The 265th day of the year, the 266th in a leap year
Born on 22 September
In UTC, since 1920, 22 September has been Virgo all day in 84 years. In the other 23, the sun moved from Virgo into Libra during the day, so a birthday then is Virgo or Libra depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 49 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 September by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Virgo or LibraThe sun changed sign on this date in 23 of 107 years.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The September equinox, a day early
The September equinox, when the sun enters Libra and crosses the celestial equator heading south, came on 22 September for the first time in the period in 1968, at 23:26 UTC. It returned in every leap year after that, and since 1996 in the year after as well: in 2024 at 12:44 UTC and in 2025 at 18:20 UTC.
In the other 84 years from 1920 to 2026 a 22 September birthday was Virgo all day in UTC. For a birth on 22 September 2024, the equinox at 12:44 UTC was 14:44 in Johannesburg and 08:44 in New York, so a birth in either city that afternoon is Libra. Before 1968 every 22 September birthday was Virgo from its first minute to its last in UTC.
In 2026 the equinox came just after midnight on the 23rd, at 00:06 UTC, which was still 22 September further west: 20:06 in New York. The calculator above settles it for your own time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 September in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Virgo into Libra at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 22 September that instant has fallen inside the day in 23 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Virgo, after it Libra. To read one of these times on your own clock on 22 September, 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 Libra 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 September — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 September that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 08:28 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 07:59 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 07:05 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:16 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 05:26 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 11:13 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 04:46 UTC
- 1941: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 10:33 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 04:02 UTC
- 1945: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:49 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 03:22 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:06 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 02:24 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 08:06 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 01:35 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 07:26 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 00:59 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:42 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 00:17 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:06 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 11:43 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 05:07 UTC
- 1970: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 10:59 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 04:21 UTC
- 1974: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:59 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 03:29 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:26 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 03:05 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 08:46 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 02:08 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 07:59 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 01:20 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:56 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 00:22 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:20 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 05:38 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 04:56 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 10:47 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 04:04 UTC
- 2007: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:51 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 03:09 UTC
- 2011: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 09:05 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 02:29 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 08:21 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 01:54 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 07:50 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 01:04 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 06:50 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 00:06 UTC
Which weekday 22 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 September falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 22 September in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,932 babies were born on 22 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 12th 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Faraday | 1791–1867 | British scientist |
| Andrea Bocelli | 1958– | Italian tenor and singer-songwriter |
| Ségolène Royal | 1953– | French politician |
| Wilhelm Keitel | 1882–1946 | German field marshal |
| Saul Perlmutter | 1959– | American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate |
| Thiago Silva | 1984– | Brazilian association football player |
| Peter Simon Pallas | 1741–1811 | German zoologist and botanist |
| Anne of Cleves | 1515–1557 | Queen consort of England |
| Tom Felton | 1987– | British actor, singer and musician |
| Junko Tabei | 1939–2016 | Japanese mountain climber |
| Anne of Austria | 1601–1666 | queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII, and regent for her son Louis XIV |
| Nick Cave | 1957– | Australian musician and singer |
| Joan Jett | 1958– | American rock musician |
| Paul Muni | 1895–1967 | Austrian-born American stage and film actor |
| Algirdas Brazauskas | 1932–2010 | Lithuanian politician |
| Maarten Stekelenburg | 1982– | Dutch footballer |
| Anna Karina | 1940–2019 | Danish-French actress |
| David Coverdale | 1951– | English rock singer |
Died on 22 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Guru Nanak | 1469–1539 | First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism |
| Selim I | 1470–1520 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520 |
| Frederick Soddy | 1877–1956 | English radiochemist |
| Pope Felix IV | died 530 | Pope and bishop of Rome from 526 to 530 |
| Pope Clement XIV | 1705–1774 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774 |
| Irving Berlin | 1888–1989 | American composer and lyricist |
| George C. Scott | 1927–1999 | American actor, film director and producer |
| Vladimir Dal | 1801–1872 | Russian lexicographer; died 22 September in the Julian calendar, which is 4 October in the Gregorian |
| Marcel Marceau | 1923–2007 | French actor and mime artist |
| Hilary Mantel | 1952–2022 | British writer |
| Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | 1865–1952 | President of Finland |
| Dōgen | 1200–1253 | Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher |
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