The 173rd day of the year, the 174th in a leap year
Born on 22 June
In UTC, since 1920, 22 June has been Cancer all day in 86 years. In the other 21, 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 55 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 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 21 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
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
A solstice date of the last century
The June solstice last fell on 22 June, in UTC, in 1975, at 00:26 UTC, twenty-six minutes into the day. Between 1920 and 1975 it did so 21 times, always before noon and always in the one or two years before a leap year, when the drift had carried it furthest.
So a 22 June birthday in 1923 before 11:03 UTC was Gemini, and so was one in 1939 before 07:39 UTC. Since 1976 the solstice has come on the 20th or 21st, and every 22 June birthday has been Cancer all day in UTC.
Further east the date still meets the solstice. In 55 years a crossing on 21 June in UTC fell on 22 June somewhere whose clocks were ahead of Greenwich: in 2023 the solstice at 14:57 UTC was 02:57 on 22 June in Auckland, so an Auckland birth in the small hours of that 22 June was Gemini. The last solstice on this date in UTC, at 00:26 UTC in 1975, was still 21 June in New York, at 20:26.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 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 22 June that instant has fallen inside the day in 21 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 22 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 22 June — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 June that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 17:40 UTC
- 1921: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 23:36 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 16:59 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 22:50 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 16:06 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 22:00 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 15:23 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 21:12 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 14:21 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 20:12 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 13:36 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 19:33 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 13:02 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 18:52 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 12:10 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 18:03 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 23:36 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 11:13 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 17:00 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 22:54 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 16:21 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 21:57 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 15:30 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 21:25 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 14:55 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 20:33 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 13:55 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 19:43 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 13:01 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 18:37 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 12:14 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 18:10 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 23:57 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 11:45 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 17:23 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 23:09 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 16:30 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 22:11 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 15:33 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 21:19 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 14:48 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 20:34 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 14:03 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 19:49 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 13:25 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 19:11 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 12:26 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 18:06 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 11:28 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 17:16 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:51 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 16:38 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 10:07 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 15:54 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Cancer on 21 June, 14:57 UTC
Which weekday 22 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 June falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 22 June in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,821 babies were born on 22 June in each year of the twenty, making it the 151st 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 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Meryl Streep | 1949– | American actress |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898–1970 | German-born novelist |
| Dan Brown | 1964– | American novelist |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | 1805–1872 | Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt | 1767–1835 | Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator |
| Ada Yonath | 1939–2026 | Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate |
| Billy Wilder | 1906–2002 | Austrian and American filmmaker |
| Lee Min-ho | 1987– | South Korean actor, singer and model |
| Hermann Minkowski | 1864–1909 | German mathematician and physicist |
| Cyndi Lauper | 1953– | American singer |
| Abbas Kiarostami | 1940–2016 | Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer |
| Rodri | 1996– | Spanish association football player |
| Konrad Zuse | 1910–1995 | German computer scientist and engineer |
| Elizabeth Warren | 1949– | American politician |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856–1925 | English adventure novelist |
| J. Michael Kosterlitz | 1943– | British-American physicist |
| Kris Kristofferson | 1936–2024 | American country singer, songwriter and actor |
| Paul Morphy | 1837–1884 | US chess player |
Died on 22 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Judy Garland | 1922–1969 | American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian |
| George Carlin | 1937–2008 | American stand-up comedian |
| Fred Astaire | 1899–1987 | American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer |
| George I of Great Britain | 1660–1727 | King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727; died 22 June in the Gregorian calendar, 11 June in the Julian |
| Ilya Frank | 1908–1990 | Soviet physicist |
| Pope Innocent V | 1225–1276 | 185th Pope of the Catholic Church |
| Felix Klein | 1849–1925 | German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program |
| James Horner | 1953–2015 | American film composer and conductor |
| Armand Fallières | 1841–1931 | 9th president of France |
| Pat Nixon | 1912–1993 | First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 |
| Moritz Schlick | 1882–1936 | German philosopher |
| Harry Markowitz | 1927–2023 | American economist |
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