The 63rd day of the year, the 64th in a leap year

Born on 4 March

Every 4 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
Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 4 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 4 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 4 March in any year.

Which weekday 4 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 4 March falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.

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How common a birthday 4 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,801 babies were born on 4 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 205th 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 4 March

18 people born on 4 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
Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741Italian composer and violinist
Miriam Makeba1932–2008South African singer and civil rights activist
Khaled Hosseini1965–Afghan novelist
François Fillon1954–Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012
Kyriakos Mitsotakis1968–Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece and President of the New Democracy party
Muhammad Ali of Egypt1769–1849Wali of Egypt and Sudan
Catherine O'Hara1954–2026Canadian-American actress
Alpha Condé1938–President of Guinea from 2010 to 2021
Prince Henry the Navigator1394–1460Portuguese prince and governor
George Gamow1904–1968Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Kenny Dalglish1951–Scottish association football player and manager
Chris Rea1951–2025English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sergei Bagapsh1949–2011Abkhazian politician
Landon Donovan1982–American soccer player
Hans Eysenck1916–1997British psychologist
Ryszard Kapuściński1932–2007Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author
Jim Clark1936–1968British racecar driver
Bernd Leno1992–German association football player

Died on 4 March

12 people who died on 4 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Nikolai Gogol1809–1852Russian writer of Ukrainian origin
Saladin1138–1193Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty
Jean-François Champollion1790–1832French classical scholar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar1920–20205th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Pope Pelagius I505–561pope
Simon van der Meer1925–2011Dutch physicist
Antonin Artaud1896–1948French poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Franz Marc1880–1916German artist
Charles Scott Sherrington1857–1952British neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
William Carlos Williams1883–1963American poet
Luke Perry1966–2019American actor
Ludwig Quidde1858–1941German politician

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