03 April: today's birthdays

• Alec Baldwin - American actor, brother of William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin
• Rachel Bloom - American actress and comedian, born Rachel Leah Bloom 
• Marlon Brando - American actor. He won two Oscars: one for his role as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and one for starring as Vito Corleone in the film The Godfather (1972) 
• Amanda Bynes - American actress
• Butch Cassidy - Nickname of Robert LeRoy Parker, American train and bank robber
• Daniel Defoe - English author, born Daniel Foe. He wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
• Nigel Farage - English politician, the leader of Ukip (UK Independence Party)
• Reinhard Gehlen - German Nazi general
• George Herbert - English poet
• Leslie Howard - English actor and film director
• Washington Irving - American author, essayist and biographer
  
• Helmut Kohl - German politician
• Leona Lewis - American singer
• Eddie Murphy - American actor and comedian. He starred in Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, and The Nutty Professor