Anthony Dawson
Anthony Dawson (born October 18, 1916, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; died 1992), was a British actor.
Anthony Dawson’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Anthony
Anthony Dawson’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Anthony in the U.S.?
#46
US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1916, Anthony came 37th among boys and 2,033rd among girls, carried by 4,749 American boys and 16 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anthony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1916, 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 Anthony apart
Training came by way of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The working life starts in 1940, at 24.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Anthony Dawson: Scottish expatriates in Italy, Male actors from Edinburgh and Deaths from cancer in England.
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 18
What the chart says
Anthony, according to the stars
Core essence
Anthony makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Anthony is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Anthony is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Anthony needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Anthony wants to be loved
Anthony wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Anthony and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Anthony creates
How Anthony 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. Anthony 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: Anthony is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Anthony is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Anthony runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.
Where Anthony sits
Six lines
Anthony’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Anthony Dawson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh that night
Computed for 55.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Edinburgh at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 11.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Edinburgh sits at 56.0°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 52% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Sussex, South East England in 1992.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anthony Dawson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Anthony's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Anthony Dawson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1916, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Anthony Dawson was born on October 18, 1916, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Anthony Dawson's birth date, October 18, 1916, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Anthony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anthony Dawson's date-only chart is Jupiter square Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Anthony Dawson combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Anthony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Cancer 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
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb
Anthony’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.8° to 2.5° orb
Anthony’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.2° to 2.9° orb
Anthony’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.2° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter5.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.5° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.6° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 3.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°42′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 28°41′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 6°26′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 23°56′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 27°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.4°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres square Mars 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 2.2°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 2.4°
Anthony’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Anthony’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.0°
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More charts like Anthony’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Gregory White SmithPulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
- William S. McFeelyAmerican historian
- Robert Lewis TaylorAmerican author
Born in Dragon years
- Jeff GoldblumAmerican actor and musician
- Fred RogersAmerican television personality
- Conor McGregorIrish boxer and mixed martial arts fighter
Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Ne-Yo1979
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Bristol Palin1990
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist
- Gustav StresemannGerman politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Samuel C. C. TingChinese-American physicist
Other Libra Dragon charts
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- Jazz JenningsAmerican transgender Internet personality
- Mia ThreapletonEnglish actress (born 2000)
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Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Kevin De BruyneBelgian association football player
- Courtney LoveAmerican rock musician
- Heidi KlumGerman-American model, television personality and businesswoman
- Eddie RedmayneEnglish actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Jonathan GarvinAmerican football player
- Luke McCaffreyAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Odafe OwehAmerican football player (born 1998)
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Anthony’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1916. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q573128 (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 Giulio Petroni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anthony Dawson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anthony Dawson.
Quick answers about Anthony Dawson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anthony Dawson?
- Anthony Dawson was a Libra: born October 18, 1916, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Anthony Dawson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1916 birth.
- How tall was Anthony Dawson?
- Anthony Dawson was 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Anthony Dawson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anthony Dawson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anthony Dawson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anthony Dawson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
