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

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May 11 is a Taurus birthday in the third decan of Taurus with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Salvador Dalí (1904), Andrés Iniesta (1984) and Thibaut Courtois (1992) were born on May 11 too.

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May 11 zodiac sign: Taurus

Sun sign: Taurus
Sun at noon UTC: 19.9° to 21.3° Taurus
Decan: Third of Taurus, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Earth, fixed
Ruling planet: Venus

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Taurus for the whole of May 11, in every time zone on Earth, between 19.9° and 21.3° of the sign at noon UTC, so a May 11 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on May 11 the Sun is in the third decan of Taurus in 88 of those years and in the second in 3, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The third decan of Taurus is a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity, so the two systems agree, and in most years the decan runs from May 11 to May 20, and May 11 is its first day.

In most years May 11 is the 22nd day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with nine days of it still to come. May 11 is the 131st day of a common year and the 132nd of a leap year, with 234 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous May 11 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Charles W. Fairbanks, in 1852, and the most recent Sabrina Carpenter, in 1999; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Andrés Iniesta (born 1984), Spanish footballer and manager
Thibaut Courtois (born 1992), Belgian association football player
Sabrina Carpenter (born 1999), American singer-songwriter and actress
Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), British actress
Laetitia Casta (born 1978), French actress and model
Giovani dos Santos (born 1989), Mexican association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish artist
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002), Dutch computer scientist
Antony Hewish (1924–2021), English physicist and radio astronomer

Born in the 1800s

Irving Berlin (1888–1989), American composer and lyricist
Martha Graham (1894–1991), American dancer and choreographer
Charles W. Fairbanks (1852–1918), American politician

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 44 people the Almanac’s table keeps for May 11, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

May 11 birthday personality

Both systems hand the last decan of Taurus to Saturn, so the old reading is patience in its slowest and surest form, things built to outlast their builder. It is the decan of the long apprenticeship, and the question it carries is whether endurance has left room for delight.

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. Read with earth, the master 11 is vision kept close to the ground, an inspiration that keeps its feet.

A question to carry from May 11: what quiet hunch is your patience asking you to test this year?

The Sun in Taurus 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

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 May 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: May, the 5th month, gives 5, the 11th keeps its master 11, and 5 + 11 + 11 = 27, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 9 as a year of endings, generosity and letting go, closing one nine-year round. Under the Universal Year 11, the reading sees the release as preparing for a new and more inspired chapter.

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

In 2027 May 11 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 7 (5 + 11 = 16, then 7) in a Personal Month 5 (9 + 5 = 14, then 5), while February is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

May birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone: Emerald
Birth flowers: Lily of the valley, and hawthorn as the second flower

May’s emerald comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its lily of the valley and hawthorn from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is May 11?

Taurus: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Taurus for the whole of May 11 in every year and every time zone, 19.9° to 21.3° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is May 11 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Taurus all day on May 11 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is May 20, nine days later.

Who was born on May 11?

Among the best known people born on May 11 are Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Andrés Iniesta (born 1984) and Thibaut Courtois (born 1992), with Sabrina Carpenter, Edsger W. Dijkstra and Antony Hewish and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for May 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 May 11 birthday?

9. For a birthday on May 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: May, the 5th month, gives 5, the 11th keeps its master 11, and 5 + 11 + 11 = 27, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.