Famous People Born on March 31

• Bunsen, Robert (1811)

  The spectrometer inventor with the gas burner name

• Chamberlain, Richard (1935)

  Star of Shogun and other miniseries

• Chavez, Cesar (1927)

  Leader of the 1960s grape boycott

• Descartes, René (1596)

  The philosopher who said "I think, therefore I am"

• Gore, Al (1948)

  The former vice-president who starred in "An Inconvenient Truth"

• Jones, Shirley (1934)

  Mom on TV's The Partridge Family

• McGregor, Ewan (1971)

  Young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars episodes I, II and III

• Paz, Octavio (1914)

  The Mexican poet who wrote 'Piedra de sol' ('Sun Stone')

• Walken, Christopher (1943)

  The Russian roulette guy in The Deer Hunter

• Zhao, Chloé (1982)

  The writer and director of the film 'The Rider'

See also: Died on March 31