The 274th day of the year, the 275th in a leap year

Born on 1 October

Every 1 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.

Star sign
LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
Birthstone
Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
Most common weekdays
Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 1 October. The marked arc is every position it has held on 1 October, 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 1 October in any year.

Which weekday 1 October falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 October falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.

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How common a birthday 1 October is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,951 babies were born on 1 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 6th 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 1 October

18 people born on 1 October, 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
Jimmy Carter1924–2024president of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Theresa May1956–Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
Julie Andrews1935–British actress, singer and author
George Weah1966–President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024
Brie Larson1989–American actress, singer and filmmaker
Yang Chen-Ning1922–2025Chinese physicist
Ram Nath Kovind1945–President of India from 2017 to 2022
Sallust86–35 BCRoman historian and politician
Severus Alexander208–235Roman Emperor
Annie Besant1847–1933British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor1685–174018th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
Henry III of England1207–1272King of England from 1216 to 1272
Richard Harris1930–2002Irish actor and singer
Walter Matthau1920–2000American actor, comedian and director
Aaron Ciechanover1947–Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
Mia Mottley1965–prime minister of Barbados since 2018
Liaquat Ali Khan1895–19511st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
Jean-Jacques Annaud1943–French film director, screenwriter and producer

Died on 1 October

12 people who died on 1 October, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Jane Goodall1934–2025English primatologist and anthropologist
Pierre Corneille1606–1684French tragedian
Charles Aznavour1924–2018Armenian-French singer and diplomat
Tom Clancy1947–2013American author
Eric Hobsbawm1917–2012British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Pope Boniface IXdied 1404pope of the Catholic Church from 1389 to 1404
Marsilio Ficino1433–1499Italian philosopher and Catholic priest
Enrico De Nicola1877–1959President of Italy from 1946 to 1948
Eadwig940–959King of the English from 955 to 959
Abdur Rahman Khan1840–1901Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901
Louis Leakey1903–1972Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist
Karel Gott1939–2019Czech singer and actor

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