11 March: today's birthdays

• Peter Berg - American actor, film director and screenwriter
• Margherita Boniver - Italian politician
• Anthony Davis - American basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA.
• Alba de Céspedes - Italian Writer and poet of Cuban descent, born Alba Carla Lauritai de Céspedes y Bertini 
• Didier Drogba - Ivorian soccer player
• Maurice Halbwachs - French philosopher and sociologist
• Tomáš Košický - Slovak soccer player
• Rupert Murdoch - Australian-born American publisher, entrepreneur and television producer. He is the founder of the American multinational mass media company News Corp (The Sun, The Times, The Wall Street Journal)
• Takao Osawa - Japanese actor
• Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa - French dancer and dance teacher
• Ástor Piazzolla - Argentine composer of Italian descent, born Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla. He is one of the greatest musicians in Argentina. He is considered the one who revolutionized the traditional tango.
• Andrew Robertson - Scottish professional footballer
• Dominique Sanda - French actress, born Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne. She starred in Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, The Conformist, Novecento, and Beyond Good and Evil
• Qasem Soleimani - Iranian major general killed in the Baghdad International Airport airstrike ordered by American President Donald Trump
• Josep Maria Subirachs - Catalan sculptor and painter
• Torquato Tasso - Italian poet, writer, and dramatist. He wrote the epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata), which was published for the first time in Venice, in 1575, without his authorization
• Henry Tate - English entrepreneur
• Raoul Walsh - American film director
• Tetsu Watanabe - Japanese actor
• Willi Weber - German entrepreneur
• Harold Wilson - English politician