The 60th day of the year, the 61st in a leap year

Born on 1 March

Every 1 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces, in every time zone.

Star sign
PiscesWater, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
Birthstone
Aquamarine, BloodstoneThe 1912 list put Bloodstone first.
Birth flower
DaffodilUsually taken today to mean new beginnings.
Most common weekdays
Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 1 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 1 March, 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 March in any year.

Which weekday 1 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 March falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.

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How common a birthday 1 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,813 babies were born on 1 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 172nd 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 March

18 people born on 1 March, 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
Frédéric Chopin1810–1849Polish composer and pianist
Justin Bieber1994–Canadian singer-songwriter
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Israeli politician, statesman and general
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa1892–1927Japanese writer
Dalia Grybauskaitė1956–President of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019
Javier Bardem1969–Spanish actor
Kesha1987–American singer and songwriter
Lupita Nyong'o1983–Mexican-Kenyan actress and film director
Harry Belafonte1927–2023American singer, actor and civil rights activist
Ron Howard1954–American film director, producer, and actor
David Niven1910–1983British actor and novelist
Glenn Miller1904–1944American band leader, arranger, and composer
Jensen Ackles1978–American actor
Carlos Vela1989–Mexican former footballer
Oskar Kokoschka1886–1980Austrian painter, poet and playwright
Zack Snyder1966–American filmmaker
João Goulart1919–1976President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964
Archer Martin1910–2002British chemist

Died on 1 March

12 people who died on 1 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Gabriele D'Annunzio1863–1938Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff1852–1911Dutch physical and organic chemist
Pope Leo VIII915–965pope
Pope Felix III440–492pope (483-492)
Akira Toriyama1955–2024Japanese manga artist and character designer
Arthur Koestler1905–1983Hungarian-British author and journalist
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor1747–1792Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
George Herbert1593–1633Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Alain Resnais1922–2014French film director
Georges J. F. Köhler1946–1995German immunologist
Francesco Redi1626–1697Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet
Girolamo Frescobaldi1583–1643Italian composer

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