Birthdays

December birthdaysEvery day of the month: its sign, its famous birthdays and its 2027 numbers

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December birthdays are Sagittarius from December 1 to 21 and Capricorn from December 22 to 31, in most years. December 21 and December 22 are cusp days, when the Sun changed sign during the date in some years. The December birthstones are turquoise, tanzanite and zircon, and its birth flowers are narcissus and holly.

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Every December birthday

Each date has its own page: the Sun’s sign for every year from 1940 to 2030, the decan, the day’s twelve best-known birthdays, its birthday number and its 2027 Personal Year. Each date below shows its usual sign; a gold edge marks a cusp day.

1. 1Sag
2. 2Sag
3. 3Sag
4. 4Sag
5. 5Sag
6. 6Sag
7. 7Sag
8. 8Sag
9. 9Sag
10. 10Sag
11. 11Sag
12. 12Sag
13. 13Sag
14. 14Sag
15. 15Sag
16. 16Sag
17. 17Sag
18. 18Sag
19. 19Sag
20. 20Sag
21. 21Sag/Cap
22. 22Cap/Sag
23. 23Cap
24. 24Cap
25. 25Cap
26. 26Cap
27. 27Cap
28. 28Cap
29. 29Cap
30. 30Cap
31. 31Cap

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December, day by day

• December 1: Sagittarius; birthday number 1; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856).
• December 2: Sagittarius; birthday number 2; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Britney Spears (born 1981).
• December 3: Sagittarius; birthday number 3; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Joseph Conrad (1857–1924).
• December 4: Sagittarius; birthday number 4; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926).
• December 5: Sagittarius; birthday number 5; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Walt Disney (1901–1966).
• December 6: Sagittarius; birthday number 6; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850).
• December 7: Sagittarius; birthday number 7; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680).
• December 8: Sagittarius; birthday number 8; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Horace (65–8 BC).
• December 9: Sagittarius; birthday number 9; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: John Milton (1608–1674).
• December 10: Sagittarius; birthday number 1; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).
• December 11: Sagittarius; birthday number 11; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006).
• December 12: Sagittarius; birthday number 3; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880).
• December 13: Sagittarius; birthday number 4; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Taylor Swift (born 1989).
• December 14: Sagittarius; birthday number 5; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).
• December 15: Sagittarius; birthday number 6; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917).
• December 16: Sagittarius; birthday number 7; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827).
• December 17: Sagittarius; birthday number 8; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Pope Francis (1936–2025).
• December 18: Sagittarius; birthday number 9; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Steven Spielberg (born 1946).
• December 19: Sagittarius; birthday number 1; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Édith Piaf (1915–1963).
• December 20: Sagittarius; birthday number 2; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Kylian Mbappé (born 1998).
• December 21: Sagittarius or Capricorn, a cusp day; birthday number 3; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881).
• December 22: Capricorn or Sagittarius, a cusp day; birthday number 22; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Basshunter (born 1984).
• December 23: Capricorn; birthday number 5; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Alexander I of Russia (1777–1825).
• December 24: Capricorn; birthday number 6; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: James Prescott Joule (1818–1889).
• December 25: Capricorn; birthday number 7; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Isaac Newton (1642–1727).
• December 26: Capricorn; birthday number 8; Personal Year 22 in 2027. Born this day: Charles Babbage (1791–1871).
• December 27: Capricorn; birthday number 9; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Louis Pasteur (1822–1895).
• December 28: Capricorn; birthday number 1; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924).
• December 29: Capricorn; birthday number 11; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Andrew Johnson (1808–1875).
• December 30: Capricorn; birthday number 3; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936).
• December 31: Capricorn; birthday number 4; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Henri Matisse (1869–1954).

December birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Turquoise, tanzanite and zircon

Birth flowers

Narcissus and holly

Birthstones from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised); birth flowers from The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s list of birth month flowers, the primary flower first.

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