David Newman
David Newman (born February 4, 1937, New York City, United States; died 2003), was an American screenwriter. Newman's honours include Writers Guild of America Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.
David Newman’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with David
David Newman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
The SSA recorded 20,981 American boys and 70 girls named David in 1937: 8th among boys and 820th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
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
8 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1937, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →
The record
What sets David apart
The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay came in 1968, when David Newman was 31.
The schooling ran through University of Michigan.
David Newman was 28 when the work began in 1965.
Cause of death is recorded as stroke.
On the family side, David Newman was married Leslie Newman.
Wikipedia files David Newman under Writers Guild of America Award winners, Film producers from New York City and University of Michigan alumni.
Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931) and Jenny Shipley (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Michigan
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1979) and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (1968)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
- Working from
- 1965
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. David creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: David is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. David is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means David 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 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 David Newman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Menkalinan, in Auriga, 85.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 35% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Newman: 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
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
David Newman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
David Newman was born on February 4, 1937, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
David Newman's birth date, February 4, 1937, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Newman's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- David Newman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Scorpio or Sagittarius 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
stableSunsquareMars0.0° to 0.5° orb
David’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.1° to 0.9° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.6° to 0.9° orb
David’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.2° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.9° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileMars4.5° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrinePluto4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.1° to 5.8° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn5.1° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°57′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°08′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 27°29′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°06′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 13°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.6°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn7.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in David’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 Venus 0.3°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
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Other Tidal Scholars
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
David’s cards
Computed from February 4, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4982515 (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.
The same David Newman at Wikipedia, 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 Newman.
Quick answers about David Newman’s chart
- What zodiac sign was David Newman?
- David Newman was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was David Newman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1937 birth.
- What was David Newman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was David Newman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was David Newman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was David Newman's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
