Birthdays

October birthdaysEvery day of the month: its sign, its famous birthdays and its 2027 numbers

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October birthdays are Libra from October 1 to 23 and Scorpio from October 24 to 31, in most years. October 22, October 23 and October 24 are cusp days, when the Sun changed sign during the date in some years. The October birthstones are opal and tourmaline, and its birth flowers are marigold and cosmos.

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Each date has its own page: the Sun’s sign for every year from 1940 to 2030, the decan, the day’s twelve best-known birthdays, its birthday number and its 2027 Personal Year. Each date below shows its usual sign; a gold edge marks a cusp day.

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October, day by day

October 1: Libra; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: El Greco (1541–1614).
October 2: Libra; birthday number 2; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948).
October 3: Libra; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Zlatan Ibrahimović (born 1981).
October 4: Libra; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893).
October 5: Libra; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Denis Diderot (1713–1784).
October 6: Libra; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
October 7: Libra; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Niels Bohr (1885–1962).
October 8: Libra; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Sigourney Weaver (born 1949).
October 9: Libra; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: John Lennon (1940–1980).
October 10: Libra; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).
October 11: Libra; birthday number 11; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962).
October 12: Libra; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007).
October 13: Libra; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971).
October 14: Libra; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969).
October 15: Libra; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900).
October 16: Libra; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900).
October 17: Libra; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Eminem (born 1972).
October 18: Libra; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Henri Bergson (1859–1941).
October 19: Libra; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974).
October 20: Libra; birthday number 2; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891).
October 21: Libra; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: Alfred Nobel (1833–1896).
October 22: Libra or Scorpio, a cusp day; birthday number 22; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Doris Lessing (1919–2013).
October 23: Libra or Scorpio, a cusp day; birthday number 5; Personal Year 8 in 2027. Born this day: Emilia Clarke (born 1986).
October 24: Scorpio or Libra, a cusp day; birthday number 6; Personal Year 9 in 2027. Born this day: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723).
October 25: Scorpio; birthday number 7; Personal Year 1 in 2027. Born this day: Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).
October 26: Scorpio; birthday number 8; Personal Year 2 in 2027. Born this day: Georges Danton (1759–1794).
October 27: Scorpio; birthday number 9; Personal Year 3 in 2027. Born this day: Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919).
October 28: Scorpio; birthday number 1; Personal Year 4 in 2027. Born this day: Bill Gates (born 1955).
October 29: Scorpio; birthday number 11; Personal Year 5 in 2027. Born this day: Winona Ryder (born 1971).
October 30: Scorpio; birthday number 3; Personal Year 6 in 2027. Born this day: John Adams (1735–1826).
October 31: Scorpio; birthday number 4; Personal Year 7 in 2027. Born this day: Hokusai (1760–1849).

October birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Opal and tourmaline
Birth flowers: Marigold and cosmos

Birthstones from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised); birth flowers from The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s list of birth month flowers, the primary flower first.

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Common questions

What zodiac signs are October birthdays?

Libra from October 1 to 23 and Scorpio from October 24 to 31, in most years. October 22, October 23 and October 24 are cusp days, when the Sun changed sign during the date in some years.

What is the October birthstone?

Opal and tourmaline, on the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised).

What is the October birth flower?

Marigold, with cosmos as the second flower, on The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s list of birth month flowers.