Born on March 27
1785 Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during the French Revolution.
1809 Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French town planner, designed modern-day Paris.
1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer for Currier and Ives.
1845 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, accidentally discovered X-rays.
1863 Sir Henry Royce, cofounder the Rolls-Royce automotive company.
1879 Edward Steichen, pioneer of American photography.
1906 Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist.
1910 John Robinson Pierce, the father of comunications satellites.
1914 Budd Schulberg, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (What Makes Sammy Run).
1923 Louis Simpson, Pultizer Prize-winning poet.
1924 Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer.
Famous birthdays
Born on March 28
1652 Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.
1818 Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
1862 Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22).
1868 Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist.
1895 James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross.
1909 Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side).
1929 Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan's Notes).
1930 Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks.
1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).
Born on March 29
1790 John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (1841-1845).
1819 Edwin Drake, drilled the first productive oil well.
1835 Elihu Thomson, the English-born American inventor of electric welding and arc lighting.
1867 Cy Young, major league baseball pitcher with the most wins (509 or 511 total).
1875 Lou Henry Hoover, first lady President Herbert Hoover.
1881 Raymond Hood, architect.
1888 James E. Casey, founder of the United Parcel Service
1910 Helen Wells, author of the Cherry Ames series.
1916 Eugene McCarthy, U.S. senator and presidential candidate.
1918 Pearl Bailey, singer and actress.
1936 Judith Guest, novelist (Ordinary People).
Born on March 31
1596 René Descartes, French philosopher and scientist.
1621 Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician.
1693 John Harrison, Englishman who invented the chronometer.
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer.
1809 Edward Fitzgerald, American writer.
1809 Nikolai V. Gogol, Russian writer (The Inspector General, Dead Souls).
1811 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist, inventor of the Bunsen burner.
1854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the two-stroke motorcycle engine.
1878 Jack Johnson, first Africa-American boxer to become the world heavyweight champion.
1914 Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and Nobel Prize-winning writer.
1915 Henry Morgan, comedian, radio performer.
1926 John Fowles, English novelist (The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman).
1936 Marge Piercy, poet and novelist.
1948 Al Gore, Vice President to President William J. Clinton (1993-2001).
Born on April 1
1578 William Harvey, English physician and biologist.
1815 Otto Von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany.
1868 Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (Cyrano de Bergerac).
1883 Lon Chaney, film actor.
1883 William Manchester, U.S. historian and biographer.
1895 Alberta Hunter, blues singer.
1919 Joseph E. Murray, transplant physician.
1929 Milan Kundera, Czech writer (The Farewell Party, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
Born on April 2
742 Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor.
1725 Giovanni Casanova, Italian adventurer.
1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of fairy tales.
1834 Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor.
1840 Emile Zola, French novelist and activist.
1875 Walter P. Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Automobile Company.
1891 Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor and founder of surrealism.
1905 Kurt Adler, American conductor.
1905 Serge Lifar, dancer and opera director.
1914 Alec Guinness, British actor.
1948 Emmylou Harris, American singer.
Born on April 3
1783 Washington Irving, American writer (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle).
1822 Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country).
1823 William Macy "Boss" Tweed, New York City political boss.
1837 John Burroughs, nature writer.
1842 Hermann Karl Vogel, German astonomer.
1888 Gertrude Bridget "Ma" Rainey, American singer, "the mother of the blues."
1898 Henry R. Luce, magazine publisher, founder of Time, Fortune and Life.
1924 Marlon Brando, actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather).
1924 Doris Von Kappelhoff [Doris Day], American singer and actress.
1930 Helmut Kohl, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Born on April 4
1780 Edward Hicks, Quaker preacher and painter (The Peaceable Kingdom).
1792 Thaddeus Stevens, U.S. Republican congressional leader.
1802 Dorothea Dix, American social reformer.
1821 Linus Yale, inventor of the Yale lock.
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander during WWII.
