The 204th day of the year, the 205th in a leap year
Born on 23 July
In UTC, since 1920, 23 July has been Leo all day in 41 years. In the other 66, 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 38 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 23 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 66 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
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Leo's old first day
23 July was the usual day for the sun to enter Leo for most of the twentieth century: it did so on this date, in UTC, in every year from 1920 to 1943 and in 66 years in all. The latest crossing was 22:01 UTC in 1923; the most recent was in 2023, at 01:50 UTC.
Its share has been shrinking. Since 2004 the crossing has come on 22 July in three years out of four, and a 23 July birthday in those years has been Leo from the first minute. Only the years before a leap year, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023, still put the crossing on this date, each a little earlier in the morning: 05:00 UTC in 2007, 01:50 UTC in 2023.
For a birth on 23 July 2023, the moment was 01:50 UTC, which was 02:50 in London and 21:50 on 22 July in New York, so a New York birth late that evening was already Leo on a 22 July birthday.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 23 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 23 July that instant has fallen inside the day in 66 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 23 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 23 July — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 23 July that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1944: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 23:56 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 23:07 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 22:08 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 21:20 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 20:38 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 19:53 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 19:07 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 18:02 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 23:56 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 17:18 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 23:04 UTC
- 1980: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 16:42 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 22:40 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 15:58 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 21:37 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 14:51 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 20:45 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 14:09 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 19:51 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 13:19 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 19:15 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 12:43 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 18:26 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 11:50 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 17:41 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 23:18 UTC
- 2008: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 10:55 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 16:36 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 22:21 UTC
- 2012: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 10:00 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 15:56 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 21:42 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 15:15 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 21:00 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 14:26 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 20:07 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 13:29 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Leo on 22 July, 19:13 UTC
Which weekday 23 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 July falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 23 July in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 23 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,890 babies were born on 23 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 23rd 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 23 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sergio Mattarella | 1941– | president of Italy (2015–present) |
| Haile Selassie | 1892–1975 | Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | 1989– | English actor and film producer |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | 1967–2014 | American actor |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888–1959 | American novelist and screenwriter |
| Pope Clement XI | 1649–1721 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721 |
| Woody Harrelson | 1961– | American actor |
| Najib Razak | 1953– | former 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia |
| Vera Rubin | 1928–2016 | American astronomer and physicist |
| Judit Polgár | 1976– | Hungarian chess player |
| Monica Lewinsky | 1973– | American activist and writer |
| Gustav Heinemann | 1899–1976 | German politician; President of Germany from 1969–1974 |
| Slash | 1965– | British musician |
| Vladimir Prelog | 1906–1998 | Croatian-Swiss chemist |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1856–1920 | Indian nationalist leader, writer and journalist |
| Emil Jannings | 1884–1950 | German actor |
| Paul Wesley | 1982– | American actor |
| Theo van Gogh | 1957–2004 | Dutch film director |
Died on 23 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ulysses S. Grant | 1822–1885 | president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 |
| Amy Winehouse | 1983–2011 | English singer-songwriter |
| Philippe Pétain | 1856–1951 | French military and political leader |
| William Ramsay | 1852–1916 | Scottish chemist |
| Sally Ride | 1951–2012 | American astronaut and physicist |
| D. W. Griffith | 1875–1948 | American filmmaker |
| Hassan II | 1929–1999 | King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999 |
| Michael of Russia | 1596–1645 | Tsar of Russia (1613–1645) |
| Mohammad Zahir Shah | 1914–2007 | King of Afghanistan (1933-1973) |
| Domenico Scarlatti | 1685–1757 | Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti |
| Montgomery Clift | 1920–1966 | American actor |
| Bridget of Sweden | 1303–1373 | Swedish nun, mystic, and saint |
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