March 16: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is March 16th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on March 16th? 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 16th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

March 16th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (Besieged, The Conformist, The Grim Reaper, The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris, Little Buddha, Once Upon a Time in the West and Stealing Beauty), and Academy Award winner (1987), was born on March 16, 1940.

Rosa Bonheur, French Realist painter (Buffalo Bill, The Horse Fair and Ploughing in the Nivernais), was born on March 16, 1822.

American composer David Del Tredici (An Alice Symphony, Child Alice, Find Alice, In Wartime, Paul Revere's Ride, Six Songs and The Spider and the Fly) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1980), was born on March 16, 1937.

Antoine-Jean Gros, French Romantic and Neo-Classical painter (Bataille d´Aboukir,Christine Boyer, Lieutenant Charles Legrand and Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa), was born on March 16, 1771.

Francis Gruber, French painter (Job), was born on March 16, 1912.

March 16th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player Don Blasingame (Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Athletics, Nankai Hawks, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Senators) was born on March 16, 1932.

Tom Bradley, American professional baseball player (California Angels, Chicago White Sox andSan Francisco Giants), was born on March 16, 1947.

Cindy Brown, American basketball player and Olympic gold medalist (1988), was born on March 16, 1965.

Canadian professional hockey player Roger Crozier (Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Redwings and Washington Capitals) was born on March 16, 1942.