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April 27 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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April 27 is a Taurus birthday in the first decan of Taurus with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759) and Herbert Spencer (1820) were born on April 27 too.

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April 27 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign

Taurus

Sun at noon UTC

6.4° to 7.8° 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 27, in every time zone on Earth, between 6.4° and 7.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an April 27 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on April 27 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 27 is its eighth day.

In most years April 27 is the 8th day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 23 days of it still to come. April 27 is the 117th day of a common year and the 118th of a leap year, with 248 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 27 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Mumtaz Mahal, in 1593, and the most recent Dinara Safina, in 1986; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Eric Schmidt (born 1955), software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
• Sally Hawkins (born 1976), English actress
• Dinara Safina (born 1986), Russian tennis player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Anouk Aimée (1932–2024), French actress
• Casey Kasem (1932–2014), American voice actor
• Theo Angelopoulos (1935–2012), Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer

Born in the 1800s

• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), English philosopher and political theorist

Born before 1800

• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), English writer and intellectual
• Samuel Morse (1791–1872), American inventor and painter
• Mumtaz Mahal (1593–1631), Mughal empress
• Charles Emmanuel III (1701–1773), King of Sardinia

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 61 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 27, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

April 27 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 27th, 2 and 7 add to 9: the listener and the thinker arriving at compassion. Numerology reads it as a birthday of broad sympathy and a teacher’s patience. In an earth sign the 9 is read as practical compassion, the volunteer who brings tools as well as sympathy.

A question to carry from April 27: what could your patience forgive, in someone else or in yourself, to travel lighter?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 9 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 9

Born on the 27th, 2 + 7 = 9, so your birthday number is 9: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on April 27 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 27th reduces to 9, and 4 + 9 + 11 = 24, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

A Personal Year 6 is read as a year of love and duty, of home, family and the people who rely on you. In 2027, a Universal Year 11, the tradition reads that care as reaching out to heal and to serve a community.

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

In 2027 April 27 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 1 (1 + 27 = 28, then 1) in a Personal Month 1 (6 + 4 = 10, then 1), while May 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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