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

The short answer

October 28 is a Scorpio birthday in the first decan of Scorpio with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 4 in 2027; Bill Gates (1955), Erasmus (1466) and Julia Roberts (1967) were born on October 28 too.

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October 28 zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sun sign: Scorpio
Sun at noon UTC: 4.2° to 5.6° Scorpio
Decan: First of Scorpio, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Water, fixed
Ruling planet: Pluto; Mars by tradition

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, in every time zone on Earth, between 4.2° and 5.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so an October 28 birthday is a Scorpio birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on October 28 the Sun is in the first decan of Scorpio, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mars in the Chaldean order and is read through Scorpio, ruled by Mars, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from October 24 to November 2, and October 28 is its fifth day.

In most years October 28 is the 5th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, with 24 days of it still to come. October 28 is the 301st day of a common year and the 302nd of a leap year, with 64 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous October 28 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1017, and the most recent Matt Smith, in 1982; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Bill Gates (born 1955), American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
Julia Roberts (born 1967), American actress
Joaquin Phoenix (born 1974), American actor
Matt Smith (born 1982), English actor
Milan Baroš (born 1981), Czech association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

Jonas Salk (1914–1995), Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine
Garrincha (1933–1983), Brazilian association football player
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), British writer and journalist
Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Irish-born British figurative painter
Caitlyn Jenner (born 1949), American media personality and retired decathlete

Born before 1800

Erasmus (1466–1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1017–1056), Holy Roman Emperor

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 67 people the Almanac’s table keeps for October 28, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

October 28 birthday personality

Both systems give the first decan of Scorpio to Mars, its traditional ruler, so the old reading is intensity with a purpose, a will that does not let go of what it has chosen. Its gift is staying power, and its lesson that not every slight needs remembering.

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 water sign the 1’s independence is read as emotional self-possession, a private strength that does not ask permission.

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

The Sun in Scorpio 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

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on October 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: October, the 10th month, reduces to 1, the 28th reduces to 1, and 1 + 1 + 11 = 13, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4. On the way it passes 13, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

A Personal Year 4 is read as a year of steady work and discipline, of laying foundations that make the next years easier. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as the time to build what you have been dreaming of, carefully.

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

In 2027 October 28 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 33 (5 + 28 = 33) in a Personal Month 5 (4 + 10 = 14, then 5), while July is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

October birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Opal and tourmaline
Birth flowers: Marigold, and cosmos as the second flower

October’s opal and tourmaline come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its marigold and cosmos from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is October 28?

Scorpio: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Scorpio for the whole of October 28 in every year and every time zone, 4.2° to 5.6° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is October 28 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Scorpio all day on October 28 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is October 24, four days earlier.

Who was born on October 28?

Among the best known people born on October 28 are Bill Gates (born 1955), Erasmus (1466–1536) and Julia Roberts (born 1967), with Joaquin Phoenix, Jonas Salk and Garrincha and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for October 28?

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.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for an October 28 birthday?

4. For a birthday on October 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: October, the 10th month, reduces to 1, the 28th reduces to 1, and 1 + 1 + 11 = 13, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4. On the way it passes 13, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.