March 31 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 31, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#339 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 31 birthdays
Sergei Diaghilev · Russian art critic and impresario1872
Jack Johnson · American boxer1878
Korney Chukovsky · Russian children's poet1882
Lawrence Bragg · Australian-born British physicist and X-ray1890
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga · Japanese physicist1906
Octavio Paz · Mexican writer, poet an diplomat1914
John Fowles · English novelist1926
Cesar Chavez · Mexican-American farm worker1927
Richard Chamberlain · American actor1934
Shirley Jones · American singer and actress1934
Carlo Rubbia · Italian particle physicist1934
Zviad Gamsakhurdia · Georgian politician1939
Patrick Leahy · American politician and lawyer1940
Christopher Walken · American actor1943
Al Gore · Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 20011948
Oleksandr Turchynov · Ukrainian politician1964
César Sampaio · Brazilian association football player1968
Alenka Bratušek · Slovenian politician1970
Ewan McGregor · Scottish actor1971
Chloé Zhao · Chinese filmmaker1982
On this day in history
1854U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
1899Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1964The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart, establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
1992USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
2004The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.
2016NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
2018Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018 Armenian revolution.
2023A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.
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