What happened on March 19 ?

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)

1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)

1534 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil (d. 1597)

1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)

1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)

1734 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)

1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)

1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)

1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)

1821 - Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author (d. 1890)

1824 or 1828 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)

1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)

1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)

1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)

1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)

1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)

1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)

1871 - Schofield Haigh, British cricketer (d. 1921)

1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (d. 1929)

1873 - Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)

1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)

1883 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (d. 1946)

1888 - Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)

1891 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)

1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)

1894 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (d. 1975)

1894 - Joe Venuti, American musician (d. 1978)

1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)

1904 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)

1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)

1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)

1909 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)

1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer

1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)

1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)

1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)

1916 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)

1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)

1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)

1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)

1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)

1923 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)

1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)

1927 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)

1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian

1928 - Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor

1930 - Ornette Coleman, American musician

1933 - Philip Roth, American author

1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress

1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer

1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician

1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany

1939 - Joe Kapp, American football player

1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician

1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize

1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin

1947 - Glenn Close, American actress

1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player

1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)

1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor

1962 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)

1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer

1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer

1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor

1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel

1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model

1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model

1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian Rules Footballer

1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean Major League Baseball player

1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer

1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer

Year of birth unknown - Mana, Japanese guitarist (Malice Mizer and Moi dix Mois)