The 49th day of the year
Born on 18 February
In UTC, since 1920, 18 February has been Aquarius all day in 72 years. In the other 35, the sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces during the day, so a birthday then is Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 50 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 18 February by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Aquarius or PiscesThe sun changed sign on this date in 35 of 107 years.
- 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.
A date the sun has been moving onto
18 February is a date the sun has been moving onto. It first entered Pisces on this date, within the period, in 1949, at 23:27 UTC, with 33 minutes of the day to spare, and then every fourth year until 1981, when the crossings began to come in two years out of four. Since 2013 they have come in three years out of four, all but the leap years: in 2026 the sun entered Pisces at 15:52 UTC, so a birth that day in UTC before then is Aquarius and after it Pisces.
The new year has reached this date too. It fell on 18 February in 1958, the Earth Dog, 1977, the Fire Snake, and 2007, the Fire Pig. Only five years from 1920 to 2026 left an 18 February birthday before the new year: 1920, 1939, 1985, 1996 and 2015. In 1996 the new year came on 19 February, so 18 February 1996 belongs to the Wood Pig of 1995, not the Fire Rat.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 18 February in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Aquarius into Pisces at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 18 February that instant has fallen inside the day in 35 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Aquarius, after it Pisces. To read one of these times on your own clock on 18 February, 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 Pisces 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 18 February — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 18 February that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1921: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 04:20 UTC
- 1922: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 10:16 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:43 UTC
- 1926: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:35 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:07 UTC
- 1930: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:00 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 02:16 UTC
- 1934: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 08:01 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 01:21 UTC
- 1938: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 07:19 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 00:57 UTC
- 1942: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:46 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 00:15 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:08 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 11:52 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 05:17 UTC
- 1951: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 11:10 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 04:32 UTC
- 1955: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 10:19 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:48 UTC
- 1959: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:38 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:15 UTC
- 1963: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:09 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 02:37 UTC
- 1967: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 08:24 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 01:42 UTC
- 1971: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 07:27 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 00:58 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:50 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 00:21 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:13 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 05:31 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 11:16 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 04:50 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 10:36 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:58 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:44 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 03:11 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 09:01 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 02:47 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 08:33 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 02:01 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 07:50 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 01:09 UTC
- 2008: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:50 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 00:25 UTC
- 2012: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 06:17 UTC
- 2016: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 05:34 UTC
- 2020: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 04:57 UTC
- 2024: the sun entered Pisces on 19 February, 04:13 UTC
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 18 February in 5 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 102 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1958, 1977 and 2007.
Shaded: 18 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 18 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 18 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 18 February falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Saturday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Thursday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 18 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 18 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,789 babies were born on 18 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 239th 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 18 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Toni Morrison | 1931–2019 | African American novelist, essayist, and academic |
| Alessandro Volta | 1745–1827 | Italian chemist and physicist |
| John Travolta | 1954– | American actor |
| Ramakrishna | 1836–1886 | Indian mystic and religious preacher |
| Mary I | 1516–1558 | Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 |
| Yoko Ono | 1933– | Japanese artist and activist based in the United States |
| Dr. Dre | 1965– | American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor |
| Ernst Mach | 1838–1916 | Austrian physicist |
| Roberto Baggio | 1967– | Italian association football player |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | 1883–1957 | Greek writer, poet and philosopher; born 18 February in the Julian calendar, which is 2 March in the Gregorian |
| Miloš Forman | 1932–2018 | Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor |
| Nasir al-Din al-Tusi | 1201–1274 | Persian astronomer |
| Gary Neville | 1975– | English football pundit and former player |
| Chaitanya Mahaprabhu | 1486–1534 | 15th century Indian Vaishnavite saint |
| Bobby Robson | 1933–2009 | English association football player and manager |
| Matt Dillon | 1964– | American actor |
| Jack Palance | 1919–2006 | American actor |
| Audre Lorde | 1934–1992 | American writer and feminist activist |
Died on 18 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Michelangelo | 1475–1564 | Italian artist and architect |
| Martin Luther | 1483–1546 | German priest and theologian |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1904–1967 | American theoretical physicist |
| Kublai Khan | 1215–1294 | founding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan |
| Gene Hackman | 1930–2025 | American actor and novelist |
| Fra Angelico | died 1455 | Italian Early Renaissance painter |
| Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | 1804–1851 | German mathematician |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | 1486–1535 | German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier |
| Vasil Levski | 1837–1873 | Bulgarian revolutionary |
| Louis, Duke of Burgundy | 1682–1712 | French duke |
| Balthus | 1908–2001 | French painter |
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