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Famous people born on March 31

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Well-known people born on March 31 include Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), René Descartes (1596), Al Gore (1948) and Octavio Paz (1914). Our list below has 89 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1596 (René Descartes) and the most recent is 2003 (Igor Matanović). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, writer.

Who was born on March 31?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 German composer
  2. René Descartes 1596 French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
  3. Al Gore 1948 Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
  4. Octavio Paz 1914 Mexican writer, poet an diplomat
  5. William Lawrence Bragg 1890 Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
  6. Ewan McGregor 1971 Scottish actor
  7. Zviad Gamsakhurdia 1939 Georgian politician, dissident and writer, first President of Georgia
  8. Carlo Rubbia 1934 Italian particle physicist
  9. Shinichiro Tomonaga 1906 Japanese physicist
  10. Christopher Walken 1943 American actor
  11. John Fowles 1926 English novelist
  12. Oleksandr Turchynov 1964 Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, and Doctor of Economic Sciences
  13. Chloé Zhao 1982 Chinese filmmaker
  14. Richard Chamberlain 1934 American actor
  15. Frederick V of Denmark 1723 King of Denmark and Norway
  16. Shirley Jones 1934 American singer and actress
  17. Alenka Bratušek 1970 Slovenian politician
  18. César Sampaio 1968 Brazilian association football player
  19. Sergei Diaghilev 1872 Russian art critic and impresario
  20. Koneru Humpy 1987 Indian chess player
  21. Coenraad Jacob Temminck 1778 Dutch aristocrat and zoologist
  22. Andrew Marvell 1621 English poet and politician
  23. Chlodwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1819 German chancellor
  24. Cesar Chavez 1927 Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
  25. Alejandro Amenábar 1972 Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer
  26. Anandi Gopal Joshi 1865 One of the first Indian woman doctor
  27. Gordie Howe 1928 Canadian ice hockey player
  28. Patrick Leahy 1940 American politician and lawyer
  29. Ľubomír Luhový 1967 Slovak footballer
  30. Nangklao 1788 Third king of Siam of the Chakri Dynasty
  31. Nagisa Ōshima 1932 Japanese film director and screenwriter
  32. Volker Schlöndorff 1939 German film director, screenwriter and film producer
  33. Nordin Amrabat 1987 Moroccan association football player
  34. César Gaviria 1947 President of Colombia
  35. Roy Andersson 1943 Swedish film director and screenwriter
  36. Jessica Szohr 1985 American actress and model
  37. Jack Johnson 1878 American boxer
  38. Arthur Griffith 1872 Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin
  39. Andrew Lang 1844 Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
  40. Rhea Perlman 1948 American actress
  41. Angus King 1944 American politician and lawyer
  42. Ashleigh Ball 1983 Canadian voice actress
  43. Edward FitzGerald 1809 English poet and translator
  44. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester 1900 British soldier, Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947
  45. Étienne Bézout 1730 French mathematician
  46. Meira Kumar 1945 Indian politician
  47. Ahmed ‘Urabi 1841 Egyptian army officer and revolutionary
  48. Karl-Heinz Schnellinger 1939 German footballer
  49. Mariana Victoria of Spain 1718 Infanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal (lived 1718-1781)
  50. Brian Tyree Henry 1982 American actor
  51. Kuupik Kleist 1958 Greenlandic politician
  52. Robert Brasillach 1909 French author and journalist
  53. Osama Hawsawi 1984 Saudi Arabian footballer
  54. Samanta Tīna 1989 Latvian singer
  55. Eric Davis 1991 Panamanian association football player
  56. Edwin Catmull 1945 American computer scientist and former president of Pixar
  57. Jack Antonoff 1984 American songwriter, singer and record producer
  58. Pablo Piatti 1989 Argentine footballer
  59. Tomáš Holeš 1993 Czech soccer player
  60. Tal Ben Haim 1982 Israeli association football player
  61. Shoichi Yokoi 1915 Japanese World War II Soldier (1915−1997)
  62. Hugo Ayala 1987 Mexican association football player
  63. Herb Alpert 1935 American trumpeter and recording industry executive
  64. Connor Wickham 1993 English association football player
  65. Kamala Surayya 1934 Indian author and poet
  66. Liza Koshy 1996 American Internet personality
  67. Jérôme Rothen 1978 French footballer
  68. Henri Queuille 1884 French Prime Minister
  69. Laima Vaikule 1954 Latvian actor and singer
  70. Tommy Smith 1990 New Zealand footballer
  71. William Daniels 1927 American actor
  72. Leo Buscaglia 1924 American motivational speaker and writer
  73. Charles Doolittle Walcott 1850 American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian
  74. Barney Frank 1940 American politician
  75. Eddie Johnson 1984 American soccer player
  76. Evan Williams 1972 American technology entrepreneur
  77. Clemens Krauss 1893 Austrian conductor and opera impresario
  78. Klaus Wolfermann 1946 German athlete
  79. Sheila Dikshit 1938 Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi
  80. Svetozar Marović 1955 Montenegrin politician
  81. Karla Sofía Gascón 1972 Spanish actress
  82. Enrique Vila-Matas 1948 Spanish writer
  83. Igor Matanović 2003 Croatian association football player
  84. Richard Kiley 1922 American actor
  85. Steve Smith 1969 American basketball player
  86. Kent Beck 1961 American software engineer
  87. Brooke Scullion 1999 Irish musical artist
  88. Eliyahu M. Goldrattmmnj 1947 Israeli business management author and thinker
  89. Martins Dukurs 1984 Latvian skeleton racer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 31 share the 31st of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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