Welcome! Check out today's birthdays, recent birthdays, or our birthday stats.

March 21st

Aries Fire · Daffodil birth flower · Aquamarine birthstone · More...

🎉 Holiday on this date

🌸

Nowruz (Persian New Year)

Persian and Zoroastrian New Year marking the spring equinox, celebrated by over 300 million people across Central Asia and the Middle East.

cultural Observed March 21 each year.

All holidays on this date  »

617 Notable birthdays

Karyn Kusama

American film director.

Born March 21st, 1968 (age 58 years) in Brooklyn.

Matty Longstaff

English footballer.

Born March 21st, 2000 (age 26 years) in Rotherham.

Stewart Butterfield

Canadian entrepreneur and businessman.

Born March 21st, 1973 (age 53 years) in Lund. [ref]

Son House

American blues singer and guitarist (1902–1988).

Born March 21st, 1902 in Lyon.

Died October 19th, 1988 at 86 years old in Detroit (cancer).

Greg Ellis

British actor.

Born March 21st, 1968 (age 58 years) in Wigan.

Cynthia Geary

American actress.

Born March 21st, 1965 (age 61 years) in Jackson.

Françoise Dorléac

French actress (1942–1967).

Born March 21st, 1942 in 17th arrondissement of Paris.

Died June 26th, 1967 at 25 years old in Villeneuve-Loubet (traffic collision).

Grayson Waller

Australian professional wrestler.

Born March 21st, 1990 (age 36 years) in Sydney.

Nora Barnacle

Wife of james joyce (1884–1951).

Born March 21st, 1884 in Galway.

Died April 10th, 1951 at 67 years old in Zurich.

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

American theatrical impresario (1867–1932).

Born March 21st, 1867 in Chicago.

Died July 22nd, 1932 at 65 years old in Hollywood (pleurisy).

Ghazi of Iraq

King of the hashemite kingdom of iraq (1912-1939) (ruled 1933-1939).

Born March 21st, 1912 in Mecca. [ref]

Died April 4th, 1939 at 27 years old in Baghdad (single-vehicle accident, cranial trauma). [ref]

Dalian Atkinson

English footballer (1968–2016).

Born March 21st, 1968 in Shrewsbury. [ref]

Died August 15th, 2016 at 48 years old in Telford (cardiac arrest). [ref]

Jade Jones

British taekwondo practitioner.

Born March 21st, 1993 (age 33 years) in Bodelwyddan.

Virginia Weidler

American actress (1927-1968).

Born March 21st, 1927 in Eagle Rock.

Died July 1st, 1968 at 41 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).

Michael David Jackson

British army officer (1944–2024).

Born March 21st, 1944 in Sheffield. [ref]

Died October 15th, 2024 at 80 years old (prostate cancer). [ref]

Kristýna Plíšková

Czech tennis player.

Born March 21st, 1992 (age 34 years) in Louny.

Hilda Gadea

Peruvian economist, communist leader, and author, 1925-1974.

Born March 21st, 1925 in Lima.

Died February 11th, 1974 at 48 years old in Havana (cancer). [ref]

Peter Brook

English theatre and film director (1925–2022).

Born March 21st, 1925 in Chiswick.

Died July 2nd, 2022 at 97 years old in 15th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]

Erik Johnson

American ice hockey defenseman.

Born March 21st, 1988 (age 38 years) in Bloomington.

Hany Mukhtar

German footballer.

Born March 21st, 1995 (age 31 years) in Berlin.

Nat Phillips

English association football player.

Born March 21st, 1997 (age 29 years) in Bolton.

Nirmala Srivastava

Indian spiritual teacher (1923–2011).

Born March 21st, 1923 in Chhindwara.

Died February 23rd, 2011 at 87 years old in Genoa. [ref]

Nico O'Reilly

English association football player (born 2005).

Born March 21st, 2005 (age 21 years) in Manchester. [ref]

Forrest Mars

American businessman (1904–1999).

Born March 21st, 1904 in Wadena.

Died July 1st, 1999 at 95 years old in Miami.

Laura Allen

American actress (born 1974).

Born March 21st, 1974 (age 52 years) in Portland.

Birthdays 76 to 100 of 617

« 03/20
/
03/22 »

My life is better with every year of living it. Rachel Maddow