The 70th day of the year, the 71st in a leap year

Born on 11 March

Every 11 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
Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 11 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 11 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 11 March in any year.

Which weekday 11 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 11 March 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 11 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,782 babies were born on 11 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 273rd 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 11 March

18 people born on 11 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
Douglas Adams1952–2001British science fiction writer and humorist
Torquato Tasso1544–1595Italian poet
Harold Wilson1916–1995Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976
Rupert Murdoch1931–American businessman
Qasem Soleimani1957–2020Iranian military officer
Didier Drogba1978–Ivorian and French association football player
Nicolaas Bloembergen1920–2017Dutch-born American physicist
Urbain Le Verrier1811–1877French astronomer
Frederik IX1899–1972King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972
Fábio Coentrão1988–Portuguese footballer
Nina Hagen1955–German singer, songwriter, and actress
Astor Piazzolla1921–1992Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger
Terrence Howard1969–American actor
Anton Yelchin1989–2016American actor
Andy Robertson1994–Scottish association football player
Vannevar Bush1890–1974American electrical engineer and science administrator
Antonin Scalia1936–2016Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
Anthony Davis1993–American basketball player

Died on 11 March

11 people who died on 11 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Alexander Fleming1881–1955Scottish physician and microbiologist
Slobodan Milošević1941–2006Yugoslav–Serbian politician
Edmondo De Amicis1846–1908Italian writer
James Tobin1918–2002American economist
Richard E. Byrd1888–1957American naval officer, explorer
Jean Casimir-Perier1847–19076th President of the French Republic
F. W. Murnau1888–1931German film director
Rupiah Banda1937–20224th president of Zambia (2008–2011)
John Toland1670–1722Irish philosopher
John Wyndham1903–1969English science fiction author
Erle Stanley Gardner1889–1970American writer and lawyer

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