The 295th day of the year, the 296th in a leap year
Born on 22 October
In UTC, since 1920, 22 October has been Libra all day in 104 years. In the other 3, the sun moved from Libra into Scorpio during the day, so a birthday then is Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 29 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 October by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Libra or ScorpioThe sun changed sign on this date in 3 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Scorpio's newest date
The sun entered Scorpio on 22 October for the first time in the period in 2016, at 23:45 UTC, and again in 2020 at 23:00 UTC and in 2024 at 22:15 UTC, each leap year three-quarters of an hour earlier than the last. In every other year from 1920 to 2026 a 22 October birthday was Libra all day in UTC.
So for a birth on 22 October 2024 in UTC the last hour and three-quarters of the day was Scorpio. In London, still on British Summer Time, the crossing came at 23:15; in Johannesburg it came at 00:15 on 23 October, so the whole of 22 October 2024 there was Libra.
Further west it reaches this date more often. In 29 years a crossing early on 23 October in UTC came while it was still 22 October somewhere whose clocks were behind Greenwich, in the Americas in 22 of them: in 2025 the sun entered Scorpio at 03:51 UTC on the 23rd, which was 23:51 on 22 October in New York.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 October in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Libra into Scorpio at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 22 October that instant has fallen inside the day in 3 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Libra, after it Scorpio. To read one of these times on your own clock on 22 October, 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 Scorpio 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 October — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 October that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1952: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:22 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:35 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:02 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 09:21 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 08:30 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 07:41 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 06:58 UTC
- 1980: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 06:17 UTC
- 1984: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 05:46 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:22 UTC
- 1988: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 04:44 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:35 UTC
- 1992: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 03:57 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 09:37 UTC
- 1996: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 03:19 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 09:15 UTC
- 2000: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 02:48 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 08:26 UTC
- 2004: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 01:49 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 07:42 UTC
- 2008: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 01:09 UTC
- 2009: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 06:44 UTC
- 2012: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 00:13 UTC
- 2013: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 06:10 UTC
- 2017: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 05:27 UTC
- 2021: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 04:51 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:36 UTC
- 2025: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 03:51 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 09:38 UTC
Which weekday 22 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 October falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 22 October in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,819 babies were born on 22 October in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 155th 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Bernhardt | 1844–1923 | French stage actress, painter and sculptor |
| Doris Lessing | 1919–2013 | British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer |
| Franz Liszt | 1811–1886 | Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist |
| Ivan Bunin | 1870–1953 | Russian writer and poet |
| Arsène Wenger | 1949– | French football manager |
| Catherine Deneuve | 1943– | French actress |
| Javier Milei | 1970– | economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023 |
| Lev Yashin | 1929–1990 | Soviet football goalkeeper |
| Clinton Davisson | 1881–1958 | American physicist |
| Joan Fontaine | 1917–2013 | British actress |
| Jeff Goldblum | 1952– | American actor and musician |
| Yitzhak Shamir | 1915–2012 | 7th Prime Minister of Israel |
| Robert Capa | 1913–1954 | American photographer |
| Christopher Lloyd | 1938– | American actor |
| Carlos Mencia | 1967– | American stand-up comedian |
| Timothy Leary | 1920–1996 | American psychologist |
| Leconte de Lisle | 1818–1894 | French poet |
| George Beadle | 1903–1989 | American geneticist |
Died on 22 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Cézanne | 1839–1906 | French painter |
| Charles Martel | 688–741 | Frankish military and political leader |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | 1893–1986 | Hungarian biochemist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine |
| Louis Althusser | 1918–1990 | French Marxist philosopher |
| Pablo Casals | 1876–1973 | Spanish cellist, conductor and composer |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922–1995 | English novelist, poet, critic and teacher |
| Nadia Boulanger | 1887–1979 | French musician, conductor, and teacher |
| Thomas Mayne Reid | 1818–1883 | Irish-British novelist |
| Ferdinand I of Portugal | 1345–1383 | King of Portugal |
| Andrew Fisher | 1862–1928 | Prime Minister of Australia three times between 1908 and 1915 |
| Ève Curie | 1904–2007 | writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie |
| Lino Ventura | 1919–1987 | Italian actor |
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