The 65th day of the year, the 66th in a leap year
Born on 6 March
Every 6 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
- Sunday and Friday16 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 6 March in any year.
Which weekday 6 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 March falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 6 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,818 babies were born on 6 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 159th 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 6 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Michelangelo | 1475–1564 | Italian artist and architect |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927–2014 | Colombian writer and Nobel laureate |
| Valentina Tereshkova | 1937– | Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806–1861 | English poet |
| Shaquille O'Neal | 1972– | American basketball player |
| Andrzej Wajda | 1926–2016 | Polish film director |
| David Gilmour | 1946– | English musician, member of Pink Floyd |
| Rob Reiner | 1947–2025 | American filmmaker and actor |
| Joseph von Fraunhofer | 1787–1826 | Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619–1655 | French novelist and dramatist |
| Alan Greenspan | 1926–2026 | American economist and financial advisor |
| Kevin-Prince Boateng | 1987– | Ghanaian footballer |
| Timo Werner | 1996– | German association football player |
| Stanisław Jerzy Lec | 1909–1966 | Polish writer |
| Tim Howard | 1979– | American soccer player |
| Francesco Guicciardini | 1483–1540 | Italian writer, historian and politician |
| Simon Mignolet | 1988– | Belgian association football player |
| Tyler, the Creator | 1991– | American rapper and record producer |
Died on 6 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892–1973 | American writer, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Ayn Rand | 1905–1982 | Russian-born American writer and public philosopher |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832–1888 | American novelist |
| Nancy Reagan | 1921–2016 | First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | 1887–1986 | American modernist artist |
| Hans Bethe | 1906–2005 | German-American nuclear physicist |
| Jean Baudrillard | 1929–2007 | French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834–1900 | German engineer and industrialist |
| Martin Niemöller | 1892–1984 | German theologian |
| Albert Lebrun | 1871–1950 | 15th President of the French Republic |
| Melina Mercouri | 1920–1994 | Greek actress, singer and politician, Minister of Culture of Greece |
| Teresa Wright | 1918–2005 | American actress |
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