The 91st day of the year, the 92nd in a leap year
Born on 1 April
Every 1 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 April in any year.
Which weekday 1 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 April falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 1 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 1 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,702 babies were born on 1 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 361st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 1 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Otto von Bismarck | 1815–1898 | German statesman and Chancellor |
| Wangarĩ Maathai | 1940–2011 | Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 |
| Toshiro Mifune | 1920–1997 | Japanese actor |
| Milan Kundera | 1929–2023 | Czech and French novelist |
| Abraham Maslow | 1908–1970 | American psychologist |
| Ferenc Puskás | 1927–2006 | Hungarian association football player |
| William Harvey | 1578–1657 | English physician |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873–1943 | Russian composer, pianist and conductor |
| Debbie Reynolds | 1932–2016 | American actress, singer, and dancer |
| Susan Boyle | 1961– | British singer |
| Alexander Stubb | 1968– | Finnish politician and the 13th President of Finland (2024–) |
| Joseph de Maistre | 1753–1821 | Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | 1933– | French physicist |
| Sophie Germain | 1776–1831 | French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher |
| Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | 1865–1929 | Austrian chemist |
| Edmond Rostand | 1868–1918 | French poet and dramatist |
| Clarence Seedorf | 1976– | Dutch association football player and manager |
| Edgar Wallace | 1875–1932 | British crime writer, journalist and playwright |
Died on 1 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Lev Landau | 1908–1968 | Soviet theoretical physicist |
| Val Kilmer | 1959–2025 | American actor |
| Marvin Gaye | 1939–1984 | American R&B and soul singer |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 1933–2017 | Soviet and Russian poet |
| Charles I of Austria | 1887–1922 | Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918) |
| Max Ernst | 1891–1976 | German artist |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | 1124–1204 | Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 and of England from 1154 to 1189 |
| Scott Joplin | 1868–1917 | American composer and pianist |
| George II of Greece | 1890–1947 | King of Greece (r. 1922-1924, 1935-1947) |
| Simo Häyhä | 1905–2002 | Finnish military sniper |
| Martha Graham | 1894–1991 | American dancer and choreographer |
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