Alan Baker
Alan Baker (born August 19, 1939, London, United Kingdom; died 2018), was an English mathematician. Baker's honours include Fields medal, Adams Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Alan Baker’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Alan
Alan Baker’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Alan in the U.S.?
#191
US rank in 2025
~364,389
Americans share it since 1882
1955
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1939, Alan came 85th among boys and 3,783rd among girls, carried by 2,330 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1939, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Alan apart
Alan Baker took the Fields medal in 1970, at 31.
The classrooms behind this chart: Trinity College and University College London.
Cause of death is recorded as cerebrovascular disease.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Alan Baker: Cambridge mathematicians, British number theorists and English Jews.
Bill Clinton (1946) and Coco Chanel (1883) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Trinity College, University College London and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Fields medal (1970), Adams Prize (1972) and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
- Cause of death
- cerebrovascular disease
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 41
What the chart says
Alan, according to the stars
Core essence
Alan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Alan wants to be loved
Alan wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Alan openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Alan creates
How Alan makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Alan creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Alan is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Alan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alan does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Alan's birth date. Working below.
Where Alan sits
Six lines
Alan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alan Baker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Eltanin, in Draco, 89.0° up.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
London sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from London at all: they sit past the −38.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 6° below the horizon, Moon up and 29% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Cambridge in 2018.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alan Baker: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alan's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · T-square onto Pluto
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Alan Baker's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 19, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Alan Baker was born on August 19, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Alan Baker's birth date, August 19, 1939, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Alan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alan Baker's date-only chart is Uranus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alan Baker combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Alan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableUranustrineNeptune0.1° orb
Alan’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussquareUranus0.5° to 1.7° orb
Alan’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.5° orb
Alan’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb
stableSunsquareUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.6° to 4.9° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto7.7° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Alan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 16°25′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 2°25′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 5°12′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 0°60′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 26°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.9°
Alan’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Alan’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Mars 1.5°
More people like Alan
Other mathematicians
- Vaughan Jones1952
- Lars Hörmander1931
- Alain Connes1947
- Paul Cohen1934
- Jean Bourgain1954
- Michael Atiyah1929
Born in United Kingdom
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- Ridley ScottEnglish filmmaker (born 1937)
- Ringo StarrBritish musician, drummer for the Beatles
- Seamus HeaneyIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
- Graham ChapmanEnglish actor, comedian and writer
- Steven BerkoffBritish actor, playwright, author and director (born 1937)
More charts like Alan’s
Fellow Leo suns
- WillianBrazilian association football player
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer
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Born in Rabbit years
- Keldon JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Collin GillespieAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Immanuel QuickleyAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
Also born on August 19
- Bill Clinton1946
- Coco Chanel1883
- Matthew Perry1969
- Satya Nadella1967
- Salem Al-Dawsari1991
- Melissa Fumero1982
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Mark WalterAmerican businessman
- Anthony SalimIndonesian businessman
- Beate HeisterGerman business executive, billionaire heiress
Other Leo Rabbit charts
- Simón BolívarVenezuelan statesman and military officer
- Whitney HoustonAmerican singer, actress, and film producer
- Charlize TheronSouth African and American actress
- Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist
Other Steadfast Architects
- Vederian LoweAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jake BrendelAmerican football player
- Cameron JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Charles BasseyNigerian basketball player (born 2000)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Alexey EkimovRussian physicist
- Maria RessaFilipino journalist
- Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist and doctor
From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Alan’s cards
Computed from August 19, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310769 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by JET Photographic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alan Baker at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alan Baker.
Quick answers about Alan Baker’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alan Baker?
- Alan Baker was a Leo: born August 19, 1939, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Alan Baker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 19, 1939 birth.
- What was Alan Baker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alan Baker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alan Baker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alan Baker's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
