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July 11 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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July 11 is a Cancer birthday in the second decan of Cancer with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 11 in 2027; John Quincy Adams (1767), Alexander Prokhorov (1916) and Giorgio Armani (1934) were born on July 11 too.

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July 11 zodiac sign: Cancer

Sun sign: Cancer
Sun at noon UTC: 18.3° to 19.7° Cancer
Decan: Second of Cancer, 10° to 20°
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 11, in every time zone on Earth, between 18.3° and 19.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so a July 11 birthday is a Cancer birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on July 11 the Sun is in the second decan of Cancer, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Scorpio, ruled by Mars, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from July 2 to July 12, and July 11 is its tenth day.

In most years July 11 is the 20th day of the Sun’s season in Cancer, which runs from June 22 to July 22 counted at noon UTC, with eleven days of it still to come. July 11 is the 192nd day of a common year and the 193rd of a leap year, with 173 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous July 11 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Robert the Bruce, in 1274, and the most recent Caroline Wozniacki, in 1990; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Caroline Wozniacki (born 1990), Danish tennis player
Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967), American author of Indian origin
Yoann Gourcuff (born 1986), French footballer

Born from 1900 to 1949

Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002), Soviet and Russian physicist
Giorgio Armani (1934–2025), Italian fashion designer
Yul Brynner (1920–1985), Russian-born American actor
Howard Gardner (born 1943), American developmental psychologist & academic

Born in the 1800s

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American painter

Born before 1800

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), King of Scotland
Frederick I of Prussia (1657–1713), Elector of Brandenburg
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627), Spanish Baroque lyric poet

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 68 people the Almanac’s table keeps for July 11, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

July 11 birthday personality

Mercury rules the middle of Cancer in the Chaldean scheme while Scorpio lends its depth, so feeling here is read as searching and articulate, with a long memory for what was really meant. Tradition sees the counsellor and the keeper of family stories, and asks that the shell open as often as it closes.

Born on the 11th, you have a master number for a birthday, kept whole by the Almanac’s method: 11, read as intuition and inspiration, with 2 underneath it as its everyday form. Numerology treats it as a sensitive birthday that needs grounding as much as vision. With water, the master 11 is read as the intuitive’s gift at its fullest, and as a call to protect the quiet it needs.

A question to carry from July 11: what quiet hunch is your instinct to protect asking you to test this year?

The Sun in Cancer and the number 11 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 11, a master number

Born on the 11th, your birthday number is 11 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 2: an 11 vibration is a Master Number connected to intuition, inspiration, sensitivity, and vision, with vision and inspired perception as its gift and nervous intensity, overwhelm, or self-doubt as its strain. On an ordinary day the 11 is lived through its 2, and a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening.

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 July 11 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 11th keeps its master 11, and 7 + 11 + 11 = 29, which reduces to the master 11, so 2027 is your Personal Year 11.

A Personal Year 11 is a master year the Almanac keeps whole, read as a year of intuition, inspiration and sensitivity, with 2 as its quieter ground. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads the inspiration as strong, and steady habits as its best support.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 11: Jan 3 Feb 4 Mar 5 Apr 6 May 7 Jun 8 Jul 9 Aug 1 Sep 2 Oct 3 Nov 22 Dec 5

In 2027 July 11 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 2 (9 + 11 = 20, then 2) in a Personal Month 9 (11 + 7 = 18, then 9), while November is a master month 22; 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 11?

Cancer: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Cancer for the whole of July 11 in every year and every time zone, 18.3° to 19.7° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is July 11 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Cancer all day on July 11 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is July 22, eleven days later.

Who was born on July 11?

Among the best known people born on July 11 are John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002) and Giorgio Armani (1934–2025), with Robert the Bruce, Yul Brynner and Caroline Wozniacki and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for July 11?

11. Born on the 11th, your birthday number is 11 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 2: an 11 vibration is a Master Number connected to intuition, inspiration, sensitivity, and vision, with vision and inspired perception as its gift and nervous intensity, overwhelm, or self-doubt as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a July 11 birthday?

11. For a birthday on July 11 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 11th keeps its master 11, and 7 + 11 + 11 = 29, which reduces to the master 11, so 2027 is your Personal Year 11.