The 111th day of the year, the 112th in a leap year
Born on 21 April
In UTC, since 1920, 21 April has been Taurus all day in 103 years. In the other 4, 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 40 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 21 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 4 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
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Four crossings, all long ago
The sun has entered Taurus on 21 April only four times since 1920, all of them long ago and all in the small hours of the day in UTC: at 03:05 UTC in 1923, 02:32 UTC in 1927, 01:40 UTC in 1931 and 00:50 UTC in 1935. In those years a birth on 21 April before the crossing was Aries.
The four sit in the same place in the four-year cycle, the year before a leap year, when the crossing has drifted as late as it goes, and each is earlier than the last, by between half an hour and an hour, because the leap day takes back slightly more than four years of drift. After 1935 the latest crossings stayed on the 20th, and every 21 April birthday since has been Taurus all day in UTC.
Printed tables usually start Taurus on 20 April, and for this date they agree with the sky: 21 April was Taurus from the first minute in 103 of the 107 years. The calculator still asks for the year, because in 40 years a crossing late on 20 April in UTC fell on 21 April somewhere whose clocks were ahead of Greenwich.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 21 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 21 April that instant has fallen inside the day in 4 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 21 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 21 April — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 21 April that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1921: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 15:32 UTC
- 1922: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 21:28 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 14:51 UTC
- 1926: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 20:36 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 14:10 UTC
- 1930: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 20:06 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 13:18 UTC
- 1934: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 19:00 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 12:19 UTC
- 1938: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 18:15 UTC
- 1939: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 23:55 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:51 UTC
- 1942: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 17:39 UTC
- 1943: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 23:32 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:07 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 17:02 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 22:39 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 15:59 UTC
- 1951: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 21:48 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 15:20 UTC
- 1955: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 20:58 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 14:27 UTC
- 1959: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 20:16 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 13:51 UTC
- 1963: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 19:36 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 13:11 UTC
- 1967: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 18:55 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 12:15 UTC
- 1971: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 17:54 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:18 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 17:07 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 16:35 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 15:50 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 14:57 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 14:08 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 13:21 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 12:46 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 12:03 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 11:07 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Taurus on 20 April, 10:17 UTC
Which weekday 21 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 21 April falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 21 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 21 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,745 babies were born on 21 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 354th 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 21 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth II | 1926–2022 | Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022 |
| Max Weber | 1864–1920 | German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816–1855 | British novelist and poet |
| Anthony Quinn | 1915–2001 | Mexican and American actor |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | 1882–1961 | American physicist |
| Iggy Pop | 1947– | American musician |
| James McAvoy | 1979– | Scottish actor |
| Jean-Baptiste Biot | 1774–1862 | French scientist |
| Paul Karrer | 1889–1971 | Swiss chemist |
| Isco | 1992– | Spanish association football player |
| Andie MacDowell | 1958– | American actress |
| Fredrik Bajer | 1837–1922 | Danish politician |
| John Muir | 1838–1914 | Scottish-American naturalist |
| Mikel Oyarzabal | 1997– | Spanish footballer |
| Ulrich von Hutten | 1488–1523 | German scholar, poet and reformer |
| Silvana Mangano | 1930–1989 | Italian actress |
| Robert Smith | 1959– | English singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter |
| Xavi Simons | 2003– | Dutch association football player |
Died on 21 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain | 1835–1910 | American author and humorist |
| Pope Francis | 1936–2025 | 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 |
| John Maynard Keynes | 1883–1946 | British economist |
| Jean Racine | 1639–1699 | French dramatist |
| Prince | 1958–2016 | American musician |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877–1938 | British-Indian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician |
| Peter Abelard | 1079–1142 | French scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician |
| Anselm of Canterbury | 1033–1109 | 11th‑century Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Canterbury, philosopher and theologian |
| Edward Victor Appleton | 1892–1965 | English physicist |
| Henry VII of England | 1457–1509 | King of England from 1485 to 1509 |
| Nina Simone | 1933–2003 | American singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist |
| Pope Alexander II | died 1073 | Head of the Catholic Church from 1061 to 1073 |
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