366 days of the year · Swiss Ephemeris
Born on June 17: Gemini
Quick facts
- Sign
- ♊︎ Gemini
- Element
- Air
- Modality
- Mutable
- Ruler
- Mercury
- Decan
- Decan 3 · Uranus
- Sun degree
- 26° Gemini (noon, averaged over the years)
- Birthday number
- 8
- Day 168 of the year
Gemini, decan 3
Sub-ruler: Uranus
Uranus adds a spark of the unexpected to Gemini curiosity, and the result is an original thinker who is bored by anything that comes with instructions. You see patterns others miss and ask the question nobody thought to ask. Given a problem, you find a side door. Restlessness can look like unreliability to steadier people, especially when you drop a plan the moment it stops being interesting. Finish the dull last ten percent anyway; it is where reputations are made. You need freedom and friendship more than drama in a relationship, and you should say so plainly from the start.
Birthday number 8
Big goals don’t intimidate you; they focus you. This birthday number is linked with authority, organization and the drive to build something substantial, whether that means running a team, a company or a very well organized household. You’re good with resources and comfortable making decisions others avoid. Respect matters to you, and you usually earn it. Watch for the habit of measuring yourself only by results, which can make rest feel like failure. Success lands better when the people around you are thriving too.
Born in June
Long evenings, open windows and the start of summer give June an easy, sociable mood, and its people tend to be lively company. Gemini rules the first three weeks with quick talk and quicker ideas; Cancer begins at the summer solstice near the 21st and softens things with loyalty, memory and a strong sense of home. The pearl is June’s birthstone, the only gem made by a living creature, long tied to purity and wisdom gained slowly. Roses, the birth flower, hardly need explaining: love, in every shade. June-born friends often mix a playful surface with real depth underneath.
Famous people born on June 17
- Igor Stravinsky (1882)Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
- Venus Williams (1980)American tennis player (born 1980)
- Edward I of England (1239)King of England from 1272 to 1307
- M. C. Escher (1898)Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
- Mohamed ElBaradei (1942)Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace…
- Carl XII of Sweden (1682)The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)
- Martin Bormann (1900)German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)
- Charles Gounod (1818)French composer (1818–1893)
Source: Wikidata (CC0); ranked by the number of Wikipedia languages.
Most compatible signs for Gemini
Frequently asked questions
What zodiac sign is June 17?
People born on June 17 are Gemini (May 21 – June 20). Element: Air; ruling planet: Mercury.
What are people born on June 17 like?
They are born in decan 3 of Gemini, sub-ruled by Uranus. Uranus adds a spark of the unexpected to Gemini curiosity, and the result is an original thinker who is bored by anything that comes with instructions. You see patterns others miss and ask the question nobody thought to ask. Given a problem, you find a side door. Restlessness can look like unreliability to steadier people, especially when you drop a plan the moment it stops being interesting. Finish the dull last ten percent anyway; it is where reputations are made. You need freedom and friendship more than drama in a relationship, and you should say so plainly from the start.
Which famous people were born on June 17?
Well-known people born on June 17 include Igor Stravinsky, Venus Williams, Edward I of England, M. C. Escher, Mohamed ElBaradei.
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The sign is computed from the Sun's position at noon (UTC) for the years 1940–2030; on cusp dates the exact sign depends on the birth time. Decan and numerology readings are traditional symbolic descriptions.