January 1 zodiac sign, birthday facts & famous birthdays
If your birthday is January 1, your zodiac sign is Capricorn ♑, your birthstone is Garnet and your birth flower is Carnation or Snowdrop. You share your birthday with J. D. Salinger and Pierre de Coubertin.
- Zodiac sign
- ♑ Capricorn
- Element
- Earth
- Ruling planet
- Saturn
- Birthstone
- Garnet
- Birth flower
- Carnation, Snowdrop
- Day of year
- 1st
- Popularity
- 365th of 366
- Half birthday
- July 1
- Next January 1
- January 1
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January 1 zodiac: Capricorn ♑
People born on January 1 fall under Capricorn, the 10th sign of the zodiac, which covers birthdays from December 22 to January 19. Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn, and its symbol is the sea-goat.
Capricorn is an earth sign ruled by Saturn and associated with ambition, structure and long-term goals. The Sea-Goat is described as climbing steadily toward the top, one careful step at a time.
Famous people born on January 1
Well-known people who celebrate their birthday on January 1, ranked by how widely they are covered on Wikipedia.
- Born 1919American author (1919–2010)
- Born 1863Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
- Born 1944President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019
- Born 1956President of the European Central Bank
- Born 1879English novelist (1879-1970)
- Born 1894Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
- Born 1909Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
- Born 1942President of Ivory Coast since 2010
- Born 1972French footballer (born 1972)
- Born 1864African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
- Born 1944President of Bangladesh in 2013-2023
- Born 1854Scottish social anthropologist (1854–1941)
- Born 1968Croatian footballer
- Born 1895American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
- Born 1992English association football player (born 1992)
- Born 1952Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
- Born 1946Brazilian association football player and manager
- Born 1975Japanese manga artist
- Born 1849Egyptian Islamic jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)
- Born 1979Indian film actress
- Born 1969American actor (1969-2018)
- Born 1924Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
- Born 1927French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer (1927–2007)
- Born 1952President of Niger from 2011 to 2021
- Born 1881King of Siam from 1910 to 1925
- Born 1941English developmental biologist
- Born 1986Ukrainian writer and activist
- Born 1895Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974)
- Born 1930Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)
- Born 19387th President of the Republic of Iraq
- Born 1900Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)
- Born 1924French historian (1924-2014)
- Born 1768Irish writer (1768-1849)
- Born 1921Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (1921–1986)
- Born 1982Argentine tennis player (1982-)
- Born 1927American economist
- Born 1960President of Niger from 2021 to 2023
- Born 1995Iranian association football player
- Born 1933Japanese association football player (1933–2003)
- Born 1923Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)
January 1 birthstone
Garnet (deep red). Garnet has long been linked with friendship, trust and protection, and travellers once carried it for safety.
January 1 birthday facts
- January 1 is the 1st day of the year (1st in leap years), leaving 364 days until the end of the year.
- January 1 is the 365th most common birthday in the U.S., with about 7,827 babies born on an average January 1(30% fewer than a typical day).
- In the Northern Hemisphere, January 1 birthdays fall in winter. In the Southern Hemisphere they fall in summer.
- Babies born on January 1 were most likely conceived around April 10 of the previous year (about 38 weeks earlier).
- Your half birthday is July 1, six months after January 1.
- January 1 always falls before Chinese New Year, so your Chinese zodiac animal is the one for the year before your birth year.
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Frequently asked questions
What zodiac sign is January 1?
January 1 falls under Capricorn ♑, which runs from December 22 to January 19.
What is the birthstone for January 1?
The birthstone for January 1 is Garnet, the January birthstone. The January birth flowers are Carnation and Snowdrop.
Who are famous people born on January 1?
Famous people born on January 1 include J. D. Salinger (1919), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Omar al-Bashir (1944), Christine Lagarde (1956), E. M. Forster (1879), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894).
How common is a January 1 birthday?
January 1 is the 365th most common birthday out of 366, based on U.S. births from 1994 to 2014, with about 7,827 babies born on an average January 1.
What day of the year is January 1?
January 1 is the 1st day of the year in common years and the 1st day in leap years.