The 296th day of the year, the 297th in a leap year
Born on 23 October
In UTC, since 1920, 23 October has been Libra all day in 22 years and Scorpio all day in 3 years. In the other 82, 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 25 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 23 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 82 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
- Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The usual first day of Scorpio
23 October is Scorpio's usual first day: between 1920 and 2026 the sun entered Scorpio on it, in UTC, in 82 years. The 2026 crossing is at 09:38 UTC on 23 October. The crossing fell on this date in every year from 1980 to 2015.
That moment is 10:38 in London, which is still on summer time, 11:38 in Johannesburg and 20:38 in Sydney, where daylight saving has begun, so a Sydney birth on the evening of 23 October 2026 is Scorpio and one that morning Libra.
The exceptions have changed ends. Until 1979 the crossing sometimes waited for the 24th, in 22 years, leaving 23 October Libra all day; in 2016, 2020 and 2024 it came late on the 22nd, and 23 October was Scorpio from its first minute. The times in between have run from 00:13 UTC in 2012 to 23:54 UTC in 1983. In 2025 the crossing came at 03:51 UTC, 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 23 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 23 October that instant has fallen inside the day in 82 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 23 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 23 October — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 23 October that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1922: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 04:53 UTC
- 1923: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 10:51 UTC
- 1926: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 04:18 UTC
- 1927: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 10:07 UTC
- 1930: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 03:27 UTC
- 1931: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 09:15 UTC
- 1934: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 02:36 UTC
- 1935: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 08:29 UTC
- 1938: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 01:54 UTC
- 1939: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 07:46 UTC
- 1942: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 01:15 UTC
- 1943: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 07:08 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 00:35 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 06:26 UTC
- 1951: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 05:36 UTC
- 1955: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 04:43 UTC
- 1959: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 04:11 UTC
- 1963: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 03:29 UTC
- 1967: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 02:44 UTC
- 1971: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 01:53 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 01:06 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Scorpio on 24 October, 00:28 UTC
- 2016: the sun entered Scorpio on 22 October, 23:45 UTC
- 2020: the sun entered Scorpio on 22 October, 23:00 UTC
- 2024: the sun entered Scorpio on 22 October, 22:15 UTC
Which weekday 23 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 23 October falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 23 October in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 23 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,801 babies were born on 23 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 200th 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pelé | 1940–2022 | Brazilian footballer |
| Paul Kagame | 1957– | President of Rwanda since 2000 |
| Emilia Clarke | 1986– | British actress |
| "Weird Al" Yankovic | 1959– | American comedy musician |
| Ryan Reynolds | 1976– | Canadian-American actor |
| Masiela Lusha | 1985– | Albanian American actress and author |
| Michael Crichton | 1942–2008 | American author, screenwriter, film director |
| Ang Lee | 1954– | Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer |
| Felix Bloch | 1905–1983 | Swiss physicist |
| Ilya Frank | 1908–1990 | Soviet physicist |
| Álvaro Morata | 1992– | Spanish footballer |
| Gilbert N. Lewis | 1875–1946 | American physical chemist |
| Gianni Rodari | 1920–1980 | Italian writer and journalist |
| Sam Raimi | 1959– | American filmmaker |
| Zhu Rongji | 1928–2026 | 5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003 |
| Johnny Carson | 1925–2005 | American talk show host and comedian |
| Margaret Qualley | 1994– | American actress and model |
| Prabhas | 1979– | Indian film actor |
Died on 23 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Théophile Gautier | 1811–1872 | French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic |
| Charles Barkla | 1877–1944 | English physicist |
| Marcus Junius Brutus | 85–42 BC | assassin of Julius Caesar |
| Chulalongkorn | 1853–1910 | King of Siam |
| Franz Bopp | 1791–1867 | German linguist |
| Edward Adelbert Doisy | 1893–1986 | American biochemist |
| Herbert A. Hauptman | 1917–2011 | American mathematician |
| Soong Mei-ling | 1898–2003 | Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China |
| Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | 1799–1869 | British politician |
| John Boyd Dunlop | 1840–1921 | Scottish inventor |
| Marco Simoncelli | 1987–2011 | Italian motorcycle racer |
| Al Jolson | 1886–1950 | American entertainer, actor, and singer |
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