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August 31 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 31 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 4 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Maria Montessori (1870), Richard Gere (1949) and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821) were born on August 31 too.

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August 31 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

7.2° to 8.6° 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 31, in every time zone on Earth, between 7.2° and 8.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 31 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 31 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 31 is its ninth day.

In most years August 31 is the 9th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 22 days of it still to come. August 31 is the 243rd day of a common year and the 244th of a leap year, with 122 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 31 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Jahangir, in 1569, and the most recent Pepe Reina, in 1982; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Queen Rania of Jordan (born 1970), Queen Consort of Jordan
• Pepe Reina (born 1982), Spanish association football player
• Chris Tucker (born 1971), American actor and comedian

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Richard Gere (born 1949), American actor
• William Saroyan (1908–1981), Armenian-American novelist, playwright
• James Coburn (1928–2002), American actor
• Hugh David Politzer (born 1949), American physicist

Born in the 1800s

• Maria Montessori (1870–1952), Italian physician and educator
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), German physicist and physiologist
• Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880–1962), Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948
• Emperor Taishō (1879–1926), Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926

Born before 1800

• Jahangir (1569–1627), the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 to 1627

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 71 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 31, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 31 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 31st adds 3 and 1 into 4, so numerology reads the creative and the independent settling into a builder’s discipline. It is a birthday linked with practical originality. Earth and the 4 are both builders, so the tradition reads this pairing as reliability itself, with a stubborn streak to watch.

A question to carry from August 31: what would your care for doing things well build if you gave it one hour, every day, for a month?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 4 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 4

Born on the 31st, 3 + 1 = 4, so your birthday number is 4: a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability, with structure and reliability as its gift and rigidity, fear, or over-control as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 31 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 31st reduces to 4, and 8 + 4 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

A Personal Year 5 is read as numerology’s year of freedom: travel, change, new people and a loosening of old routines. With the Universal Year an 11, the tradition advises letting intuition choose which changes to make.

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

In 2027 August 31 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 8 (4 + 31 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 4 (5 + 8 = 13, then 4), while June 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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