The 42nd day of the year
Born on 11 February
Every 11 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
- Wednesday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The Water Rat in 2032
Only two new years fell on 11 February between 1920 and 2026, the Fire Ox of 1937 and the Wood Rabbit of 1975, and the next is close: 11 February 2032 begins the year of the Water Rat.
By this date the new year has usually come. In 76 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 it had begun on or before 11 February; in 31 it had not, and a birth on 11 February in those years belongs to the animal of the year before. 2026 was one of them: the Fire Horse did not begin until 17 February, so 11 February 2026 belongs to the Wood Snake of 2025. In 1975 the new year fell on this very date, so 10 February 1975 belongs to the Wood Tiger of 1974 and 11 February 1975 to the Wood Rabbit.
The sign does not vary: Aquarius, all day, every year and in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 11 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 11 February in 31 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 76 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1937 and 1975.
Shaded: 11 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 11 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 11 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 11 February falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Saturday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Thursday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 11 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 11 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,780 babies were born on 11 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 275th 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 11 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Edison | 1847–1931 | American inventor and businessman |
| Jennifer Aniston | 1969– | American actress |
| Taylor Lautner | 1992– | American actor |
| Sarah Palin | 1964– | Governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 |
| Gabriel Boric | 1986– | president of Chile from 2022 to 2026 |
| Rosé | 1997– | South Korean-New Zealand singer |
| Yukio Hatoyama | 1947– | Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010 |
| Pope Gregory XIV | 1535–1591 | Pope from 1590 to 1591 |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer | 1900–2002 | German philosopher |
| Leslie Nielsen | 1926–2010 | Canadian-American actor and comedian |
| Burt Reynolds | 1936–2018 | American actor |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | 1839–1903 | American scientist |
| Mike Shinoda | 1977– | American musician, rapper, singer and songwriter |
| Leo Szilard | 1898–1964 | Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor |
| Rafael van der Vaart | 1983– | Dutch association football player |
| Sidney Sheldon | 1917–2007 | American writer |
| Manuel Noriega | 1934–2017 | De facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989 |
| Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle | 1657–1757 | French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment |
Died on 11 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| René Descartes | 1596–1650 | French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist |
| Sergei Eisenstein | 1898–1948 | Soviet filmmaker |
| Whitney Houston | 1963–2012 | American singer, actress, and film producer |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932–1963 | American poet and writer |
| Frank Herbert | 1920–1986 | American writer |
| Heraclius | 575–641 | Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641 |
| Pope Gregory II | 669–731 | Pope from 715 to 731 |
| Harry Martinson | 1904–1978 | Swedish writer |
| Pope Paschal I | 775–824 | pope |
| Léon Foucault | 1819–1868 | French physicist |
| J. Hans D. Jensen | 1907–1973 | German nuclear physicist |
| Gordian III | 225–244 | Roman emperor |
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