David Baltimore
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938, Manhattan, United States; died 2025), was an American biologist and Nobel laureate. Baltimore served as President of Rockefeller University and director of the California Institute of Technology. Baltimore's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science and NAS Award in Molecular Biology.
David Baltimore’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with David
David Baltimore’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name David in the U.S.?
#35
US rank in 2025
~3,689,613
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
In 1938, 22,994 American boys and 63 girls were registered David — 8th among boys and 891st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
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 1938, 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 David apart
The Canada Gairdner International Award came in 1974, when David Baltimore was 36.
David Baltimore was taught at Swarthmore College and The Rockefeller University.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer.
The family line: married Alice S. Huang.
On Wikipedia the categories read John L. Miller Great Neck North High School alumni, History of biotechnology and Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts.
Albert Fert shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Swarthmore College, The Rockefeller University and William A. Shine Great Neck South High School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975), Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (2021) and Canada Gairdner International Award (1974)
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 65
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of David is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with David, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How David creates
How David 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. David 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: David is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. David 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means David gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from David's birth date. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’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 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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Baltimore
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.0° above the horizon in Gemini.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 36% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
The death is recorded at Woods Hole, Barnstable County in 2025.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Baltimore: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
3 unaspected planets · 3-planet stellium in Pisces
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.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
David Baltimore's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 7, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
David Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
David Baltimore's birth date, March 7, 1938, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Baltimore's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David Baltimore combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Taurus or Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.3° to 1.2° orb
David’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssquarePluto1.1° to 1.8° orb
David’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
David’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.2° to 5.1° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.3° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus7.6° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.2° to 13.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 2.1° to 15.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 25°26′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°31′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 11°06′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 28°08′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 27°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.2°
- Chiron square Venus 1.3°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in David’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.9°
Born the same day as David
Albert Fert was born on March 7, 1938 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Manhattan, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like David
Other university teachers
- James P. Allison1948
- Warren L. Lerude1937
- Susan Wood1948
- Carol Shields1935
- Shulamit Ran1949
- John Vane1927
Born in United States
- Hampton FancherAmerican actor and director
- John CoriglianoAmerican composer (born 1938)
- Natalie WoodAmerican actress
- Ted WhiteAmerican writer
- Donald L. CoburnAmerican dramatist
- Charles ButtAmerican grocer
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Also born on March 7
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- Laura Prepon1980
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
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Other Pisces Tiger charts
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Other Steadfast Explorers
- Howard Mumford JonesU.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
- Edmund StevensAmerican journalist
- Georgette LeBlancCanadian poet (born 1977)
- Michael CrichtonAmerican author, screenwriter, film director
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Barry UnsworthEnglish novelist
- Curtis T. McMullenAmerican mathematician and Fields medallist
- Jean BourgainBelgian mathematician and Fields Medalist
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
David’s cards
Computed from March 7, 1938. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
4 · Architect♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234949 (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 Bob Paz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same David Baltimore at Wikipedia, bbe.caltech.edu, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Baltimore.
Quick answers about David Baltimore’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Baltimore?
- David Baltimore was a Pisces: born March 7, 1938, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was David Baltimore's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 7, 1938 birth.
- What was David Baltimore's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Baltimore's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Baltimore's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Baltimore's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
