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October 29 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

October 29 is a Scorpio birthday in the first decan of Scorpio with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Winona Ryder (1971), Edwin van der Sar (1970) and Dan Castellaneta (1957) were born on October 29 too.

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October 29 zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sun sign: Scorpio
Sun at noon UTC: 5.2° to 6.6° 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 29, in every time zone on Earth, between 5.2° and 6.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so an October 29 birthday is a Scorpio birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on October 29 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 29 is its sixth day.

In most years October 29 is the 6th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, with 23 days of it still to come. October 29 is the 302nd day of a common year and the 303rd of a leap year, with 63 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous October 29 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Laura Bassi, in 1711, and the most recent Lance Stroll, in 1998; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Winona Ryder (born 1971), American actress
Edwin van der Sar (born 1970), Dutch association football player
Dan Castellaneta (born 1957), American actor
Robert Pires (born 1973), French footballer
Lance Stroll (born 1998), Canadian and Belgian racing driver
Phillip Cocu (born 1970), Dutch association football player and manager

Born from 1900 to 1949

Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), American actor
Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011), Venezuelan-American immunologist
Isao Takahata (1935–2018), Japanese filmmaker
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), English philosopher

Born in the 1800s

Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944), French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright

Born before 1800

Laura Bassi (1711–1778), Italian physicist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 68 people the Almanac’s table keeps for October 29, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

October 29 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.

Born on the 29th, 2 and 9 add to 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, with 2 underneath it: intuition and sensitivity raised toward inspiration. Numerology reads it as a deeply feeling birthday that needs calm ground under it. In a water sign the master 11 is read as intuition at full tide, an inner knowing that needs quiet and good company to stay steady.

A question to carry from October 29: what has your depth already sensed that you have not yet trusted enough to say?

The Sun in Scorpio 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 29th, 2 + 9 = 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so your birthday number is 11, with 2 underneath it: 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

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 29 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 29th reduces to the master 11, and 1 + 11 + 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 October 29 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 8 (6 + 29 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 6 (5 + 10 = 15, then 6), while June 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 29?

Scorpio: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Scorpio for the whole of October 29 in every year and every time zone, 5.2° to 6.6° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is October 29 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Scorpio all day on October 29 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is October 24, five days earlier.

Who was born on October 29?

Among the best known people born on October 29 are Winona Ryder (born 1971), Edwin van der Sar (born 1970) and Dan Castellaneta (born 1957), with Richard Dreyfuss, Jean Giraudoux and Baruj Benacerraf and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for October 29?

11. Born on the 29th, 2 + 9 = 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so your birthday number is 11, with 2 underneath it: 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 an October 29 birthday?

5. For a birthday on October 29 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 29th reduces to the master 11, and 1 + 11 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.