10. March 25, 1867: Gutzon Borglum. He designed Mount Rushmore, and also the massive Wars of America sculpture in Military Park in Newark, New Jersey. Unfortunately, he was a terrible racist.
9. March 25, 1966: Tom Glavine. A 10-time All-Star, he won the National League Cy Young Award in 1991 and 1998. He won 305 games, and pitched 8 innings of 1-hit ball for the Atlanta Braves in the clinching Game 6 of the 1995 World Series. Just don't mention his name to New York Mets fans.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1965: Avery Johnson. The point guard helped the San Antonio Spurs win the 1999 NBA Championship. In 2006, he led the Dallas Mavericks into their 1st NBA Finals, and was named Coach of the Year.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1971: Cammi Granato. The most-honored member of the U.S. national women's hockey team, she led them to the Gold Medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. In 2007, she was given the Lester Patrick Award for contributions for hockey in America. In 2010, she and Angela James became the 1st women elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Her brother Tony Granato and her husband Ray Ferraro were NHL stars.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1971: Sheryl Swoopes. The guard led Texas Tech to the 1993 women's National Championship, and the U.S. team to the Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. In 1997, the 1st season of the WNBA, she signed with the Houston Comets, but became the 1st athlete in American major league sports history to go on injured reserve due to being pregnant. She returned from having her son in time to lead the Comets to the 1st of 4 straight WNBA Championships.
She's been named to every Anniversary Team the WNBA has ever had, and to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1976: Wladimir Klitschko. To his credit, the boxer won an Olympic Gold Medal for Ukraine at the 1996 Olympics; and held various governing bodies' versions of the Heavyweight Championship of the World from 2000 to 2015. His career record is 64-5. He could have unified the title, as could his brother Vitali Klitschko. However, unless tennis' Williams sisters, the Klitschkos vowed they would never fight each other, and have kept that vow.
Wladimir is known as Dr. Steelhammer, while Vitali is Dr. Ironfist. Both are now defending Ukraine in its Army against the Russian Federation.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1986: Kyle Lowry. A 6-time All-Star, he helped the Toronto Raptors win the 2019 NBA Championship.
Somewhat Honorable Mention: March 25, 1918: Howard Cosell. How do I explain Howard Cosell to people not old enough to remember the 1970s and '80s? He was like Stephen A. Smith: A brilliant and truly great print journalist who made the most of a sports broadcast career, but fell in love with the sound of his own voice.
Cosell is indelibly linked to Muhammad Ali, having broadcast most of his biggest fights, and stood by him during his ordeal over the Vietnam War. And he helped make ABC Monday Night Football one of the greatest spectacles in sports. But more people wanted him to just shut up than admired him.
8. March 25, 1908: David Lean. He directed Brief Encounter; 2 films based on Charles Dickens novels, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist; and then went big, with The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1920: Patrick Troughton. When William Hartnell gave up being The Doctor on Doctor Who, due to his health, he said there was only one actor who could replace him, and that was Troughton, who held the role from 1966 to 1969.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1939: Dorothy Fontana. Using the pen name D.C. Fontana, because she wouldn't have sold a script if the TV studios knew a woman had written them, the native of Totowa, Passaic County, New Jersey wrote 10 episodes of the original Star Trek series, and created much of the mythos around Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and his home planet of Vulcan.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1943: Paul Michael Glaser. He played Detective David Starsky on Starsky & Hutch.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1960: Brenda Strong. She played Sue Ellen Mischke on Seinfeld, Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives, and Lillian Luthor (Lex's nearly-as-schemey mother) on Supergirl. She shares her birthday with another DH star:
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1962: Marcia Cross. She played Kimberly Shaw on Melrose Place, Bree Van de Kamp on Desperate Housewives, and President Claire Haas on Quantico.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1965: Sarah Jessica Parker. She starred as Annie on Broadway (although she wasn't the original), then in the short-lived sitcom Square Pegs. But she'll forever be remembered as Carrie Bradshaw, a shoe shopper with a writing problem, on Sex and the City.
7. March 25, 1347: Catherine of Siena. Out of Catholicism's 37 "Doctors of the Church," she is 1 of 4 women. She is 1 of 6 patron saints of Europe. Siena College in Loudonville, New York, outside Albany, is named for her.
6. March 25, 1934: Gloria Steinem. She was a columnist for New York magazine before co-founding the National Women's Political Caucus and Ms. magazine. She is the leading American feminist in the century since women got the right to vote.
5. March 25, 1928: Jim Lovell. He flew on Gemini 7 and Gemini 12. He flew on Apollo 8, and with his crewmates was named Time magazine's Men of the Year. He commanded Apollo 13, and while he didn't get to land on the Moon, by getting that troubled mission home, he became better known than any Moonwalker other than Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
4. March 25, 1745: John Barry. Called "The Father of the American Navy," a statue of him stands outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia. A nearby bridge over the Delaware River is named for him.
3. March 25, 1947: Elton John. In the mid-1970s, he was bigger than any musical personality is now. He was so big, Soul Train made him their 1st white performer, and their audience loved him. He was also the only musical performer to play at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles between The Beatles' last tour and The Jacksons' Victory Tour.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1867: Arturo Toscanini. He directed the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1954, making him a giant of American radio, long after he had been the musical director of La Scala in Milan, Italy, the world's greatest opera house. He was so big in his own time that Billy Joel included him in "We Didn't Start the Fire." He didn't do that for Elton, with whom he later had joint tours. Or even for Aretha.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1881: Béla Bartók. He combined classical music and Slavic folk music to become Hungary's greatest composer since Franz Liszt.
Honorable Mention: March 25, 1938: Hoyt Axton. Perhaps now better known as an actor, including in Gremlins, he wrote Three Dog Night's hits "Joy to the World" and "Never Been to Spain," the Kingston Trio's "Greenback Dollar," Steppenwolf's "The Pusher," and Ringo Starr's "No No Song,"
2. March 25, 1942: Aretha Franklin. Young people today have called several female vocalists "Queen," ranging from Taylor Swift to Nicki Minaj. Children, please. The Queen was either Aretha or Tina Turner, and there were a lot of women between them in the line of succession.
1. March 25, 1914: Norman Borlaug. He developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat, greatly increasing food capacity all over the world. He probably led to more people being fed than anyone who has ever lived. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Still alive as of this writing: Glavine, Johnson, Granato, Swoopes, Klitschko, Lowery, Glaser, Strong, Cross, Parker, Steinem, Lovell, John.