter/400 meter runner
1970 Reggie White NFL nose tackle (New England Patriots)
1970 Travis Richards Crystal MN, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 Richard Castillo jockey
1972 Elvis Stojko Richmond Hill Ontario, (Olympics-silver-94)
1972 John Farquhar tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Mikhail Sloutsky WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Pieter Christiaan Prince of Netherlands
1972 Shawn Bradley NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey Nets, Space Jams)
1973 Joe Nedney kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Luther Elliss NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1974 Kim Yun-Jung Miss Korea-Universe (1996)
1974 Marcus Camby NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 Tuomas Gronman NHL defenseman (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1975 Chris Bayne safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Dax Griffin Atlanta GA, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach)
1975 Jiri Novak Czechoslovakia, tennis star
1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams Washington DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1979 Mariah Leanne Bergmann Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1997) 

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