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April 21 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

April 21 is a Taurus birthday in the first decan of Taurus, one caveat aside for births far from Greenwich, with birthday number 3 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Elizabeth II (1926), Max Weber (1864) and Charlotte Brontë (1816) were born on April 21 too.

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April 21 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign: Taurus
Sun at noon UTC: 0.5° to 1.9° Taurus
Decan: First of Taurus, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Earth, fixed
Ruling planet: Venus

At noon UTC on April 21 the Sun is in Taurus in every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, between 0.5° and 1.9° of the sign, but in 32 of those years, most recently 2011, it had entered Taurus only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of April 21 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aries. For a birth on April 21 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 21 the Sun is in the first decan of Taurus, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from April 20 to April 30, and April 21 is its second day.

In most years April 21 is the 2nd day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 29 days of it still to come. April 21 is the 111th day of a common year and the 112th of a leap year, with 254 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 21 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Jean-Baptiste Biot, in 1774, and the most recent Isco, in 1992; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

James McAvoy (born 1979), Scottish actor
Isco (born 1992), Spanish association football player
Andie MacDowell (born 1958), American actress

Born from 1900 to 1949

Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Anthony Quinn (1915–2001), Mexican and American actor
Iggy Pop (born 1947), American musician

Born in the 1800s

Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), British novelist and poet
Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961), American physicist
Paul Karrer (1889–1971), Swiss chemist
Fredrik Bajer (1837–1922), Danish politician

Born before 1800

Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862), French scientist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 44 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 21, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

April 21 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.

Born on the 21st, 2 and 1 add to 3: partnership and initiative turning into expression. Numerology reads it as a sociable, creative birthday, the host who is also the entertainer. The tradition reads earth with a 3 as the artisan, whose creativity shows in useful and beautiful things.

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 21: what would your patience make if it set aside the fear of how it will be received?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 3 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 3

Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on April 21 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 21st reduces to 3, and 4 + 3 + 11 = 18, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 9 as a year of endings, generosity and letting go, closing one nine-year round. Under the Universal Year 11, the reading sees the release as preparing for a new and more inspired chapter.

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

In 2027 April 21 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 7 (4 + 21 = 25, then 7) in a Personal Month 4 (9 + 4 = 13, then 4), while February 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 21?

Taurus, almost always: at noon UTC on April 21 the Sun is in Taurus in every year from 1940 to 2030, but in 32 of those years, most recently 2011, it had entered Taurus only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of April 21 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aries.

Is April 21 a cusp birthday?

Not in UTC: in no year from 1940 to 2030 does the Sun change sign during April 21 counted in UTC, though in 32 of those years, most recently 2011, it had entered Taurus only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of April 21 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aries. The nearest cusp birthday is April 20, one day earlier.

Who was born on April 21?

Among the best known people born on April 21 are Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Max Weber (1864–1920) and Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), with Anthony Quinn, Percy Williams Bridgman and Iggy Pop and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for April 21?

3. Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for an April 21 birthday?

9. For a birthday on April 21 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 21st reduces to 3, and 4 + 3 + 11 = 18, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.