The 62nd day of the year, the 63rd in a leap year

Born on 3 March

Every 3 March birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Pisces, in every time zone.

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
Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 3 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 3 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 3 March in any year.

Which weekday 3 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 March falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.

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How common a birthday 3 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,790 babies were born on 3 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 237th 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 3 March

18 people born on 3 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
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Scottish-born inventor and scientist, credited with patenting the first practical telephone
Georg Cantor1845–1918German mathematician, inventor of set theory
Jessica Biel1982–American actress
Camila Cabello1997–Cuban-Mexican-American singer
Shraddha Kapoor1987–Indian film actress and singer
Zico1953–Brazilian association football player and manager
William Godwin1756–1836English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Ragnar Frisch1895–1973Norwegian economist
Jean Harlow1911–1937American film actress
Ion Iliescu1930–2025President of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004)
Antonio Rüdiger1993–German association football player
Xavier Bettel1973–Luxembourgish politician
Arthur Kornberg1918–2007American biochemist
Jamsetji Tata1839–1904Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group
Dragan Stojković1965–Serbian association football player and manager
Zbigniew Boniek1956–Polish association football player and manager
John II of Portugal1455–1495Portuguese king
Tomiichi Murayama1924–202581st Prime Minister of Japan

Died on 3 March

12 people who died on 3 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Kenzaburō Ōe1935–2023Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate
Robert Hooke1635–1703English natural philosopher, architect and polymath; died 3 March in the Julian calendar, which is 14 March in the Gregorian
Marguerite Duras1914–1996French writer and film director
Hergé1907–1983Belgian comics writer
David Ogden Stiers1942–2018American actor
Danny Kaye1911–1987American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
Gerhard Herzberg1904–1999German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist
Georges Perec1936–1982French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist
Roger Bannister1929–2018English physician and athlete
René Préval1943–2017President of Haiti from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 to 2011
Albert Sabin1906–1993Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines
Robert Adam1728–1792British neoclassical architect

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