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December 16 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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December 16 is a Sagittarius birthday in the third decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 7 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Jane Austen (1775) and Arthur C. Clarke (1917) were born on December 16 too.

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December 16 zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Sun sign

Sagittarius

Sun at noon UTC

23.7° to 25.1° Sagittarius

Decan

Third of Sagittarius, 20° to 30°

Element and mode

Fire, mutable

Ruling planet

Jupiter

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, in every time zone on Earth, between 23.7° and 25.1° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 16 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 16 the Sun is in the third decan of Sagittarius, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Leo, ruled by the Sun, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 12 to December 21, and December 16 is its fifth day.

In most years December 16 is the 25th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with five days of it still to come. December 16 is the 350th day of a common year and the 351st of a leap year, with 15 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 16 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Catherine of Aragon, in 1485, and the most recent Zara Larsson, in 1997; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Mats Hummels (born 1988), German footballer
• Adam Riess (born 1969), American astrophysicist
• Zara Larsson (born 1997), Swedish singer-songwriter

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
• Margaret Mead (1901–1978), American anthropologist
• Philip K. Dick (1928–1982), American science fiction author
• Liv Ullmann (born 1938), Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter

Born in the 1800s

• George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish-American philosopher

Born before 1800

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer
• Jane Austen (1775–1817), author, novelist, writer
• Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536), first wife of Henry VIII of England
• Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865), German prince who became the first King of the Belgians

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 73 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 16, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

December 16 birthday personality

Saturn rules the last face of Sagittarius in the Chaldean scheme while Leo lends the Sun’s confidence, so belief is read here as conviction that has been tested: the teacher, the elder, the one whose principles have cost them something. Tradition warns against a certainty that stops listening.

The 16th reduces to 7, and 16 is a karmic debt number in modern numerology, read as the humility learned when a structure falls and is rebuilt more honestly. The Almanac reads it as a pattern of growth, not of blame. Fire gives the 7 a crusader’s edge, so the reading finds a searcher for truth who will say it out loud once it is found.

A question to carry from December 16: what question has your hope been carrying that deserves a proper answer?

The Sun in Sagittarius 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, through 16

Born on the 16th, 1 + 6 = 7, so your birthday number is 7: 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. The day itself, 16, is one of the four karmic debt numbers, 13, 14, 16 and 19, a flag raised only for a number’s own total, and the Almanac reads it as a lesson to grow through, never as a punishment or a curse.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on December 16 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: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 16th reduces to 7, and 3 + 7 + 11 = 21, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.

A Personal Year 3 is read as a year of expression, friendship and creative play, when what you make and say carries further than usual. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading adds inspiration, with the caution to finish what the bright ideas begin.

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

In 2027 December 16 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 22 (6 + 16 = 22) in a Personal Month 6 (3 + 12 = 15, then 6), while August is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

December birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Turquoise, tanzanite and zircon

Birth flowers

Narcissus, and holly as the second flower

December’s turquoise, tanzanite and zircon come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its narcissus and holly from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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