The 81st day of the year, the 82nd in a leap year
Born on 22 March
Every 22 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries in UTC, and in most of the world. In 7 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 22 March when it happened; see below.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- 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.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 March in any year.
Crossings within hours of 22 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 22 March — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 March that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1923: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 15:29 UTC
- 1927: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 14:59 UTC
- 1931: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 14:06 UTC
- 1935: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 13:18 UTC
- 1939: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 12:28 UTC
- 1943: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 12:03 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Aries on 21 March, 11:13 UTC
Which weekday 22 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 March falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
Showing 22 March in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,771 babies were born on 22 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 310th 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 22 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Millikan | 1868–1953 | American physicist |
| Reese Witherspoon | 1976– | American actress |
| Wilhelm I | 1797–1888 | 19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia |
| Anthony van Dyck | 1599–1641 | Flemish Baroque artist |
| Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | 1459–1519 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Ulugh Beg | 1394–1449 | Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician |
| William Shatner | 1931– | Canadian actor |
| Burton Richter | 1931–2018 | American physicist |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | 1869–1964 | President of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901 |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948– | British theatre composer |
| Abolhassan Banisadr | 1933–2021 | Iranian politician and economist, and Iran's first President |
| Bruno Ganz | 1941–2019 | Swiss actor |
| P. Ramlee | 1929–1973 | Malaysian singer, actor and film director |
| Paul Doumer | 1857–1932 | French statesman |
| Valdis Zatlers | 1955– | President of Latvia from 2007 to 2011 |
| John II Casimir Vasa | 1609–1672 | King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania 1648–1668 |
| Fanny Ardant | 1949– | French actress |
| Martín Vizcarra | 1963– | President of Peru from 2018 to 2020 |
Died on 22 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749–1832 | German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1632–1687 | Italian-born French composer |
| Lionel Jospin | 1937–2026 | Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002 |
| Ahmed Yassin | 1937–2004 | Palestinian political and religious leader |
| Kenzō Tange | 1913–2005 | Japanese architect |
| James Black | 1924–2010 | Scottish doctor and pharmacologist |
| Sabiha Gökçen | 1913–2001 | first Turkish female combat pilot |
| William Hanna | 1910–2001 | American animator |
| Carloman of Bavaria | 830–880 | King of Bavaria from 876 to 879 |
| Jonathan Edwards | 1703–1758 | Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian |
| Agostino Carracci | 1557–1602 | Bolognese painter of the Baroque |
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