Celebrity Birthdays

March 25: famed announced Howard Cosell (1918), novelist
Flannery O’Connor (1925), queen of soul and consummate performer
Aretha Franklin (1942), actress Bonnie Bedelia (1946),
singer/songwriter/countless Grammy Award winner Elton John (1947),
writer/actor John Stockwell (1961), The Practice’s Lisa Gay
Hamilton (1964), Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker
(1965), WNBA pioneer Sheryl Swoopes (1971) and actress best know as Lisa
Turtle on Saved By the Bell, Lark Voorhies (1974)

March 26: poet Robert Frost (1874), playwright Tennessee
Williams (1911), composer James Moody (1925), first female U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (1930), prolific actor Alan
Arkin (1934), legendary actor James Caan (1939), novelist Erica
Jong (1942), diva/songstress Diana Ross (1944), Aerosmith frontman
Steven Tyler (1948), comedienne Vicki Lawrence (1949), soul
crooner Teddy Pendergrass (1950), comedian Martin Short (1950),
news anchor Leeza Gibbons (1957), actress Catherine Keener (1960),
actress Jennifer Grey (1960), actress Amy Smart (1976) and Bend
It Like Beckham’s Keira Knightley (1985)

March 27: Disney duck artist Carl Barks (1901), jazz singer
Sarah Vaughan (1924), actor Samuel Ramey (1942), actor Art
Evans (1942), actor Michael York (1942), novelist Julia
Alvarez (1950), director Quentin Tarantino (1963), actress Talisa
Soto (1967) and pop diva Mariah Carey (1970)

March 28: songwriter Jay Livingston (1915), novelist Maeve
Binchy (1940), actress Dianne Wiest (1948), country star Reba
McEntire (1955), director A.J. Webb (1962), Starsky &
Hutch’s Vince Vaughn (1970) and Mona Lisa Smile’s Julia
Stiles (1981)

March 29: actor Robert “Buddy” Shaw (1907), actress/singer
Pearl Bailey (1918), musician/minister MC Hammer (1962),
supermodel Elle MacPherson (1964), model Jill Goodacre (1965),
Xena’s Lucy Lawless (1968) and tennis phenom Jennifer
Capriati (1976)

March 30: artist Vincent van Gogh (1853), actor Warren
Beatty (1937), musician Eric Clapton (1945), Robbie Coltrane
of Harry Potter film fame (1950), Mad About You’s Paul
Reiser (1957), musician Tracy Chapman (1964), 90210 alum
Ian Ziering (1964), Comic Book: The Movie’s Donna D’Errico
(1968), pop superstar Celine Dion (1968) and five-time Grammy winner
Norah Jones (1979)

March 31: classical composer Joseph Haydn (1732), famed
pugilist Jack Johnson (1878), Nobel Prize for Literature winner
Octavio Paz (1914), activist Cesar Chavez (1927), actress
Shirley Jones (1934), quirky character actor Christopher Walken
(1943), Welcome Back, Kotter’s Gabe Kaplan (1945), actress Rhea
Perlman (1948), former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (1948), Star
Wars prequel star Ewan McGregor (1971) and actress Rain Phoenix
(1973)