The 26th day of the year

Born on 26 January

Every 26 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.

Star sign
AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
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.

Two new years, and a third in 2028

The new year fell on 26 January only twice between 1920 and 2026, in 1933 at the start of the Water Rooster and in 2009 at the start of the Earth Ox, and it returns soon: 26 January 2028 is the first day of the year of the Earth Monkey. A birthday on this date fell before the new year in 89 of those 107 years and belongs to the animal of the year before; in 18 the new year had come.

The years from 2025 to 2028 show how far the boundary moves. On 26 January 2025 the Wood Dragon still had three days to run, since the Snake began on the 29th. In 2026 the date fell 22 days before the Fire Horse of 17 February, and in 2027 it falls eleven days before the Fire Goat of 6 February, so both of those birthdays belong to the animal of the year before. Then in 2028 it is the new year itself.

The sign stays put: every 26 January from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.

Where the sun stands on 26 January. The marked arc is every position it has held on 26 January, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 26 January in any year.

Which Chinese animal, by year

From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 26 January in 89 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 18 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1933 and 2009.

1920Goat
1921Monkey
1922Rooster
1923Dog
1924Pig
1925Ox
1926Ox
1927Tiger
1928Dragon
1929Dragon
1930Snake
1931Horse
1932Goat
1933Rooster
1934Rooster
1935Dog
1936Rat
1937Rat
1938Ox
1939Tiger
1940Rabbit
1941Dragon
1942Snake
1943Horse
1944Monkey
1945Monkey
1946Rooster
1947Pig
1948Pig
1949Rat
1950Ox
1951Tiger
1952Rabbit
1953Dragon
1954Snake
1955Goat
1956Goat
1957Monkey
1958Rooster
1959Dog
1960Pig
1961Rat
1962Ox
1963Rabbit
1964Rabbit
1965Dragon
1966Horse
1967Horse
1968Goat
1969Monkey
1970Rooster
1971Dog
1972Pig
1973Rat
1974Tiger
1975Tiger
1976Rabbit
1977Dragon
1978Snake
1979Horse
1980Goat
1981Monkey
1982Dog
1983Dog
1984Pig
1985Rat
1986Ox
1987Tiger
1988Rabbit
1989Dragon
1990Snake
1991Horse
1992Goat
1993Rooster
1994Rooster
1995Dog
1996Pig
1997Rat
1998Ox
1999Tiger
2000Rabbit
2001Snake
2002Snake
2003Horse
2004Monkey
2005Monkey
2006Rooster
2007Dog
2008Pig
2009Ox
2010Ox
2011Tiger
2012Dragon
2013Dragon
2014Snake
2015Horse
2016Goat
2017Monkey
2018Rooster
2019Dog
2020Rat
2021Rat
2022Ox
2023Rabbit
2024Rabbit
2025Dragon
2026Snake

Shaded: 26 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 26 January. How the new year is found →

Which weekday 26 January falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 26 January falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.

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Showing 26 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →

How common a birthday 26 January is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,766 babies were born on 26 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 327th 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 26 January

18 people born on 26 January, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea
Paul Newman1925–2008American actor
José Mourinho1963–Portuguese association football manager and former player
Ellen DeGeneres1958–American comedian, television host, actress, and writer
Angela Davis1944–American political activist, scholar, and author
Anders Fogh Rasmussen1953–former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO
Charles XIV John1763–1844King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844, formerly a Marshal of France
Claude Adrien Helvétius1715–1771French philosopher
Wayne Gretzky1961–Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Polykarp Kusch1911–1993German-American physicist
Jörg Haider1950–2008Austrian politician
Achim von Arnim1781–1831German poet and novelist
Eddie Van Halen1955–2020Dutch-American rock guitarist
Sergio Pérez1990–Mexican racing driver
Roger Vadim1928–2000French filmmaker
Seán MacBride1904–1988Irish politician and human rights activist
Kevin McCarthy1965–Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023
Brendan Rodgers1973–Northern Irish association football manager

Died on 26 January

12 people who died on 26 January, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Edward Jenner1749–1823English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
Kobe Bryant1978–2020American basketball player
Nelson Rockefeller1908–1979Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Gérard de Nerval1808–1855French writer, poet, essayist and translator
Théodore Géricault1791–1824French painter
Nicolaus Otto1832–1891German inventor
Nikolai Vavilov1887–1943Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist
Edward G. Robinson1893–1973Romanian-American actor
Arthur Cayley1821–1895English mathematician
José Ferrer1912–1992American actor and director
Lucky Luciano1897–1962Italian American mobster
Charles George Gordon1833–1885British army officer and administrator

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