AstroDataBlog: March 2013

Friday 29 March 2013

William Emerson, 1701-1782 (Mathematician)

* William Emerson's father wrote in his old Prayer-book that the future mathematician "was born, Wednesday, May 14, at one o'clock in the morning and 40 minutes."

William Emerson (14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782), English mathematician, was born at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school. William himself had a small estate in Weardale called Castle Gate situated not far from Eastgate where he would repair to work throughout the Summer on projects as disparate as stonemasonry and watchmaking. Unsuccessful as a teacher, he devoted himself entirely to studious retirement. Possessed of remarkable energy and forthrightness of speech, Emerson published many works which are singularly free from errata.

In The Principles of Mechanics (1754) he shows a wind-powered vehicle in which the vertically-mounted propeller gives direct power to the front wheels via a system of cogs. In mechanics he never advanced a proposition which he had not previously tested in practice, nor published an invention without first proving its effects by a model. He was skilled in the science of music, the theory of sounds, and the ancient and modern scales; but he never attained any excellence as a performer. He died on 20 May 1782 at his native village, where his gravestone bears epitaphs in Latin and Hebrew.

Emerson dressed in old clothes and his manners were uncouth. He wore his shirt back to front and his legs wrapped in sacking so as not to scorch them as he sat over the fire. He declined an offer to become FRS because it would cost too much after all the expense of farthing candles he had been put to in the course of his life of study. Emerson rode regularly into Darlington on a horse like Don Quixote's, led by a hired small boy. In old age, plagued by the stone, he would alternately pray and curse, wishing his soul 'could shake off the rags of mortality without such a clitter-me-clatter.'

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo source: unknown.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

We expect abstract Neptune, Pisces and the 12th House to be strong in mathematicians' charts. Emerson had a Pisces Ascendant with Jupiter in Pisces in the 12th House ruled by Neptune at the apex of a T-square. His Piscean Jupiter rules the Sagittarius MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 14 May 1701, 01:40 (1:40 a.m.) LMT (0:06:16), Hurworth-on-Tees, Darlington, England (54n31, 01w34). ASC: 22 Pisces. RR=AA (quoted from father's prayer book). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes The Gentleman's Magazine, 1787, Vol. 57, Part 2, p. 775: "'William Emerson' (one of the greatest mathematicians that this or any other age has produced) 'was born, Wednesday, May 14, at one o'clock in the morning and 40 minutes. Baptized June 10, 1701.' The above was extracted from a vacant page of an old Prayer-book, wherein Dudley Emerson (the father of William) has registerd his marriage, and the births of his several children."

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Newsmaker: Elle Macpherson (Supermodel, businesswoman, actor)

* Born in 1963 or 1964?? Elle Macpherson tweeted today that she is turning 49 yet other accounts claim she is now 50.

Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1963) is an Australian businesswoman, television host, model, and actress. She is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname "The Body". She is also known as the founder primary model and creative director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and The Body, a line of skin care products.

In 2010, she became the host and executive producer of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model. She is currently the host and an executive producer of NBC's Fashion Star.

Van Johnson (Actor, dancer, singer)

* A biographer writes that Van Johnson's birth "took place shortly before dawn on a howling, rainy night."

Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.

Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness (that) made him a popular Hollywood star in the '40s and '50s," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the war years with such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe and The Caine Mutiny. Johnson made occasional World War II movies through the end of the 1960s, and he played a military officer in one of his final feature films, in 1992. At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The birth time I've proposed below gives Virgo Sun ("boy-next-door wholesome star") conjunct and ruling a 29 Leo Ascendant ("red-haired Golden Boy").

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Charles Van Dell Johnson, 25 August 1916, about 04:58 (4:58 a.m.) EST (+5), Newport, Rhode Island, USA (41n29, 71w18). NB: Taking "dawn" to mean sunrise, this proposed birth time is ten minutes before 5:08 a.m. when the Sun reached the Ascendant. ASC: about 29 Leo. RR=B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Ronald L. Davis, Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy (University Press of Mississippi, 2001), p. 8: "their only child, christened Charles Van Dell Johnson, was born at Newport Hospital on August 25, 1916. His birth took place shortly before dawn on a howling, rainy night."

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Thursday 28 March 2013

Stefan Lorant (Filmmaker, photojournalist, author)

* Stefan Lorant's mother wrote in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life.'

Stefan (Istvan) Lorant (February 22, 1901 in Budapest, Hungary - November 14, 1997 in Rochester, Minnesota) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.

