Born on this day – Arthur B. Rubinstein:

 

Composer

March 31, 1938 – April 23, 2018

Credits:

60 Minutes / Rubinstein (1975); ABC Weekend Specials (1978); Addie and the King of Hearts (1976); All the Way Home (1971); Amazing Stories (1985); Another Stakeout (1993); Aunt Mary (1979); Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991); Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier (1989); Beat the Clock (1979); Biography (1987); Blue Thunder (1983); Bring 'Em Back Alive (1983); Bulba (1981); Caught in the Act (1993); Chinese Puzzle (2013); Crazy from the Heart (1991); Crazy Like a Fox (1984); Dead Man's Island (1996); Deal of the Century (1983); Defense Play (1988); Demolition (2015); Doing Life (1986); Double Jeopardy (1996); Doubletake (1985); Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992); Eastwood on Eastwood (1997); Face Value (2001); Fake-Out (1982); Fame (1978); Fatal Friendship (1991); Floating Away (1998); Flying High (1978–1979); Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989); reat Performances (1974–1975); Gridlock (1980); Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981–1982); Hart to Hart Returns (1993); Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994); Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (1994); Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart (1995); Harvey (1972); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Impromptu (2013); Incident at Crestridge (1981); Indiscreet (1988); Inherit the Wind (1988); Internal Affairs (1988); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); Janek: The Silent Betrayal (1994); Johnny Staccato (1989); Las noches de Tefía (2023); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2016); Le gendarme de Abobo (2019); Les audacieux (1993); Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (1991); Look Homeward, Angel (1972); Lost in America (1985); Love Among Thieves (1987); Murder Among Friends (1985); Murder in Black and White (1990); Murder in Space (1985); Murder Times Seven (1990); Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1990); Nick of Time (1995); Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988); Not Just Another Affair (1982); On the Right Track (1981); Once Upon a Texas Train (1988); Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (1980); Portrait of a Stripper (1979); Pride (2014); Radio Days (1987); Return Engagement (1978); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981); Roses Are for the Rich (1987); Sawyer and Finn (1983); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1986); Secrets (1992); Sherlock Holmes (1981); Shirley (1979); Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000); Sins of the Past (1984); Skeezer (1982); Sledge Hammer! (1986); Small World (1958); Stakeout (1987); Superintelligence (2020); Taxi!! (1978); The Best of Times (1986); The Betty Ford Story (1987); The Cartier Affair (1984); The David Frost Show (1970); The Death of Maranzano (2013); The Easter Promise (1975); The Great Bank Hoax (1977); The Great Ships (1996–1999); The Hard Way (1991); The Heist (1989); The Hollywood Detective (1989); The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972); The Last Debate (2000); The Love Boat (1977–1978); The Man in the Brown Suit (1989); The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973); The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002); The Parade (1984); The Phoenix (1981–1982); The Plucky Duck Show (1992); The Price (1971); The Prince of Central Park (1977); The Princess Stallion (1997); The Red Hand Gang (1977); The Ruby Ring (1997); The Simpsons (1990); The Spanish Apartment (2002); The Special: Building Blue Thunder (2006); The Starlost (1974); The Streets of Beverly Hills (1992); The Thanksgiving Treasure (1973); The Wizard (1986–1987); Tiny Toon Adventures (1990); Unconquered (1989); WarGames (1983); When No One Would Listen (1992); Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988); Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981); You Can't Take It with You (1979).

Born on this day – Patrick Magee:

 

Actor

March 31, 1922 – August 14, 1982

Credits:

Play for Today (1979–1982); Horace (1982); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981); The Black Cat (1981); The Monster Club / Humgoo Story (1981); Chariots of Fire (1981); Hawk the Slayer (1980); The Sleep of Death (1980); Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980); The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time (1980); Rough Cut (1980); Churchill and the Generals (1979); The Brontë Sisters (1979); Oresteia (1979); Kidnapped (1978); Telefon (1977); Who Pays the Ferryman? (1977); BBC Play of the Month (1965–1977); Beasts (1976); Barry Lyndon (1975); Quiller (1975); Thriller (1974–1975); Galileo (1975); King Lear (1974); The Adventures of Black Beauty (1974); Simona (1974); Luther (1974); Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973); The Final Programme (1973); She Stoops to Conquer (1973); Lady Ice (1973); And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973); The Protectors (1973); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1968–1972); Demons of the Mind (1972); Pope Joan (1972); Young Winston (1972); Asylum / Framing story (1972); Beware My Brethren (1972); Tales from the Crypt / Blind Alleys (1972); A Clockwork Orange (1971); The Trojan Women (1971); King Lear (1970); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); Cromwell (1970); Canterbury Tales (1969); Destiny of a Spy (1969); Hard Contract (1969); The Birthday Party (1968); ITV Playhouse (1968); The Champions (1968); The Wednesday Play (1967–1968); Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968); Portrait in Terror (1968); Anzio (1968); Jonathan Swift (1967); Marat / Sade (1967); Conflict (1967); Die, Monster, Die! (1965); The Skull (1965); Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1965); Theatre 625 (1964); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964); Dixon of Dock Green (1964); Zulu (1964); The Plane Makers (1963–1964); The Avengers (1963); The Sentimental Agent (1963); Compact (1963); The Servant (1963); Zero One (1963); Dementia 13 (1963); Operacija Ticijan (1963); Moonstrike (1963); The Very Edge (1963); ITV Television Playhouse (1957–1963); Ricochet (1963); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1961–1963); The Young Racers (1963); Antigone (1962); A Prize of Arms (1962); The Boys (1962); ITV Play of the Week (1959–1962); A Great Ship (1962); Z Cars (1962); Never Back Losers (1961); Armchair Theatre (1961); About Religion (1961); No Hiding Place (1961); Young, Willing and Eager (1961); The Concrete Jungle (1960); The Madhouse on Castle Street (1960); Here Lies Miss Sabry (1960); Deadline Midnight (1960); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1955–1959); Dial 999 (1958); The Green Man (1956).

Born on this day – Etta Baker:

Blues singer

Guitarist

Banjoist

March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006

Albums:

Banjo (2009); Carolina Breakdown (2005); Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (2004); Instrumental Music from the Southern Appalachians (1956); Knoxville Rag, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (2006); One-Dime Blues (1991); Railroad Bill (1999); Railroad Bill (2015); The North Carolina Banjo Collection (1998).

Born on this day – Johann Sebastian Bach:

Composer

March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750

Johann Sebastian Bach portrait

by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748).

Harlan Ellison, on writing:

 

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing,
that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that.

You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

- Harlan Ellison.