March

Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841) first full-term black American senator

Harry Belafonte

(1927) American singer famous for West Indian songs

Dr. Seuss (1904) American author and illustrator (real name Theodor
Seuss Geisei) who wrote The Cat in the Hat and other books

Alexander Graham Bell (1847)

American inventor of thetelephone

Casimir Pulaski .
(1747) Polish patriot;
hero of the American Revolution
Knute Rockne
(1888) American football coach at Notre Dame

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in March? The names of some of the famous people born
in March are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do
you know about the person who shares your birthday?

Howard Pyle (1853) American writer and illustrator of The Merry
Adventures of Robin Hood and other children’s books

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806) English poet

Valentina

Tereshkova (1937) Soviet cosmonaut; first woman to travel in space

Tomas Masaryk

(1850) Czech statesman

Janet Guthrie

(1938) American auto racer; first woman to race in the Indianapolis

Alexander Graham Bell (1847) American inventor of the telephone

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841) American judge who served on the
U.S. Supreme Court for nearly thirty years

Casimir Pulaski

(1747) Polish patriot; hero of the American Revolution

Knute Rockne

(1888) American football coach at Notre Dame

Amerigo Vespucci

(1454) Italian explorer for whom America was named

William Etty (1787)

English painter

Arthur Honegger

(1892) French composer

Wanda Gag (1893)

American author and illustrator who wrote Millions of Cats

Ralph Abernathy

(1926) American civil rights leader and clergyman

Jane Delano (1862) American nurse; organized Red Cross Nursing
Service

Walter Schirra, Jr. (1923) American astronaut

Joseph Priestley (1733) English chemist

Johann Wyss (1781) Swiss who finished his father’s book The Swiss
Family Robinson

Albert Einstein (1879) German-born scientist

Marguerite de Angeli (1889) American author and illustrator

Andrew Jackson

(1767) 7th President of the United States

Harry James (1916)

American trumpeter

James Madison (1751) 4th President of the United States

Jerry Lewis (1926) American comedian

Jim Bridger (1804) American frontier scout

Kate Greenaway

(1846) English illustrator of children’s books

Grover Cleveland

(1837) 22nd and 24th President of the United States

Rudolf Diesel

(1858) German inventor of the diesel engine

David Livingstone

(1813) British missionary who explored Africa

William Jennings

Bryan (1860) American political leader

Henrik Ibsen

(1828) Norwegian playwright

Lauritz Melchior

(1890) Danish tenor

Benito Juarez

(1806) Mexican political leader and president

Phyllis McGinley

(1905) American poet, best known for her light verse

Randolph

Caldecott (1846) English illustrator of children’s books

Marcel Marceau

(1923) French mime

Fannie Farmer (1857) American cooking expert

Sir Roger Bannister (1929) British athlete; ran a mile in less than
four minutes

John Wesley

Powell (1834) American explorer of the Grand Canyon

Harry Houdini

(1874) American magician and escape artist

Arturo Toscanini

(1867) Italian symphony conductor

Gloria Steinem (1934) American writer; founder of Ms. magazine

Robert Frost (1874) American poet

Sandra Day O’Connor (1930) American jurist; first woman U.S.

Supreme Court justice

Nathaniel Currier

(1813) American printmaker who pictured life in the U.S. in the 1800’s

Wilhelm Roentgen

(1845) German who discovered X rays

Raphael (1483) Italian artist and chief architect of St. Peter’s
cathedral in Rome

George I (1660) king of England

John Tyler (1790) 10th President of the United States

Pearl Bailey (1918)

American singer

Francisco Goya

(1746) Spanish painter

Jo Davidson (1883)

American sculptor

Joseph Haydn

(1732) Austrian

composer

Jack Johnson

(1878) American boxer, the first black heavyweight champion