The Birthday Gazette

Born on March 21

March 21 birthdays & history

If you were born on March 21, you share a birthday with Johann Sebastian Bach, Jair Bolsonaro and Joseph Fourier. March 21 babies are Aries, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 21 is the 81st day of the year in leap years (80th in other years).

Famous people born on March 21

  • 1685Johann Sebastian Bach, German Baroque composer and musician
  • 1955Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian politician and retired military officer, 38th President of Brazil
  • 1768Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
  • 1980Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
  • 1960Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver
  • 1958Gary Oldman, English actor, filmmaker, musician, and author
  • 1991Antoine Griezmann, French footballer
  • 1949Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, and academic
  • 1839Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer
  • 1961Lothar Matthäus, German footballer and manager

What happened on March 21

  • 1804Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
  • 1844The Baháʼí calendar, used in the Baháʼí Faith, began.
  • 1871Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • 1871Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • 1919The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
  • 1925The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
  • 1925Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
  • 1928Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • 1934The landmark Australian Eastern Mission led by John Latham departs on its three-month tour of East and South-East Asia.
  • 1946The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, making him the first African-American player in the National Football League since 1933.
  • 1952The Moondog Coronation Ball, generally considered to be the first major rock and roll concert, took place at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • 2006Jack Dorsey sent the first message on the social-media network Twitter.

Also observed on March 21

  • Arbor Day (Lesotho)
  • Arbor Day (Portugal)
  • Early music
  • Education Freedom Day
  • Harmony Day (Australia)
  • Human Rights Day (South Africa)

Questions, answered

What star sign is March 21?

People born on March 21 are Aries. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.

Which famous people were born on March 21?

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Jair Bolsonaro (1955), Joseph Fourier (1768), Ronaldinho (1980), Ayrton Senna (1960), Gary Oldman (1958) were all born on March 21.

What happened on March 21 in history?

Among other things: in 1946, The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, making him the first African-American player in the National Football League since 1933; in 1952, The Moondog Coronation Ball, generally considered to be the first major rock and roll concert, took place at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio; in 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first message on the social-media network Twitter.

Can I get a newspaper front page from March 21?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 21 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “March 21”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.