The 82nd day of the year, the 83rd in a leap year
Born on 23 March
Every 23 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- 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
- 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 23 March in any year.
Which weekday 23 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 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 23 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,747 babies were born on 23 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 352nd 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 23 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Akira Kurosawa | 1910–1998 | Japanese filmmaker |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 1749–1827 | French mathematician and astronomer |
| Wernher von Braun | 1912–1977 | German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect |
| Erich Fromm | 1900–1980 | German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst |
| Roger Martin du Gard | 1881–1958 | French writer |
| Emmy Noether | 1882–1935 | German Jewish mathematician |
| José Manuel Barroso | 1956– | Portuguese politician |
| Gianni Infantino | 1970– | Swiss-Italian-Lebanese football administrator |
| Hermann Staudinger | 1881–1965 | German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Michael Haneke | 1942– | Austrian film director and screenwriter |
| Rex Tillerson | 1952– | United States Secretary of State from 2017 to 2018 |
| Juan Gris | 1887–1927 | Spanish artist |
| Daniel Bovet | 1907–1992 | Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist |
| Michelle Monaghan | 1976– | American actress |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 1931–2016 | Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster |
| Walter Samuel | 1978– | Argentine association football player |
| Kyrie Irving | 1992– | American basketball player |
| Fernando Hierro | 1968– | Spanish football player and manager |
Died on 23 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1932–2011 | British-American actress |
| Stendhal | 1783–1842 | French writer |
| Lee Kuan Yew | 1923–2015 | 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore |
| Friedrich Hayek | 1899–1992 | Austrian and British economist |
| Madeleine Albright | 1937–2022 | United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 |
| Paul I of Russia | 1754–1801 | Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 |
| Pope Julius III | 1487–1555 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555 |
| Adolfo Suárez | 1932–2014 | Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981) |
| Gilbert N. Lewis | 1875–1946 | American physical chemist |
| Boris Berezovsky | 1946–2013 | Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician |
| Peter Lorre | 1904–1964 | Hungarian and American actor |
| Bhagat Singh | 1907–1931 | Indian revolutionary |
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