August 29 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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August 29 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Michael Jackson (1958), John Locke (1632) and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780) were born on August 29 too.
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August 29 zodiac sign: Virgo
- Sun sign
- Virgo
- Sun at noon UTC
- 5.3° to 6.7° 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 29, in every time zone on Earth, between 5.3° and 6.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 29 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on August 29 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 29 is its seventh day.
In most years August 29 is the 7th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 24 days of it still to come. August 29 is the 241st day of a common year and the 242nd of a leap year, with 124 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous August 29 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Jean-Baptiste Colbert, in 1619, and the most recent Liam Payne, in 1993; three of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Michael Jackson (1958–2009), American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Liam Payne (1993–2024), English singer-songwriter
- Carla Gugino (born 1971), American actress
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), Swedish actress
- Charlie Parker (1920–1955), American jazz saxophonist
- Arthur B. McDonald (born 1943), Canadian physicist
Born in the 1800s
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian playwright and essayist
- Albert Lebrun (1871–1950), 15th President of the French Republic
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), American poet and physician
Born before 1800
- John Locke (1632–1704), English philosopher and physician
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), French painter
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French statesman
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 61 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 29, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
August 29 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 29th, 2 and 9 add to 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, with 2 underneath it: intuition and sensitivity raised toward inspiration. Numerology reads it as a deeply feeling birthday that needs calm ground under it. In an earth sign the master 11 is read as intuition put to work, the hunch tested and then built into something useful.
A question to carry from August 29: what has your care for doing things well already sensed that you have not yet trusted enough to say?
The Sun in Virgo and the number 11 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 11, a master number
Born on the 29th, 2 + 9 = 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so your birthday number is 11, with 2 underneath it: an 11 vibration is a Master Number connected to intuition, inspiration, sensitivity, and vision, with vision and inspired perception as its gift and nervous intensity, overwhelm, or self-doubt as its strain. On an ordinary day the 11 is lived through its 2, and a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening.
Your 2027 numbers
For a birthday on August 29 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 29th reduces to the master 11, and 8 + 11 + 11 = 30, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.
A Personal Year 3 is numerology’s social, creative year, a time to write, speak, make and be seen. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads the inspiration as plentiful, and the discipline to finish as the year’s real test.
Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 3: Jan 4 Feb 5 Mar 6 Apr 7 May 8 Jun 9 Jul 1 Aug 11 Sep 3 Oct 4 Nov 5 Dec 6
In 2027 August 29 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 4 (11 + 29 = 40, then 4) in a Personal Month 11 (3 + 8 = 11), while August 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 29?
Virgo: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Virgo for the whole of August 29 in every year and every time zone, 5.3° to 6.7° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is August 29 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Virgo all day on August 29 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is August 24, five days earlier.
Who was born on August 29?
Among the best known people born on August 29 are Michael Jackson (1958–2009), John Locke (1632–1704) and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), with Maurice Maeterlinck, Ingrid Bergman and Charlie Parker and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for August 29?
11. Born on the 29th, 2 + 9 = 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so your birthday number is 11, with 2 underneath it: an 11 vibration is a Master Number connected to intuition, inspiration, sensitivity, and vision, with vision and inspired perception as its gift and nervous intensity, overwhelm, or self-doubt as its strain.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for an August 29 birthday?
3. For a birthday on August 29 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 29th reduces to the master 11, and 8 + 11 + 11 = 30, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.
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