The 78th day of the year, the 79th in a leap year

Born on 19 March

Every 19 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces in UTC, and in most of the world. In 16 of those years the sun changed sign within hours of the date, and by the clocks somewhere far enough east or west of Greenwich it was 19 March when it happened; see below.

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.
Where the sun stands on 19 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 19 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 19 March in any year.

Crossings within hours of 19 March

A date begins earlier east of Greenwich and later to the west, so in these years the sun changed sign on the day before or after in UTC, at a moment when clocks somewhere on earth already, or still, showed 19 March — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 19 March that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.

  • 1976: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 11:49 UTC
  • 1980: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 11:10 UTC
  • 1984: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 10:24 UTC
  • 1988: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 09:39 UTC
  • 1992: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 08:48 UTC
  • 1996: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 08:03 UTC
  • 2000: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 07:35 UTC
  • 2004: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 06:48 UTC
  • 2008: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 05:48 UTC
  • 2012: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 05:14 UTC
  • 2016: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 04:30 UTC
  • 2017: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 10:29 UTC
  • 2020: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 03:50 UTC
  • 2021: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 09:37 UTC
  • 2024: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 03:06 UTC
  • 2025: the sun entered Aries on 20 March, 09:01 UTC

Which weekday 19 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 March falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.

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Showing 19 March in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →

How common a birthday 19 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,788 babies were born on 19 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 244th 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 19 March

18 people born on 19 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
David Livingstone1813–1873Scottish missionary and explorer
Adolf Eichmann1906–1962German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust
Mario Monti1943–Italian economist and politician
Albert Speer1905–1981German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials
Frédéric Joliot-Curie1900–1958French scientist
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar
Mario Molina1943–2020Mexican chemical engineer
Alessandro Nesta1976–Italian association football player and manager
Joseph of Anchieta1534–1597Spanish Jesuit missionary
John IV of Portugal1604–1656King of Portugal from 1640 to 1656
Kolo Touré1981–Ivorian association football manager
Hakim Ziyech1993–Moroccan-Dutch footballer
Norman Haworth1883–1950British chemist
Hiroo Onoda1922–2014Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Yegor Gaidar1956–2009Russian economist
Egon Krenz1937–German politician, communist leader of East Germany
Héctor Bellerín1995–Spanish association football player
Hans Küng1928–2021Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author

Died on 19 March

11 people who died on 19 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
Chuck Norris1940–2026American martial artist and action actor
Louis de Broglie1892–1987French physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics
Arthur Balfour1848–1930British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman
Edgar Rice Burroughs1875–1950American writer
Pope Clement XI1649–1721pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
Elias Lönnrot1802–1884Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry
Norman Haworth1883–1950British chemist
Alexander III of Scotland1241–1286King of Scots 1249–1286
Paul Scofield1922–2008British actor
Willem de Kooning1904–1997Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist

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