List of Famous people born on March 8th
Tatsuya Egawa
Tatsuya Egawa is a Japanese manga artist and film director. He is probably best known for his Golden Boy manga series, which debuted in 1992. Egawa is known for his drawings of over-the-top facial expressions always crediting the staff of his creations, even on the covers. Kōsuke Fujishima, who is known as the creator of Oh My Goddess was once one of Egawa's assistants.
Mohammadou Idrissou
Mohammadou Idrissou is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for SC Viktoria 06 Griesheim.
Mohammed Bouyeri
Mohammed Bouyeri is a Moroccan-Dutch convicted murderer serving a life sentence without parole in the prison of Nieuw Vosseveld (Vught) for the assassination of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. A member of the Hofstad Network, he was incarcerated in 2004.
Alejandro González, Jr.
Alejandro González Jr. was a Mexican professional boxer who challenged once for the IBF super bantamweight title. He was the son of former world champion Alejandro Martín González.
Tsutomu Mizukami
Tsutomu Mizukami , also known as Tsutomu Minakami, was a Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays. Mizukami's major works include The Temple of the Wild Geese, Kiga kaikyō and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen. His writings earned him, among other awards, the Tanizaki Prize and the Naoki Prize.
Dick Hyman
Richard Hyman is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 60-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.
Aslı Erdoğan
Aslı Erdoğan is a prize-winning Turkish writer, author, human rights activist, and columnist for Özgür Gündem and formerly for Radikal, ex political prisoner, particle physicist. Her second novel has been published in English, and eight books translated into twenty languages.
Dr. Otto Peltzer
Otto Paul Eberhard Peltzer was a German middle distance runner who set world records in the 1920s. Over the 800 m Peltzer improved Ted Meredith's long-standing record by 0.3 seconds to 1:51.6 min in London in July 1926. Over the 1000 m he set a world record of 2:25.8 in Paris in July 1927, and over 1500 m Peltzer broke Paavo Nurmi's world record (3:52.6) and set a new one at 3:51.0 in Berlin in September 1926. Peltzer was the only athlete to have held the 800 m and the 1500 m world records simultaneously, until Sebastian Coe matched the feat over fifty years later.
Silvia Derbez
Lucille Silvia Derbez Amézquita, better known as Silvia Derbez, was a Mexican film and television actress. She competed in Miss Mexico 1952 where she came in 4th place.
Maurice Koechlin
Maurice Koechlin was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family.