The 85th day of the year, the 86th in a leap year
Born on 26 March
Every 26 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
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 26 March in any year.
Which weekday 26 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 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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How common a birthday 26 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,776 babies were born on 26 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 296th 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 26 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Dawkins | 1941– | English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author |
| Robert Frost | 1874–1963 | American poet |
| Nancy Pelosi | 1940– | American politician |
| Keira Knightley | 1985– | British actress |
| Larry Page | 1973– | American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur |
| Tennessee Williams | 1911–1983 | American playwright |
| Syngman Rhee | 1875–1965 | President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 |
| Diana Ross | 1944– | American singer and actress |
| Paul Erdős | 1913–1996 | Hungarian mathematician |
| Viktor Frankl | 1905–1997 | Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author |
| Leonard Nimoy | 1931–2015 | American actor |
| Alan Arkin | 1934–2023 | American actor, filmmaker |
| James Caan | 1940–2022 | American actor |
| Anthony Leggett | 1938–2026 | British physicist |
| Mikel Arteta | 1982– | Spanish football manager |
| Steven Tyler | 1948– | American singer |
| Patrick Süskind | 1949– | German writer and screenwriter |
| Carl Wieman | 1951– | Nobel prize winning US physicist |
Died on 26 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770–1827 | German composer |
| Sarah Bernhardt | 1844–1923 | French stage actress, painter and sculptor |
| Walt Whitman | 1819–1892 | American poet, essayist and journalist |
| David Lloyd George | 1863–1945 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 1931–2015 | Swedish poet, psychologist and translator |
| Cecil Rhodes | 1853–1902 | British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa |
| James Callaghan | 1912–2005 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888–1959 | American novelist and screenwriter |
| Roland Barthes | 1915–1980 | French philosopher and essayist |
| Ahmed Sékou Touré | 1922–1984 | President of Guinea |
| al-Hallaj | 858–922 | Persian mystic, poet and Sufi teacher |
| James Hutton | 1726–1797 | Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist |
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