After completing high school in his native Hungary in 1919, Lorant moved to Germany, where he made his mark in films and photojournalism. His first film, The Life of Mozart, established him as a filmmaker, and he went on to make 14 films in Vienna and Berlin, some of which he wrote, directed, and photographed. He claimed to have given Marlene Dietrich her first film test, and though he rejected her for the part, they remained lifelong friends. Lorant's abilities in writing and still photography led to the editorship of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, one of Germany's finest picture magazines.

Opposed to Adolf Hitler, Lorant was imprisoned right after Hitler came to power. Released after six months, he made his way to England, where he wrote I Was Hitler's Prisoner, a memoir that sold out many printings. He edited the Weekly Illustrated, a popular British picture magazine, then founded Lilliput, made famous by his clever picture juxtapositions, as in Neville Chamberlain versus the llama. On October 1, 1938, Lorant co-founded with publisher Sir Edward G. Hulton the first great British picture magazine, Picture Post. During this time, Lorant published a Picture Post Special about the United States.

Failing to obtain British citizenship, Lorant moved to Lenox, Massachusetts in July 1940, where he lived the remainder of his life. Tom Hopkinson succeeded Lorant as editor of Picture Post.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

A mutual reception between Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Gemini could not be more apt for the "godfather of photojournalism."

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 22 February 1901, 06:00 (6 a.m.) CET (-1), Budapest, Hungary (47n30, 19e05). ASC: 13 Aquarius. RR=AA (from mother's prayer book). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Michael Hallett, Stefan Lorant: Godfather of Photojournalism (Scarecrow Press, 2006), pp. 4 & 14: "I [Stefan] was born in Budapest." & "Stefan's mother made the following handwritten entries in Hungarian in her Jewish prayer book: 'Stefan our Son born 1901, February 22nd, 6.00 a.m. God's Blessing should accompany his dear life. Our Son Imre born 1902, October 3rd, 7.00 pm. The eternal's blessing should be with him during his long life. Our Son George born 1905, September 3rd, 11.00 a.m. He should develop in mind and strength to become a smart man to bring us maximum happiness.'"

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Brandon Thomas, 1848–1914 (Actor, playwright, songwriter)

* Brandon Thomas's father recorded his time of birth in the family Pedigree Book.

Walter Brandon Thomas (24 December 1848 – 19 June 1914) was an English actor, playwright and song writer, best known as the author of the farce Charley's Aunt.

Born in Liverpool to a family with no theatrical connections, Thomas worked in commerce, and as an occasional journalist, before achieving his ambition of becoming an actor. After a succession of minor roles, he became increasingly sought after as a character actor. He also wrote more than a dozen plays, the most celebrated of which, Charley's Aunt (1892), broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances and numerous subsequent productions all around the world, film and musical theatre adaptations.

Although Thomas never repeated the prodigious success of Charley's Aunt, he maintained a career as an actor and dramatist until his death, acting mostly in comedy, but with occasional serious roles in the plays of Shakespeare and others.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo credit: Cartoon of Brandon Thomas from: "The Call Boy", Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, March 1893, p. 100.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Brandon's signature play, Charley's Aunt, broke all historic records for plays of any kind. He had record-breaking Jupiter in dramatic Leo at the tail of a Kite pattern and as a Bucket handle or lead planet in a Locomotive shape.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 24 December 1848, 23:30 (11:30 p.m.) GMT (+0), Liverpool, England (53n25, 02w55). ASC: 25 Virgo. RR=AA (from quoted birth records). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jevan Brandon-Thomas, Charley's Aunt's Father: A Life of Brandon Thomas (London: Douglas Saunders with MacGibbon & Kee, 1955), p. 11: "Walter Brandon Thomas was born at 101 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, at 11.30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 1848. Having duly recorded the fact in the official Birth Register and in the family Pedigree Book, Brandon's father indulged his love of the picturesque by proclaiming the more attractive anniversary Christmas Day as his son's birthday."

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Wednesday 27 March 2013

Newsmaker: Nick d'Aloisio (Flat data, noon Astrology chart)

* I've found the Times birth notice for Nick D'Aloisio, the British-Australian entrepreneur, computer programmer and designer who has become known for the creation of Summly and its technology. No birth time yet, sorry.

Nick D'Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology at just 15 years of age. D'Aloisio's business partners include Li Ka-Shing, Rupert Murdoch, Ashton Kutcher, Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono and Mark Pincus, among others.

