What zodiac sign is July 11?

July 11 is Cancer

Exact sign finder

July 11 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: middle Cancer

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

July 11 by the numbers

Digit sums as numerology guides give them.⁴

Where the date falls in the season

Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.²

• Cancer reference
• Cancer compatibility

Born at this point in Cancer season

Born on July 11, this person arrives in the middle of Cancer, when the season's first warmth has settled into steady daily care. Feelings here are less a surprise and more a habit of looking after others. Much of the work is small and repeated: remembering who needs a call, keeping the kitchen stocked, showing up on time. The challenge is that this steadiness can slip into holding everything alone, and asking for help feels like admitting the cupboard is bare.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on July 11

• Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), King of Scotland
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
• James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), American painter
• Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002), Soviet and Russian physicist
• Yul Brynner (1920–1985), Russian-born American actor
• Giorgio Armani (1934–2025), Italian fashion designer
• Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), American author of Indian origin
• Caroline Wozniacki (1990), Danish tennis player

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

July 11 in history

Observed on this date:

• China National Maritime Day (China)
• Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)
• Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
• Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
• National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic committed by Ukrainian Nationalists (Poland, established by the 22 July 2016 resolution of Sejm in reference to the July 11, 1943 Volhynian Bloody Sunday)
• Gospel Day (Kiribati)
• National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)
• The first day of Naadam (July 11–15) (Mongolia)
• World Population Day (International)
• International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, established by the U.N. in May 2024.

Events on July 11:

• 813: Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
• 1801: French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
• 1914: Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
• 1960: France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.
• 2021: Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.

How the answer was worked out

The Sun's tropical longitude on July 11 at noon UTC was calculated with Astronomy Engine for each year from 1930 through 2030, and the sign of each year was read from it.¹ How the Machine works

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is July 11?

Among 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030, July 11 is Cancer in every case, counting the Sun at noon UTC.

Is July 11 on a zodiac cusp?

No. The noon position of the Sun was Cancer on every July 11 from 1930 to 2030, with July 11 at least 10 days from the nearest change of sign.

What decan is July 11?

Its face ruler in the Chaldean order is Mercury, because July 11 is in the second decan of Cancer (10°–20°) in every sampled year.

What is the birthday number for July 11?

Both the day number 11 and the month-day number 9 assigned to July 11 in modern numerology are found by adding digits.