March 31st, 1944

Born on March 31st, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 762 days, exactly on May 20th, 2026, people who were born on March 31st, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 31st?

March 31st, 2018

Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018 Armenian revolution.

March 31st, 2004

The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.

March 31st, 1995

American singer-songwriter Selena, known as the "queen of Tejano music", was murdered by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, in Corpus Christi, Texas, deeply affecting the Latino community.

March 31st, 1992

USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

March 31st, 1942

Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas Island without any resistance.

March 31st, 1930

To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly known as the Hays Code.

March 31st, 1921

The Australian Air Force was formed, replacing the short-lived Australian Air Corps and separating it from the Army.

March 31st, 1913

Arnold Schoenberg conducted the Vienna Concert Society in a concert of expressionist music that so shocked the audience that they began to riot.

March 31st, 1899

Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.

March 31st, 1889

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, was inaugurated.

March 31st, 1854

U.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.

March 31st, 1800

After fighting through the night, the French Navy ship of the line Guillaume Tell surrendered to a British squadron in the Malta Channel.

March 31st, 1521

Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.

March 31st, 1146

French 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.

March 31st, 1964

The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart, establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 31st

Born on March 31st, 1944

80

Angus King

American politician and lawyer (born 1944)

*March 31st, 1944, Alexandria

80

Mick Ralphs

English rock guitarist, songwriter

*March 31st, 1944, Hereford

80

Pascal Danel

French singer

*March 31st, 1944, 16th arrondissement of Paris

80

Oddvar Flæte

Norwegian politician

*March 31st, 1944, Leikanger Municipality

80

Till Meyer

German journalist

*March 31st, 1944, Luckenwalde

50

Myfanwy Talog

Welsh actress (1944-1995)

*March 31st, 1944, Caerwys †March 11th, 1995, Buckinghamshire

80

Tomohiro Nishikado

Japanese video game designer, creator of the video game "Space Invaders"

*March 31st, 1944, Kishiwada

80

Haridwar Singh

Indian scientist

*March 31st, 1944, Varanasi

80

Don Gerhardt

Gridiron football player

*March 31st, 1944, Ortonville

80

Rodney J. Bartlett

American chemist

*March 31st, 1944, Memphis

67

Nina Bystrova

Soviet rower

*March 31st, 1944, Kuraginsky District †April 5th, 2011

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Who's birthday is on March 31st?

81

Christopher Walken

American actor

*March 31st, 1943, Astoria

76

Al Gore

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

*March 31st, 1948, Washington, D.C.

66

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

33

Nitchaon Jindapol

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1991, Phuket province

43

Mattias Tesfaye

Danish politician

*March 31st, 1981, Aarhus

66

Heribert Hirte

German judge and politician

*March 31st, 1958, Cologne

50

Adrian Holmes

Welsh-Canadian actor

*March 31st, 1974, Wrexham

53

Ewan McGregor

Scottish-American actor

*March 31st, 1971, Perth

79

Fernand Siré

French politician

*March 31st, 1945, Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque

52

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

*March 31st, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon †April 23rd, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon

81

Sharon Hampson

Canadian musician; member of children's folk music group Sharon, Lois & Bram

*March 31st, 1943, Toronto

46

Kellie Lucas

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1978, Ballarat

38

Wong Wai Hong

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1986, Hong Kong

84

Karl-Heinz Danielowski

East German coxswain

*March 31st, 1940, Sülldorf

36

Peter Mills

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1988, Nottingham

41

Lin Woon Fui

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1983, Kepong

81

Roy Andersson

Swedish film director and screenwriter

*March 31st, 1943, Gothenburg

31

Frederik Colberg

Badminton player

*March 31st, 1993, Holbæk

74

Hallie Foote

American actress

*March 31st, 1950, New York City

76

Enrique Vila-Matas

Spanish writer

*March 31st, 1948, Barcelona

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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