Eugene Esmonde

Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde, was a distinguished Irish pilot in the Fleet Air Arm who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to members of Commonwealth forces. Esmonde earned this award while in command of a torpedo bomber squadron in the Second World War - in an action known as Operation Fuller, the 'Channel Dash’.

1 March 1909

Born on the same birth date (1 March 1909): Winston Sharples

Born on the same birth day (1 March): 6th Dalai Lama • Aleksandr Golovin (artist) • Bruno Langlois • Claudio Bieler • Dave Marcis • Dirk Benedict • Emeraude Toubia • Ewart Astill • Frédéric Chopin • Giovanni Dupré • Jack Davenport • Javier Bardem • Jean-Michel Folon • Monu Mukhopadhyay • Oswaldo Cabrera • Robert Clary • Russell Wong • Samuel Werenfels • Sergei Kourdakov

Born in the same month (March 1909): Beatrice Shilling • Ben Webster • Bonnie and Clyde • C. Walter Hodges • Chips Rafferty • Don Raye • Elisabeth Geleerd • Ernest Gallo • Golo Mann • Harry Lane (footballer, born 1909) • Louis Hayward • Mel Ott • Moon Mullican • Nelson Algren • Obafemi Awolowo • Richard Wurmbrand • Winston Sharples