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.
Where the sun stands on 1 April. The marked arc is every position it has held on 1 April, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

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.

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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

18 people born on 1 April, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Otto von Bismarck1815–1898German statesman and Chancellor
Wangarĩ Maathai1940–2011Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
Toshiro Mifune1920–1997Japanese actor
Milan Kundera1929–2023Czech and French novelist
Abraham Maslow1908–1970American psychologist
Ferenc Puskás1927–2006Hungarian association football player
William Harvey1578–1657English physician
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943Russian composer, pianist and conductor
Debbie Reynolds1932–2016American actress, singer, and dancer
Susan Boyle1961–British singer
Alexander Stubb1968–Finnish politician and the 13th President of Finland (2024–)
Joseph de Maistre1753–1821Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1933–French physicist
Sophie Germain1776–1831French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1865–1929Austrian chemist
Edmond Rostand1868–1918French poet and dramatist
Clarence Seedorf1976–Dutch association football player and manager
Edgar Wallace1875–1932British crime writer, journalist and playwright

Died on 1 April

11 people who died on 1 April, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Lev Landau1908–1968Soviet theoretical physicist
Val Kilmer1959–2025American actor
Marvin Gaye1939–1984American R&B and soul singer
Yevgeny Yevtushenko1933–2017Soviet and Russian poet
Charles I of Austria1887–1922Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
Max Ernst1891–1976German artist
Eleanor of Aquitaine1124–1204Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 and of England from 1154 to 1189
Scott Joplin1868–1917American composer and pianist
George II of Greece1890–1947King of Greece (r. 1922-1924, 1935-1947)
Simo Häyhä1905–2002Finnish military sniper
Martha Graham1894–1991American dancer and choreographer

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