The 19th day of the year
Born on 19 January
In UTC, since 1920, 19 January has been Capricorn all day in 101 years. In the other 6, the sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius during the day, so a birthday then is Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 36 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 19 January by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Capricorn or AquariusThe sun changed sign on this date in 6 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
An evening crossing, every fourth year
The sun first entered Aquarius on 19 January, in UTC, in 2005, at 23:22 UTC, and it has done so every fourth year since, each time a little earlier in the evening: 22:41 UTC in 2009, 21:52 UTC in 2013, 21:24 UTC in 2017, 20:40 UTC in 2021 and 20:00 UTC in 2025. They are the years after a leap year, which is when a January crossing sits earliest, because the leap day that pulls the drift back comes in February, after it.
So a 19 January birthday is nearly always Capricorn, and the exceptions come late in the day. A birth on 19 January 2025 after 20:00 UTC is Aquarius. Further east the evening crossing fell after midnight: in 2025 it came at 07:00 on 20 January in Sydney, so every Sydney birth on 19 January 2025 was Capricorn.
The reverse happens to the west. In 36 years a crossing early on 20 January in UTC came while it was still 19 January somewhere whose clocks were behind Greenwich, in the Americas in 32 of them: in 2026 the sun entered Aquarius at 01:45 UTC, which was 20:45 on 19 January in New York, so a New York birth late that evening was Aquarius on a 19 January birthday. The calculator above settles it for your own time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 19 January in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Capricorn into Aquarius at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 19 January that instant has fallen inside the day in 6 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Capricorn, after it Aquarius. To read one of these times on your own clock on 19 January, 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 Aquarius 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 19 January — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 19 January that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1937: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 11:01 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 10:34 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 09:54 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 09:09 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 08:22 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 07:39 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 07:01 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 06:29 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 05:38 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 11:24 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 04:49 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 10:46 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 04:14 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 10:04 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 03:36 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 09:31 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 02:58 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 08:47 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 02:07 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 08:02 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 01:23 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 07:08 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 00:43 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 06:46 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 00:17 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 06:02 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 05:15 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 04:28 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 10:19 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 03:51 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 09:43 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 03:09 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 08:59 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 02:39 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 08:29 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Aquarius on 20 January, 01:45 UTC
Which weekday 19 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 19 January falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 19 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 19 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,778 babies were born on 19 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 292nd 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 19 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809–1849 | American writer and literary critic |
| James Watt | 1736–1819 | British engineer |
| Paul Cézanne | 1839–1906 | French painter |
| Auguste Comte | 1798–1857 | French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist |
| Dolly Parton | 1946–2026 | American singer-songwriter |
| Robert E. Lee | 1807–1870 | Confederate States general |
| Janis Joplin | 1943–1970 | American singer |
| Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | 1920–2020 | 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Jenson Button | 1980– | British racing driver |
| Francis II of France | 1544–1560 | King of France from 1559 to 1560 |
| Leonid Kantorovich | 1912–1986 | Russian mathematician |
| Julian Barnes | 1946– | English writer |
| Claudio Marchisio | 1986– | Italian association football player |
| Pete Buttigieg | 1982– | American politician |
| Logan Lerman | 1992– | American actor |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921–1995 | American novelist and short story writer |
| Stefan Edberg | 1966– | Swedish tennis player |
| Matthias Ginter | 1994– | German association football player |
Died on 19 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | 1809–1865 | French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist |
| Hedy Lamarr | 1914–2000 | Austrian-American actress and inventor |
| Osho | 1931–1990 | Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement |
| Bettino Craxi | 1934–2000 | Italian politician |
| Suzanne Pleshette | 1937–2008 | American actress |
| Dagobert I | died 639 | Frankish king |
| Valentino | 1932–2026 | Italian fashion designer |
| Hrant Dink | 1954–2007 | Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor, journalist, and columnist |
| William Congreve | 1670–1729 | British writer |
| Branislav Nušić | 1864–1938 | Serbian writer |
| Vavá | 1934–2002 | Brazilian association football player |
| Miguel Ferrer | 1955–2017 | American actor |
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