The 93rd day of the year, the 94th in a leap year
Born on 3 April
Every 3 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
- Sunday and Friday16 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 3 April in any year.
Which weekday 3 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 April falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 3 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 3 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,798 babies were born on 3 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 211th 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 3 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Marlon Brando | 1924–2004 | American actor |
| Helmut Kohl | 1930–2017 | Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998) |
| Jane Goodall | 1934–2025 | English primatologist and anthropologist |
| Washington Irving | 1783–1859 | American writer, historian and diplomat |
| Eddie Murphy | 1961– | American actor and comedian |
| Doris Day | 1922–2019 | American actress and singer |
| Alec Baldwin | 1958– | American actor |
| Nigel Farage | 1964– | British politician |
| Alcide De Gasperi | 1881–1954 | Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party |
| Cobie Smulders | 1982– | Canadian actress and model |
| George Herbert | 1593–1633 | Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest |
| Gabriel Jesus | 1997– | Brazilian association football player |
| Otto Weininger | 1880–1903 | Austrian philosopher and writer |
| Amanda Bynes | 1986– | American actress and fashion designer |
| Leona Lewis | 1985– | British singer |
| Gus Grissom | 1926–1967 | American astronaut |
| Ben Foster | 1983– | English association football player |
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari | 1948– | President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994 |
Died on 3 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Johannes Brahms | 1833–1897 | German composer |
| Graham Greene | 1904–1991 | British writer, playwright and literary critic |
| Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | 1617–1682 | Spanish Baroque painter |
| Shivaji | 1630–1680 | Indian ruler, king of the Marathas from 1674 to 1680 |
| Pope Honorius IV | 1210–1287 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 1287 |
| Juliusz Słowacki | 1809–1849 | Polish Romantic poet |
| Jesse James | 1847–1882 | American outlaw, Confederate guerrilla and train robber |
| Kurt Weill | 1900–1950 | German composer |
| Sarah Vaughan | 1924–1990 | American jazz and classical singer |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1927–2013 | German-born British-American author |
| Cesare Maldini | 1932–2016 | Italian footballer and manager |
| Ernst Chladni | 1756–1827 | German physicist, mathematician and musician |
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