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January 28 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

January 28 is an Aquarius birthday in the first decan of Aquarius with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 4 in 2027; Jackson Pollock (1912), Gianluigi Buffon (1978) and José Martí (1853) were born on January 28 too.

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January 28 zodiac sign: Aquarius

Sun sign: Aquarius
Sun at noon UTC: 7.4° to 8.9° 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 28, in every time zone on Earth, between 7.4° and 8.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a January 28 birthday is an Aquarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on January 28 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 28 is its ninth day.

In most years January 28 is the 9th day of the Sun’s season in Aquarius, which runs from January 20 to February 18 counted at noon UTC, with 21 days of it still to come. January 28 is the 28th day of every year, with 337 days of the year still to come, or 338 in a leap year.

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Famous January 28 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Henry VII of England, in 1457, and the most recent Elijah Wood, in 1981; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978), former Italian footballer
Elijah Wood (born 1981), American actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), American painter
Ismail Kadare (1936–2024), Albanian writer
Carlos Slim (born 1940), Mexican business magnate and investor
Alan Alda (born 1936), American actor

Born in the 1800s

José Martí (1853–1895), Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist
Colette (1873–1954), French novelist
Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982), Polish-American classical pianist

Born before 1800

Henry VII of England (1457–1509), King of England from 1485 to 1509
Pope Clement IX (1600–1669), pope
Mustafa III (1717–1774), 26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 67 people the Almanac’s table keeps for January 28, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

January 28 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.

The 28th adds to 10 and then to 1, so numerology reads it as independence reached through partnership, the leader who learned to work with others. It is a birthday linked with initiative that brings people along. 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 January 28: 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 28th, 2 + 8 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: 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 January 28 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 28th reduces to 1, and 1 + 1 + 11 = 13, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4. On the way it passes 13, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

A Personal Year 4 is read as a year of foundations: work, routine, health and the slow building that pays later. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as the year to give a vision its scaffolding.

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

In 2027 January 28 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 33 (5 + 28 = 33) in a Personal Month 5 (4 + 1 = 5), while July 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 28?

Aquarius: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Aquarius for the whole of January 28 in every year and every time zone, 7.4° to 8.9° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is January 28 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Aquarius all day on January 28 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is January 21, seven days earlier.

Who was born on January 28?

Among the best known people born on January 28 are Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Gianluigi Buffon (born 1978) and José Martí (1853–1895), with Colette, Elijah Wood and Ismail Kadare and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for January 28?

1. Born on the 28th, 2 + 8 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: 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 January 28 birthday?

4. For a birthday on January 28 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 28th reduces to 1, and 1 + 1 + 11 = 13, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4. On the way it passes 13, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.