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August 10 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 10 is a Leo birthday in the second decan of Leo with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 2 in 2027; Herbert Hoover (1874), Antonio Banderas (1960) and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810) were born on August 10 too.

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August 10 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

17.0° to 18.4° Leo

Decan

Second of Leo, 10° to 20°

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 10, in every time zone on Earth, between 17.0° and 18.4° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 10 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 10 the Sun is in the second decan of Leo, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from August 2 to August 12, and August 10 is its ninth day.

In most years August 10 is the 19th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with twelve days of it still to come. August 10 is the 222nd day of a common year and the 223rd of a leap year, with 143 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 10 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, in 1810, and the most recent Kylie Jenner, in 1997; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Antonio Banderas (born 1960), Spanish actor
• Kylie Jenner (born 1997), American media personality
• Javier Zanetti (born 1973), Argentine association football player
• Suzanne Collins (born 1962), American television writer and novelist
• Bernardo Silva (born 1994), Portuguese association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), German physicist
• Norma Shearer (1902–1983), Canadian-American actress
• Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher

Born in the 1800s

• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
• Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861)
• Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845–1904), Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 67 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 10, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

August 10 birthday personality

Both systems give the middle of Leo to Jupiter, so tradition reads the sign’s generosity at its widest: the host, the patron, the one who believes in other people out loud. Its caution is the promise made bigger than the purse.

The 10th adds 1 and 0 to make 1 again, and numerologists read the zero as an amplifier: the 1’s initiative with more room around it. It is read as a birthday for starting over well. Read with fire, the 1 is a match struck in the open air: quick to catch, quick to lead, and in need of something lasting to burn.

A question to carry from August 10: what would your warmth begin today if no one needed to approve it first?

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 10th, 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

For a birthday on August 10 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 10th reduces to 1, and 8 + 1 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.

A Personal Year 2 is read as the year of the partner and the peacemaker, when results come through patience and good relationships. The Universal Year 11, built on a 2 itself, is read as making 2027 a gentle, intuitive year for you.

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 10 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 11 (1 + 10 = 11) 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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