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August 1 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 1 is a Leo birthday in the first decan of Leo with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 2 in 2027; Herman Melville (1819), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744) and Claudius (10 BC) were born on August 1 too.

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August 1 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

8.4° to 9.8° Leo

Decan

First of Leo, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Fire, fixed

Ruling planet

The Sun

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Leo for the whole of August 1, in every time zone on Earth, between 8.4° and 9.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 1 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 1 the Sun is in the first decan of Leo, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Leo, ruled by the Sun, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from July 23 to August 1, and August 1 is its tenth day.

In most years August 1 is the 10th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 21 days of it still to come. August 1 is the 213th day of a common year and the 214th of a leap year, with 152 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 1 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Claudius, in 10 BC, and the most recent Bastian Schweinsteiger, in 1984; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Jason Momoa (born 1979), American actor
• Bastian Schweinsteiger (born 1984), German association football player
• Coolio (1963–2022), American rapper
• Sam Mendes (born 1965), British stage and film director

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
• Georges Charpak (1924–2010), French physicist
• Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), French fashion designer
• Douglas Osheroff (born 1945), American physicist

Born in the 1800s

• Herman Melville (1819–1891), American writer and poet
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungarian chemist

Born before 1800

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist
• Claudius (10 BC – AD 54), fourth Roman emperor

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 64 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 1, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 1 birthday personality

Saturn opens Leo in the Chaldean scheme while the Sun keeps it by triplicity, a pairing the old books read as dignity under discipline: the heir who has to earn the crown. The warmth is real here, and so is the weight of wanting to do everything properly.

Born on the 1st, you carry the number in its plainest form, with no compound behind it, only the 1 of beginnings. Numerologists read the first of the month as the self-starter, someone who would rather go first than wait to be asked. In a fire sign the 1 doubles the urge to begin, so the tradition reads a born initiator who is happiest with a fresh start in hand.

A question to carry from August 1: where could your warmth make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?

The Sun in Leo 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 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: 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

For a birthday on August 1 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: August, the 8th month, gives 8, the 1st gives 1, and 8 + 1 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.

Read as the quiet year of the nine, a Personal Year 2 asks for cooperation, patience and attention to detail rather than big moves. In 2027, whose Universal Year 11 also rests on a 2, the reading leans toward partnerships and toward trusting a slower pace.

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

In 2027 August 1 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 2 (1 + 1 = 2) in a Personal Month 1 (2 + 8 = 10, then 1), while September is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

August birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Peridot, spinel and sardonyx

Birth flowers

Gladiolus, and poppy as the second flower

August’s peridot, spinel and sardonyx come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its gladiolus and poppy from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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