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August 7 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 7 is a Leo birthday in the second decan of Leo with birthday number 7 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; Charlize Theron (1975), Elinor Ostrom (1933) and David Duchovny (1960) were born on August 7 too.

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August 7 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

14.1° to 15.5° 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 7, in every time zone on Earth, between 14.1° and 15.5° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 7 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 7 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 7 is its sixth day.

In most years August 7 is the 16th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 15 days of it still to come. August 7 is the 219th day of a common year and the 220th of a leap year, with 146 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 7 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Constantius II, in 317, and the most recent Seiichiro Maki, in 1980; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Charlize Theron (born 1975), South African and American actress
• David Duchovny (born 1960), American actor and writer
• Bruce Dickinson (born 1958), English heavy metal singer
• Seiichiro Maki (born 1980), Japanese association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), American political economist
• Sofia Rotaru (born 1947), Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress
• Ralph Bunche (1904–1971)
• Abebe Bikila (1932–1973), Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
• James Randi (1928–2020), Canadian-American stage magician
• Louis Leakey (1903–1972), kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist

Born before 1800

• Constantius II (317–361), Roman emperor
• Carl Ritter (1779–1859), German geographer

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 7, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 7 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 7th gives the 7 in its plain form, numerology’s number of the seeker and the thinker. It is read as a birthday that needs some quiet to be at its best. Fire lends the 7’s search a burning question, so the reading finds a seeker who learns by going out and testing an idea rather than waiting for it.

A question to carry from August 7: what would your warmth notice if you gave it an hour of real quiet?

The Sun in Leo and the number 7 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 7

Born on the 7th, your birthday number is simply 7, the day itself: a 7 vibration supports introspection, wisdom, spirituality, analysis, and solitude, with depth, study, and inner truth as its gift and isolation, skepticism, or emotional distance as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 7 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 7th gives 7, and 8 + 7 + 11 = 26, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

Read as the year of the harvest, a Personal Year 8 is numerology’s season of ambition, finance and recognition. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as asking that success serve a purpose larger than itself.

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

In 2027 August 7 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 5 (7 + 7 = 14, then 5) in a Personal Month 7 (8 + 8 = 16, then 7), while March 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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