Willie Somerset (82)
March 17th, 1942

American basketball player – Willie Somerset was born in Sharon (City in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States) on March 17th, 1942 and is 82 years old today.

Other personalities born on March 17

34

Saina Nehwal

Indian badminton player

*March 17th, 1990, Dhindar

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

80

John Sebastian

American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1944)

*March 17th, 1944, New York City

78

Lennox Burgher

Jamaican triple jumper

*March 17th, 1946, Jamaica

85

Giovanni Trapattoni

Italian association football player and manager

*March 17th, 1939, Cusano Milanino

69

Gary Sinise

American actor

*March 17th, 1955, Blue Island

37

Patrick Ebert

German footballer

*March 17th, 1987, Potsdam

75

Patrick Duffy

American actor

*March 17th, 1949, Townsend

67

Mari Maurstad

Norwegian actress

*March 17th, 1957, Oslo

76

Hanskarl Rotzinger

German karateka

*March 17th, 1940, Constance †March 15th, 2017, Constance

78

Gian Töndury

(1906-1985)

*March 17th, 1906, Samedan †March 15th, 1985, Zürich

38

Silke Spiegelburg

German pole vaulter

*March 17th, 1986, Georgsmarienhütte

64

Thomas Strobl

German politician

*March 17th, 1960, Heilbronn

45

Kasper Ødum

Badminton player

*March 17th, 1979, Randers

72

Hans Wollschläger

German writer

*March 17th, 1935, Minden †May 19th, 2007, Bamberg

36

Peter Käsbauer

Badminton player

*March 17th, 1988, Weiden in der Oberpfalz

73

Kurt Russell

American actor (born 1951)

*March 17th, 1951, Springfield

32

Isabel Herttrich

Badminton player

*March 17th, 1992, Hersbruck

31

Romina Gabdullina

Russian badminton player

*March 17th, 1993, Moscow

27

Jessica Pugh

Badminton player

*March 17th, 1997, Telford

76

William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer

*March 17th, 1948, Conway

81

Jeff Banks

British fashion designer

*March 17th, 1943, Ebbw Vale

54

Rudolf Nureyev

Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer

*March 17th, 1938, Razdolnoe †January 6th, 1993, Levallois-Perret

62

Clare Grogan

Scottish singer and actress

*March 17th, 1962, Glasgow

64

Wilfried Auerbach

Austrian rower

*March 17th, 1960, Linz

43

Kyle Korver

American professional basketball player

*March 17th, 1981, Lakewood

29

Lisa Sophie Gericke

German bobsledder and ice speed skater

*March 17th, 1995, Brandenburg an der Havel

28

Tokischa

Dominican singer

*March 17th, 1996, Puerto Plata

45

Nat King Cole

American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)

*March 17th, 1919, Montgomery †February 15th, 1965, Santa Monica

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

English actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Willie Somerset