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.
Where the sun stands on 9 March. The marked arc is every position it has held on 9 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 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

18 people born on 9 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
Yuri Gagarin1934–1968Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space
Taras Shevchenko1814–1861Ukrainian poet and artist
Bobby Fischer1943–2008American chess player
Amerigo Vespucci1454–1512Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
Vyacheslav Molotov1890–1986Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat
John Cale1942–Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
Juliette Binoche1964–French actress, artist and dancer
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau1749–1791French writer, orator and statesman
Takaaki Kajita1959–Japanese physicist and astronomer
Mátyás Rákosi1892–1971former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Oscar Isaac1979–Guatemalan-American actor
Walter Kohn1923–2016American physicist
Daley Blind1990–Dutch association football player
Clint Dempsey1983–American soccer player
Youri Djorkaeff1968–French footballer
Juan Sebastián Verón1975–Argentine footballer
Suga1993–South Korean rapper, singer, record producer and songwriter
Ornette Coleman1930–2015American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer

Died on 9 March

12 people who died on 9 March, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Charles Bukowski1920–1994German-American writer
Hans Christian Ørsted1777–1851Danish physicist and chemist
Menachem Begin1913–1992Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983
Wilhelm I1797–188819th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia
Cardinal Mazarin1602–1661Italian-born cardinal, chief minister of France from 1642 to 1661
Kurt Georg Kiesinger1904–1988Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)
The Notorious B.I.G.1972–1997American rapper
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch1836–1895Austrian author
Mary Anning1799–1847British fossil collector and palaeontologist
Frank Wedekind1864–1918German playwright
George Burns1896–1996American comedian, actor, writer and singer
Ulf von Euler1905–1983Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist

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