August Krogh
August Krogh (born November 15, 1874, Grenaa, Denmark; died 1949), was a Danish physiologist. Krogh's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Croonian Medal and Lecture and Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
August Krogh’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with August
August Krogh’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name August in the U.S.?
#81
US rank in 2025
~74,452
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
No US figure exists for 1874 — the SSA series begins 6 years later. August opened it at 74th, 210 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What August’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
August’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets August apart
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine came in 1920, when August Krogh was 46.
The schooling ran through Aarhus Katedralskole and University of Copenhagen.
The family line: married Marie Krogh and raised one child.
Wikipedia files August Krogh under People from Norddjurs Municipality, Novo Nordisk people and Danish physiologists.
Paulo Dybala (1993) and Shailene Woodley (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Aarhus Katedralskole and University of Copenhagen
- Awards
- Croonian Medal and Lecture (1940), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1937) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1920)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Languages
- Danish
- Wikipedia editions
- 64
What the chart says
August, according to the stars
Core essence
August does not do surface. The core of August is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from August is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How August wants to be loved
August wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with August and watch them fall for you again.
How August creates
How August makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. August creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: August is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. August is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of August leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. August fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from August's birth date. Working below.
Where August sits
Six lines
August’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 August Krogh
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Grenaa 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 Grenaa that night
Computed for 56.41°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Grenaa was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 89.2° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
Grenaa sits at 56.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −33.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Grenaa on any night.
The Moon, 37% lit at first quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Grenaa, Denmark
The death is recorded at Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark in 1949.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for August Krogh: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual August's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus
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
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
August Krogh's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 15, 1874, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Dog
Wood DogFair, direct, dependable.
August Krogh was born on November 15, 1874, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
August Krogh's birth date, November 15, 1874, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in August’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in August Krogh's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- August Krogh combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
August’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 2.1° orb
August’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
August’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionPluto0.7° to 1.8° orb
August’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.8° to 1.3° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableUranussquarePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.6° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 4.1° to 18.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
August’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 18°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 14°03′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 21°33′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 16°13′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.9°
August’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in August’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.8°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
More people like August
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- Charles Scott Sherrington1857
- Wallace Stegner1909
Born in Denmark
- Deepika PadukoneIndian actress
- Mette FrederiksenPrime Minister of Denmark since 2019
- Helena ChristensenDanish model and photographer
- Mads MikkelsenDanish actor
- Connie NielsenDanish actress (born 1965)
- Thomas Bo LarsenDanish actor
More charts like August’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Hong Eun-chaeSouth Korean singer
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Born in Dog years
- Robert PatrickAmerican actor
- Maureen LipmanBritish actress, columnist and comedian
- Jack KlugmanAmerican actor
Also born on November 15
- Paulo Dybala1993
- Shailene Woodley1991
- Roberto Cavalli1940
- Jeffree Star1985
- Jimmy Choo1948
- MatPat1986
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Konrad Emil BlochGerman American biochemist
- Mikhail Gorbachevleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
- Hendrik LorentzDutch physicist
Other Scorpio Dog charts
- Ayad AkhtarAmerican actor and playwright
- Peter ArnettAmerican journalist
- Arthur KrockAmerican newspaper correspondent and columnist
- Bray HammondAmerican financial historian
Other Radiant Scholars
- Dominik SzoboszlaiHungarian association football player
- Caster SemenyaSouth African middle-distance runner
- Gemma ArtertonBritish actress
- Sammy Davis Jr.American entertainer
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Audrina PatridgeAmerican reality television star
- Ben PlattAmerican actor and singer (born 1993)
- Sasha Obamadaughter of former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
August’s cards
Computed from November 15, 1874. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
August’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q152187 (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 Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same August Krogh at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by August Krogh.
Quick answers about August Krogh’s chart
- What zodiac sign was August Krogh?
- August Krogh was a Scorpio: born November 15, 1874, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was August Krogh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 15, 1874 birth.
- What was August Krogh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was August Krogh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was August Krogh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was August Krogh's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
