The 327th day of the year, the 328th in a leap year
Born on 23 November
In UTC, since 1920, 23 November has been Sagittarius all day in 92 years. In the other 15, 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 52 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 23 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 15 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Sagittarius since 1968
The sun entered Sagittarius on 23 November in 15 years between 1920 and 2026, the last in 1967 at 00:05 UTC, five minutes into the day. Before that it did so in the years just before a leap year: 07:54 UTC in 1923, the latest, 03:38 UTC in 1947 and 01:27 UTC in 1959. In 1923 the 07:54 UTC crossing was 09:54 in Johannesburg.
Since 1968 every 23 November birthday has been Sagittarius from the first minute in UTC. It is the evening crossings of the 22nd that reach this date now, from the east: in 52 years a crossing late on 22 November in UTC fell on 23 November somewhere whose clocks were ahead of Greenwich. In 1971 the sun entered Sagittarius at 23:14 UTC, which was 01:14 on the 23rd in Johannesburg.
A Johannesburg birth in the first hour and 14 minutes of 23 November 1971 was therefore Scorpio, although every UTC reckoning of that date says Sagittarius.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 23 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 23 November that instant has fallen inside the day in 15 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 23 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 23 November — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 23 November that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 14:16 UTC
- 1921: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 20:05 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:46 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 19:35 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:00 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 18:48 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 12:10 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 17:53 UTC
- 1934: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 23:44 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:25 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 17:16 UTC
- 1938: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 23:06 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 16:38 UTC
- 1942: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 22:30 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 15:55 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 21:46 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 15:16 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 21:02 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 14:22 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 20:14 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:39 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 19:29 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:08 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 19:02 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 12:29 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 18:14 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:31 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 17:25 UTC
- 1971: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 23:14 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 16:38 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 22:31 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 16:05 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 21:54 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 15:23 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 21:19 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 14:44 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 20:30 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:47 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 19:36 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 13:06 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 19:02 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 12:35 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 18:25 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:54 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 17:44 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 11:02 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 16:50 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 10:15 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 16:08 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 15:26 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 14:59 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Sagittarius on 22 November, 14:03 UTC
Which weekday 23 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 November falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 23 November in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 23 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,766 babies were born on 23 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 326th 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolás Maduro | 1962– | Venezuelan politician |
| Miley Cyrus | 1992– | American singer, actress, and television personality |
| Franklin Pierce | 1804–1869 | president of the United States from 1853 to 1857 |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1837–1923 | Dutch physicist |
| Otto the Great | 912–973 | Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973 |
| Alfonso X of Castile | 1221–1284 | King of Castile from 1252 to 1284 |
| Pope Clement IV | 1190–1268 | Pope from 1265 to 1268 |
| Sathya Sai Baba | 1926–2011 | Indian spiritual guru |
| Hjalmar Branting | 1860–1925 | Prime Minister of Sweden |
| Anatoly Lunacharsky | 1875–1933 | Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer |
| Paul Celan | 1920–1970 | French-Romanian poet and translator |
| Chuck Schumer | 1950– | American politician |
| Klement Gottwald | 1896–1953 | President of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953 |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933–2020 | Polish composer and conductor |
| Vincent Cassel | 1966– | French actor |
| Boris Karloff | 1887–1969 | British actor |
| François-Noël Babeuf | 1760–1797 | French political agitator and journalist |
| Manuel de Falla | 1876–1946 | Spanish composer |
Died on 23 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Roald Dahl | 1916–1990 | British writer and poet |
| André Malraux | 1901–1976 | French novelist, art theorist, and statesman |
| Alexander Litvinenko | 1962–2006 | Russian defector and former FSB officer |
| Bronzino | 1503–1572 | Italian Mannerist painter |
| Klaus Kinski | 1926–1991 | German actor |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose | 1858–1937 | Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist |
| Larry Hagman | 1931–2012 | American actor |
| Elbridge Gerry | 1744–1814 | vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814 |
| Philippe Noiret | 1930–2006 | French actor |
| Eadred | 923–955 | King of the English from 946 to 955 |
| William III of the Netherlands | 1817–1890 | King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| Louis Malle | 1932–1995 | French film director, screenwriter, and producer |
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