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April 26 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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April 26 is a Taurus birthday in the first decan of Taurus with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Eugène Delacroix (1798) and Jet Li (1963) were born on April 26 too.

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April 26 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign

Taurus

Sun at noon UTC

5.4° to 6.8° 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 26, in every time zone on Earth, between 5.4° and 6.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an April 26 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on April 26 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 26 is its seventh day.

In most years April 26 is the 7th day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 24 days of it still to come. April 26 is the 116th day of a common year and the 117th of a leap year, with 249 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 26 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is John II of France, in 1319, and the most recent Channing Tatum, in 1980; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Jet Li (born 1963), Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor
• Channing Tatum (born 1980), American actor, dancer and model

Born from 1900 to 1949

• I. M. Pei (1917–2019), Chinese-American architect
• Arno Allan Penzias (1933–2024), German-born American physicist
• Charles Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist

Born in the 1800s

• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher and logician
• Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), Spanish poet
• Owen Richardson (1879–1959), British physicist

Born before 1800

• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter
• John James Audubon (1785–1851), French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
• John II of France (1319–1364)
• Marie de' Medici (1575–1642), Queen of France; second wife of King Henry IV of France

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 63 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 26, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

April 26 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 26th adds 2 and 6 into 8, read in numerology as care and cooperation growing into authority. It is linked with the patient builder of a business or a family. Earth with an 8 is read as the steward of resources, at its best when wealth is used to build something for others.

A question to carry from April 26: where could your patience lead with fairness rather than with force?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 8 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 8

Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on April 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 4 + 8 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 5 as a lively year of change, movement and new experience. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading favours the changes that follow an honest sense of direction.

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

In 2027 April 26 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 8 (9 + 26 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 9 (5 + 4 = 9), while June 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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