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September 20 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 20 is a Virgo birthday in the third decan of Virgo with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; George R. R. Martin (1948), Chulalongkorn (1853) and Upton Sinclair (1878) were born on September 20 too.

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September 20 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign: Virgo
Sun at noon UTC: 26.6° to 28.1° Virgo
Decan: Third of Virgo, 20° to 30°
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 20, in every time zone on Earth, between 26.6° and 28.1° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 20 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on September 20 the Sun is in the third decan of Virgo, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from September 13 to September 22, and September 20 is its eighth day.

In most years September 20 is the 29th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with two days of it still to come. September 20 is the 263rd day of a common year and the 264th of a leap year, with 102 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 20 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1486, and the most recent Julian Draxler, in 1993; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Khabib Nurmagomedov (born 1988), Russian professional mixed martial artist
Julian Draxler (born 1993), German association football player
Henrik Larsson (born 1971), Swedish association football player
Jon Bernthal (born 1976), American actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

George R. R. Martin (born 1948), American writer and television producer

Born in the 1800s

Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), American writer
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833–1918), Italian journalist
James Dewar (1842–1923), Scottish chemist and physicist

Born before 1800

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758–1806), Leader of Haitian Revolution
Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502), Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester and Duke of Cornwall

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 61 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 20, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 20 birthday personality

Mercury rules the last ten degrees of its own sign in the Chaldean order and Taurus lends its steadiness by triplicity, so this is read as Virgo the craftsman, the hand that improves a thing a little every day. Tradition prizes its reliability and warns against mistaking the detail for the whole.

The 20th is the 2 with a zero beside it, read in numerology as the partner’s number amplified: patience, tact and a gift for the long collaboration. In an earth sign the 2 is read as the gentle steadiness of a long friendship, built on small kindnesses over years.

A question to carry from September 20: where would your care for doing things well grow stronger if it asked for help instead of carrying everything alone?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 2 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 2

Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing 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 September 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 9 + 2 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.

A Personal Year 22, the master builder’s year, is kept whole rather than reduced to 4, and read as the year a large plan can take real shape. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs vision with the patience to build it properly.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 22: Jan 5 Feb 6 Mar 7 Apr 8 May 9 Jun 1 Jul 11 Aug 3 Sep 4 Oct 5 Nov 33 Dec 7

In 2027 September 20 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 6 (4 + 20 = 24, then 6) in a Personal Month 4 (22 + 9 = 31, then 4), while July is a master month 11 and November is a master month 33; 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 20?

Virgo: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Virgo for the whole of September 20 in every year and every time zone, 26.6° to 28.1° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is September 20 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Virgo all day on September 20 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is September 22, two days later.

Who was born on September 20?

Among the best known people born on September 20 are George R. R. Martin (born 1948), Chulalongkorn (1853–1910) and Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), with Khabib Nurmagomedov, Julian Draxler and Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for September 20?

2. Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a September 20 birthday?

22. For a birthday on September 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 9 + 2 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.