August 19 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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August 19 is a Leo birthday in the third decan of Leo with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 2 in 2027; Coco Chanel (1883), John Dryden (1631) and Matthew Perry (1969) were born on August 19 too.
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August 19 zodiac sign: Leo
- Sun sign
- Leo
- Sun at noon UTC
- 25.6° to 27.0° 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 19, in every time zone on Earth, between 25.6° and 27.0° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 19 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on August 19 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 19 is its seventh day.
In most years August 19 is the 28th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with three days of it still to come. August 19 is the 231st day of a common year and the 232nd of a leap year, with 134 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous August 19 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Probus, in 232, and the most recent Nico Hülkenberg, in 1987; five of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Matthew Perry (1969–2023), American-Canadian actor
- Satya Nadella (born 1967), Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft
- John Deacon (born 1951), British musician, bassist and songwriter
- Marco Materazzi (born 1973), Italian association football player and manager
- Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987), Formula One racing driver
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Willard Boyle (1924–2011), Canadian physicist and inventor
- Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991), American television screenwriter and producer
Born in the 1800s
- Coco Chanel (1883–1971), French fashion designer
- Manuel L. Quezon (1878–1944), President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
Born before 1800
- John Dryden (1631–1700), 17th-century English poet and playwright
- Probus (232–282), 3rd-century Roman Emperor
- John Flamsteed (1646–1720), English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 69 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 19, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
August 19 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.
The 19th adds to 10 and then to 1, and 19 is the last of numerology’s karmic debt numbers, read as learning to stand on your own without standing apart. The Almanac keeps it a symbol of growth, never a verdict. Fire and the 1 together are read as a pioneer’s temper, at its best when the first step is taken for others and not only for the thrill of it.
A question to carry from August 19: which first step has your warmth been putting off until conditions are perfect?
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, through 19
Born on the 19th, 1 + 9 = 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. The day itself, 19, is one of the four karmic debt numbers, 13, 14, 16 and 19, a flag raised only for a number’s own total, and the Almanac reads it as a lesson to grow through, never as a punishment or a curse.
Your 2027 numbers
For a birthday on August 19 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 19th 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 a year of patience and partnership, when things grow out of sight and timing matters more than force. With 2027 a Universal Year 11, whose base is also 2, the tradition reads it as doubly a year for listening and for the right alliances.
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 19 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 2 (1 + 19 = 20, then 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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Common questions
What zodiac sign is August 19?
Leo: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Leo for the whole of August 19 in every year and every time zone, 25.6° to 27.0° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is August 19 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Leo all day on August 19 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is August 22, three days later.
Who was born on August 19?
Among the best known people born on August 19 are Coco Chanel (1883–1971), John Dryden (1631–1700) and Matthew Perry (1969–2023), with Willard Boyle, Probus and Satya Nadella and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for August 19?
1. Born on the 19th, 1 + 9 = 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 August 19 birthday?
2. For a birthday on August 19 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 19th reduces to 1, and 8 + 1 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.
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