Famous March birthdays include Lupita Nyong’o, the Kenyan actress who rose to fame by portraying Nakia in the Marvel MCU superhero films Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Mark William Calaway, famously known as The Undertaker in WWE wrestling, was also born on March 24, 1965. Also born in March are actresses Alexandra Daddario, Jessica Chastain, and actors Chuck Norris and Daniel Craig of the James Bond fame.
Famous musicians who celebrate their birthdays in March include American singer-songwriter, record producer and diva, Mariah Carey, who is also one of the world’s greatest singers of all time, best-selling Canadian recording artist Celine Dion, popular Nigerian singer Yemi Alade, and singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta who is popularly known as Lady Gaga.
Actors, Actresses, Politicians and Celebs with birthday in March
American singer, actress, model famous as 1st black woman to win Miss America title in 1984 & stars in Eraser (1996) with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Spanish football manager and former Barcelona, Everton & Arsenal player who is famous as Arsenal manager
American singer, actress, one of the best-selling music artists of all time famous for her debut album, The Fame (2008), & The Fame Monster (2009)
President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007
English actor famous as James Bond in 5 Bond movies: Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, No Time to Die
American talk show host, comedian, actress famous for her feuds with president Donald Trump on social media and on TV
American actress famous in 7th Heaven (1996–2007), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Blade: Trinity (2004), The Illusionist
7th president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
American actress famous as Isabella Braña on The Young and the Restless (2001–2003), Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives
President and the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991
Other famous people born in March
Politicians who were born in March include Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, and 7th president of the United States from 1829 to 1837, Andrew Jackson.
Other famous people born in March are scientist Albert Einstein who is famous for his theory of relativity, Vanessa Williams who was the first black woman to win Miss America title, and Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria who was born on March 15, 1975.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre actress Jessica Biel also celebrates her birthday in the month of March, Jim Parsons of the Sheldon Cooper/ The Big Bang Theory fame, and Sex and the City‘s Sarah Jessica Parker are more famous birthdays for March.
March is also the birthday month of famous sports people, among them Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, former NBA star Shaquille O’neal, retired Chelsea and Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba, and American professional basketball player Kyrie Irving.
March Historical Events
1st March 1936: The Hoover Dam was completed, with all features finished after 5 years of construction. Construction of the dam started in 1931 and was planned to last 7 years.However, it was finished 2 years ahead of schedule. The massive dam was built to generate electricity, provide water for irrigation and domestic use, and to control flooding of the Colorado River.
2nd March 1836: Texas was officially declared as a free and independent republic from Mexico. This was during the Texas Revolution (War of Texas Independence), a rebellion that lasted from October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836 and which was led by Texas colonists from the United States and Hispanic Texans also known as Tejanos.2nd March 1956: Morocco gained independence from France. The North African country had been under French colonial rule from 1912 when the Treaty of Fes was signed, to 1956. The country was, during that colonial period, known as The French protectorate in Morocco or French Morocco. 19th March 1972: India and Bangladesh signed the India-Bangladesh Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Peace. The treaty enabled the two countries to have close bilateral relations and was to last for 25 years.It was signed in Bangladesh between the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the founding leader of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangabandhu).
21st March 1960: The Sharpeville massacre occurred in South Africa. On that day, police opened fire on a crowd of black residents of Sharpeville, a black township, and killed over 200 people.These black South Africans were demonstrating against apartheid, the system of racial discrimination that targeted blacks in the black-majority nation.
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