What zodiac sign is August 27?

August 27 is Virgo

Exact sign finder

August 27 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: early Virgo

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

August 27 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

• Virgo reference
• Virgo compatibility

Born at this point in Virgo season

Born in the early part of Virgo, this person carries a habit of noticing small problems before anyone else does. Lists, schedules and loose ends catch their eye. Sometimes that care turns into fussing over details that matter less than they seemed. Being the one who checks the work can feel lonely, and this person has to learn when to let something be good enough.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on August 27

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher and theologian
• Ivan Franko (1856–1916), Ukrainian poet and writer
• Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951), vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
• Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist and journalist
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), German chemical engineer
• Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), president of the United States from 1963 to 1969
• Cesária Évora (1941–2011), Cape Verdean singer-songwriter
• Sebastian Kurz (1986), Chancellor of Austria (2017–2019, 2020–2021)

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

August 27 in history

Observed on this date:

• Independence Day (Republic of Moldova), celebrates the independence of Moldova from the USSR in 1991.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas, United States)

Events on August 27:

• 410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
• 1927: Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
• 1956: The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
• 1985: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-51-I to deploy three communication satellites and repair a fourth malfunctioning one.
• 2003: The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

How the answer was worked out

Each year's sign, for the years from 1930 through 2030, was read from the Sun's tropical longitude on August 27 at noon UTC, as calculated by Astronomy Engine.¹ How the Machine works

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is August 27?

Over the 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030, August 27 is Virgo each time, with the Sun counted at noon UTC.

Is August 27 on a zodiac cusp?

No. The noon Sun fell in Virgo on each August 27 from 1930 to 2030, with every August 27 at least 3 days from the nearest sign boundary.

What decan is August 27?

Its face ruler in the Chaldean order is the Sun, because August 27 is in the first decan of Virgo (0°–10°) in every sampled year.

What is the birthday number for August 27?

Using the modern numerology method, August 27 shows day number 9 and month-day number 8, each obtained by digit addition.