Famous people born on 1 March

• Frédéric ChopinPolish composer and pianist · 1810–1849
  39 yrs
• Yitzhak RabinIsraeli politician, statesman and general · 1922–1995
  73 yrs
• Ryūnosuke AkutagawaJapanese writer · 1892–1927
  35 yrs
• Georg SimmelGerman sociologist, philosopher, and critic · 1858–1918
  60 yrs
• Harry BelafonteAmerican singer, actor and civil rights activist · 1927–2023
  96 yrs
• ShivajiIndian Maratha king and founder of the Maratha Swaraj (Empire) · 1627–1680
  53 yrs
• David NivenBritish actor and novelist · 1910–1983
  73 yrs
• Glenn Miller ↗American band leader, arranger, and composer · 1904–1944
  39 yrs
• Oskar Kokoschka ↗Austrian dramatic, painter and writer · 1886–1980
  93 yrs
• João Goulart ↗President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964 · 1918–1976
  58 yrs
• Archer John Porter Martin ↗British chemist · 1910–2002
  92 yrs
• Ralph Ellison ↗American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer · 1914–1994
  80 yrs
• Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg ↗Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria · 1868–1914
  46 yrs
• Tzvetan Todorov ↗Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist · 1939–2017
  77 yrs
• Caroline of Ansbach ↗Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1737 · 1683–1737
  54 yrs
• Jacques Rivette ↗French film director, screenwriter and film critic · 1928–2016
  87 yrs
• Vera Menchik ↗Czech chess player · 1906–1944
  38 yrs
• Tsangyang Gyatso ↗Sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet · 1683–1706
  23 yrs
• Vladimir Gelfand ↗Russian writer · 1923–1983
  60 yrs
• Alan Thicke ↗Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host · 1947–2016
  69 yrs
• Fyodor Sologub ↗Russian writer · 1863–1927
  64 yrs
• Deke Slayton ↗American astronaut · 1924–1993
  69 yrs
• Vasili Dokuchayev ↗Russian soil scientist · 1846–1903
  57 yrs
• Shoghi Effendi ↗Grandson of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957 · 1897–1957
  60 yrs
• E. M. Antoniadi ↗Greek astronomer · 1870–1944
  73 yrs
• Georgi Markov ↗Bulgarian dissident writer · 1929–1978
  49 yrs
• Lytton Strachey ↗English writer · 1880–1932
  51 yrs
• Ion Creangă ↗Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher · 1837–1889
  52 yrs

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