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August 26 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 26 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Mother Teresa (1910), Antoine Lavoisier (1743) and Chris Pine (1980) were born on August 26 too.

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August 26 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

2.4° to 3.8° Virgo

Decan

First of Virgo, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, mutable

Ruling planet

Mercury

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Virgo for the whole of August 26, in every time zone on Earth, between 2.4° and 3.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 26 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 26 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 26 is its fourth day.

In most years August 26 is the 4th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 27 days of it still to come. August 26 is the 238th day of a common year and the 239th of a leap year, with 127 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 26 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Robert Walpole, in 1676, and the most recent Macaulay Culkin, in 1980; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Chris Pine (born 1980), American actor
• Macaulay Culkin (born 1980), American actor and singer
• Melissa McCarthy (born 1970), American actress and comedian
• Thalía (born 1971), Mexican singer and actress

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Mother Teresa (1910–1997), Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
• Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Argentine writer and translator
• Katherine Johnson (1918–2020), African-American mathematician

Born in the 1800s

• Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French poet
• James Franck (1882–1964), German-American physicist
• Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861), Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861

Born before 1800

• Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), French nobleman and chemist
• Robert Walpole (1676–1745), British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 59 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 26, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 26 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.

The 26th adds 2 and 6 into 8, read in numerology as care and cooperation growing into authority. It is linked with the patient builder of a business or a family. Earth with an 8 is read as the steward of resources, at its best when wealth is used to build something for others.

A question to carry from August 26: where could your care for doing things well lead with fairness rather than with force?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 8 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 8

Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 8 + 8 + 11 = 27, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

A Personal Year 9 is read as a year of completion and release, when a nine-year round closes and makes room for the next. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads the endings as clearing the way for something more inspired.

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

In 2027 August 26 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 7 (8 + 26 = 34, then 7) in a Personal Month 8 (9 + 8 = 17, then 8), while February 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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