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January 27 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

January 27 is an Aquarius birthday in the first decan of Aquarius with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756), Lewis Carroll (1832) and Wilhelm II (1859) were born on January 27 too.

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January 27 zodiac sign: Aquarius

Sun sign: Aquarius
Sun at noon UTC: 6.4° to 7.8° Aquarius
Decan: First of Aquarius, 0° to 10°
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 January 27, in every time zone on Earth, between 6.4° and 7.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so a January 27 birthday is an Aquarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on January 27 the Sun is in the first decan of Aquarius, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from January 20 to January 29, and January 27 is its eighth day.

In most years January 27 is the 8th day of the Sun’s season in Aquarius, which runs from January 20 to February 18 counted at noon UTC, with 22 days of it still to come. January 27 is the 27th day of every year, with 338 days of the year still to come, or 339 in a leap year.

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Famous January 27 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Abbas the Great, in 1571, and the most recent Ole Einar Bjørndalen, in 1974; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Ole Einar Bjørndalen (born 1974), Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier
Bridget Fonda (born 1964), American actress

Born from 1900 to 1949

Samuel C. C. Ting (born 1936), Chinese-American physicist
Mikhail Baryshnikov (born 1948), Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor

Born in the 1800s

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), British author and scholar
Wilhelm II (1859–1941), as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895), Austrian author
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), French architect

Born before 1800

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer of the Classical period
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), German philosopher
Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Shah of Safavid Iran

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 53 people the Almanac’s table keeps for January 27, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

January 27 birthday personality

Venus opens Aquarius in the Chaldean scheme while Saturn, its traditional ruler, keeps it by triplicity, so the water-bearer’s ideals are read here through friendship: the circle, the cause shared over a meal. Tradition warns that a love for people in general can overlook the person in front of you.

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 an air sign the 9 is read as a humanitarian mind, moved by ideas of justice and of a shared future.

A question to carry from January 27: what could your independence of mind forgive, in someone else or in yourself, to travel lighter?

The Sun in Aquarius 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

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 January 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: January, the 1st month, gives 1, the 27th reduces to 9, and 1 + 9 + 11 = 21, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 3 as a year to express yourself, enjoy company and let creativity lead. In a Universal Year 11 the reading adds a note of inspiration, and a reminder to give the ideas a finished form.

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

In 2027 January 27 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 4 (4 + 27 = 31, then 4) in a Personal Month 4 (3 + 1 = 4), while August is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

January birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone: Garnet
Birth flowers: Carnation, and snowdrop as the second flower

January’s garnet comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its carnation and snowdrop from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is January 27?

Aquarius: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Aquarius for the whole of January 27 in every year and every time zone, 6.4° to 7.8° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is January 27 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Aquarius all day on January 27 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is January 21, six days earlier.

Who was born on January 27?

Among the best known people born on January 27 are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) and Wilhelm II (1859–1941), with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Abbas the Great and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for January 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 January 27 birthday?

3. For a birthday on January 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: January, the 1st month, gives 1, the 27th reduces to 9, and 1 + 9 + 11 = 21, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.