The 67th day of the year, the 68th in a leap year

Born on 8 March

Every 8 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
Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 8 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 8 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 8 March in any year.

Which weekday 8 March falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 8 March falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.

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How common a birthday 8 March is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,779 babies were born on 8 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 283rd 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 8 March

18 people born on 8 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
Otto Hahn1879–1968German chemist and physicist
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714–1788German composer
Petra Kvitová1990–Czech tennis player
Cyd Charisse1922–2008American dancer and actress
Juvénal Habyarimana1937–19942nd President of Rwanda
Edward Calvin Kendall1886–1972American chemist
James Van Der Beek1977–2026American actor
Ignacy Łukasiewicz1822–1882Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932British novelist
Konstantinos Karamanlis1907–1998Greek statesman, four times Prime Minister and twice President of Greece
Yakov Zeldovich1914–1987Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist
Claire Trevor1910–2000American actress
Anselm Kiefer1945–German painter and sculptor
Lynn Redgrave1943–2010British actress
Teófilo Cubillas1949–Peruvian footballer
Freddie Prinze Jr.1976–American actor
Asier Illarramendi1990–Spanish association football player
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935American jurist; US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932

Died on 8 March

12 people who died on 8 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
William Howard Taft1857–193027th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
Millard Fillmore1800–1874president of the United States from 1850 to 1853
Hector Berlioz1803–1869French composer and conductor
Johannes Diderik van der Waals1837–1923Dutch physicist
William III of England1650–1702King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702
José Raúl Capablanca1888–1942Cuban chess player
Christopher Wren1632–1723English architect; died 8 March in the Gregorian calendar, 25 February in the Julian
Bayezid I1354–1403fourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389–1402)
Charles XIV John1763–1844King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844, formerly a Marshal of France
Harold Lloyd1893–1971American actor and comedian
Pope Celestine IIdied 1144pope of the Catholic Church from 1143 to 1144
Max von Sydow1929–2020Swedish-French actor

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