The 110th day of the year, the 111th in a leap year
Born on 20 April
In UTC, since 1920, 20 April has been Aries all day in 4 years and Taurus all day in 20 years. In the other 83, 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 24 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 20 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 83 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
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The usual first day of Taurus
For most of the century 20 April was the day the sun entered Taurus, and so the day on which the answer depended on the hour: it happened on this date, in UTC, in 83 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026. The crossing ran as late as 23:55 UTC in 1939 and as early as 00:36 UTC in 2001.
At the start of the period it sometimes slipped into the 21st, in 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1935, leaving 20 April Aries all day in those years. Now the drift runs the other way. Since 1972 the crossing has come on 19 April in 20 years, all leap years at first and lately one year in two, and in those years 20 April was Taurus all day. In 2024 and 2025 it was; in 2026 the sun entered Taurus at 01:39 UTC on the 20th.
So a 20 April birth in 2026 was Aries only in the first hour and 39 minutes of the day in UTC. In Sydney, where it was 11:39 by then, the whole morning was Aries.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 20 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 20 April that instant has fallen inside the day in 83 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 20 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 20 April — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 20 April that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1923: the sun entered Taurus on 21 April, 03:05 UTC
- 1927: the sun entered Taurus on 21 April, 02:32 UTC
- 1931: the sun entered Taurus on 21 April, 01:40 UTC
- 1935: the sun entered Taurus on 21 April, 00:50 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 23:37 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 23:03 UTC
- 1980: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 22:23 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 21:38 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 20:45 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 19:57 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 19:10 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 18:40 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 17:50 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 23:37 UTC
- 2008: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 16:51 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 22:45 UTC
- 2012: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 16:12 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 22:03 UTC
- 2016: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 15:29 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 21:27 UTC
- 2020: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 14:46 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 20:33 UTC
- 2024: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 14:00 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Taurus on 19 April, 19:56 UTC
Which weekday 20 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 April falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 20 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 20 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,767 babies were born on 20 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 320th 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 20 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Adolf Hitler | 1889–1945 | Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 |
| Napoleon III | 1808–1873 | President of France from 1848 to 1852 and Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870 |
| Joan Miró | 1893–1983 | Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | 1939– | Prime Minister of Norway in 1981, from 1986 to 1989 and from 1990 to 1996 |
| Jessica Lange | 1949– | American actress |
| Andy Serkis | 1964– | British actor |
| Harold Lloyd | 1893–1971 | American actor and comedian |
| George Takei | 1937– | American actor, author and activist |
| Felix Baumgartner | 1969–2025 | Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper |
| Miranda Kerr | 1983– | Australian model |
| K. Alex Müller | 1927–2023 | Swiss physicist |
| Svante Pääbo | 1955– | Swedish geneticist |
| Kai Siegbahn | 1918–2007 | Swedish physicist |
| Massimo D'Alema | 1949– | Italian politician |
| Carmen Electra | 1972– | American actress, model, and singer |
| Odilon Redon | 1840–1916 | French painter |
| Rose of Lima | 1586–1617 | Dominican saint from Peru |
| Ryan O'Neal | 1941–2023 | American actor |
Died on 20 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker | 1847–1912 | Irish novelist and short story writer |
| K. Ferdinand Braun | 1850–1918 | German physicist |
| Avicii | 1989–2018 | Swedish electronic music producer |
| Idriss Déby | 1952–2021 | President of Chad from 1991 to 2021 |
| Pope Clement V | 1264–1314 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1305 to 1314 |
| Christian X | 1870–1947 | King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944) |
| Giuseppe Peano | 1858–1932 | Italian mathematician |
| Bernard Katz | 1911–2003 | German-British biophysicist |
| Güyük Khan | 1206–1248 | Third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire |
| Cantinflas | 1911–1993 | Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter |
| Milovan Djilas | 1911–1995 | Yugoslav politician, theorist and author |
| Ivanoe Bonomi | 1873–1951 | Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45 |
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