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November 28 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

November 28 is a Sagittarius birthday in the first decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Friedrich Engels (1820), William Blake (1757) and Stefan Zweig (1881) were born on November 28 too.

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November 28 zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Sun sign

Sagittarius

Sun at noon UTC

5.4° to 6.8° Sagittarius

Decan

First of Sagittarius, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Fire, mutable

Ruling planet

Jupiter

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Sagittarius for the whole of November 28, in every time zone on Earth, between 5.4° and 6.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so a November 28 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on November 28 the Sun is in the first decan of Sagittarius, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from November 22 to December 1, and November 28 is its seventh day.

In most years November 28 is the 7th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with 23 days of it still to come. November 28 is the 332nd day of a common year and the 333rd of a leap year, with 33 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 28 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Manuel I Komnenos, in 1118, and the most recent Anna Nicole Smith, in 1967; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Ed Harris (born 1950), American actor and director
• Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961), Mexican filmmaker
• Anna Nicole Smith (1967–2007), American actress and television personality
• Russell Alan Hulse (born 1950), American astronomer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), Italian writer and journalist

Born in the 1800s

• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German philosopher, sociologist and economist
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian writer
• Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian poet

Born before 1800

• William Blake (1757–1827), English poet and artist
• John Bunyan (1628–1688), English writer and preacher
• Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180), Byzantine Emperor
• Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), Italian-born French composer

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 77 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 28, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 28 birthday personality

Mercury opens Sagittarius in the Chaldean scheme while Jupiter keeps it by triplicity, so the archer’s reach is read as an intellectual one: the reader, the traveller with a notebook, the one who keeps asking why. Its caution is a frankness that forgets its audience.

The 28th adds to 10 and then to 1, so numerology reads it as independence reached through partnership, the leader who learned to work with others. It is a birthday linked with initiative that brings people along. In a fire sign the 1 doubles the urge to begin, so the tradition reads a born initiator who is happiest with a fresh start in hand.

A question to carry from November 28: where could your hope make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?

The Sun in Sagittarius and the number 1 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 1

Born on the 28th, 2 + 8 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1, so your birthday number is 1: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on November 28 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: November, the 11th month, keeps its master 11, the 28th reduces to 1, and 11 + 1 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 5 as a lively year of change, movement and new experience. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading favours the changes that follow an honest sense of direction.

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 November 28 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 8 (7 + 28 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 7 (5 + 11 = 16, then 7), while June is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

November birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Topaz and citrine

Birth flower

Chrysanthemum

November’s topaz and citrine come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its chrysanthemum from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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