The 304th day of the year, the 305th in a leap year
Born on 31 October
Every 31 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 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 31 October in any year.
Which weekday 31 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 31 October falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 31 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,803 babies were born on 31 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 197th 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 31 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hokusai | 1760–1849 | Japanese artist |
| John Keats | 1795–1821 | English Romantic poet |
| Chiang Kai-shek | 1887–1975 | Chinese military leader, President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 |
| Johannes Vermeer | 1632–1675 | Dutch painter |
| Peter Jackson | 1961– | New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor |
| Zaha Hadid | 1950–2016 | Iraqi British architect, designer and painter |
| Herman Van Rompuy | 1947– | Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and the first President of the European Council, from 2009 to 2014 |
| Norodom Sihanouk | 1922–2012 | Cambodian monarch and politician |
| Marco van Basten | 1964– | Dutch association football player and manager |
| Michael Collins | 1930–2021 | American astronaut |
| Karl Weierstrass | 1815–1897 | German mathematician |
| Marcus Rashford | 1997– | English footballer |
| Alexander Alekhine | 1892–1946 | Russian-French chess player |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875–1950 | Indian lawyer and statesman, Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1950 |
| Pope Clement XIV | 1705–1774 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774 |
| Adolf von Baeyer | 1835–1917 | German chemist |
| Bud Spencer | 1929–2016 | Italian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo player |
| Dunga | 1963– | Brazilian association football player and manager |
Died on 31 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Indira Gandhi | 1917–1984 | Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984 |
| Federico Fellini | 1920–1993 | Italian filmmaker |
| Sean Connery | 1930–2020 | Scottish actor |
| Harry Houdini | 1874–1926 | Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer |
| Egon Schiele | 1890–1918 | Austrian painter |
| Robert S. Mulliken | 1896–1986 | American physicist, chemist and botanical collector |
| River Phoenix | 1970–1993 | American actor and musician |
| Mikhail Frunze | 1885–1925 | Soviet army officer |
| P. W. Botha | 1916–2006 | South African prime minister |
| Amrita Pritam | 1919–2005 | Indian novelist, poet and essayist who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi |
| Flórián Albert | 1941–2011 | Hungarian footballer |
| John VIII Palaiologos | 1392–1448 | Byzantine emperor |
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