February 27 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
The short answer
February 27 is a Pisces birthday in the first decan of Pisces with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Constantine the Great (272), John Steinbeck (1902) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932) were born on February 27 too.
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February 27 zodiac sign: Pisces
- Sun sign
- Pisces
- Sun at noon UTC
- 7.8° to 9.2° Pisces
- Decan
- First of Pisces, 0° to 10°
- Element and mode
- Water, mutable
- Ruling planet
- Neptune; Jupiter by tradition
In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Pisces for the whole of February 27, in every time zone on Earth, between 7.8° and 9.2° of the sign at noon UTC, so a February 27 birthday is a Pisces birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on February 27 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 27 is its ninth day.
In most years February 27 is the 9th day of the Sun’s season in Pisces, which runs from February 19 to March 20 counted at noon UTC, with 21 days of it still to come. February 27 is the 58th day of every year, with 307 days of the year still to come, or 308 in a leap year.
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Famous February 27 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Constantine the Great, in 272, and the most recent Kate Mara, in 1983; three of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Chelsea Clinton (born 1980), American author and global health advocate
- Kate Mara (born 1983), American actress
- Jony Ive (born 1967), English designer and former Chief Design Officer at Apple
Born from 1900 to 1949
- John Steinbeck (1902–1968), American writer
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), British-American actress
- Joanne Woodward (born 1930), American actress
- Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021), Nobel prize winning American chemist
- Roger Scruton (1944–2020), English conservative philosopher and writer
- Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), French philosopher
- Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990), British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
Born in the 1800s
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and educator
Born before 1800
- Constantine the Great (272–337), Roman emperor from 306 to 337
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 74 people the Almanac’s table keeps for February 27, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
February 27 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.
Born on the 27th, 2 and 7 add to 9: the listener and the thinker arriving at compassion. Numerology reads it as a birthday of broad sympathy and a teacher’s patience. In a water sign the 9 is read as boundless sympathy, asked to keep some of its compassion for itself.
A question to carry from February 27: what could your compassion forgive, in someone else or in yourself, to travel lighter?
The Sun in Pisces and the number 9 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 9
Born on the 27th, 2 + 7 = 9, so your birthday number is 9: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.
Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on February 27 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 27th reduces to 9, and 2 + 9 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.
Kept whole as a master year rather than reduced to 4, a Personal Year 22 is read as the master builder’s year, a time to make a large vision practical. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs that vision with careful, steady work.
Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 22: Jan 5 Feb 6 Mar 7 Apr 8 May 9 Jun 1 Jul 11 Aug 3 Sep 4 Oct 5 Nov 33 Dec 7
In 2027 February 27 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 33 (6 + 27 = 33) in a Personal Month 6 (22 + 2 = 24, then 6), while July is a master month 11 and November is a master month 33; 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 27?
Pisces: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Pisces for the whole of February 27 in every year and every time zone, 7.8° to 9.2° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is February 27 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Pisces all day on February 27 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is February 19, eight days earlier.
Who was born on February 27?
Among the best known people born on February 27 are Constantine the Great (272–337), John Steinbeck (1902–1968) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011), with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Joanne Woodward and Robert H. Grubbs and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for February 27?
9. Born on the 27th, 2 + 7 = 9, so your birthday number is 9: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for a February 27 birthday?
22. For a birthday on February 27 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 27th reduces to 9, and 2 + 9 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.
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