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 Tõnisson • Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius • Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre • Doug Lewis (politician) • Frederik Magle • Hanna Pakarinen • Heinz Putzl • Henri Tauzin • Ivan Goff • Jimmy Mann (ice hockey) • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Lorna Fitzgerald • Michael IX Palaiologos • Pekka Vasala • Riccardo Patrese • Señor Wences • Terran Sandwith • Tsuneo Matsudaira • Win Maung
Born in the same month (April 1946): Arrigo Sacchi • Dave Hill (guitarist) • Dee Murray • Ed O'Neill • Ginette Reno • Jane Asher • John Waters • Katsuaki Satō • Marilyn Nelson • Peter Sutherland • Sandro Chia • Stan Winston • Tim Curry • Vladimir Zhirinovsky