Clare Francis

Clare Mary Francis MBE is a British novelist who in her first career as a yachtswoman has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own. She was the first woman to captain a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race.

17 April 1946

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Aleksander Klumberg • Alice Harden • Arthur Lake (actor) • Augustus Edward Hough Love • Collin McKinney • Eric Brewer (ice hockey) • Gregor Piatigorsky • Heidi Alexander • Josif Pančić • Julia Macur • Lindsay Hartley • Mikael Åkerfeldt • Paul Nicholls (horse racing) • Raffaele Palladino • Richard Field (judge) • Sidney Garfield • Sirimavo Bandaranaike • Tsuneo Matsudaira

Born in the same month (April 1946): Dee Murray • John Lloyd (journalist) • John Waters • Johnnie Lewis • Peter Sutherland • Rodney Frelinghuysen • Stan Winston • Zaid Abdul-Aziz