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February 1 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

February 1 is an Aquarius birthday in the second decan of Aquarius with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Clark Gable (1901), John Ford (1894) and Harry Styles (1994) were born on February 1 too.

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February 1 zodiac sign: Aquarius

Sun sign: Aquarius
Sun at noon UTC: 11.5° to 12.9° Aquarius
Decan: Second of Aquarius, 10° to 20°
Element and mode: Air, fixed
Ruling planet: Uranus; Saturn by tradition

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, in every time zone on Earth, between 11.5° and 12.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a February 1 birthday is an Aquarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on February 1 the Sun is in the second decan of Aquarius, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Gemini, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from January 30 to February 8, and February 1 is its third day.

In most years February 1 is the 13th day of the Sun’s season in Aquarius, which runs from January 20 to February 18 counted at noon UTC, with 17 days of it still to come. February 1 is the 32nd day of every year, with 333 days of the year still to come, or 334 in a leap year.

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Famous February 1 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Hugo von Hofmannsthal, in 1874, and the most recent Harry Styles, in 1994; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Harry Styles (born 1994), English singer, songwriter and actor
Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969), Argentine association football player
Brandon Lee (1965–1993), American actor
Lisa Marie Presley (1968–2023), American singer-songwriter
Darren Fletcher (born 1984), Scottish association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

Clark Gable (1901–1960), American actor
Emilio Segrè (1905–1989), Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
Terry Jones (1942–2020), Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer
Stanley Matthews (1915–2000), English association football player

Born in the 1800s

John Ford (1894–1973), American film director
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937), Russian author

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 61 people the Almanac’s table keeps for February 1, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

February 1 birthday personality

Both systems give the middle of Aquarius to Mercury, so the old reading is the inventor’s mind, original and quick to see a system and how it could work better. Its lesson is that being right early is lonely unless it is said kindly.

Born on the 1st, you carry the number in its plainest form, with no compound behind it, only the 1 of beginnings. Numerologists read the first of the month as the self-starter, someone who would rather go first than wait to be asked. In an air sign the 1’s initiative is read as the first idea in the room, the person who proposes and then persuades.

A question to carry from February 1: where could your independence of mind make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?

The Sun in Aquarius and the number 1 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 1

Born on the 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on February 1 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: February, the 2nd month, gives 2, the 1st gives 1, and 2 + 1 + 11 = 14, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5. On the way it passes 14, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

A Personal Year 5 is read as a year of change and movement, of travel, new people and loosened routines. Beside the Universal Year 11 it is read as change guided by intuition rather than restlessness.

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

In 2027 February 1 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 8 (7 + 1 = 8) in a Personal Month 7 (5 + 2 = 7), while June is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

February birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone: Amethyst
Birth flowers: Violet, and primrose as the second flower

February’s amethyst comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its violet and primrose from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is February 1?

Aquarius: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Aquarius for the whole of February 1 in every year and every time zone, 11.5° to 12.9° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is February 1 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Aquarius all day on February 1 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is January 21, eleven days earlier.

Who was born on February 1?

Among the best known people born on February 1 are Clark Gable (1901–1960), John Ford (1894–1973) and Harry Styles (born 1994), with Emilio Segrè, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Yevgeny Zamyatin and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for February 1?

1. Born on the 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a February 1 birthday?

5. For a birthday on February 1 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: February, the 2nd month, gives 2, the 1st gives 1, and 2 + 1 + 11 = 14, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5. On the way it passes 14, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.