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April 28 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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April 28 is a Taurus birthday in the first decan of Taurus with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; James Monroe (1758), Penélope Cruz (1974) and Jessica Alba (1981) were born on April 28 too.

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April 28 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign: Taurus
Sun at noon UTC: 7.3° to 8.7° 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 28, in every time zone on Earth, between 7.3° and 8.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so an April 28 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on April 28 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 28 is its ninth day.

In most years April 28 is the 9th day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 22 days of it still to come. April 28 is the 118th day of a common year and the 119th of a leap year, with 247 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous April 28 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Edward IV, in 1442, and the most recent Juan Mata, in 1988; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Penélope Cruz (born 1974), Spanish actress
Jessica Alba (born 1981), American actress and businesswoman
Jay Leno (born 1950), American television host and comedian
Juan Mata (born 1988), Spanish association football player
Diego Simeone (born 1970), Argentine association football player and manager

Born from 1900 to 1949

Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), Austrian-American logician, mathematician
Harper Lee (1926–2016), American novelist
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), English fantasy author
Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer

Born in the 1800s

Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian playwright and publicist

Born before 1800

James Monroe (1758–1831), president of the United States from 1817 to 1825
Edward IV (1442–1483), King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 58 people the Almanac’s table keeps for April 28, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

April 28 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 28th adds to 10 and then to 1, so numerology reads it as independence reached through partnership, the leader who learned to work with others. It is a birthday linked with initiative that brings people along. In an earth sign the 1’s independence is read as self-reliance, the person who would rather build it themselves than wait to be helped.

A question to carry from April 28: where could your patience make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?

The Sun in Taurus and the number 1 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 1

Born on the 28th, 2 + 8 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure 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 28 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 28th reduces to 1, and 4 + 1 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

A Personal Year 7 is read as a year of reflection, study and rest, when the inner life asks for more room than the calendar. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as a year of real insight for anyone who makes time to be quiet.

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

In 2027 April 28 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 3 (11 + 28 = 39, then 3) in a Personal Month 11 (7 + 4 = 11), while April 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 28?

Taurus: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Taurus for the whole of April 28 in every year and every time zone, 7.3° to 8.7° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is April 28 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Taurus all day on April 28 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is April 20, eight days earlier.

Who was born on April 28?

Among the best known people born on April 28 are James Monroe (1758–1831), Penélope Cruz (born 1974) and Jessica Alba (born 1981), with Kurt Gödel, Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for April 28?

1. Born on the 28th, 2 + 8 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for an April 28 birthday?

7. For a birthday on April 28 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 28th reduces to 1, and 4 + 1 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.