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): Buster Williams • Gilles Lamontagne • Heinz Putzl • Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan • Henry Ian Cusick • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga • Joe Foss • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Morgan Taylor • Pekka Vasala • Robert Dean Frisbie • Robert Miller (art dealer) • Sean Bean
Born in the same month (April 1946): Colin Coates • Dee Murray • Dimitrij Rupel • Georgi Markov (wrestler) • György Spiró • Hanna Suchocka • Hayley Mills • Nate Colbert • Pete Rouse • Phil Robertson • Sara Parkin • Talia Shire • Tim Thomerson • Zaid Abdul-Aziz