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August 9 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 9 is a Leo birthday in the second decan of Leo with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 1 in 2027; Whitney Houston (1963), Jean Piaget (1896) and Gillian Anderson (1968) were born on August 9 too.

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August 9 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

16.0° to 17.4° 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 9, in every time zone on Earth, between 16.0° and 17.4° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 9 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 9 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 9 is its eighth day.

In most years August 9 is the 18th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 13 days of it still to come. August 9 is the 221st day of a common year and the 222nd of a leap year, with 144 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 9 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Amedeo Avogadro, in 1776, and the most recent Anna Kendrick, in 1985; eight of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Whitney Houston (1963–2012), American singer, actress, and film producer
• Gillian Anderson (born 1968), American actress
• Juanes (born 1972), Colombian musician
• Anna Kendrick (born 1985), American actress
• Audrey Tautou (born 1976), French actress
• Melanie Griffith (born 1957), American actress
• Filippo Inzaghi (born 1973), Italian footballer and manager
• Jean Tirole (born 1953), French economist

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Tove Jansson (1914–2001), Finnish children's writer and illustrator
• William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995), American nuclear physicist

Born in the 1800s

• Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician

Born before 1800

• Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian scientist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 69 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 9, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

August 9 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 9th is the 9 itself, the last of the single numbers, which numerology reads as completion, compassion and the wide view. A birthday on it is said to know how to finish a thing and let it go. Fire gives the 9’s compassion a cause, so the tradition reads someone moved to act for people they may never meet.

A question to carry from August 9: what would your warmth let go of, so that something new has room to begin?

The Sun in Leo and the number 9 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 9

Born on the 9th, your birthday number is simply 9, the day itself: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 9 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 9th gives 9, and 8 + 9 + 11 = 28, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 1 as the first page of a new chapter, a season for independence, initiative and a fresh plan. With the Universal Year an 11, the house reads 2027 as a good year to start the thing intuition has been pointing toward.

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

In 2027 August 9 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 9 (9 + 9 = 18, then 9) in a Personal Month 9 (1 + 8 = 9), while October 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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