The 38th day of the year
Born on 7 February
Every 7 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.
Pig to Rat
The new year fell on 7 February in 1978, beginning the year of the Earth Horse, in 1997, the Fire Ox, and in 2008, the Earth Rat. After 2008 the engine has no new year on this date until 2073, later than for any other date from 3 to 10 February.
2008 shows how a single day divides a year. The Fire Pig of 2007 ran until 6 February 2008; a birth on 7 February 2008 was on the first day of the Earth Rat, when the animals, having reached the last of the twelve, started again. 1978 and 1997 are nineteen years apart, and nineteen years after 1997 the new year came a day later, on 8 February 2016.
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 a 7 February birthday fell before the new year in 45 and on or after it in 62, and it was Aquarius every time, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 7 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 7 February in 45 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 62 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1978, 1997 and 2008.
Shaded: 7 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 7 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 7 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 7 February falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Tuesday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Sunday 15, Friday 15.
Showing 7 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 7 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,797 babies were born on 7 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 217th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 7 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Dickens | 1812–1870 | English novelist and social critic |
| Thomas More | 1478–1535 | English statesman, lawyer and philosopher |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1885–1951 | American writer and playwright |
| Alfred Adler | 1870–1937 | Austrian psychotherapist |
| Tawakkol Karman | 1979– | Yemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activist |
| G. H. Hardy | 1877–1947 | British mathematician |
| Puyi | 1906–1967 | Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo |
| Ashton Kutcher | 1978– | American actor |
| Anna of Russia | 1693–1740 | Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740 |
| Empress Matilda | 1102–1167 | Holy Roman Empress from 1114 to 1125 and claimant to the English throne |
| Chris Rock | 1965– | American comedian, actor, and filmmaker |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1867–1957 | American children's writer, diarist, and journalist |
| James Spader | 1960– | American actor |
| Sergi Roberto | 1992– | Spanish association football player |
| Tony Tan | 1940– | President of Singapore from 2011 to 2017 |
| Dieter Bohlen | 1954– | German songwriter, producer, singer, and television personality |
| Tsuneyasu Miyamoto | 1977– | Japanese association football player and manager |
| Daniel Van Buyten | 1978– | Belgian association football player |
Died on 7 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pope Pius IX | 1792–1878 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878 |
| Hussein of Jordan | 1935–1999 | King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999 |
| Josef Mengele | 1911–1979 | German SS officer and physician at Auschwitz |
| Alexander Kolchak | 1874–1920 | Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement |
| Vuk Karadžić | 1787–1864 | Serbian philologist and linguist |
| Qianlong Emperor | 1711–1799 | emperor of the Qing Dynasty |
| Albert Finney | 1936–2019 | British actor |
| Igor Kurchatov | 1903–1960 | Soviet nuclear physicist |
| Li Wenliang | 1985–2020 | Chinese ophthalmologist known for warning about the coronavirus in December 2019 |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1764–1823 | English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel |
| Elihu Root | 1845–1937 | American politician |
| Gustav IV Adolf | 1778–1837 | King of Sweden from 1792 to 1809 |
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