The 68th day of the year, the 69th in a leap year
Born on 9 March
Every 9 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
- Wednesday and Monday16 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 9 March in any year.
Which weekday 9 March falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 March falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 9 March is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,767 babies were born on 9 March in each year of the twenty, making it the 322nd 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 9 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Yuri Gagarin | 1934–1968 | Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space |
| Taras Shevchenko | 1814–1861 | Ukrainian poet and artist |
| Bobby Fischer | 1943–2008 | American chess player |
| Amerigo Vespucci | 1454–1512 | Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | 1890–1986 | Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat |
| John Cale | 1942– | Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer |
| Juliette Binoche | 1964– | French actress, artist and dancer |
| Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau | 1749–1791 | French writer, orator and statesman |
| Takaaki Kajita | 1959– | Japanese physicist and astronomer |
| Mátyás Rákosi | 1892–1971 | former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party |
| Oscar Isaac | 1979– | Guatemalan-American actor |
| Walter Kohn | 1923–2016 | American physicist |
| Daley Blind | 1990– | Dutch association football player |
| Clint Dempsey | 1983– | American soccer player |
| Youri Djorkaeff | 1968– | French footballer |
| Juan Sebastián Verón | 1975– | Argentine footballer |
| Suga | 1993– | South Korean rapper, singer, record producer and songwriter |
| Ornette Coleman | 1930–2015 | American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer |
Died on 9 March
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Bukowski | 1920–1994 | German-American writer |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | 1777–1851 | Danish physicist and chemist |
| Menachem Begin | 1913–1992 | Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983 |
| Wilhelm I | 1797–1888 | 19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia |
| Cardinal Mazarin | 1602–1661 | Italian-born cardinal, chief minister of France from 1642 to 1661 |
| Kurt Georg Kiesinger | 1904–1988 | Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969) |
| The Notorious B.I.G. | 1972–1997 | American rapper |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 1836–1895 | Austrian author |
| Mary Anning | 1799–1847 | British fossil collector and palaeontologist |
| Frank Wedekind | 1864–1918 | German playwright |
| George Burns | 1896–1996 | American comedian, actor, writer and singer |
| Ulf von Euler | 1905–1983 | Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist |
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