The 32nd day of the year
Born on 1 February
Every 1 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
February is not safe yet
The first of February has been the first day of the new year only twice since 1920, both times recently: 1 February 2003 began the year of the Water Goat, and 1 February 2022 the Water Tiger. They are nineteen years apart, like so many pairs in the window, because 235 lunar months come to within a couple of hours of nineteen years. The next is 2041.
A February birthday feels as if it should be clear of the new-year question, and from here to the 20th it is not. In 67 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 the new year came after 1 February, so a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; only in the other 40 had the new year already begun. In 2024 it waited until 10 February, and 1 February 2024 belongs to the Water Rabbit of 2023.
The sign does not move with it: every 1 February from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 1 February in 67 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 40 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 2003 and 2022.
Shaded: 1 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 1 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 1 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 February falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Wednesday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Monday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 1 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 1 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,796 babies were born on 1 February in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 219th 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 1 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Boris Yeltsin | 1931–2007 | Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia |
| Clark Gable | 1901–1960 | American actor |
| Leymah Gbowee | 1972– | Liberian peace activist |
| John Ford | 1894–1973 | American film director |
| Langston Hughes | 1901–1967 | American writer and social activist |
| Harry Styles | 1994– | English singer, songwriter and actor |
| Emilio Segrè | 1905–1989 | Italian physicist and Nobel laureate |
| Hugo von Hofmannsthal | 1874–1929 | Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist |
| Yevgeny Zamyatin | 1884–1937 | Russian author |
| Gabriel Batistuta | 1969– | Argentine association football player |
| Terry Jones | 1942–2020 | Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer |
| Brandon Lee | 1965–1993 | American actor |
| Lisa Marie Presley | 1968–2023 | American singer-songwriter |
| Stanley Matthews | 1915–2000 | English association football player |
| Darren Fletcher | 1984– | Scottish association football player |
| Ronda Rousey | 1987– | American former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler, and judoka |
| Michael C. Hall | 1971– | American actor |
| Muriel Spark | 1918–2006 | Scottish novelist and writer |
Died on 1 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901–1976 | German theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Mary Shelley | 1797–1851 | English writer |
| Wisława Szymborska | 1923–2012 | Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner |
| Buster Keaton | 1895–1966 | American actor, comedian and filmmaker |
| Horst Köhler | 1943–2025 | President of Germany from 2004 to 2010 |
| Piet Mondrian | 1872–1944 | Dutch painter |
| Clinton Davisson | 1881–1958 | American physicist |
| Pope Alexander VIII | 1610–1691 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691 |
| Maximilian Schell | 1930–2014 | Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor |
| Alva Myrdal | 1902–1986 | Swedish sociologist and politician |
| Kalpana Chawla | 1962–2003 | American astronaut |
| Friedrich Paulus | 1890–1957 | German general |
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