The 40th day of the year
Born on 9 February
Every 9 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
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
A series that stopped
The new year fell on 9 February in 1967, the Fire Goat, in 1986, the Fire Tiger, and in 2005, the Wood Rooster, nineteen years apart each time. The series stops there: nineteen years on, the new year of 2024 fell on 10 February instead, and the engine has no new year on 9 February again until 2062.
For a 9 February birthday the new year has usually come first. In 69 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 it had begun by this date, and in only 38 was it still to come. One of those was 2021, when the new year waited until 12 February: a birth on 9 February 2021 belongs to the Metal Rat of 2020. In 1986, when the new year fell on this date, a birth on 8 February 1986 belongs to the Wood Ox of 1985 and one on 9 February 1986 to the Fire Tiger.
It was Aquarius on every 9 February over the same years, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 9 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 9 February in 38 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 69 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1967, 1986 and 2005.
Shaded: 9 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 9 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 9 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 February falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 9 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 9 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,760 babies were born on 9 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 336th 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 9 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| William Henry Harrison | 1773–1841 | president of the United States in 1841 |
| Thomas Paine | 1737–1809 | American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist; 9 February is his birthday in the Gregorian calendar, 29 January in the Julian |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940– | South African and Australian writer and scholar |
| Alice Walker | 1944– | American author and activist |
| Joseph Stiglitz | 1943– | American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics |
| Tom Hiddleston | 1981– | English actor |
| Jacques Monod | 1910–1976 | French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate |
| Yoshinori Ohsumi | 1945– | Japanese molecular biologist |
| Mia Farrow | 1945– | American actress |
| Natsume Sōseki | 1867–1916 | Japanese novelist |
| Joe Pesci | 1943– | American actor |
| Pope Honorius II | died 1130 | Pope from 1124 to 1130 |
| Ali-Shir Nava'i | 1441–1501 | Turkic poet and politician |
| Zhang Ziyi | 1979– | Chinese actress and model |
| Vasily Zhukovsky | 1783–1852 | Russian poet |
| Wataru Endo | 1993– | Japanese association football player |
| Michael B. Jordan | 1987– | American actor |
| Carole King | 1942– | American singer-songwriter and musician |
Died on 9 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821–1881 | Russian novelist |
| Yuri Andropov | 1914–1984 | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Charles I of England | 1600–1649 | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649; died 9 February in the Gregorian calendar, 30 January in the Julian |
| Jules Michelet | 1798–1874 | French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance |
| Herbert A. Simon | 1916–2001 | American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist |
| Miklós Horthy | 1868–1957 | Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944 |
| Osamu Tezuka | 1928–1989 | Japanese cartoonist and animator |
| Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | 1930–2002 | British princess |
| Chick Corea | 1941–2021 | American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer |
| Frederick III of Denmark | 1609–1670 | King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670 |
| Bill Haley | 1925–1981 | American rock and roll musician |
| Howard Martin Temin | 1934–1994 | American geneticist |
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