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October 4 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

October 4 is a Libra birthday in the second decan of Libra with birthday number 4 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Susan Sarandon (1946) and Buster Keaton (1895) were born on October 4 too.

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October 4 zodiac sign: Libra

Sun sign: Libra
Sun at noon UTC: 10.4° to 11.8° Libra
Decan: Second of Libra, 10° to 20°
Element and mode: Air, cardinal
Ruling planet: Venus

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Libra for the whole of October 4, in every time zone on Earth, between 10.4° and 11.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an October 4 birthday is a Libra birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on October 4 the Sun is in the second decan of Libra, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Saturn in the Chaldean order and is read through Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from October 3 to October 13, and October 4 is its second day.

In most years October 4 is the 12th day of the Sun’s season in Libra, which runs from September 23 to October 23 counted at noon UTC, with 19 days of it still to come. October 4 is the 277th day of a common year and the 278th of a leap year, with 88 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous October 4 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Louis X of France, in 1289, and the most recent Dakota Johnson, in 1989; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Christoph Waltz (born 1956), Austrian-German actor
Dakota Johnson (born 1989), American actress and model
Alicia Silverstone (born 1976), American actress

Born from 1900 to 1949

Susan Sarandon (born 1946), American actress and activist
Charlton Heston (1923–2008), American actor
Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009), Russian physicist
Anne Rice (1941–2021), American author
Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), Japanese chemist

Born in the 1800s

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Buster Keaton (1895–1966), American motion picture director, motion picture producer
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), French painter

Born before 1800

Louis X of France (1289–1316), King of France from 1314 to 1316

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 59 people the Almanac’s table keeps for October 4, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

October 4 birthday personality

Both systems give the middle of Libra to Saturn, exalted in this sign, so tradition reads fairness here as principle rather than charm: the judge, the mediator, the one who will not bend a rule for a friend. The question it carries is whether justice has kept its mercy.

The 4th gives the 4 alone, the number numerology reads as the builder’s: order, effort and a plan that holds. A birthday on it is read as steady hands more than quick ones. In air the 4’s structure is read as system and order of thought, the planner who builds frameworks out of ideas.

A question to carry from October 4: what would your sense of fairness build if you gave it one hour, every day, for a month?

The Sun in Libra and the number 4 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 4

Born on the 4th, your birthday number is simply 4, the day itself: a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability, with structure and reliability as its gift and rigidity, fear, or over-control as its strain.

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 October 4 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 4th gives 4, and 1 + 4 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 7 as a year to slow down, reflect and look for deeper understanding. With the Universal Year an 11, the reading treats 2027 as a year of spiritual insight for those who seek it.

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

In 2027 October 4 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 3 (8 + 4 = 12, then 3) in a Personal Month 8 (7 + 10 = 17, then 8), while April 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 4?

Libra: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Libra for the whole of October 4 in every year and every time zone, 10.4° to 11.8° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is October 4 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Libra all day on October 4 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is September 23, eleven days earlier.

Who was born on October 4?

Among the best known people born on October 4 are Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), Susan Sarandon (born 1946) and Buster Keaton (1895–1966), with Charlton Heston, Vitaly Ginzburg and Christoph Waltz and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for October 4?

4. Born on the 4th, your birthday number is simply 4, the day itself: a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability, with structure and reliability as its gift and rigidity, fear, or over-control as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for an October 4 birthday?

7. For a birthday on October 4 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 4th gives 4, and 1 + 4 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.