♋︎ Cancer

July 3 Zodiac Sign: Cancer — Traits and Famous Birthdays

The July 3 zodiac sign is Cancer, a cardinal water sign. The Sun is in Cancer on this date in every year from 1900 to 2026, in every time zone, between 9° and 13° of the sign, a range that straddles the first and second decans of Cancer, so the decan depends on the year and the hour.

Julian Assange, Tom Cruise and Folarin Balogun were born on July 3. StarMap has birth charts for 13 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on July 3 stand differently in every year and at every hour: see the sky on this date for a year, a time and a place of your choosing, drawn as a star map.

Cancer traits

Born on July 3, your Sun is in Cancer. You protect. Home, memory and the people you have decided are yours sit at the centre of your life, and you read a room before anyone speaks. Your strength is care; your task is to include yourself in it.

Your Sun sign is one part of a chart. The Moon and the rising sign, which need the time and place of birth, say as much about you. StarMap is for entertainment and self-reflection.

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Famous birthdays on July 3

Julian Assange, Tom Cruise and Folarin Balogun were born on July 3. StarMap has birth charts for 13 people born on this date, the best known first.

Signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, for every year from 1900 to 2026. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata. A sign is shown beside a name only when it holds for the whole of the birth date; where it does not, both possibilities are given. How to read a birth chart.

Photo credits (13 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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