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April 24 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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April 24 is a Taurus birthday in the first decan of Taurus with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Barbra Streisand (1942), Shirley MacLaine (1934) and Carl Spitteler (1845) were born on April 24 too.

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April 24 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign

Taurus

Sun at noon UTC

3.4° to 4.8° Taurus

Decan

First of Taurus, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, fixed

Ruling planet

Venus

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Taurus for the whole of April 24, in every time zone on Earth, between 3.4° and 4.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an April 24 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on April 24 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 24 is its fifth day.

In most years April 24 is the 5th day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 26 days of it still to come. April 24 is the 114th day of a common year and the 115th of a leap year, with 251 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 24 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is William the Silent, in 1533, and the most recent Jan Vertonghen, in 1987; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Kelly Clarkson (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
• Jan Vertonghen (born 1987), Belgian association football player
• Djimon Hounsou (born 1964), Beninese actor
• Jean Paul Gaultier (born 1952), French fashion designer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Barbra Streisand (born 1942), American singer and actress
• Shirley MacLaine (born 1934), American actress
• Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), American biochemist
• Józef Gosławski (1908–1963), Polish sculptor and medallic artist

Born in the 1800s

• Carl Spitteler (1845–1924), Swiss writer
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist of the Victorian period

Born before 1800

• William the Silent (1533–1584), Dutch statesman and revolt leader
• Vincent de Paul (1581–1660), French priest, founder and saint

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 68 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 24, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

April 24 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 24th, 2 and 4 make 6: cooperation and structure becoming care. Numerology reads it as a devoted birthday, for people who make homes and keep their promises. Earth with a 6 is read as the homemaker and the provider, love expressed in security and comfort.

A question to carry from April 24: how could your patience care for others this month without neglecting yourself?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 6 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 6

Born on the 24th, 2 + 4 = 6, so your birthday number is 6: a 6 vibration supports love, responsibility, beauty, family, and service, with care, beauty, and responsibility as its gift and over-giving, perfectionism, or control through care as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on April 24 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 24th reduces to 6, and 4 + 6 + 11 = 21, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 3 as a year to express yourself, enjoy company and let creativity lead. In a Universal Year 11 the reading adds a note of inspiration, and a reminder to give the ideas a finished form.

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

In 2027 April 24 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 4 (7 + 24 = 31, then 4) in a Personal Month 7 (3 + 4 = 7), while August 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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