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

The short answer

December 4 is a Sagittarius birthday in the second decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 4 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Thomas Carlyle (1795) and Jay-Z (1969) were born on December 4 too.

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December 4 zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Sun sign

Sagittarius

Sun at noon UTC

11.5° to 12.9° Sagittarius

Decan

Second of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°

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 4, in every time zone on Earth, between 11.5° and 12.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 4 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 4 the Sun is in the second decan of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Aries, ruled by Mars, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 2 to December 11, and December 4 is its third day.

In most years December 4 is the 13th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with 17 days of it still to come. December 4 is the 338th day of a common year and the 339th of a leap year, with 27 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 4 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Thomas Carlyle, in 1795, and the most recent Diogo Jota, in 1996; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Jay-Z (born 1969), American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
• Tyra Banks (born 1973), American television personality, producer, and former model
• Diogo Jota (1996–2025), Portuguese footballer
• Marisa Tomei (born 1964), American actress
• Nick Vujicic (born 1982), Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
• Jin (born 1992), South Korean singer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Jeff Bridges (born 1949), American actor
• Albert Bandura (1925–2021), Canadian psychologist
• Alfred Hershey (1908–1997)

Born in the 1800s

• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Austrian poet and writer
• Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English novelist and critic

Born before 1800

• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 51 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 4, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

December 4 birthday personality

The Moon takes the middle decan of Sagittarius in the Chaldean order and Aries lends Mars’s dash by triplicity, so tradition reads a restless, warm-hearted optimism here, quick to set out and quick to forgive. The reflection is whether leaving has become easier than staying.

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 December 4: what would your hope build if you gave it one hour, every day, for a month?

The Sun in Sagittarius 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 December 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: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 4th gives 4, and 3 + 4 + 11 = 18, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 9 as a year of endings, generosity and letting go, closing one nine-year round. Under the Universal Year 11, the reading sees the release as preparing for a new and more inspired chapter.

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

In 2027 December 4 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 7 (3 + 4 = 7) in a Personal Month 3 (9 + 12 = 21, then 3), while February 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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