Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck (born December 6, 1920, Concord, United States; died 2012), was an American jazz pianist and composer. Brubeck's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album.
Dave Brubeck’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Dave
Dave Brubeck’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 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Dave in the U.S.?
#2456
US rank in 2025
~64,492
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1920, Dave came 291st among boys and 4,510th among girls, carried by 373 American boys and 6 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Dave’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
5
Soul Urge · freedom
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Dave’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1920, 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 Dave apart
Dave Brubeck took the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, at 76.
Training came by way of Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific and Shasta High School.
The working life starts in 1940, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Umpawaug Cemetery.
Dave Brubeck was married Iola Brubeck and raised 3 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Dave Brubeck: Burials at Umpawaug Cemetery, Bebop ensembles and American jazz songwriters.
The same date carries George Porter. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific, Shasta High School and Mills College at Northeastern University
- Instruments
- piano, keyboard instrument, electronic keyboard and jazz piano
- Awards
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996), Kennedy Center Honors (2009) and Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album (2009)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album and Grammy Award for Record of the Year
- Working from
- 1940
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Umpawaug Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
Dave, according to the stars
Core essence
Dave is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Dave is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Dave wants to be loved
Dave wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Dave you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Dave creates
How Dave 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. Dave 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: Dave is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Dave is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Dave goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Dave's birth date. Working below.
Where Dave sits
Six lines
Dave’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Dave Brubeck
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Concord 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 Concord that night
Computed for 37.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Concord at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 4.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.0°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 −52.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 10% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Concord, United States
The death is recorded at Norwalk, Fairfield County in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Dave Brubeck: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Dave's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Dave Brubeck at a glance
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Dave Brubeck's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 6, 1920, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyTurns problems into games.
Dave Brubeck was born on December 6, 1920, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Dave Brubeck's birth date, December 6, 1920, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Dave’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Dave Brubeck's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Dave Brubeck 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.
Dave’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° 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
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Dave’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Dave’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineSaturn0.3° to 1.5° orb
Dave’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileVenus1.2° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.8° to 3.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.9° to 6.1° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.1° to 6.9° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.3° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn6.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Dave’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°02′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 6°56′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°11′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 4°02′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.3°
Dave’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Dave’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.
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
Born the same day as Dave
George Porter was born on December 6, 1920 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 38.0°N, the sky above Concord stops at −52.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Dave
Other composers
- Charles Singleton1913
- Hank Williams1923
- John La Montaine1920
- Mstislav Rostropovich1927
- Milton Babbitt1916
- George Walker1922
Born in United States
- Owen ChamberlainAmerican physicist
- Jean HeatherAmerican actress
- Ralph MeekerAmerican actor
- Arthur Leonard SchawlowAmerican physicist
- Ray BradburyAmerican author and screenwriter
- Carol ChanningAmerican actress
More charts like Dave’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Stefon DiggsAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Josh DallasAmerican actor
- Jenelle EvansAmerican television personality
Born in Monkey years
- Pier Angeliactress
- Dennis FranzAmerican actor
- Michel LegrandFrench film score composer
Also born on December 6
- Geoffrey Hinton1947
- Tim Cahill1979
- Giannis Antetokounmpo1994
- Andrew Cuomo1957
- Judd Apatow1967
- Ashley Madekwe1981
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ben PlattAmerican actor and singer (born 1993)
- Susan PowterAustralian author, motivational speaker
- Thomas RavenelAmerican politician
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Ellen BurstynAmerican actress
- T. K. CarterAmerican actor and comedian
- Rachel GriffithsAustralian actress
- Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
Other Steadfast Healers
- Wendell Carter Jr.American basketball player (born 1999)
- Jaylin WilliamsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Koby BreaDominican-American basketball player
- Felix OkparaNigerian basketball player (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Olivia Newton-JohnBritish–Australian singer
- Steve BallmerAmerican businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
- Carlos SantanaAmerican guitarist
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Dave’s cards
Computed from December 6, 1920. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Dave’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108597 (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 Pablosecca, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Dave Brubeck.
Quick answers about Dave Brubeck’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Dave Brubeck?
- Dave Brubeck was a Sagittarius: born December 6, 1920, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 6, 1920 birth.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Dave Brubeck's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Dave Brubeck's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Dave Brubeck's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
