Celebrities born on March 22

Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which became NASA, and became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, whose primary task was development of the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket system which was used in the NASA manned moon landings in the late 60s-early 70s.

Leo 'Bud' Welch was an American gospel/ blues singer and guitarist. By 1947 at age 15, Bud Welch could play guitar and sing well enough to perform in front of an audience. He received praise and blessings of many elder guitar players. And he was offered an audition by BB King - but could not afford the trip to Memphis. Bud stayed with the blues till 1975 when he mostly converted to gospel. His international music career started in 2014, with the release of the album "Sabougla Voices" by Big Legal Mess Records. His subsequent studio album, "I Don't Prefer No Blues", also recorded for Big Legal Mess, was released in 2015.

Swedish costume designer

Tudor Williams was born on March 22, 1896 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England as Llewelyn Tudor Owens. He was an actor, known for Citizen Kane (1941), How Green Was My Valley(1941) and Mrs. Miniver (1942). He died on March 11, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBE is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.

Luise von Finckh made her first acting experiences at the age of 10 in the musical Les Misérables at the Theater des Westens. In 2005 she played little Cosette there. From January to July 2007, she participated in the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein as Rosi. This was followed by the cast as Lotte in the film cattle à la carte in 2010 and 2011 as Luise in the fairy tale The scored shoes. In the summer of 2012, she first played the French exchange student Claire Latour in the series Good Times, Bad Times, where she took over in the fall of 2016, the main character Jule Vogt. In 2015 she could be seen in Fack ju Göhte 2.