D'Aloisio grew up in London, United Kingdom, attending King's College School, in Wimbledon where he received an Academic Scholarship. D'Aloisio received his first computer at 9 and used it to create movies with editing tools such as Final Cut Pro. D'Aloisio began writing apps at the age of 12 in 2008. He is still based in London. His mother Diana D'Aloisio is a lawyer and his father works in commodities.

D'Aloisio was born in Australia in 1996, with his parents Diana and Lou. He lived in both Melbourne and Perth. D'Aloisio created the Trimit application for iOS in March 2011, which used an analytical tool to condense text content into 1000, 500, or 140-character summary text. The app caught the attention of Apple who featured Trimit as a new and noteworthy application on the App Store in July 2011. The potential of Trimit attracted the attention of Hong Kong based billionaire Li Ka-shing, who provided D'Alosio with US$300,000 in venture capital funding. D'Alosio used the feedback and criticism from Trimit to completely re-design the application, and re-launched it in December 2011, as Summly. As of March 2013 Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars.

Summly aimed to solve perceived problems with the way news articles are presented on smartphones, with initial version of Summly being downloaded by over 200,000 users. As a result of the corporate support, in November, 2012, D'Alosio received US$1,000,000 in new venture funding for Summly from several international celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry, in addition to Hong Kong business mogul Li Ka-shing.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by @Kmeron for LeWeb12 Conference @ Westminster Central Hall - London. Cropped from Nick D’Aloisio, Founder, Summly & Bobbie Johnson.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

This "teen app wizard" is one of the Pluto-in-Scorpio generation with his Pluto in the last degree of Scorpio conjunct Mars in Sagittarius (venture-) and Venus in Scorpio (-capital, funding).

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, 1 November 1995, time unknown, London, England (51n30, 00w10). ASC: Unknown. RR=X (flat data from newspaper birth notice; birth time unknown). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes "Births," Times [London], 7 November 1995, p. 20 (see image below): "D'ALOISIO-MONTILLA - On 1st November, to Diana and Lou, a beautiful son, Nicholas." NB: Place of birth not stated; London presumed. A recent news article gives his full name, parents' names and place of birth as London, but wrong year: "D'Aloisio (full name Nicholas D'Aloisio–Montilla, although he drops the double–barrelled part because D'Aloisio is just, well, cooler) was born in London to expat Australian parents – Lou, a commodities trader, and Diana, a lawyer – in 1996" (Sarah Rainey, "'It was a massive gamble but a good one,'" Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2013).

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Tuesday 26 March 2013

Jacob Schiff, 1847-1920 (Banker, businessman, philanthropist)

* A transcription of Jacob Schiff's birth record includes a birth time of five o'clock in the morning.

Jacob Henry Schiff (born Jakob Heinrich Schiff; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920) was an American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Schiff migrated to the United States after the Civil war, and joined the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. From his base on Wall Street, he was the foremost Jewish leader from 1880 to 1920 in what later became known as the "Schiff era", grappling with all major Jewish issues and problems of the day, including the plight of Russian Jews under the Tsar, American and international anti-semitism, care of needy Jewish immigrants, and the rise of Zionism. He also became the director of many important corporations, including the National City Bank of New York, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Wells Fargo & Company, and the Union Pacific Railroad. In many of his interests he was associated with E.H. Harriman.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Schiff had Chiron, the North Node and Moon all at 23° Libra opposite Pluto and South Node at exactly 23° Aries, so we would expect him to reach a breakthrough at the age of 23 in 1870. This was the year he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Jakob Heinrich Schiff, 10 January 1847, 05:00 (5:00 a.m.) LMT (-0:34:40), Frankfurt, Germany (50n07, 08e40). ASC: 7 Sagittarius. RR=AA (transcribed birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Cyrus Adler and Mortimer L. Schiff, Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters, Vol. 1 (1928) (Kessinger Publishing, 2003), p. 1: "In the Birth Register of the city of Frankfort-on-Main, under the year 1847, there is an entry which reads: Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen and merchant of this city, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, January 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son. Jacob Henry."

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Monday 25 March 2013

Paul Rosbaud (New Astrology data and chart)

* Scientist Paul Rosbaud spied for England during the second world war. Time of birth from his biography, The Griffin.

