The 83rd day of the year, the 84th in a leap year
Born on 24 March
Every 24 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
- Thursday and Tuesday16 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 24 March in any year.
Which weekday 24 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 24 March falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 24 March in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 24 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,773 babies were born on 24 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 304th 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 24 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Rafael Orozco Maestre | 1954–1992 | Colombian singer |
| Dario Fo | 1926–2016 | Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist |
| Harry Houdini | 1874–1926 | Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer |
| Steve McQueen | 1930–1980 | American actor |
| Peter Debye | 1884–1966 | Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist |
| William Morris | 1834–1896 | English textile designer, poet, artist and writer |
| Steve Ballmer | 1956– | American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft |
| Jim Parsons | 1973– | American actor |
| Adolf Butenandt | 1903–1995 | German biochemist |
| Wilhelm Reich | 1897–1957 | Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist |
| Vasily Smyslov | 1921–2010 | Soviet chess grandmaster |
| Georgius Agricola | 1494–1555 | German mineralogist |
| John Kendrew | 1917–1997 | English biochemist and crystallographer |
| Yanis Varoufakis | 1961– | Greek economist and politician |
| Ilir Meta | 1969– | President of Albania from 2017 to 2022 |
| Luigi Einaudi | 1874–1961 | President of Italy from 1948 to 1955 |
| Walter Baade | 1893–1960 | German astronomer |
| Vojislav Koštunica | 1944– | Serbian politician |
Died on 24 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jules Verne | 1828–1905 | French writer |
| Elizabeth I | 1533–1603 | Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 |
| Johan Cruyff | 1947–2016 | Dutch footballer and manager |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807–1882 | American poet and educator |
| Harun al-Rashid | 763–809 | 5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809) |
| Bernard Montgomery | 1887–1976 | British Army officer |
| Alexander Alekhine | 1892–1946 | Russian-French chess player |
| Garry Shandling | 1949–2016 | American comedian |
| Pope Nicholas V | 1397–1455 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455 |
| Óscar Romero | 1917–1980 | Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and saint |
| Lys Assia | 1924–2018 | Swiss singer |
| Mary of Teck | 1867–1953 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 |
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