The 326th day of the year, the 327th in a leap year
Born on 22 November
In UTC, since 1920, 22 November has been Scorpio all day in 15 years and Sagittarius all day in 6 years. In the other 86, 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 21 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 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 86 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The other most divided date
Alongside 20 January, 22 November is the date on which a birthday has most often been split between two signs: in 86 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 the sun entered Sagittarius during the day, in UTC. The 2026 crossing is at 07:24 UTC.
Before 1968 the crossing sometimes slipped into the 23rd, in 15 years, and 22 November was Scorpio all day; since 2004 it has come on the 21st in every leap year, six times, and 22 November was Sagittarius all day. The times range across the whole day, from 00:20 UTC in 2000 to 23:44 UTC in 1934.
For a 2026 birthday the 07:24 UTC moment was 02:24 in New York, 09:24 in Johannesburg and 18:24 in Sydney, so a Johannesburg birth that morning before twenty past nine is Scorpio. In 2025 the crossing came at 01:36 UTC, which was 20:36 on 21 November in New York, so a New York birth late that evening was Sagittarius on a 21 November birthday.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 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 22 November that instant has fallen inside the day in 86 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 22 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 22 November — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 November that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1922: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 01:55 UTC
- 1923: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 07:54 UTC
- 1926: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 01:28 UTC
- 1927: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 07:14 UTC
- 1930: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 00:35 UTC
- 1931: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 06:25 UTC
- 1935: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 05:35 UTC
- 1939: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 04:58 UTC
- 1943: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 04:22 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 03:38 UTC
- 1951: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 02:51 UTC
- 1955: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 02:01 UTC
- 1959: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 01:27 UTC
- 1963: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 00:50 UTC
- 1967: the sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November, 00:05 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 23:22 UTC
- 2008: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 22:44 UTC
- 2012: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 21:50 UTC
- 2016: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 21:22 UTC
- 2020: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 20:40 UTC
- 2024: the sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November, 19:56 UTC
Which weekday 22 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 November falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
Showing 22 November in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,779 babies were born on 22 November in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 285th 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charles de Gaulle | 1890–1970 | French general and statesman |
| Scarlett Johansson | 1984– | American actress |
| André Gide | 1869–1951 | French author and Nobel laureate |
| George Eliot | 1819–1880 | English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist |
| Mark Ruffalo | 1967– | American actor |
| Paolo Gentiloni | 1954– | Italian politician |
| Abigail Adams | 1744–1818 | First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801 |
| Terry Gilliam | 1940– | American-born British filmmaker, comedian and actor |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | 1958– | American actress and author |
| Boris Becker | 1967– | German tennis player, coach, and commentator |
| Billie Jean King | 1943– | American tennis player |
| Louis Néel | 1904–2000 | French physicist |
| Mads Mikkelsen | 1965– | Danish actor |
| Oscar Pistorius | 1986– | South African sprinter |
| Benjamin Britten | 1913–1976 | English composer, conductor, and pianist |
| Enver Pasha | 1881–1922 | Ottoman politician and general |
| Andrew Huxley | 1917–2012 | English physiologist and biophysicist |
| John Nance Garner | 1868–1967 | Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941 |
Died on 22 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John F. Kennedy | 1917–1963 | president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 |
| Jack London | 1876–1916 | American author, journalist and social activist |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894–1963 | English writer and philosopher |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898–1963 | British writer, lay theologian, and scholar |
| Mae West | 1893–1980 | American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer |
| Arthur Eddington | 1882–1944 | British astrophysicist |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917–1993 | English writer and composer |
| Ahmed I | 1590–1617 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617 |
| Kim Young-sam | 1927–2015 | President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998 |
| Blackbeard | 1680–1718 | English pirate; died 22 November in the Julian calendar, which is 3 December in the Gregorian |
| Hans Krebs | 1900–1981 | German-British biochemist |
| Svetlana Alliluyeva | 1926–2011 | Joseph Stalin's daughter |
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