The 267th day of the year, the 268th in a leap year
Born on 24 September
In UTC, since 1920, 24 September has been Libra all day in 104 years. In the other 3, 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 35 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 24 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 3 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
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Three late equinoxes
The September equinox has fallen on 24 September only three times since 1920: at 02:04 UTC in 1923, 01:17 UTC in 1927 and 00:23 UTC in 1931, twenty-three minutes after midnight. In those years a birth on 24 September before the crossing was Virgo.
All three are years before a leap year, when the drift has carried the crossing furthest, and each is earlier than the last. After 1931 the September equinox did not reach the 24th again, and every 24 September birthday since 1932 has been Libra from its first minute in UTC. In 1931 the 00:23 UTC crossing was 20:23 on 23 September in New York.
Further east the date began before some crossings of the 23rd. In 35 years an equinox on 23 September in UTC fell on 24 September somewhere whose clocks were ahead of Greenwich: in 1935 the equinox at 23:38 UTC on the 23rd was 08:38 on 24 September in Tokyo, so a Tokyo birth that morning before 08:38 was Virgo.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 24 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 24 September 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 Virgo, after it Libra. To read one of these times on your own clock on 24 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 24 September — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 24 September that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1921: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 14:20 UTC
- 1922: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 20:10 UTC
- 1925: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 13:43 UTC
- 1926: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 19:27 UTC
- 1929: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 12:52 UTC
- 1930: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 18:36 UTC
- 1933: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 12:01 UTC
- 1934: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 17:45 UTC
- 1935: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 23:38 UTC
- 1937: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 11:13 UTC
- 1938: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 17:00 UTC
- 1939: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 22:49 UTC
- 1942: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 16:17 UTC
- 1943: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 22:11 UTC
- 1946: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 15:41 UTC
- 1947: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 21:29 UTC
- 1950: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 14:44 UTC
- 1951: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 20:37 UTC
- 1954: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 13:56 UTC
- 1955: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 19:41 UTC
- 1958: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 13:09 UTC
- 1959: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 19:08 UTC
- 1962: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 12:36 UTC
- 1963: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 18:23 UTC
- 1966: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 11:43 UTC
- 1967: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 17:38 UTC
- 1971: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 16:45 UTC
- 1975: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 15:55 UTC
- 1979: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 15:17 UTC
- 1983: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 14:42 UTC
- 1987: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 13:45 UTC
- 1991: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 12:48 UTC
- 1995: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 12:13 UTC
- 1999: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 11:32 UTC
- 2003: the sun entered Libra on 23 September, 10:47 UTC
Which weekday 24 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 24 September falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
Showing 24 September in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 24 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,958 babies were born on 24 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 3rd 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896–1940 | American writer |
| Konstantin Chernenko | 1911–1985 | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| İsmet İnönü | 1884–1973 | President of Turkey from 1938 to 1950 |
| Gerolamo Cardano | 1501–1576 | Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer |
| Horace Walpole | 1717–1797 | English writer and politician |
| Howard Florey | 1898–1968 | Australian pathologist |
| Severo Ochoa | 1905–1993 | Spanish physician |
| Jim Henson | 1936–1990 | American puppeteer |
| John Arne Riise | 1980– | Norwegian association football player |
| John Young | 1930–2018 | American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer |
| André Frédéric Cournand | 1895–1988 | French physiologist |
| Albrecht von Wallenstein | 1583–1634 | Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War |
| John Marshall | 1755–1835 | chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835 |
| Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 1878–1947 | Swiss writer |
| Mikhail Ostrogradsky | 1801–1862 | Ukrainian mathematician |
| Linda McCartney | 1941–1998 | American photographer, musician and animal rights activist |
| Marco Tardelli | 1954– | Italian footballer |
| Oriol Romeu | 1991– | Spanish association football player |
Died on 24 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Paracelsus | 1493–1541 | Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist |
| Françoise Sagan | 1935–2004 | French writer |
| Pepin the Short | died 768 | King of the Franks from 751 to 768 |
| Pedro I of Brazil | 1798–1834 | Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826 |
| Pope Liberius | 310–366 | Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366 |
| Dr. Seuss | 1904–1991 | American children's author and cartoonist |
| Pope Innocent II | died 1143 | Pope from 1130 to 1143 |
| Manuel I Komnenos | 1118–1180 | Byzantine Emperor |
| Niels Ryberg Finsen | 1860–1904 | Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent |
| Hans Geiger | 1882–1945 | German physicist |
| Alexander Radishchev | 1749–1802 | 18th century Russian author and social critic |
| Erik of Pomerania | 1381–1459 | Ruler of the Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1396 to 1439 |
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