The 171st day of the year, the 172nd in a leap year
Born on 20 June
In UTC, since 1920, 20 June has been Gemini all day in 102 years. In the other 5, the sun moved from Gemini into Cancer during the day, so a birthday then is Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 30 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 20 June by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Gemini or CancerThe sun changed sign on this date in 5 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The solstice arriving on the 20th
The June solstice, when the sun enters Cancer, has fallen on 20 June only five times since 1920, all of them in leap years and all late in the evening in UTC: at 23:59 UTC in 2008, less than a minute before midnight, then 22:34 UTC in 2016 by way of 23:08 UTC in 2012, 21:44 UTC in 2020 and 20:51 UTC in 2024.
Each is earlier than the last, because each leap day takes back slightly more time than four years of drift have added, and that is how the solstice is creeping onto this date. In the other 102 years a 20 June birthday was Gemini all day in UTC.
Further east the 2024 solstice was already the 21st: the crossing at 20:51 UTC was 06:51 on 21 June in Sydney and 05:51 in Tokyo, so a birth in either city on 20 June 2024 was Gemini all day. In London, on British Summer Time, it came at 21:51, and a London birth late that night was Cancer.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 20 June in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Gemini into Cancer at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 20 June that instant has fallen inside the day in 5 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Gemini, after it Cancer. To read one of these times on your own clock on 20 June, 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 Cancer 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 20 June — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 20 June that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1952: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 11:13 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:24 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 09:42 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 08:57 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 08:13 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 07:06 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 06:24 UTC
- 1980: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 05:47 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 11:45 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 05:02 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:44 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 03:56 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 09:53 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 03:14 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 09:00 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 02:24 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 08:20 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 01:48 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 07:38 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 00:57 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 06:46 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 05:46 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 05:04 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:51 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 04:24 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:07 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 03:32 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 09:14 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 02:42 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 08:25 UTC
Which weekday 20 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 20 June falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 20 June in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 20 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,870 babies were born on 20 June in each year of the twenty, making it the 46th 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 20 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Nicole Kidman | 1967– | Australian-American actress, producer, and model |
| Jacques Offenbach | 1819–1880 | German-born French composer |
| Frank Lampard | 1978– | English association football player and manager |
| John Goodman | 1952– | American actor |
| Martin Landau | 1928–2017 | American actor |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | 1928–2025 | French politician |
| Errol Flynn | 1909–1959 | Australian actor |
| Lionel Richie | 1949– | American singer, songwriter and actor |
| Sigismund III Vasa | 1566–1632 | King of Poland from 1587 to 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599 |
| Mateusz Morawiecki | 1968– | Prime Minister of Poland from 2017 to 2023 |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 1861–1947 | English biochemist |
| Brian Wilson | 1942–2025 | American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer |
| Xanana Gusmão | 1946– | Prime Minister and former President of East Timor |
| Nouri al-Maliki | 1950– | Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 |
| Robert Rodriguez | 1968– | American filmmaker |
| Olympia Dukakis | 1931–2021 | American actress |
| Javier Pastore | 1989– | Argentine footballer |
| Kalidou Koulibaly | 1991– | Senegalese-French footballer |
Died on 20 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| William IV | 1765–1837 | King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837 |
| Donald Sutherland | 1935–2024 | Canadian actor |
| Louis the Pious | 778–840 | King of the Franks |
| Emil Cioran | 1911–1995 | Romanian-French philosopher and essayist |
| Georges Lemaître | 1894–1966 | Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest |
| Willem Barentsz | 1550–1597 | Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer |
| Jack Kilby | 1923–2005 | American electrical engineer |
| Kurt Alder | 1902–1958 | German chemist |
| Feodor II of Russia | 1589–1605 | Tsar of Russia (1605) |
| Manuel Belgrano | 1770–1820 | Argentine politician and military leader |
| Bernard Baruch | 1870–1965 | American businessman |
| Johannes Zukertort | 1842–1888 | German chess master |
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