Who Shares My Birthday.

Birthday newspaper

Your Front Page: 1 April 1940

A personalised newspaper front page from the day you were born, printed in the style of your birth year.

Enter your date of birth

Your personalised birthday front page

Printed in the style of your birth year, a keepsake to frame, print or share.

Optional. Your birthplace names the masthead; it stays on this device.

The World Birthday Chronicle

Monday, 1st April 1940Classic broadsheet

On this date in history · 1945

Battle of Okinawa

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

As one of the final and bloodiest battles of the Second World War, this conflict secured a vital strategic base near Japan.

Famous birthdays: born on this date

Wangari Muta Maathai

Born 1940. Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt Movement and became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Otto von Bismarck

Born 1815. Prussian statesman who unified Germany through three wars in 1871 and served as the first chancellor of the German Empire

Toshirō Mifune

Born 1920. Japanese actor of Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, famed for his intense collaborations with Akira Kurosawa

Yet to come on this date

MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak

2026. In April 2026, an outbreak of hantavirus infection caused by the Andes virus was identified on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius.

2010 United States Census

2010. The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010.

2000 United States Census

2000. The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

Your day in numbers

Star sign

Aries

Fire sign, ruled by Mars

Birthstone

Diamond

The birthstone for April

UK Number 1 single

Before the charts

The UK singles chart began on 14 November 1952

World population

About 2.3 billion

People on Earth in 1940

The cost of living in Britain, 1940

Average house

£550

Typical UK home

Pint of beer

8d

In a UK pub

Loaf of bread

8d

Large white loaf

Average salary

£200

UK full-time, per year

Approximate UK averages at the time, in the money of the day.

How your birthday newspaper is made

Enter your date of birth and we will print a one-off newspaper front page for the day you were born. The headline is a real historical event from our archive, chosen from your exact birth date where we have one, then from the same week, then from the same date in an earlier year. The page also shows famous people born on your birthday, your star sign and birthstone, the UK number one single, the world population and the cost of living in Britain at the time.

  • The layout, typefaces and colours follow the newspaper style of your birth decade: dense broadsheets before 1940, classic bold headlines in the 1940s and 1950s, tabloid energy in the 1960s and 1970s, colour accents in the 1980s and 1990s, and clean full-colour pages from 2000 onwards.
  • Headlines and summaries come from our archive of historical events, built from Wikidata and reviewed by our editorial team. When a famous person linked to the story has a profile on our site, their Wikimedia Commons portrait appears with the photographer's credit; otherwise you see an original woodcut or halftone illustration.
  • Add your town or country of birth to name the masthead, for example The Manchester Birthday Chronicle. Your birthplace is stored only on your device.
  • Every front page has its own link, so you can send it to friends and family, and you can download it as a high-resolution image to print or frame.

Questions people ask

Frequently asked questions

How do I get a newspaper front page from the day I was born?
Enter your day, month and year of birth above and press the button. Your personalised front page appears instantly, with its own link you can share and a download button for a print-quality image.
Are the headlines real?
Yes. Every headline is a real historical event from our archive. If nothing in our archive happened on your exact birth date, we use an event from the same week, or the most recent event on the same date in an earlier year, and the label above the headline says which.
Why does my front page look different from a friend's?
The design changes with the decade you were born in, from ornate pre-war broadsheets to modern full-colour layouts, so each page looks like a newspaper from its own era.
Is the birthday newspaper free?
Yes. Creating, sharing and downloading your personalised birthday front page costs nothing.

Further reading

Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.

Last reviewed: October 2026