1896 Arthur Murray, ballroom dance instructor.
1896 Robert Sherwood, playwright.
1914 Marguerite Duras, French author (The Lover).
1915 Muddy Waters, American blues musician.
1928 Maya Angelou, American poet and author.
1932 Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho).
1938 Bart Giamatti, baseball commisioner, president of Yale.
Born on April 5
1588 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (Leviathan).
1827 Joseph Lister, English physician, founded the idea of using antiseptics during surgery.
1839 Robert Smalls, black congressman from South Carolina, 1875-87.
1856 Booker T. Washington, former slave, educator, founded the Tuskegee Institute.
1858 Washington Atlee Burpee, founded the world's largest mail-order seed company.
1900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Adam's Rib, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).
1908 Bette Davis, film actress (Jezebel, All About Eve).
1916 Gregory Peck, film actor (To Kill a Mockingbird).
1917 Robert Bloch, novelist (Psycho).
1920 Arthur Hailey, (Hotel, Airport).
1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, president of South Vietnam.
1937 Colin Powell, U.S. Army general, Secretary of State.
Born on April 6
1483 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Dutch painter (Sistine Madonna).
1786 Sacagawea (also Sacajawea), American explorer.
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, journalist.
1905 W. Warrick Cardozo, physician, researcher of Sickle Cell Anemia.
1927 Gerry Mulligan, jazz saxaphonist.
1928 James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.
1929 Andre Previn, pianist and conductor.
1937 Merle Haggard, American country musician.
Born on April 7
1770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate ("The Prelude," "Lyrical Ballards").
1837 John Pierpoint Morgan, U.S. industrialist.
1859 Walter Camp, father of American football.
1860 W.K. Kellogg, cereal magnate and health guru.
1897 Walter Winchell, American newscaster and columnist.
1915 Billie Holliday (Eleanora Fagan), jazz and blues singer.
1931 Donald Barthelme, writer.
1931 Daniel Ellsberg, anti-war activist, released the Pentagon Papers.
Born on April 8
563 BC Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism.
1605 Philip IV, king of Spain and Portugal (1621-65).
1726 Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1893 Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith), early film actress.
1893 Edgar "Yip" Harburg, lyricist ("Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "Over the Rainbow").
1920 Carmen McRae, jazz vocalist and pianist.
1921 Betty Bloomer Ford, first lady to President Gerald Ford.
1955 Barbara Kingsolver, novelist (The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams).
Born on April 9
1649 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth.
1821 Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1826 Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate commander during the American Civil War.
1865 Erich Ludendorff, German general during World War I.
1879 W.C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield), comedian and actor.
1898 Paul Robeson, actor and activist.
1905 J. William Fulbright, U.S. senator from Arkansas.
1926 Hugh Hefner, founder and publisher of Playboy magazine.
What a bawdy day! I must say. 
Born on April 10
1583 Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman and scholar.
1794 Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer, opened Japan to trade with the west.
1827 Lew Wallace, Civil War general, lawyer, diplomat and author of Ben Hur.
1867 A.E. (George William Russell), Irish poet and mystic.
1880 Frances Perkins, U.S. labor secretary, first female cabinet member.
1903 Clare Boothe Luce, reporter, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
1917 Robert B. Woodward, synthetic chemist.
1934 David Halberstam, New York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964.
1932 Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub), actor (Dr. Zhivago).
1941 Paul Theroux, author (The Great Railway Bazaar).
Born on April 11
1370 Frederick I, elector of Saxony.
1722 Christopher Smart, English poet.
1755 James Parkinson, English physician.
1770 George Canning, British prime minister (1827).
1794 Edward Everett, governor of Massachusetts, statesman and orator.
1862 Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1893 Dean G. Acheson, U.S. secretary of state (1949-53) who helped create NATO.
1901 Glenway Wescott, writer.
1925 Ethel Kennedy, wife of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1932 Joel Grey (Joe Katz), actor.
1941 Ellen Goodman, Pultizer Prize-winning columnist.
1950 Bill Irwin, actor and choreographer.