What zodiac sign is October 27?

October 27 is Scorpio

Exact sign finder

October 27 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: early Scorpio

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

October 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

• Scorpio reference
• Scorpio compatibility

Born at this point in Scorpio season

This person was born early in Scorpio, in the first stretch of the sign where autumn is still settling in. Water and fixed qualities suggest feelings that hold their shape once formed. Mars, the ruler of this first decan, adds a push toward acting on what matters. A familiar scene is a hard conversation at a kitchen table, where the words were honest but landed sharper than meant. The drive arrives first, and the patience to soften it usually comes later.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on October 27

• Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), Italian violinist and composer
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
• Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer
• Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021), Egyptian feminist writer
• Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet and writer
• John Cleese (1939), English comedian and actor
• Roberto Benigni (1952), Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director
• Francis Fukuyama (1952), American political scientist, political economist, and author

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

October 27 in history

Observed on this date:

• Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)
• Flag Day (Greece)
• Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.
• International Religious Freedom Day (United States)
• National Black Cat Day (United Kingdom)
• Navy Day (United States) (unofficial, official date is October 13)
• World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Events on October 27:

• 312: Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
• 1726: J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata.
• 1924: The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 2017: Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

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 October 27 at noon UTC, as calculated by Astronomy Engine.¹ How the Machine works

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is October 27?

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

Is October 27 on a zodiac cusp?

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

What decan is October 27?

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

What is the birthday number for October 27?

Using the modern numerology method, October 27 shows day number 9 and month-day number 1, each obtained by digit addition.