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February 20 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

February 20 is a Pisces birthday in the first decan of Pisces, one caveat aside for births far from Greenwich, with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Rihanna (1988), Kurt Cobain (1967) and Sidney Poitier (1927) were born on February 20 too.

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February 20 zodiac sign: Pisces

Sun sign: Pisces
Sun at noon UTC: 0.7° to 2.1° Pisces
Decan: First of Pisces, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Water, mutable
Ruling planet: Neptune; Jupiter by tradition

At noon UTC on February 20 the Sun is in Pisces in every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, between 0.7° and 2.1° of the sign, but in 17 of those years, most recently 1988, it had entered Pisces only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of February 20 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aquarius. For a birth on February 20 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on February 20 the Sun is in the first decan of Pisces, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from February 19 to February 28, and February 20 is its second day.

In most years February 20 is the 2nd day of the Sun’s season in Pisces, which runs from February 19 to March 20 counted at noon UTC, with 28 days of it still to come. February 20 is the 51st day of every year, with 314 days of the year still to come, or 315 in a leap year.

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Famous February 20 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Ludwig Boltzmann, in 1844, and the most recent Olivia Rodrigo, in 2003; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Rihanna (born 1988), Barbadian singer
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), American rock musician, singer and songwriter
Olivia Rodrigo (born 2003), American singer-songwriter and actress
Ciro Immobile (born 1990), Italian association football player
Jari Litmanen (born 1971), Finnish footballer

Born from 1900 to 1949

Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), Bahamian and American actor and diplomat
George Smoot (1945–2025), American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Robert Altman (1925–2006), American filmmaker
Ivana Trump (1949–2022), Czech-American businesswoman
Richard Matheson (1926–2013), American fiction writer

Born in the 1800s

Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist and philosopher
Georges Bernanos (1888–1948), French writer

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 50 people the Almanac’s table keeps for February 20, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

February 20 birthday personality

Saturn opens Pisces in the Chaldean scheme while Jupiter keeps it by triplicity, so the sign’s sympathy is read here as given a shape: compassion with a timetable, faith that does the dishes. The caution in the old reading is carrying sorrows that were never yours to carry.

The 20th is the 2 with a zero beside it, read in numerology as the partner’s number amplified: patience, tact and a gift for the long collaboration. In a water sign the 2 is read as the most tender of pairings, a partner whose love is felt more than said.

Where Aquarius gives way to Pisces the idea meets the feeling, a love of humanity meeting a love for the one person in front of you. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from February 20: where would your compassion grow stronger if it asked for help instead of carrying everything alone?

The Sun in Pisces and the number 2 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 2

Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

A Greek sphinx with a lion's body, folded wings and a serene woman's face, seated on a stone plinth, an engraving — The Sphinx, keeper of riddles

For a birthday on February 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 2 + 2 + 11 = 15, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

A Personal Year 6 is read as a year of love and duty, of home, family and the people who rely on you. In 2027, a Universal Year 11, the tradition reads that care as reaching out to heal and to serve a community.

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

In 2027 February 20 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 1 (8 + 20 = 28, then 1) in a Personal Month 8 (6 + 2 = 8), while May 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 20?

Pisces, almost always: at noon UTC on February 20 the Sun is in Pisces in every year from 1940 to 2030, but in 17 of those years, most recently 1988, it had entered Pisces only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of February 20 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aquarius.

Is February 20 a cusp birthday?

Not in UTC: in no year from 1940 to 2030 does the Sun change sign during February 20 counted in UTC, though in 17 of those years, most recently 1988, it had entered Pisces only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of February 20 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Aquarius. The nearest cusp birthday is February 19, one day earlier.

Who was born on February 20?

Among the best known people born on February 20 are Rihanna (born 1988), Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) and Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), with Ludwig Boltzmann, Olivia Rodrigo and George Smoot and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for February 20?

2. Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a February 20 birthday?

6. For a birthday on February 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 2 + 2 + 11 = 15, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.