The 325th day of the year, the 326th in a leap year
Born on 21 November
In UTC, since 1920, 21 November has been Scorpio all day in 101 years. In the other 6, the sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius during the day, so a birthday then is Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 37 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 21 November by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Scorpio or SagittariusThe sun changed sign on this date in 6 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Sagittarius, every leap year
Since 2004 the sun has entered Sagittarius on 21 November in every leap year, each time earlier in the evening: 23:22 UTC in 2004, 22:44 UTC in 2008, 21:50 UTC in 2012, 21:22 UTC in 2016, 20:40 UTC in 2020 and 19:56 UTC in 2024. Before 2004 it never did in the period, and in the other 101 years from 1920 to 2026 a 21 November birthday was Scorpio all day in UTC.
The evening crossing matters most further west, where it came earlier in the day: the 2024 moment was 14:56 in New York and 11:56 in Los Angeles, so births there after those times are Sagittarius. Further east it was already the 22nd, at 06:56 in Sydney.
A birth in Sydney on 21 November 2024 was therefore Scorpio all day, and one in New York that evening Sagittarius. In 2025 the crossing came on the 22nd, at 01:36 UTC, which was 20:36 on 21 November in New York, so a New York birth that evening was Sagittarius too.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 21 November in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 21 November that instant has fallen inside the day in 6 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Scorpio, after it Sagittarius. To read one of these times on your own clock on 21 November, 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 Sagittarius 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 21 November — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 21 November that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1936: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:25 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:49 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:08 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 09:29 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 08:36 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 07:50 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 07:18 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 06:39 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 05:49 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:31 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 05:03 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:54 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 04:22 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:07 UTC
- 1980: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 03:41 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 09:36 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 03:11 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 08:51 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 02:12 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 08:05 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 01:26 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 07:07 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 00:50 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 06:48 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 00:20 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 06:00 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 05:15 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 04:23 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:15 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 03:48 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 09:38 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 03:05 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 09:01 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 02:34 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 08:21 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 01:36 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 07:24 UTC
Which weekday 21 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 21 November falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 21 November in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 21 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,815 babies were born on 21 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 166th 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 21 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Voltaire | 1694–1778 | French writer, historian and philosopher |
| Pope Benedict XV | 1854–1922 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922 |
| Björk | 1965– | Icelandic singer |
| René Magritte | 1898–1967 | Belgian surrealist |
| Goldie Hawn | 1945– | American actress |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher | 1768–1834 | German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar |
| Jesús Navas | 1985– | Spanish association football player |
| Carly Rae Jepsen | 1985– | Canadian singer |
| Lewis H. Morgan | 1818–1881 | American anthropologist |
| Victoria, Princess Royal | 1840–1901 | British princess, Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888 |
| Alexander Berkman | 1870–1936 | Russian-American anarchist and writer |
| Mikhail Suslov | 1902–1982 | Soviet-era statesman |
| Vincenzo Iaquinta | 1979– | Italian association football player |
| Saúl | 1994– | Spanish association football player |
| Michel Suleiman | 1948– | President of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014 |
| Christopher Tolkien | 1924–2020 | literary scholar, writer, and editor |
| Harold Ramis | 1944–2014 | American actor, comedian, and filmmaker |
| Fabian Delph | 1989– | English association football player |
Died on 21 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| C. V. Raman | 1888–1970 | Indian physicist |
| Franz Joseph I | 1830–1916 | Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| Ivan Krylov | 1769–1844 | Russian writer |
| Abdus Salam | 1926–1996 | Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Heinrich von Kleist | 1777–1811 | German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer |
| Henry Purcell | 1659–1695 | English composer; died 21 November in the Julian calendar, which is 1 December in the Gregorian |
| Emil Zátopek | 1922–2000 | Czech long-distance runner |
| Georgius Agricola | 1494–1555 | German mineralogist |
| Garret Hobart | 1844–1899 | vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899 |
| Hassan Gouled Aptidon | 1916–2006 | President of Djibouti |
| Columbanus | 543–615 | Irish missionary and saint |
| Yury of Moscow | 1281–1325 | Prince of Moscow from 1303 to 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1318 to 1322 |
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