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.
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
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Otto Hahn | 1879–1968 | German chemist and physicist |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714–1788 | German composer |
| Petra Kvitová | 1990– | Czech tennis player |
| Cyd Charisse | 1922–2008 | American dancer and actress |
| Juvénal Habyarimana | 1937–1994 | 2nd President of Rwanda |
| Edward Calvin Kendall | 1886–1972 | American chemist |
| James Van Der Beek | 1977–2026 | American actor |
| Ignacy Łukasiewicz | 1822–1882 | Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859–1932 | British novelist |
| Konstantinos Karamanlis | 1907–1998 | Greek statesman, four times Prime Minister and twice President of Greece |
| Yakov Zeldovich | 1914–1987 | Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist |
| Claire Trevor | 1910–2000 | American actress |
| Anselm Kiefer | 1945– | German painter and sculptor |
| Lynn Redgrave | 1943–2010 | British actress |
| Teófilo Cubillas | 1949– | Peruvian footballer |
| Freddie Prinze Jr. | 1976– | American actor |
| Asier Illarramendi | 1990– | Spanish association football player |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 1841–1935 | American jurist; US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932 |
Died on 8 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| William Howard Taft | 1857–1930 | 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 |
| Millard Fillmore | 1800–1874 | president of the United States from 1850 to 1853 |
| Hector Berlioz | 1803–1869 | French composer and conductor |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1837–1923 | Dutch physicist |
| William III of England | 1650–1702 | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702 |
| José Raúl Capablanca | 1888–1942 | Cuban chess player |
| Christopher Wren | 1632–1723 | English architect; died 8 March in the Gregorian calendar, 25 February in the Julian |
| Bayezid I | 1354–1403 | fourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389–1402) |
| Charles XIV John | 1763–1844 | King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844, formerly a Marshal of France |
| Harold Lloyd | 1893–1971 | American actor and comedian |
| Pope Celestine II | died 1144 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1143 to 1144 |
| Max von Sydow | 1929–2020 | Swedish-French actor |
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