The 71st day of the year, the 72nd in a leap year
Born on 12 March
Every 12 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
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 12 March in any year.
Which weekday 12 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 12 March falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 12 March in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 12 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,783 babies were born on 12 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 270th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 12 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| George Berkeley | 1685–1753 | Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop |
| Gabriele D'Annunzio | 1863–1938 | Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician |
| Mitt Romney | 1947– | American politician and businessman |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922–1969 | American writer |
| Gustav Kirchhoff | 1824–1887 | German physicist |
| Liza Minnelli | 1946– | American actress and singer |
| Ratko Mladić | 1942–2026 | Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and war crimes in 2017 |
| Leo Esaki | 1925– | Japanese physicist |
| Vladimir Vernadsky | 1863–1945 | Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist |
| Raúl Alfonsín | 1927–2009 | Argentine politician |
| Aaron Eckhart | 1968– | American actor |
| Edward Albee | 1928–2016 | American playwright |
| Shreya Ghoshal | 1984– | Indian playback singer |
| Wilhelm Frick | 1877–1946 | German Nazi Party politician |
| Milorad Dodik | 1959– | Bosnian Serb politician |
| Steve Harris | 1956– | British bassist |
| Hisato Satō | 1982– | Japanese association football player |
| Christina Grimmie | 1994–2016 | American singer and songwriter |
Died on 12 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Yat-sen | 1866–1925 | Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary |
| Pope Gregory I | 540–604 | Pope from 590 to 604 |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948–2015 | English fantasy author |
| William Henry Bragg | 1862–1942 | British scientist |
| Pope Innocent I | died 417 | Pope from 401 to 417 |
| Charlie Parker | 1920–1955 | American jazz saxophonist |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | 1830–1916 | Austrian writer |
| Zoran Đinđić | 1952–2003 | Serbian politician |
| Yehudi Menuhin | 1916–1999 | American violinist and conductor |
| Ragnar Granit | 1900–1991 | Finnish scientist |
| Robert Ludlum | 1927–2001 | American novelist |
| Lloyd Shapley | 1923–2016 | American economist and mathematician |
Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.