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July 26 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

July 26 is a Leo birthday in the first decan of Leo with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; George Bernard Shaw (1856), Stanley Kubrick (1928) and Carl Jung (1875) were born on July 26 too.

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July 26 zodiac sign: Leo

Sun sign

Leo

Sun at noon UTC

2.6° to 4.0° 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 26, in every time zone on Earth, between 2.6° and 4.0° of the sign at noon UTC, so a July 26 birthday is a Leo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on July 26 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 26 is its fourth day.

In most years July 26 is the 4th day of the Sun’s season in Leo, which runs from July 23 to August 22 counted at noon UTC, with 27 days of it still to come. July 26 is the 207th day of a common year and the 208th of a leap year, with 158 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous July 26 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Alfred Marshall, in 1842, and the most recent Taylor Momsen, in 1993; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Sandra Bullock (born 1964), American actress and film producer
• Jason Statham (born 1967), English actor
• Kate Beckinsale (born 1973), English actress
• Taylor Momsen (born 1993), American actress, singer and model

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), American filmmaker and photographer
• Helen Mirren (born 1945), British actress
• Mick Jagger (born 1943), British singer and songwriter

Born in the 1800s

• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
• Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English writer and philosopher
• André Maurois (1885–1967), French author
• Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), British economist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 63 people the Almanac’s table keeps for July 26, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

July 26 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 26th adds 2 and 6 into 8, read in numerology as care and cooperation growing into authority. It is linked with the patient builder of a business or a family. The tradition reads fire with an 8 as the natural captain, at its best when its authority serves the whole team.

A question to carry from July 26: where could your warmth lead with fairness rather than with force?

The Sun in Leo and the number 8 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 8

Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on July 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 7 + 8 + 11 = 26, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

A Personal Year 8 is read as a year of effort and reward, of money, authority and the harvest of earlier work. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading asks that power be used in the service of a vision worth having.

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

In 2027 July 26 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 5 (6 + 26 = 32, then 5) in a Personal Month 6 (8 + 7 = 15, then 6), while March 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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