August 24 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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August 24 is a cusp birthday, usually Virgo; in some years the Sun is still in Leo for part of this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Paulo Coelho (1947) and Rupert Grint (1988) were born on August 24 too.
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August 24 zodiac sign: Leo or Virgo
- Sun sign
- Leo or Virgo, a cusp day
- Sun at noon UTC
- 0.4° to 1.8° Virgo
- Decan
- First of Virgo, 0° to 10°
- Element and mode
- Earth, mutable
- Ruling planet
- Mercury
August 24 is a cusp birthday, usually Virgo; in some years the Sun is still in Leo for part of this date, so check your birth year and time: in 2 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Leo into Virgo during August 24 counted in UTC, most recently in 1947, and at noon UTC it stood in Virgo in every year, so the change came before noon, early in the day. For a birth on August 24 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.
At noon UTC on August 24 the Sun is in the first decan of Virgo, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Sun in the Chaldean order and is read through Virgo, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from August 23 to September 2, and August 24 is its second day.
In most years August 24 is the 2nd day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 29 days of it still to come. August 24 is the 236th day of a common year and the 237th of a leap year, with 129 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous August 24 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is William I of the Netherlands, in 1772, and the most recent Alan Walker, in 1997; six of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Rupert Grint (born 1988), English actor
- Marlee Matlin (born 1965), American actress
- Alan Walker (born 1997), Norwegian electronic dance music producer
- John Green (born 1977), American author and vlogger
- Stephen Fry (born 1957), British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
- Maya Yoshida (born 1988), Japanese association football player
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Paulo Coelho (born 1947), Brazilian lyricist and novelist
- Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), French historian and leader of the Annales School
- Jean-Michel Jarre (born 1948), French composer, performer and record producer
Born in the 1800s
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
- Ferdinand I of Romania (1865–1927), king of Romania
Born before 1800
- William I of the Netherlands (1772–1843), King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 70 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 24, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.
August 24 birthday personality
The Sun rules the opening decan of Virgo in the Chaldean order while Mercury, the sign’s own ruler, keeps it by triplicity, so the old reading is service with a bright, visible craft, work that shows its care. Its shadow is a standard no one could meet, the one holding it included.
Born on the 24th, 2 and 4 make 6: cooperation and structure becoming care. Numerology reads it as a devoted birthday, for people who make homes and keep their promises. Earth with a 6 is read as the homemaker and the provider, love expressed in security and comfort.
Where Leo gives way to Virgo the performer meets the craftsman, warmth meeting care for detail. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.
A question to carry from August 24: how could your care for doing things well care for others this month without neglecting yourself?
The Sun in Virgo 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 24th, 2 + 4 = 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 24 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 24th reduces to 6, and 8 + 6 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.
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 August 24 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 3 (6 + 24 = 30, 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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Common questions
What zodiac sign is August 24?
Usually Virgo; in some years the Sun is still in Leo for part of this date, so check your birth year and time. In 2 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Leo into Virgo during August 24 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.
Is August 24 a cusp birthday?
Yes. In 2 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 1947, the Sun moved from Leo into Virgo during August 24 (UTC), and which side of the change a birth fell on depends on its year and its minute, converted to UTC.
Who was born on August 24?
Among the best known people born on August 24 are Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Paulo Coelho (born 1947) and Rupert Grint (born 1988), with Fernand Braudel, Jean-Michel Jarre and Marlee Matlin and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for August 24?
6. Born on the 24th, 2 + 4 = 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.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for an August 24 birthday?
7. For a birthday on August 24 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 24th reduces to 6, and 8 + 6 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.
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