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.

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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.

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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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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.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

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

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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.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

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

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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.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

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

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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.

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HOROSCOPE NOTES

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

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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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