Paul Rosbaud (18 November 1896 – 28 January 1963), was a metallurgist and scientific adviser for Springer Verlag in Germany before and during World War II. He continued in science publishing after the war with Pergamon Press in Oxford, England. In 1986 Arnold Kramish revealed the undercover work of Paul Rosbaud for England during the war in the book The Griffin. It was Rosbaud that dispelled anxiety over a "German atom bomb".

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

This spy had Leo rising ruled by the Sun in a quadruple Scorpio conjunction.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 18 November 1896, 21:30 (9:30 p.m.) CET (-1), Graz, Austria (47n05, 15e27). ASC: 9 Leo. RR=B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Arnold Kramish, The Griffin (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), p. 6: "The third son was born at half past nine in the evening of November 18, 1896."

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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (New Astrology data and chart)

* Much of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's 18th-century natural classification of flowering plants remains in use today. Data from baptismal certificate.

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on and extended unpublished work by his uncle, the botanist Bernard de Jussieu.

Jussieu was born in Lyon. He went to Paris to study medicine, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes from 1770 to 1826. His son Adrien-Henri also became a botanist. Bust of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu by David d'Angers (1837). Medallion of Jussieu by David d'Angers

In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu adopted a methodology based on the use of multiple characters to define groups, an idea derived from Scottish-French naturalist Michel Adanson. This was a significant improvement over the "artificial" system of Linnaeus, whose most popular work classified plants into classes and orders based on the number of stamens and pistils. Jussieu did keep Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature, resulting in a work that was far-reaching in its impact; many of the present-day plant families are still attributed to Jussieu. Morton's 1981 History of botanical science counts 76 of Jussieu's families conserved in the ICBN, versus just 11 for Linnaeus, for instance. Writing of the natural system, Sydney Howard Vines remarked

"The glory of this crowning achievement belongs to Jussieu: he was the capable man who appeared precisely at the psychological moment, and it is the men that so appear who have made, and will continue to make, all the great generalisations of science."

In 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Portrait from Galerie des naturalistes de J. Pizzetta, Ed. Hennuyer, 1893.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants? Chiron in Virgo almost exactly conjunct and ruling the Virgo Ascendant.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 12 April 1748, 16:00 (4pm) LMT (-0:19:24), Lyon, France (45n45, 04e51). ASC: 23 Virgo. RR=AA (from baptismal certificate quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes a transcription of the birth record in Lyon-revue, Volume 1 (1880), p. 123: "L'an 1748 et le 12 avril a été baptisé à la Platière, Antoine-Laurent, né ce soir à quatre heures, fils légitime de sieur Christophe de Jussieu, maistre apothicaire à Lyon, et de demoiselle Jeanne Pallier."

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Ian Frazer (New Astrology data and chart)

* Scottish-Australian Ian Frazer co-developed and patented the basic technology behind the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. Many thanks to Caroline Gerard for his data from birth certificate.

Ian Hector Frazer, AC (born 6 January 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian Scientist and the CEO and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute. In parallel with researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown University, and University of Rochester, Frazer and his colleagues developed and patented the basic technology behind the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer; the second cancer preventing vaccine, and the first vaccine designed to prevent a cancer. (Two are marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix).

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by Graeme Bartlett.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

The co-developer of a cervical cancer vaccine? Pluto in 8th House square and ruling Scorpio MC.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Ian Hector Frazer, 6 January 1953, 08:25 (8.25 a.m.) GMT (+0), Glasgow, Scotland (55n53, 04w15). ASC: 7 Capricorn. RR=AA (from birth certificate). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Caroline Gerard in an email (10/02/2007) for full name and data from birth certificate.

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Sunday 24 March 2013

Harry Wickwire Foster (News Astrology data and chart)

* Harry Wickwire Foster - who presided over the court martial of Canada’s top prisoner of war - was born shortly after midnight, 2 April 1902, after his father exclaimed to his mother, "Janie! Control yourself. I'll not have our firstborn arrive on April Fools!"

Major General Harry Wickwire Foster, CBE, DSO, (April 2, 1902 – August 6, 1964) was a Canadian Army officer who commanded two Canadian army divisions during World War II. He served in both the Pacific and European theatres.

After the [second world] war, Foster (with four brigadiers) presided over the court martial of Canada’s top prisoner of war, SS General Kurt Meyer. The trial was a showcase for Canada, the first time that the country had conducted an international prosecution of this sort. Meyer was found guilty of three of five charges and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. When asked by his son (author Tony Foster) why the death sentence had been imposed he replied, "Because I had no choice according to those rules of warfare dreamt up by a bunch of bloody barrack-room lawyers who had never heard a shot fired in anger."

