Posted by Paul Callighan on Mar 27, 2026
March 22, 1948 – Composer and theatrical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber is born in Kensington, London, England.  The composer of such musicals as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Webber has been called the most commercially successful composer in history.
 
March 23, 1912 – German-American rocket scientist (and Disney space consultant), Wernher von Braun, is born in Wirsitz (now Wyrzysk) Poland
 
March 24, 1874 – Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini is born in Budapest, Hungary.
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March 26, 1911 – American playwright Tennessee Williams (author of such works as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is born in Columbus, Mississippi.