The 109th day of the year, the 110th in a leap year
Born on 19 April
In UTC, since 1920, 19 April has been Aries all day in 87 years. In the other 20, the sun moved from Aries into Taurus during the day, so a birthday then is Aries or Taurus depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 47 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 19 April by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Aries or TaurusThe sun changed sign on this date in 20 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Taurus arriving a day early
The sun entered Taurus on 19 April for the first time in the period in 1972, at 23:37 UTC, twenty-three minutes before midnight. Through the rest of the century it did so only in leap years, and since 2004 in two years out of four: in 2024 the crossing came at 14:00 UTC, the earliest yet, and in 2025 at 19:56 UTC.
In the other 87 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 April was Aries from start to finish, which is what printed tables say it always is. The exception now comes round often enough to matter. Someone born on 19 April 2024 after 14:00 UTC is Taurus, and in New York, four hours behind in April, that moment was 10:00, so a New York birth that afternoon is Taurus too.
Other years reach this date from the other side. In 2026 the sun entered Taurus at 01:39 UTC on 20 April, which was 21:39 on 19 April in New York, so a New York birth late on 19 April 2026 was Taurus as well.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 19 April in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Aries into Taurus at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 19 April that instant has fallen inside the day in 20 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Aries, after it Taurus. To read one of these times on your own clock on 19 April, add your time zone's offset east of Greenwich or subtract it to the west, or put the year into the calculator above, which works in your own time zone.
Every year from 1920 to 2026. Where a cell shows a time, the sun entered Taurus at that moment, UTC. Why the day moves →
Other time zones
A date begins earlier east of Greenwich and later to the west, so in these years the sun changed sign on the day before or after in UTC, at a moment when clocks somewhere on earth already, or still, showed 19 April — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 19 April that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 09:39 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:59 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:16 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 07:28 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 06:30 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 05:51 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:51 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 05:17 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:07 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 04:25 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 10:17 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 03:36 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 09:26 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 02:44 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:41 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 02:06 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 07:55 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 01:27 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 07:26 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 00:41 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 06:27 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 05:31 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:18 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 04:57 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 10:50 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 04:19 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 10:07 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 03:26 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 09:12 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 02:39 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:27 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 01:49 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 07:36 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 01:03 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 06:57 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 00:36 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 06:21 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 05:26 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 04:30 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 10:17 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 03:56 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 09:42 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 03:12 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:55 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 02:24 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 08:13 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 01:39 UTC
Which weekday 19 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 April falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
Showing 19 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 19 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,801 babies were born on 19 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 204th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 19 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ali Khamenei | 1939–2026 | Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026 |
| Maria Sharapova | 1987– | Russian tennis player |
| José Echegaray | 1832–1916 | Spanish playwright |
| Kate Hudson | 1979– | American actress and singer |
| Getúlio Vargas | 1882–1954 | President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954) |
| James Franco | 1978– | American actor |
| Mswati III | 1968– | King of Eswatini |
| Mukesh Ambani | 1957– | Indian businessman |
| Rivaldo | 1972– | Brazilian association football player |
| Glenn T. Seaborg | 1912–1999 | American chemist |
| Gustavo Petro | 1960– | President of Colombia from 2022 to 2026 |
| Tim Curry | 1946–2026 | British actor |
| Jayne Mansfield | 1933–1967 | American actress |
| Ferdinand I of Austria | 1793–1875 | Austrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia |
| Ashley Judd | 1968– | American actress |
| Fernando Botero | 1932–2023 | Colombian painter and sculptor |
| Hayden Christensen | 1981– | Canadian actor |
| Joe Hart | 1987– | English association football player |
Died on 19 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Darwin | 1809–1882 | English naturalist and biologist |
| Lord Byron | 1788–1824 | English Romantic poet and lyricist |
| Konrad Adenauer | 1876–1967 | German politician, Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1804–1881 | British statesman |
| Pierre Curie | 1859–1906 | French physicist and chemist |
| Octavio Paz | 1914–1998 | Mexican poet, writer and diplomat |
| Christina, Queen of Sweden | 1626–1689 | Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 |
| Philipp Melanchthon | 1497–1560 | German reformer |
| Walter Mondale | 1928–2021 | Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 |
| Paolo Veronese | 1528–1588 | Italian painter of the Renaissance |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | 1839–1914 | American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist |
| Pope Leo IX | 1002–1054 | Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054 |
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