March 15 Birthday

Famous Birthdays on March 15

• Andrew Jackson (1767)

  Seventh President of the United States, known for founding the modern Democratic Party and for his controversial Indian Removal policies.

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933)

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1993 to 2020, known for her rulings and dissents on gender equality and civil rights.

• Eva Longoria (1975)

  American actress known for Desperate Housewives.

• David Cronenberg (1943)

  Canadian filmmaker known for The Fly and A History of Violence.

This Day in History

• -44 — Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman senators in the Theatre of Pompey in 44 BC (rendered here as year -44), an event that gave the phrase 'Ides of March' its lasting notoriety.

• 1783 — George Washington delivered his Newburgh Address to disgruntled Continental Army officers, defusing a potential mutiny over unpaid wages by military coup.

• 1820 — Maine was admitted to the United States as the 23rd state, entering as a free state under the Missouri Compromise.

• 1985 — The domain name symbolics.com was registered, becoming the first .com domain name in internet history.

What March 15 Says About You

The Ides of March is a phrase that exists almost entirely because of one event: the assassination of Julius Caesar by a group of Roman senators in 44 BC, an act of political violence so consequential it turned an ordinary Roman calendar term for the middle of the month into permanent shorthand for betrayal and bad omens. That reputation makes March 15 an unusually loaded birthday to hold, and it's worth being honest about rather than smoothing over — but the date's other history complicates the doom-laden read considerably. George Washington's Newburgh Address, delivered on this exact date in 1783, defused an actual military mutiny through nothing but a carefully pitched speech and a small, deliberate gesture of putting on his reading glasses in front of his officers, turning a potential coup into a moment of restraint instead. Maine's admission as a free state on this date in 1820, part of the Missouri Compromise, was itself a careful balancing act meant to hold the country together rather than split it. Even the registration of the first-ever .com domain name, symbolics.com, on this date in 1985, was a quiet, unglamorous beginning that only became historically significant in hindsight. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, born March 15, 1933, spent a career demonstrating that patient, careful argument could accomplish more lasting change than any dramatic single act — a direct answer, whether intentional or not, to the date's more infamous association with sudden violence. It's a genuinely useful reframe for a Pisces birthday landing on the Ides: yes, the date's most famous event was a betrayal, but its other history is just as full of moments where careful restraint, not drama, is what actually held things together. Add the 15th's digit-sum of 6 — the numerology number most linked to responsibility and care — and you get a real counterweight to Caesar's fate, steadiness built right into the date's underlying math. Andrew Jackson, born the same day in 1767, embodied a much more combative, take-no-prisoners version of political leadership, proof the date doesn't demand any single temperament. March's paired stones, the newer aquamarine and the older bloodstone, belong to a birthday whose full history is more balanced than its most famous headline suggests. Eva Longoria, born on this date in 1975, built a long-running television career on Desperate Housewives that, much like Washington's Newburgh moment, relied on patient ensemble work sustained over years rather than any single dramatic scene. David Cronenberg, also born March 15, has spent decades making films that treat the human body itself as unstable, breaking down under stress in ways that echo the date's own recurring theme of institutions and bodies tested right up to their limit. Maine's admission as a free state was itself paired, in the same 1820 compromise, with Missouri's simultaneous admission as a slave state, a legislative balancing act meant to hold the Union together for another four decades before it finally failed.