March 20: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is March 20th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on March 20th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

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

March 20th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

March 20th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American frontier painter George Caleb Bingham (Boatmen on the Missouri, County Election, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri and Jolly Flatboat Men) was born on March 20, 1811.

French Rococo and Neoclassical sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (Bust of Voltaire, Diana and George Washington) was born on March 20, 1741.

Irish painter Sir John Lavery (The Chess Players, Japanese Switzerland, The Jockeys' Dressing Room at Ascot, Mrs Lavery Sketching and The Red Rose), was born on March 20, 1856.

Shelton Jackson (Spike) Lee, American film director (Clockers, Crooklyn, Do the Right Thing, Girl 6, Inside Man, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Mo' Better Blues, The Original Kings of Comedy, She's Gotta Have It and When the Levees Broke), was born on March 20, 1957.

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (All-Night Vigil, The Bells, Caprice Bohemien, The Isle of the Dead, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Monna Vanna, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, The Rock, The Sleeping Beauty and Symphonic Dances), was born on March 20, 1873.

American television and film producer (Benson, Blossom, Brian's Song, Dead Poets Society, Empty Nest, The Golden Girls, Insomnia, The Partridge Family, Soap and Three Kings) Paul Junger Witt was born on March 20, 1943.

March 20th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player George Lee Altman (Chicago Cubs, New York Metsand St. Louis Cardinals) was born on March 20, 1933.

Jerome Cousins Biffle, American long jumper and Olympic gold medalist (1952), was born on March 20, 1928.

American professional basketball player Derrek Dickey (Golden State Warriors) was born on March 20, 1951. Derrek Dickey also worked as a sportscaster for the Chicago Bulls and the Sacramento Kings.