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April 20 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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April 20 is a cusp birthday, usually Taurus; in some years the Sun is still in Aries for part of this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; Napoleon III (1808), Joan Miró (1893) and Jessica Lange (1949) were born on April 20 too.

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April 20 zodiac sign: Aries or Taurus

Sun sign: Aries or Taurus, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 0.0° to 0.9° Taurus, or 29.5° to 30.0° Aries
Decan: First of Taurus, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Earth, fixed
Ruling planet: Venus

April 20 is a cusp birthday, usually Taurus; in some years the Sun is still in Aries for part of this date, so check your birth year and time: in 69 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Aries into Taurus during April 20 counted in UTC, most recently in 2030, and at noon UTC it stood in Taurus in 67 of the years and in Aries in 24. For a birth on April 20 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on April 20 the Sun is in the first decan of Taurus in 67 of those years and in the third decan of Aries in 24, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The first decan of Taurus is a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from April 20 to April 30, and April 20 is its first day.

In most years April 20 is the 1st day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 30 days of it still to come. April 20 is the 110th day of a common year and the 111th of a leap year, with 255 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 20 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Napoleon III, in 1808, and the most recent Miranda Kerr, in 1983; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Andy Serkis (born 1964), British actor
Miranda Kerr (born 1983), Australian model
Felix Baumgartner (1969–2025), Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper
Svante Pääbo (born 1955), Swedish geneticist
Carmen Electra (born 1972), American actress, model, and singer

Born from 1900 to 1949

Jessica Lange (born 1949), American actress
George Takei (born 1937), American actor, author and activist
K. Alex Müller (1927–2023), Swiss physicist
Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), Swedish physicist

Born in the 1800s

Napoleon III (1808–1873), President of the Second French Republic
Joan Miró (1893–1983), Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), American actor and comedian

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 49 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 20, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

April 20 birthday personality

Mercury rules the opening decan of Taurus in the Chaldean scheme while the triplicity keeps it with Venus, so the bull’s steadiness is read with a practical, talkative edge: the trader at the market as much as the farmer in the field. Its virtue is common sense, and its caution a stubbornness that sounds reasonable.

The 20th is the 2 with a zero beside it, read in numerology as the partner’s number amplified: patience, tact and a gift for the long collaboration. In an earth sign the 2 is read as the gentle steadiness of a long friendship, built on small kindnesses over years.

Where Aries gives way to Taurus the spark meets the soil, a first move learning to stay put long enough to grow. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from April 20: where would your patience grow stronger if it asked for help instead of carrying everything alone?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 2 are only part of the story: your Moon, your rising sign and the rest of your chart have as much to say, and the tradition offers all this as a mirror, never a verdict.

Birthday number 2

Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

A Greek sphinx with a lion's body, folded wings and a serene woman's face, seated on a stone plinth, an engraving — The Sphinx, keeper of riddles

For a birthday on April 20 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: April, the 4th month, gives 4, the 20th reduces to 2, and 4 + 2 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

A Personal Year 8 is read as a year of achievement and authority, when effort can turn into reward and recognition. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition asks that power and money be used with integrity and vision.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 8: Jan 9 Feb 1 Mar 11 Apr 3 May 4 Jun 5 Jul 6 Aug 7 Sep 8 Oct 9 Nov 1 Dec 2

In 2027 April 20 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 5 (3 + 20 = 23, then 5) in a Personal Month 3 (8 + 4 = 12, then 3), while March is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

April birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone: Diamond
Birth flowers: Daisy, and sweet pea as the second flower

April’s diamond comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its daisy and sweet pea from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is April 20?

Usually Taurus; in some years the Sun is still in Aries for part of this date, so check your birth year and time. In 69 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Aries into Taurus during April 20 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is April 20 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 69 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2030, the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus during April 20 (UTC), and which side of the change a birth fell on depends on its year and its minute, converted to UTC.

Who was born on April 20?

Among the best known people born on April 20 are Napoleon III (1808–1873), Joan Miró (1893–1983) and Jessica Lange (born 1949), with Andy Serkis, Harold Lloyd and George Takei and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for April 20?

2. Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for an April 20 birthday?

8. For a birthday on April 20 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: April, the 4th month, gives 4, the 20th reduces to 2, and 4 + 2 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.