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July 23 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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July 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Leo; in some years the Sun is still in Cancer for part of this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 5 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Haile Selassie (1892), Daniel Radcliffe (1989) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967) were born on July 23 too.

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July 23 zodiac sign: Cancer or Leo

Sun sign: Cancer or Leo, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 0.0° to 1.2° Leo, or 29.8° to 30.0° Cancer
Decan: First of Leo, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Fire, fixed
Ruling planet: The Sun

July 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Leo; in some years the Sun is still in Cancer for part of this date, so check your birth year and time: in 47 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Cancer into Leo during July 23 counted in UTC, most recently in 2027, and at noon UTC it stood in Leo in 82 of the years and in Cancer in 9. For a birth on July 23 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on July 23 the Sun is in the first decan of Leo in 82 of those years and in the third decan of Cancer in 9, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The first decan of Leo is a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Leo, ruled by the Sun, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from July 23 to August 1, and July 23 is its first day.

In most years July 23 is the 1st day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 30 days of it still to come. July 23 is the 204th day of a common year and the 205th of a leap year, with 161 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous July 23 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Pope Clement XI, in 1649, and the most recent Daniel Radcliffe, in 1989; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989), English actor and film producer
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American actor
Woody Harrelson (born 1961), American actor
Judit Polgár (born 1976), Hungarian chess player
Monica Lewinsky (born 1973), American activist and writer
Slash (born 1965), British musician

Born from 1900 to 1949

Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer and physicist
Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), Bosnian-Swiss chemist

Born in the 1800s

Haile Selassie (1892–1975), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), American novelist and screenwriter
Gustav Heinemann (1899–1976), German politician; President of Germany

Born before 1800

Pope Clement XI (1649–1721), pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721

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 23, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

July 23 birthday personality

Saturn opens Leo in the Chaldean scheme while the Sun keeps it by triplicity, a pairing the old books read as dignity under discipline: the heir who has to earn the crown. The warmth is real here, and so is the weight of wanting to do everything properly.

The 23rd adds 2 and 3 into 5, so numerology reads it as a lively, curious birthday, the partner and the talker becoming the traveller. It is linked with versatility and a quick wit. Fire with a 5 is read as a love of the open road and of the new idea, and it asks for one commitment kept all the way through.

Where Cancer gives way to Leo the private heart steps onto the stage, care meeting confidence. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from July 23: which routine is your warmth ready to change, and which one is worth keeping?

The Sun in Leo and the number 5 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 5

Born on the 23rd, 2 + 3 = 5, so your birthday number is 5: a 5 vibration supports freedom, change, movement, curiosity, and experimentation, with adaptability and discovery as its gift and restlessness, inconsistency, or escapism 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 23 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 23rd reduces to 5, and 7 + 5 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

A Personal Year 5 is read as a year of change and movement, of travel, new people and loosened routines. Beside the Universal Year 11 it is read as change guided by intuition rather than restlessness.

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

In 2027 July 23 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 8 (3 + 23 = 26, then 8) in a Personal Month 3 (5 + 7 = 12, then 3), while June 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 23?

Usually Leo; in some years the Sun is still in Cancer for part of this date, so check your birth year and time. In 47 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Cancer into Leo during July 23 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is July 23 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 47 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2027, the Sun moved from Cancer into Leo during July 23 (UTC), and which side of the change a birth fell on depends on its year and its minute, converted to UTC.

Who was born on July 23?

Among the best known people born on July 23 are Haile Selassie (1892–1975), Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), with Raymond Chandler, Pope Clement XI and Woody Harrelson and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for July 23?

5. Born on the 23rd, 2 + 3 = 5, so your birthday number is 5: a 5 vibration supports freedom, change, movement, curiosity, and experimentation, with adaptability and discovery as its gift and restlessness, inconsistency, or escapism as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a July 23 birthday?

5. For a birthday on July 23 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 23rd reduces to 5, and 7 + 5 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.