The 264th day of the year, the 265th in a leap year
Born on 21 September
Every 21 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 21 September in any year.
Which weekday 21 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 21 September falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 21 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,913 babies were born on 21 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 17th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 21 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| H. G. Wells | 1866–1946 | English writer |
| Shinzo Abe | 1954–2022 | Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020 |
| Kwame Nkrumah | 1909–1972 | Ghanaian politician |
| Stephen King | 1947– | American novelist and writer |
| Leonard Cohen | 1934–2016 | Canadian singer, songwriter and poet |
| Abdul Hamid II | 1842–1918 | 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876–1909) |
| Kevin Rudd | 1957– | Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and in 2013 |
| Kareena Kapoor | 1980– | Indian actress |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | 1853–1926 | Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner |
| Bill Murray | 1950– | American actor and comedian |
| Girolamo Savonarola | 1452–1498 | Italian Dominican friar and preacher |
| Donald Glaser | 1926–2013 | American physicist and neurobiologist |
| Pope Vitalian | 600–672 | 7th-century pope |
| Charles Nicolle | 1866–1936 | French microbiologist |
| Aslan Maskhadov | 1951–2005 | Chechen warlord and politician |
| Murad V | 1840–1904 | 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
| Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor | 1415–1493 | Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493) |
| Yury Luzhkov | 1936–2019 | Russian politician |
Died on 21 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Virgil | 70–19 BC | Roman poet (1st century BC) |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788–1860 | German philosopher |
| Walter Scott | 1771–1832 | Scottish novelist, poet and playwright |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | 1500–1558 | Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 |
| Gerolamo Cardano | 1501–1576 | Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer |
| Edward II | 1284–1327 | King of England from 1307 to 1327 |
| Pope Conon | 630–687 | Pope from 686 to 687 |
| Haakon VII | 1872–1957 | King of Norway from 1905 to 1957 |
| Trần Đại Quang | 1956–2018 | President of Vietnam from 2016 to 2018 |
| Ivan Mazepa | 1639–1709 | Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate from 1687 to 1709; died 21 September in the Julian calendar, which is 2 October in the Gregorian |
| Arthur Ashkin | 1922–2020 | American physicist |
| Bernardo Houssay | 1887–1971 | Argentine physician |
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