The 75th day of the year, the 76th in a leap year
Born on 16 March
Every 16 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
- Wednesday and Monday16 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 16 March in any year.
Which weekday 16 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 16 March falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 16 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,757 babies were born on 16 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 340th 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 16 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Madison | 1751–1836 | President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 |
| Richard Stallman | 1953– | American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project |
| Sully Prudhomme | 1839–1907 | French poet, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Jens Stoltenberg | 1959– | Minister of Finance, former prime minister of Norway and NATO secretary general |
| Georg Ohm | 1789–1854 | German physicist and mathematician |
| Mark Carney | 1965– | 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025 |
| Jerry Lewis | 1926–2017 | American comedian, actor and film director |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1941–2018 | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| Josef Mengele | 1911–1979 | German SS officer and physician at Auschwitz |
| Alexandra Daddario | 1986– | American actress |
| Isabelle Huppert | 1953– | French actress |
| Caroline Herschel | 1750–1848 | German-British astronomer |
| Frederick Reines | 1918–1998 | American physicist |
| Theo Walcott | 1989– | English association football player |
| César Vallejo | 1892–1938 | Peruvian writer |
| Vladimir Komarov | 1927–1967 | Soviet cosmonaut |
| Pat Nixon | 1912–1993 | First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 |
| Aleksandr Popov | 1859–1906 | Russian physicist |
Died on 16 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Selma Lagerlöf | 1858–1940 | Swedish writer |
| Charles Albert Gobat | 1843–1914 | Swiss politician and lawyer |
| Valentinian III | 419–455 | emperor of the Western Roman Empire |
| Austen Chamberlain | 1863–1937 | British politician |
| John Macleod | 1876–1935 | Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin |
| Constantin Brâncuși | 1876–1957 | Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter |
| Miguel Primo de Rivera | 1870–1930 | Spanish military officer and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1710–1736 | Italian composer, violinist and organist |
| Derek Barton | 1918–1998 | English organic chemist |
| Jean Monnet | 1888–1979 | French civil servant and diplomat, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the European Union |
| Aron Nimzowitsch | 1886–1935 | Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician |
| Rachel Corrie | 1979–2003 | American anti-war and human rights activist |
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