1 March: today's birthdays

• Jensen Ackles - American actor
• Javier Bardem - Spanish actor, born Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in No Country for Old Men
• Justin Bieber - Canadian singer
• Sandro Botticelli - Italian painter, born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi. He is best known for his paintings The Birth of Venus and Primavera 
• Frédéric Chopin - Polish pianist and composer with a French father
• Fryderyk Chopin - Polish pianist and composer with a French father
• Russell Coutts - New Zealand skipper
• Roger Daltrey - English singer and songwriter
• Henri de Balliet-Latour - Belgian sports manager
• Lamberto Dini - Italian politician and economist
• ​Brad Falchuk - American television writer and director. He married Gwyneth Paltrow
• Jean-Michel Folon - Belgian illustrator, painter and sculptor
• Michael Giles - English drummer
• Jonathan Glazer - English film director
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar - American actor
• Josephine Hart - Irish writer and theatrical producer
  
• Ron Howard - American actor, film director and producer
• Boško Janković - Serbian soccer player
• Oskar Kokoschka - Austrian painter
• Mounir Mahjoubi - French entrepreneur and politician of Moroccan descent
• Denis Mukwege - Congolese phisician, gynecologist, and activist, born Denis Mukengere Mukwege. He founded the Panzi Hospital in the the Democratic Republic of the Congo, specialized in the treatment of women who have been raped. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, along with activist Nadia Murad
• David Niven - English actor
• Seymour Papert - South African mathematician
• Ryan Peake - Canadian guitarist
• Luigi Pelloux - Savoyard general and politician
• Augustus Welby Nothmore Pugin - English architect
• Yitzhak Rabin - Israeli politician. He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
• Jacques Rivette - French film director
• Georg Simmel - German philosopher and sociologist
• Lytton Strachey - English writer and critic
• Russell Wong - American actor