The 45th day of the year
Born on 14 February
Every 14 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
- Saturday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Valentine's Day and the new year
Valentine's Day has been the lunar new year three times since 1920: 14 February 1934 began the year of the Wood Dog, 14 February 1953 the Water Snake, and 14 February 2010 the Metal Tiger. The first two are nineteen years apart; 2010 came after a gap of 57 years, three such cycles.
In 21 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 the new year still had not come by 14 February, and a birthday on it belongs to the animal of the year before. The list is short enough to give in full: 1920, 1923, 1931, 1939, 1942, 1950, 1958, 1961, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2007, 2015, 2018 and 2026. In every other year a 14 February birthday takes the animal of its own year.
The next new year on this date comes in 2048. The sign never varies: Aquarius, all day, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 14 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 14 February in 21 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 86 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1934, 1953 and 2010.
Shaded: 14 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 14 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 14 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 14 February falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Tuesday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Sunday 15, Friday 15.
Showing 14 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 14 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,811 babies were born on 14 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 176th 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 14 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Rutte | 1967– | Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (2010–2024) |
| Babur | 1483–1530 | Founder of the Mughal Empire, emperor from 1526 to 1530 |
| Simon Pegg | 1970– | English actor |
| C. T. R. Wilson | 1869–1959 | Scottish physicist and meteorologist |
| Leon Battista Alberti | 1404–1472 | Italian architect and writer |
| Edinson Cavani | 1987– | Uruguayan association football player |
| Ángel Di María | 1988– | Argentine footballer |
| Michael Bloomberg | 1942– | American businessman and politician; Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 |
| Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein | 1945– | monarch of Liechtenstein |
| Kevin Keegan | 1951–2026 | English association football player and manager |
| Christian Eriksen | 1992– | Danish association football player |
| Max Horkheimer | 1895–1973 | German philosopher and sociologist |
| Bacary Sagna | 1983– | French footballer |
| Alan Parker | 1944–2020 | British filmmaker |
| Sushma Swaraj | 1952–2019 | Indian politician |
| Danai Gurira | 1978– | Zimbabwean-American actress |
| Lucas Hernandez | 1996– | French footballer |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | 1917–2011 | American mathematician |
Died on 14 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Cook | 1728–1779 | British explorer, cartographer and naval officer |
| David Hilbert | 1862–1943 | German mathematician |
| Richard II of England | 1367–1400 | King of England from 1377 to 1399 |
| Carlos Menem | 1930–2021 | President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999 |
| Saint Valentine | died 269 | 3rd-century Roman Christian saint |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | 1820–1891 | United States Army general |
| Rafic Hariri | 1944–2005 | Prime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998, 2000–2004) |
| P. G. Wodehouse | 1881–1975 | English author |
| Morgan Tsvangirai | 1952–2018 | Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013 |
| Julian Huxley | 1887–1975 | British evolutionary biologist, philosopher and author |
| Marco Pantani | 1970–2004 | Italian road racing cyclist |
| Ruud Lubbers | 1939–2018 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994 |
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