♋︎ Cancer

July 12 Zodiac Sign: Cancer — Traits and Famous Birthdays

The July 12 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 17° and 22° of the sign, a range that straddles the second and third decans of Cancer, so the decan depends on the year and the hour.

Michelle Rodriguez, Bill Cosby and Richard Simmons were born on July 12. StarMap has birth charts for 14 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on July 12 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 12, 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 12

Michelle Rodriguez, Bill Cosby and Richard Simmons were born on July 12. StarMap has birth charts for 14 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 (12 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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