The 203rd day of the year, the 204th in a leap year
Born on 22 July
In UTC, since 1920, 22 July has been Cancer all day in 66 years. In the other 41, the sun moved from Cancer into Leo during the day, so a birthday then is Cancer or Leo depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 47 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 July by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Cancer or LeoThe sun changed sign on this date in 41 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- RubyThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Larkspur, Water lilyUsually taken today to mean an open heart and purity.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Leo arriving earlier
The sun has entered Leo on 22 July in 41 years since 1920, and never before 1944, when it did so at 23:56 UTC, four minutes before midnight. Since then the crossing has crept earlier through the day and onto this date more often: every leap year from 1944, the year after it too from 1972, and three years in four since 2004.
In 2024 the crossing came at 07:44 UTC, the earliest in the period, so a 22 July 2024 birth after that is Leo. In 2026 it came at 19:13 UTC, which was 20:13 in London and 05:13 on 23 July in Sydney, so a Sydney birth on 22 July 2026 was Cancer all day.
Only in the year before a leap year does 22 July now stay Cancer all day in UTC, as it did in 2023, when the crossing waited until 01:50 UTC on the 23rd. Before 1944 every 22 July birthday was Cancer all day in UTC.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 July in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Cancer into Leo at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 22 July that instant has fallen inside the day in 41 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Cancer, after it Leo. To read one of these times on your own clock on 22 July, 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 Leo 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 22 July — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 July that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 04:35 UTC
- 1921: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 10:30 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:58 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 09:45 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:02 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 08:53 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 02:18 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 08:05 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 01:18 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 07:07 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 00:34 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 06:26 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 05:46 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 11:37 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 04:57 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 10:30 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:52 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 09:45 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:15 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 08:50 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 02:24 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 08:18 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 01:48 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 07:23 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 00:48 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 06:37 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 05:30 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 11:22 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 05:00 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 10:49 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 04:15 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 10:04 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:24 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 09:06 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 02:22 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 08:11 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 01:41 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 07:30 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 00:56 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 06:44 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 00:15 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 06:04 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 05:00 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 04:12 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 03:31 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 02:50 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Leo on 23 July, 01:50 UTC
Which weekday 22 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 July falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 22 July in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,854 babies were born on 22 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 80th 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 22 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Selena Gomez | 1992– | American singer and actress |
| Gustav Ludwig Hertz | 1887–1975 | German physicist |
| Willem Dafoe | 1955– | American actor |
| Janusz Korczak | 1878–1942 | Polish-Jewish educator and physician |
| Prince George of Wales | 2013– | British prince; eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | 1784–1846 | German astronomer and mathematician |
| Selman Waksman | 1888–1973 | Ukrainian-born American biochemist and microbiologist |
| John Leguizamo | 1960– | American actor, comedian, producer, and writer |
| Louise Fletcher | 1934–2022 | American actress |
| Dirk Kuyt | 1980– | Dutch association football player |
| Federico Valverde | 1998– | Uruguayan professional footballer |
| Bob Dole | 1923–2021 | American politician |
| Philip the Handsome | 1478–1506 | Ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482 and King of Castile in 1506 |
| Edward Hopper | 1882–1967 | American realist painter and printmaker |
| Danny Glover | 1946– | American actor |
| Marc Cucurella | 1998– | Spanish association football player |
| Franka Potente | 1974– | German actress |
| David Spade | 1964– | American stand-up comedian and actor |
Died on 22 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ozzy Osbourne | 1948–2025 | English musician and television personality |
| Carl Sandburg | 1878–1967 | American writer and editor |
| Pope Clement X | 1590–1676 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 |
| Charles VII of France | 1403–1461 | monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France |
| Napoleon II | 1811–1832 | Son of Napoleon I, disputed Emperor of the French in 1815 |
| Giuseppe Piazzi | 1746–1826 | Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer |
| Randal Cremer | 1828–1908 | English politician |
| Sándor Kocsis | 1929–1979 | Hungarian footballer |
| Errico Malatesta | 1853–1932 | anarchist |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | 1874–1950 | 10th Prime Minister of Canada |
| John Zápolya | 1487–1540 | King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania |
| Xavier Bichat | 1771–1802 | French anatomist and pathologist |
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