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

Photo by IFoster.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

Army officer: angular Mars-Sun in Aries. We also see in this angular conjunction a father who was right on his case from the start.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 2 April 1902, about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) LMT (-4:14:24), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (44n39, 63w36). ASC: about 17 Sagittarius. RR=A (from father's memory quoted in a biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Tony Foster, Meeting of Generals (Toronto: Methuen, 1986), p. 1: "Harry Wickwire Foster was born shortly after midnight, 2 April 1902, in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia."

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Update: Caesar Rodney (American lawyer and politician)

* According to Caesar Rodney's father's diary - the future President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution - was born while "there was no sole with her [his mother] but myself--being I believe [at] just about midnight" on 7 October 1728. The biography in which the diary is transcribed does not seem to state the calendar used by the biographer for the date, but thankyou to Alois Treindl for pointing out that the date was probably Old Style. I have checked and this seems correct. The updated data and chart are below.

Caesar Rodney (October 7, 1728 – June 26, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

An officer of the militia: Mars sextile Pluto; a signer of the Declaration of Independence: Chiron (hands) sextile Saturn in Aquarius.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 7 October 1728 [OS], about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) LMT (+5:02:56), East Dover Hundred, Delaware, USA (39n06, 75w44). ASC: 10 Leo. RR=AA (from father's diary). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Jane Scott, A gentleman as well as a Whig: Caesar Rodney and the American Revolution (University of Delaware Press, 2000), p. 16: "Caesar Rodney, the first child of Caesar Rodney, Sr. and Elizabeth Crawford Rodney was born shortly after midnight, on October 7, 1728. It is thought that his young parents were living in a small house owned by Elizabeth's father, not far from the Rodney farm at Byfield. According to Caesar Rodney, Sr.'s diary, the young father immediately sent for a midwife 'and other women,' but 'before aney came ye Child wass Born and it wass a Son.' As 'there was no sole with her but myself--being I believe just about midnight.'" NB: The calendar used is not specified, but the birth date of 7 october 1728 is stated as Old Style in Chase's Calendar of Events 2009 (McGraw Hill Professional, 2009), p. 497.

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Hank Greenberg (New Astrology data and chart)

* In his autobiography, legendary baseball player, Hank Greenberg, writes that he was born "exactly forty-five minutes after the new year, at 12:45 A.M. on January 1, 1911."

Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation. He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's 1932 mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 (when Babe Ruth set a record of 60) and 1961 (when Roger Maris surpassed it).

Greenberg was a five-time All-Star, was twice named the American League's Most Valuable Player, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956. Greenberg became the first major league player to hit 25 or more home runs in a season in each league. Greenberg is the American League record holder for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter—183 RBI in 1937 (a 154-game schedule.) Only left-handed batter Lou Gehrig's 184 RBI in 1931 surpasses Greenberg in the American League record books. Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $80,000/year in salary (he was paid $100,000, ($1,041,000 today)[when?] plus $25,000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him). He was one of the few opposing players publicly to welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

Greenberg was the first Jewish superstar in American professional sports. He attracted national attention in 1934 when he refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though the Tigers were in the middle of a pennant race and he was not in practice a religious Jew.

Greenberg is widely considered as one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history.

Read more from his Wikipedia biography.

HOROSCOPE NOTES

"One of the greatest sluggers in baseball history"? Pluto is unaspected except for a sextile to Saturn in Aries. Ouch.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: 1 January 1911, about 00:05 (12:05 a.m.) EST (+5), New York, New York, USA (40n42, 74w00). ASC: about 9 Libra. RR=B (from auto/biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Hank Greenberg and Ira Berkow, Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009), p. 4: "When I was born, exactly forty-five minutes after the new year, at 12:45 A.M. on January 1, 1911, my family lived in Greenwich Village, in New York City, in a second-floor apartment of a tenement house at 16 Barrow Street." Previous biographies include Jim Reisler, Babe Ruth Slept Here: The Baseball Landmarks of New York City (Diamond Communications, 1999), p. 23: "Born a few minutes after midnight on January 1, 1911, Greenberg lived at first in Greenwich Village with his family in a second-floor tenement;" and Peter S. Horvitz, The Big Book of Jewish Baseball (SP Books, 2001), p. 80: "Henry 'Hank' Benjamin Greenberg was born shortly after midnight on New Year's day in 1911. His parents were David and Sarah (nee Schwartz) Greenberg."

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