Birthdays

January birthdaysEvery day of the month: its sign, its famous birthdays and its 2027 numbers

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January birthdays are Capricorn from January 1 to 19 and Aquarius from January 20 to 31, in most years. January 19, January 20 and January 21 are cusp days, when the Sun changed sign during the date in some years. The January birthstone is garnet, and its birth flowers are carnation and snowdrop.

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Each date has its own page: the Sun’s sign for every year from 1940 to 2030, the decan, the day’s twelve best-known birthdays, its birthday number and its 2027 Personal Year. Each date below shows its usual sign; a gold edge marks a cusp day.

1. 1Cap
2. 2Cap
3. 3Cap
4. 4Cap
5. 5Cap
6. 6Cap
7. 7Cap
8. 8Cap
9. 9Cap
10. 10Cap
11. 11Cap
12. 12Cap
13. 13Cap
14. 14Cap
15. 15Cap
16. 16Cap
17. 17Cap
18. 18Cap
19. 19Cap/Aqu
20. 20Aqu/Cap
21. 21Aqu/Cap
22. 22Aqu
23. 23Aqu
24. 24Aqu
25. 25Aqu
26. 26Aqu
27. 27Aqu
28. 28Aqu
29. 29Aqu
30. 30Aqu
31. 31Aqu

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January, day by day

• January 1: Capricorn; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: J. D. Salinger (1919–2010).
• January 2: Capricorn; birthday number 2; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897).
• January 3: Capricorn; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973).
• January 4: Capricorn; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Gao Xingjian (born 1940).
• January 5: Capricorn; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Umberto Eco (1932–2016).
• January 6: Capricorn; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Joan of Arc (1412–1431).
• January 7: Capricorn; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Millard Fillmore (1800–1874).
• January 8: Capricorn; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Elvis Presley (1935–1977).
• January 9: Capricorn; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).
• January 10: Capricorn; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Husayn ibn Ali (626–680).
• January 11: Capricorn; birthday number 11; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: William James (1842–1910).
• January 12: Capricorn; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Jack London (1876–1916).
• January 13: Capricorn; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Orlando Bloom (born 1977).
• January 14: Capricorn; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965).
• January 15: Capricorn; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968).
• January 16: Capricorn; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Susan Sontag (1933–2004).
• January 17: Capricorn; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790).
• January 18: Capricorn; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Montesquieu (1689–1755).
• January 19: Capricorn or Aquarius, a cusp day; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849).
• January 20: Aquarius or Capricorn, a cusp day; birthday number 2; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Federico Fellini (1920–1993).
• January 21: Aquarius or Capricorn, a cusp day; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916).
• January 22: Aquarius; birthday number 22; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Lord Byron (1788–1824).
• January 23: Aquarius; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: David Hilbert (1862–1943).
• January 24: Aquarius; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Frederick the Great (1712–1786).
• January 25: Aquarius; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Virginia Woolf (1882–1941).
• January 26: Aquarius; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: José Mourinho (born 1963).
• January 27: Aquarius; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).
• January 28: Aquarius; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Jackson Pollock (1912–1956).
• January 29: Aquarius; birthday number 11; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904).
• January 30: Aquarius; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945).
• January 31: Aquarius; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Franz Schubert (1797–1828).

January birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone

Garnet

Birth flowers

Carnation and snowdrop

Birthstones from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised); birth flowers from The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s list of birth month flowers, the primary flower first.

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