September 11 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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September 11 is a Virgo birthday in the second decan of Virgo with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 4 in 2027; Franz Beckenbauer (1945), D. H. Lawrence (1885) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903) were born on September 11 too.
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September 11 zodiac sign: Virgo
- Sun sign
- Virgo
- Sun at noon UTC
- 17.9° to 19.3° Virgo
- Decan
- Second of Virgo, 10° to 20°
- Element and mode
- Earth, mutable
- Ruling planet
- Mercury
In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Virgo for the whole of September 11, in every time zone on Earth, between 17.9° and 19.3° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 11 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on September 11 the Sun is in the second decan of Virgo, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from September 3 to September 12, and September 11 is its ninth day.
In most years September 11 is the 20th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with eleven days of it still to come. September 11 is the 254th day of a common year and the 255th of a leap year, with 111 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous September 11 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Pierre de Ronsard, in 1524, and the most recent Eric Abidal, in 1979; four of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Eric Abidal (born 1979), French footballer
- Hiroshi Amano (born 1960), Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist
- Moby (born 1965), American musician, DJ and record producer
- Dejan Stanković (born 1978), Serbian association football manager and former player
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Franz Beckenbauer (1945–2024), German sports official and association football player
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher, sociologist and theorist
- Arvo Pärt (born 1935), Estonian composer
- Brian De Palma (born 1940), American filmmaker
Born in the 1800s
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English writer and poet
- Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), German optical physicist
- James Jeans (1877–1946), British mathematician and astronomer
Born before 1800
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585), French poet
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 55 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 11, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
September 11 birthday personality
Venus, in her fall in Virgo, takes the middle decan in the Chaldean scheme while Capricorn lends Saturn’s patience, so tradition reads a kindness that shows itself in practical help rather than in words. It asks whether the giver can also receive.
Born on the 11th, you have a master number for a birthday, kept whole by the Almanac’s method: 11, read as intuition and inspiration, with 2 underneath it as its everyday form. Numerology treats it as a sensitive birthday that needs grounding as much as vision. Read with earth, the master 11 is vision kept close to the ground, an inspiration that keeps its feet.
A question to carry from September 11: what quiet hunch is your care for doing things well asking you to test this year?
The Sun in Virgo 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 11th, your birthday number is 11 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 2: 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

For a birthday on September 11 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: September, the 9th month, gives 9, the 11th keeps its master 11, and 9 + 11 + 11 = 31, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4.
A Personal Year 4 is read as a year of foundations: work, routine, health and the slow building that pays later. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as the year to give a vision its scaffolding.
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 September 11 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 6 (4 + 11 = 15, then 6) in a Personal Month 4 (4 + 9 = 13, then 4), while July is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.
September birthstone and birth flower
- Birthstone
- Sapphire
- Birth flowers
- Aster, and morning glory as the second flower
September’s sapphire comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its aster and morning glory from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Common questions
What zodiac sign is September 11?
Virgo: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Virgo for the whole of September 11 in every year and every time zone, 17.9° to 19.3° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is September 11 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Virgo all day on September 11 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is September 22, eleven days later.
Who was born on September 11?
Among the best known people born on September 11 are Franz Beckenbauer (1945–2024), D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), with Pierre de Ronsard, Arvo Pärt and Eric Abidal and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for September 11?
11. Born on the 11th, your birthday number is 11 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 2: 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 a September 11 birthday?
4. For a birthday on September 11 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: September, the 9th month, gives 9, the 11th keeps its master 11, and 9 + 11 + 11 = 31, which reduces to 4, so 2027 is your Personal Year 4.
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