The 297th day of the year, the 298th in a leap year
Born on 24 October
In UTC, since 1920, 24 October has been Scorpio all day in 85 years. In the other 22, 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 57 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 24 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 22 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
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
A Scorpio date since 1980
The sun last entered Scorpio on 24 October, in UTC, in 1979, at 00:28 UTC. Between 1922 and 1979 it did so 22 times, always in the morning and always in the one or two years before a leap year: at 10:51 UTC in 1923, the latest, and at 06:26 UTC in 1947.
Since 1980 every 24 October birthday has been Scorpio from the first minute in UTC, which is what printed tables say of every 24 October. It is the earlier years that need the time: a birth on 24 October 1947 before 06:26 UTC was Libra. In 1975 the crossing came at 01:06 UTC, which was 21:06 on 23 October in New York.
East of Greenwich the date also catches crossings from the evening before. In 57 years a crossing late on 23 October in UTC fell on 24 October somewhere whose clocks were ahead of Greenwich: in 1983 the sun entered Scorpio at 23:54 UTC, which was 01:54 on 24 October in Johannesburg and 09:54 in Sydney.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 24 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 24 October that instant has fallen inside the day in 22 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 24 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 24 October — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 24 October that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:13 UTC
- 1921: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 23:02 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 16:45 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 22:31 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 15:54 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 21:41 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 15:04 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:48 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 14:18 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:06 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 13:39 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 19:27 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 12:56 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 18:43 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 12:18 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 18:03 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 23:45 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:22 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:06 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 22:57 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 16:24 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 22:11 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 15:47 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 21:41 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 15:10 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:51 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 14:11 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:05 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 13:30 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 19:11 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 12:41 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 18:38 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 12:13 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:58 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 23:54 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:22 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:14 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 23:01 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:35 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 16:14 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 22:05 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 15:36 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 21:32 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 14:59 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:53 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 14:18 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 20:09 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 13:27 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 19:15 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 12:35 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 18:31 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:57 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:47 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 11:22 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 17:20 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 10:36 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Scorpio on 23 October, 16:21 UTC
Which weekday 24 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 24 October falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 24 October in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 24 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,818 babies were born on 24 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 160th 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 24 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 1632–1723 | Dutch microbiologist and microscopist |
| Wayne Rooney | 1985– | English footballer and manager |
| James II of England | 1633–1701 | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688; born 24 October in the Gregorian calendar, 14 October in the Julian |
| Drake | 1986– | Canadian and American rapper, singer, and actor |
| PewDiePie | 1989– | Swedish YouTuber |
| Malcolm Turnbull | 1954– | Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018 |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | 1804–1891 | German physicist |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | 1932–2007 | French physicist |
| William Penn | 1644–1718 | English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania; born 24 October in the Gregorian calendar, 14 October in the Julian |
| F. Murray Abraham | 1939– | American actor |
| Kevin Kline | 1947– | American actor |
| İlkay Gündoğan | 1990– | German footballer |
| Roman Abramovich | 1966– | Russian-Israeli businessman and politician |
| Ding Liren | 1992– | Chinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion |
| Rafael Trujillo | 1891–1961 | President of the Dominican Republic |
| Stephen Covey | 1932–2012 | American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker |
| Robert Mundell | 1932–2021 | Canadian economist |
| Isabella of Portugal | 1503–1539 | 16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain |
Died on 24 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Rosa Parks | 1913–2005 | civil rights activist |
| Tycho Brahe | 1546–1601 | Danish astronomer and alchemist |
| Hugh Capet | 940–996 | King of the Franks |
| Vidkun Quisling | 1887–1945 | Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator |
| John McCarthy | 1927–2011 | American computer scientist and cognitive scientist |
| Jane Seymour | 1508–1537 | third wife of Henry VIII of England |
| Gene Roddenberry | 1921–1991 | American television screenwriter and producer |
| Pierre Gassendi | 1592–1655 | French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist |
| Fats Domino | 1928–2017 | American pianist and singer |
| G. E. Moore | 1873–1958 | English philosopher |
| Maureen O'Hara | 1920–2015 | Irish–American actress and singer |
| Jackie Robinson | 1919–1972 | American baseball player |
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