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July 25 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

July 25 is a Leo birthday in the first decan of Leo with birthday number 7 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Rosalind Franklin (1920), Elias Canetti (1905) and Arthur Balfour (1848) were born on July 25 too.

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July 25 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

1.7° to 3.1° Leo

Decan

First of Leo, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Fire, fixed

Ruling planet

The Sun

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Leo for the whole of July 25, in every time zone on Earth, between 1.7° and 3.1° of the sign at noon UTC, so a July 25 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on July 25 the Sun is in the first decan of Leo, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Leo, ruled by the Sun, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from July 23 to August 1, and July 25 is its third day.

In most years July 25 is the 3rd day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 28 days of it still to come. July 25 is the 206th day of a common year and the 207th of a leap year, with 159 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous July 25 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Afonso I of Portugal, in 1109, and the most recent Paulinho, in 1988; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Frances Arnold (born 1956), Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer
• Matt LeBlanc (born 1967), American actor
• Hulk (born 1986), Brazilian association football player
• Paulinho (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
• Yūichi Komano (born 1981), Japanese association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
• Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist
• John B. Goodenough (1922–2023), American materials scientist

Born in the 1800s

• Arthur Balfour (1848–1930), British Prime Minister, Conservative politician

Born before 1800

• Ibn Arabi (1165–1240), Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher
• Afonso I of Portugal (1109–1185), king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
• James I of Scotland (1394–1437), King of Scots from 1406 to 1437

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 65 people the Almanac’s table keeps for July 25, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

July 25 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 25th adds 2 and 5 into 7, so numerology reads restlessness and partnership settling into reflection, the seeker who has met a great many people. It is read as a perceptive, searching birthday. Fire with a 7 is read as the philosopher in action, testing beliefs against life rather than against books.

A question to carry from July 25: what does your warmth understand when you stop and think it through slowly?

The Sun in Leo and the number 7 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 7

Born on the 25th, 2 + 5 = 7, so your birthday number is 7: a 7 vibration supports introspection, wisdom, spirituality, analysis, and solitude, with depth, study, and inner truth as its gift and isolation, skepticism, or emotional distance as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on July 25 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 25th reduces to 7, and 7 + 7 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.

A Personal Year 7 is read as a year of reflection, study and rest, when the inner life asks for more room than the calendar. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as a year of real insight for anyone who makes time to be quiet.

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

In 2027 July 25 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 3 (5 + 25 = 30, then 3) in a Personal Month 5 (7 + 7 = 14, then 5), while April 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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