List of Famous people born in March
René Andrieu
René Andrieu was a French Communist Resistance fighter, journalist and politician. He served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans during World War II, and headed the Communist newspaper l'Humanité from 1958 to 1984. He was also part of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party.
Enrique Santos Discépolo
Enrique Santos Discépolo (Discepolín) was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos like Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel. He was also a filmmaker, actor and screenwriter.
Ala Gertner
Ala Gertner, referred to in other sources as Alla, Alina, Ella, and Ela Gertner, was one of four women hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944.
Helene Weber
Helene Weber was a German politician and was known as a women's rights activist. In the Weimar Republic she rose to prominence in the Catholic Centre Party. In 1945 she was among the founders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In 1948 she was a co-founder of the CDU Women's Task Force, a precursor of the party's Women's Union, which she chaired from 1951 to 1958. Weber is one of four women who, alongside 61 men, drafted Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, in 1948-49. After initial hesitation, she closed ranks with the women delegates of the Social Democratic Party to successfully fight for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women shall have equal rights" in Article 3 of the Basic Law. She is often cited for her anti-war statement: "The entirely male-run state is the ruin of nations".
Alexander Wrabetz
Alexander Wrabetz is the Director General of the Austrian public broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) and Member of the Executive Board of the European Broadcasting Union.
Maude Abbott
Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott was a Canadian physician, among Canada's earliest female medical graduates, and an internationally known expert on congenital heart disease. She was one of the first women to obtain a BA from McGill University.
Jupp Derwall
Josef "Jupp" Derwall was a German professional football manager and former player. He was head coach of the West Germany national team between 1978 and 1984, winning the UEFA Euro 1980 and reaching the final of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Oshima Yuya
Yuya Oshima is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Masataka Morizono, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 World Championships.
Gabriel Achilier
Gabriel Eduardo Achilier Zurita is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for Orense S.C. in the Liga PRO Ecuador on loan from Alianza Lima as a Defender.
Prince Charles-Philippe d'Orléans
Prince Charles-Philippe Marie Louis of Orléans, Duke of Anjou is a Prince and member of the House of Orléans.