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August 4 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 4 is a Leo birthday in the second decan of Leo with birthday number 4 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Louis Armstrong (1901), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792) and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) were born on August 4 too.

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August 4 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

11.2° to 12.6° Leo

Decan

Second of Leo, 10° to 20°

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 4, in every time zone on Earth, between 11.2° and 12.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 4 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 4 the Sun is in the second decan of Leo, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from August 2 to August 12, and August 4 is its third day.

In most years August 4 is the 13th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 18 days of it still to come. August 4 is the 216th day of a common year and the 217th of a leap year, with 149 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 4 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Pope Urban VII, in 1521, and the most recent Mark Milligan, in 1985; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born 1981), member of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex
• Greta Gerwig (born 1983), American actress and filmmaker
• Antonio Valencia (born 1985), portughez association football player
• Billy Bob Thornton (born 1955), American actor, filmmaker, and musician
• Jeff Gordon (born 1971), American racing driver
• Mark Milligan (born 1985), Australian association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900–2002), Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Polish writer

Born in the 1800s

• William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish mathematician and astronomer

Born before 1800

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), British Romantic poet
• Pope Urban VII (1521–1590), pope of the Catholic Church in September 1590

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 57 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 4, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 4 birthday personality

Both systems give the middle of Leo to Jupiter, so tradition reads the sign’s generosity at its widest: the host, the patron, the one who believes in other people out loud. Its caution is the promise made bigger than the purse.

The 4th gives the 4 alone, the number numerology reads as the builder’s: order, effort and a plan that holds. A birthday on it is read as steady hands more than quick ones. In a fire sign the 4’s discipline is read as the hearth around the flame, the structure that lets a big energy burn for years rather than an evening.

A question to carry from August 4: what would your warmth build if you gave it one hour, every day, for a month?

The Sun in Leo 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 4th, your birthday number is simply 4, the day itself: 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 4 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 4th gives 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 4 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 8 (4 + 4 = 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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