The 90th day of the year, the 91st in a leap year
Born on 31 March
Every 31 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 31 March in any year.
Which weekday 31 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 31 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 31 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,768 babies were born on 31 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 317th 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 31 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685–1750 | German composer; 31 March is his birthday in the Gregorian calendar, 21 March in the Julian calendar then used in Eisenach |
| René Descartes | 1596–1650 | French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist |
| Joseph Haydn | 1732–1809 | Austrian composer |
| Al Gore | 1948– | Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 |
| Octavio Paz | 1914–1998 | Mexican poet, writer and diplomat |
| Pope Benedict XIV | 1675–1758 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758 |
| Lawrence Bragg | 1890–1971 | Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer |
| Ewan McGregor | 1971– | Scottish actor |
| Pope Pius IV | 1499–1565 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565 |
| Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 1906–1979 | Japanese physicist |
| Carlo Rubbia | 1934– | Italian particle physicist |
| Zviad Gamsakhurdia | 1939–1993 | Georgian dissident and writer, President of Georgia from 1991 to 1992 |
| Christopher Walken | 1943– | American actor |
| Henry II of France | 1519–1559 | King of France from 1547 to 1559 |
| Angus Young | 1955– | Australian guitarist |
| John Fowles | 1926–2005 | English novelist |
| Richard Chamberlain | 1934–2025 | American actor |
| Frederick V of Denmark | 1723–1766 | king of Denmark and Norway |
Died on 31 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816–1855 | British novelist and poet |
| Selena | 1971–1995 | American singer |
| Imre Kertész | 1929–2016 | Hungarian author |
| John Donne | 1572–1631 | English poet and cleric |
| Jesse Owens | 1913–1980 | American track and field athlete |
| Zaha Hadid | 1950–2016 | Iraqi British architect, designer and painter |
| Francis I of France | 1494–1547 | King of France from 1515 to 1547 |
| Emil von Behring | 1854–1917 | German physiologist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 |
| Philip III of Spain | 1578–1621 | King of Spain and Portugal from 1598 to 1621 |
| J. P. Morgan | 1837–1913 | American financier, banker, and art collector |
| John C. Calhoun | 1782–1850 | vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 |
| John Constable | 1776–1837 | English painter |
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