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August 15 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 15 is a Leo birthday in the third decan of Leo with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Walter Scott (1771), Jennifer Lawrence (1990) and Ben Affleck (1972) were born on August 15 too.

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August 15 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

21.8° to 23.2° Leo

Decan

Third of Leo, 20° to 30°

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 15, in every time zone on Earth, between 21.8° and 23.2° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 15 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 15 the Sun is in the third decan of Leo, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mars in the Chaldean order and is read through Aries, ruled by Mars, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from August 13 to August 22, and August 15 is its third day.

In most years August 15 is the 24th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with seven days of it still to come. August 15 is the 227th day of a common year and the 228th of a leap year, with 138 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 15 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Anthony of Padua, in 1195, and the most recent Jennifer Lawrence, in 1990; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Jennifer Lawrence (born 1990), American actress and producer
• Ben Affleck (born 1972), American film actor, director and screenwriter
• Melinda French Gates (born 1964), American philanthropist
• Anne, Princess Royal (born 1950), daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
• Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963), Mexican film director
• Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), Swedish author

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Julia Child (1912–2004), American chef

Born in the 1800s

• Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
• Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi
• Gerty Cori (1896–1957), Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist

Born before 1800

• Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish novelist, poet and playwright
• Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), Franciscan saint, Doctor of the Church

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 56 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 15, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 15 birthday personality

Both systems give the last face of Leo to Mars, and by triplicity it borrows the ram’s fire, so this is read as Leo with its sword drawn, brave, protective and quick to take up a cause. The lesson the tradition attaches is the difference between courage and the need to be seen being brave.

Born on the 15th, your 1 and 5 add to 6: independence and movement turning toward care. Numerology reads it as a warm, sociable birthday with a strong pull toward home. With fire, the 6 is read as generous loyalty, the friend who throws the party for you and fights your corner afterwards.

A question to carry from August 15: where is your warmth needed at home, and where is it being given away too easily?

The Sun in Leo and the number 6 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 6

Born on the 15th, 1 + 5 = 6, so your birthday number is 6: a 6 vibration supports love, responsibility, beauty, family, and service, with care, beauty, and responsibility as its gift and over-giving, perfectionism, or control through care as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 15 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 15th reduces to 6, and 8 + 6 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 7 as a year to slow down, reflect and look for deeper understanding. With the Universal Year an 11, the reading treats 2027 as a year of spiritual insight for those who seek it.

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 August 15 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 3 (6 + 15 = 21, then 3) in a Personal Month 6 (7 + 8 = 15, then 6), while April 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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