BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on March 31.

Everyone born on March 31 is a Aries — ruled by Mars, first, loudest, already gone. The stone is aquamarine, the flower daffodil, and the day is shared with René Descartes and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Aries, the Ram — an engraving
Sun sign
Aries ♈︎
the Ram · ruled by Mars · first, loudest, already gone
Aquamarine, the birthstone for March — an engraving
Birthstone
Aquamarine
March
Daffodil, the birth flower for March — an engraving
Birth flower
Daffodil
& jonquil

Your book

Born on March 31? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Aries, March 21 to April 19.

The first sign, and the tradition treats it that way: the Ram is the one who goes first — through the door, into the argument, off the cliff. Ruled by Mars, a fire sign, and the books credit it with courage, impatience and a short memory for grudges, which is a generous way of saying it has already moved on. Its people are supposed to start things. Finishing them is what the other eleven are for.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on March 31.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1596
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
1685
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
1971
Ewan McGregor
Scottish actor
1943
Christopher Walken
American actor
1955
Angus Young
Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
1948
Al Gore
President of the United States
1927
Cesar Chavez
American activist and labor union leader
1934
Shirley Jones
American actress and singer

On this day

What March 31 has seen.

It is International Transgender Day of Visibility.

1146French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.
1521Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
1910Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.

The calendar

When March 31 falls.

A Tuesday in 2026, a Wednesday in 2027, a Friday in 2028, a Saturday in 2029, and a Sunday in 2030.