Daniel Brühl
Daniel Brühl (born June 16, 1978, Barcelona, Spain), aged 48, is a German actor. Brühl's honours include European Film Award for Best Actor, Berliner Bär and Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor.
Daniel Brühl’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Daniel
Daniel Brühl’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Daniel in the U.S.?
#22
US rank in 2025
~1,991,091
Americans share it since 1880
1985
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1978, Daniel came 11th among boys and 837th among girls, carried by 26,441 American boys and 177 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Daniel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
9
Soul Urge · meaning
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Daniel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, 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 Daniel apart
Daniel Brühl took the European Film Award for Best Actor in 2003, at 25.
Training came by way of Dreikönigsgymnasium.
The working life starts in 2000, at 22.
Daniel Brühl was born to Hanno Brühl and married Felicitas Rombold.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Daniel Brühl: German film directors, Male actors from Barcelona and Spanish film producers.
The same date carries Fish Leong. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Dreikönigsgymnasium
- Awards
- European Film Award for Best Actor (2003), Berliner Bär (2025) and Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (2003)
- Nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor and European Film Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 2000
- Citizenship
- Spain and Germany
- Languages
- German, French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Daniel, according to the stars
Core essence
Daniel is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Daniel needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Daniel creates
How Daniel makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Daniel creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Daniel is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Daniel is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Daniel channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Daniel's birth date. Working below.
Where Daniel sits
Six lines
Daniel’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Daniel Brühl
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Barcelona 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 Barcelona that night
Computed for 41.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Barcelona at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 78% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -4° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Barcelona, Spain
- Lives in
- Berlin
Wikidata records Berlin as Daniel Brühl's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Daniel Brühl: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Daniel's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 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 →Daniel Brühl at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Daniel Brühl's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 16, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Daniel Brühl was born on June 16, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Daniel Brühl's birth date, June 16, 1978, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Daniel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Daniel Brühl's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Daniel Brühl combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Daniel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.5° orb
Daniel’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.2° to 0.5° orb
Daniel’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.3° to 2.4° orb
Daniel’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.4° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 3.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.1° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Daniel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 21°32′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 23°11′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 26°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°43′ (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 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 1.6°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.8°
Daniel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Daniel’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.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.5°
Born the same day as Daniel
Fish Leong was born on June 16, 1978 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Barcelona sits at 41.4°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Daniel
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- Becki Newton1978
- Kenan Thompson1978
- Devon Sawa1978
- Ethan Embry1978
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Born in Spain
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More charts like Daniel’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Stellan SkarsgårdSwedish actor (born 1951)
- Ted LevineAmerican actor (born 1957)
- Nils PoppeSwedish entertainer
Born in Horse years
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- El RubiusSpanish-Norwegian YouTuber and streamer
- NeNe LeakesAmerican television personality, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, and fashion designer
Also born on June 16
- Tupac Shakur1971
- Barbara McClintock1902
- Joseph Schooling1995
- Camila Morrone1997
- Siya Kolisi1991
- Fish Leong1978
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Clinton DavissonAmerican physicist
- Alfonso García RoblesMexican diplomat and politician
- Martin EvansEnglish developmental biologist
Other Gemini Horse charts
- Fraser StoddartScottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
- Shuji NakamuraJapanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Ernst ChainJewish-German-born British biochemist
- Mark Van DorenAmerican poet and literary critic
Other Steadfast Healers
- Kazuo IshiguroBritish novelist (born 1954)
- Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister
- Vicente AleixandreSpanish poet
- Paul SalopekAmerican newspaper editor
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Justin ChampagnieAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Josh GreenAustralian basketball player (born 2000)
- Alyssa LynchCanadian actress
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Daniel’s cards
Computed from June 16, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Daniel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q58592 (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 Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Daniel Brühl at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Daniel Brühl.
Quick answers about Daniel Brühl’s chart
- How old is Daniel Brühl?
- Daniel Brühl is 48 years old, born June 16, 1978 in Barcelona, Spain.
- What zodiac sign is Daniel Brühl?
- Daniel Brühl is a Gemini: born June 16, 1978, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Daniel Brühl's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 16, 1978 birth.
- What is Daniel Brühl's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Daniel Brühl's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Daniel Brühl's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Daniel Brühl's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
