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July 1 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

July 1 is a Cancer birthday in the first decan of Cancer with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 1 in 2027; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961) and George Sand (1804) were born on July 1 too.

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July 1 zodiac sign: Cancer

Sun sign: Cancer
Sun at noon UTC: 8.8° to 10.2° Cancer
Decan: First of Cancer, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Water, cardinal
Ruling planet: The Moon

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Cancer for the whole of July 1, in every time zone on Earth, between 8.8° and 10.2° of the sign at noon UTC, so a July 1 birthday is a Cancer birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on July 1 the Sun is in the first decan of Cancer in 85 of those years and in the second in 6, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The first decan of Cancer is a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Cancer, ruled by the Moon, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from June 22 to July 1, and July 1 is its tenth day.

In most years July 1 is the 10th day of the Sun’s season in Cancer, which runs from June 22 to July 22 counted at noon UTC, with 21 days of it still to come. July 1 is the 182nd day of a common year and the 183rd of a leap year, with 183 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous July 1 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in 1646, and the most recent Liv Tyler, in 1977; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
Liv Tyler (born 1977), American actress
Carl Lewis (born 1961), US track & field athlete
Ruud van Nistelrooy (born 1976), Dutch association football player and coach

Born from 1900 to 1949

Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020), British actress
Sydney Pollack (1934–2008), American film director, producer and actor
William Wyler (1902–1981), Swiss-German-American director and producer

Born in the 1800s

George Sand (1804–1876), French novelist and memoirist
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865), Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures
Charles Laughton (1899–1962), British-American actor

Born before 1800

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German mathematician and philosopher
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), German scientist and satirist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 73 people the Almanac’s table keeps for July 1, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

July 1 birthday personality

Venus holds the first decan of Cancer in the Chaldean order and the Moon keeps it by triplicity, so the old reading is tenderness with a homemaker’s eye: a table laid, a house made welcoming. Its caution is a love that quietly keeps score in favours.

Born on the 1st, you carry the number in its plainest form, with no compound behind it, only the 1 of beginnings. Numerologists read the first of the month as the self-starter, someone who would rather go first than wait to be asked. In a water sign the 1’s independence is read as emotional self-possession, a private strength that does not ask permission.

A question to carry from July 1: where could your instinct to protect make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?

The Sun in Cancer 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 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: 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

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 July 1 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: July, the 7th month, gives 7, the 1st gives 1, and 7 + 1 + 11 = 19, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1. On the way it passes 19, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 1 as the first page of a new chapter, a season for independence, initiative and a fresh plan. With the Universal Year an 11, the house reads 2027 as a good year to start the thing intuition has been pointing toward.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 1: Jan 2 Feb 3 Mar 4 Apr 5 May 6 Jun 7 Jul 8 Aug 9 Sep 1 Oct 11 Nov 3 Dec 4

In 2027 July 1 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 9 (8 + 1 = 9) in a Personal Month 8 (1 + 7 = 8), while October is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

July birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone: Ruby
Birth flowers: Larkspur, and water lily as the second flower

July’s ruby comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its larkspur and water lily from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is July 1?

Cancer: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Cancer for the whole of July 1 in every year and every time zone, 8.8° to 10.2° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is July 1 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Cancer all day on July 1 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is June 22, nine days earlier.

Who was born on July 1?

Among the best known people born on July 1 are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) and George Sand (1804–1876), with Olivia de Havilland, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Liv Tyler and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for July 1?

1. Born on the 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: 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 July 1 birthday?

1. For a birthday on July 1 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: July, the 7th month, gives 7, the 1st gives 1, and 7 + 1 + 11 = 19, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1. On the way it passes 19, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.