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David Niven

David Niven (born March 1, 1910, London, United Kingdom; died 1983), was a British actor and novelist. Niven's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.

David Niven’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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David Niven’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1910, 1,258 American boys and 9 girls were registered David — 30th among boys and 1,660th 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.

5

Expression · versatility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

6 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver

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 1910, 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 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy came in 1953, when David Niven was 43.

Study took David Niven to Stowe School and Heatherdown Preparatory School.

David Niven was 25 when the work began in 1935.

The record gives amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as the cause, and Canton of Vaud as the resting place.

On the family side, David Niven was born to Henriette Julia Degacher and William Edward Graham Niven, married Primula Rollo and Hjördis Genberg and raised 4 children.

On Wikipedia the categories read Deaths from motor neuron disease in Switzerland, British expatriates in Switzerland and Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit.

Archer John Porter Martin 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
Stowe School, Heatherdown Preparatory School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1953), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (1958) and Academy Award for Best Actor (1959)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor
Working from
1935
Cause of death
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Buried at
Canton of Vaud
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
67

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.

The vibe

Underneath, David feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What David needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How David wants to be loved

David wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let David be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How David creates

How David makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. David creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: David 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. David is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means David is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
David

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
David

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
David

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
David

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
David

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
David

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to David Niven

Three stars chosen from the real sky above London on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

David’s birth-night reference starMuscidayellow · Ursa MajorMuscida, in Ursa Major. A yellow star, 78.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Muscida →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 65.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over London that night

Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 11.6° of the exact zenith.

Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 51.5°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.

The Moon, 73% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
London, United Kingdom

The death is recorded at Château-d’Oex, Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in 1983.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for David Niven: 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

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · Venus retrograde

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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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Absorbs the room's mood.

David Niven's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Dog

Loyal past the point of sense.

David Niven was born on March 1, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 6

Feeds the room, forgets to eat.

David Niven's birth date, March 1, 1910, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in David’s chart

David’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 0.8° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2° orbVenus flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.3° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.6° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.9° orbSun in Pisces · 10°02′☉10°Moon in Scorpio · 9°13′☽9°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°04′☿15°Venus in Aquarius · 15°23′ · retrograde♀℞15°Mars in Taurus · 22°11′♂22°Jupiter in Libra · 13°06′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Aries · 20°38′♄20°Uranus in Capricorn · 23°47′♅23°Neptune in Cancer · 16°45′ · retrograde♆℞16°Pluto in Gemini · 24°52′ · retrograde♇℞24°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    David’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSuntrineMoon0.1° to 6.2° orb

    David’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.3° to 2.7° orb

    David’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarstrineUranus1.3° to 1.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineJupiter2.3° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus3.1° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto4.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.1° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.2° to 12.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 28°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 5°16′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 6°09′ (moves 0.51° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 8°16′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 27°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea opposition Sun 1.8°

David’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in David’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Jupiter, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Uranus quincunx Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.2°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.7°

Born the same day as David

Archer John Porter Martin was born on March 1, 1910 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. At 51.5°N, London keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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David’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1910. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q181917 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same David Niven 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 Niven.

Quick answers about David Niven’s chart

What zodiac sign was David Niven?
David Niven was a Pisces: born March 1, 1910, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What was David Niven's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1910 birth.
How tall was David Niven?
David Niven was 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was David Niven's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was David Niven's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was David Niven's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was David Niven's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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