The 64th day of the year, the 65th in a leap year
Born on 5 March
Every 5 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
- 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 5 March in any year.
Which weekday 5 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 5 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 5 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,801 babies were born on 5 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 203rd 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 5 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Rosa Luxemburg | 1871–1919 | Polish-German Marxist revolutionary |
| George Frideric Handel | 1685–1759 | German-British Baroque composer; born 5 March in the Gregorian calendar, 23 February in the Julian |
| Zhou Enlai | 1898–1976 | 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922–1975 | Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual |
| Aleksandar Vučić | 1970– | President of the Republic of Serbia |
| Henry II of England | 1133–1189 | King of England from 1154 to 1189 |
| Eva Mendes | 1974– | American actress and model |
| Daniel Kahneman | 1934–2024 | Israeli-American psychologist and economist |
| Gerardus Mercator | 1512–1594 | Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer |
| Harry Maguire | 1993– | English association football player |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | 1937– | Nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79) |
| Bernard Arnault | 1949– | French entrepreneur |
| Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | 1696–1770 | Italian painter |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | 1862–1934 | German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician |
| Felipe González | 1942– | Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 |
| João Lourenço | 1954– | President of Angola since 2017 |
| James Tobin | 1918–2002 | American economist |
| David II of Scotland | 1324–1371 | King of Scotland from 1329 to 1371 |
Died on 5 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Stalin | 1878–1953 | politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953 |
| Hugo Chávez | 1954–2013 | President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013 |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889–1966 | Russian poet |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 1749–1827 | French mathematician and astronomer |
| Alessandro Volta | 1745–1827 | Italian chemist and physicist |
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891–1953 | Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor |
| Pope Lucius I | died 254 | Pope and bishop of Rome from 253 to 254 |
| Hippolyte Taine | 1828–1893 | French literary critic and historian |
| Mohammad Mosaddegh | 1882–1967 | Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 |
| Nikolai Leskov | 1831–1895 | Russian writer |
| John Belushi | 1949–1982 | American actor |
| Antonio da Correggio | 1489–1534 | Italian Renaissance painter |
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