March 8: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is March 8th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on March 8th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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March 8th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

March 8th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German classical composer, was born on March 8, 1714. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the son of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

American jazz pianist and film score composer Dick Hyman was born on March 8, 1927. Dick Hyman's music has been featured in several motion pictures, including Alan and Naomi, Billy Bathgate, Broadway Danny Rose, Bullets Over Broadway, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Everyone Says 'I Love You,' Hannah and Her Sisters, The Lemon Sisters, The Mask, Melinda and Melinda, Moonstruck, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime, Stardust Memories, Sweet and Lowdown, Two Weeks Notice and Zelig.

Italian operatic composer Ruggero Leoncavallo (I Pagliacci and Zaza) was born on March 8, 1857.

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, Italian Mannerist painter (Deposition from the Cross, Madonna in Glory and Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro), was born on March 8, 1494. Giovanni Battista di Jacopo was also known as I Rosso (The Red) and Rosso Fiorentino (The Red Florentine).

March 8th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player Richard Anthony (Dick) Allen (Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals) was born on March 8, 1942.

James Alan (Jim) Bouton, American professional baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, New York Yankees and Seattle Pilots), author (Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times, Home Games, Strike Zone and Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues) and sportscaster, was born on March 8, 1939.