Don Rickles
Don Rickles (born May 8, 1926, Queens, United States; died 2017), was an American stand-up comedian. Rickles's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, World War II Victory Medal and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Don Rickles’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Don
Don Rickles’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Don in the U.S.?
#1795
US rank in 2025
~168,839
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1926, Don came 96th among boys and 1,636th among girls, carried by 1,966 American boys and 26 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Don’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on D (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Don’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
22 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Blush · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1926, 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 Don apart
Training came by way of American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Newtown High School.
The working life starts in 1943, at 17.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney failure; the grave is at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.
On the family side, Don Rickles was married Barbara Sklar and raised 2 children.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Don Rickles: Comedians from Queens, New York, Burials at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery and Jewish male comedians.
The same date carries David Attenborough. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Newtown High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1943
- Cause of death
- kidney failure
- Buried at
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Don, according to the stars
Core essence
Don is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Don is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Don wants to be loved
Don 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 Don creates
How Don makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Don creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Don 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Don is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Don slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Don's birth date. Working below.
Where Don sits
Six lines
Don’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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Don Rickles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Queens 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 Queens that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Queens at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 9.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Queens at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 11° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Queens, United States
The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 2017.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Don Rickles: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Don's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · 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 →Don Rickles at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Don Rickles's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 8, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Tiger
Fire TigerLeads by moving.
Don Rickles was born on May 8, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Don Rickles's birth date, May 8, 1926, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in Don’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Don Rickles' date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Don Rickles combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Don’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.1° to 1.5° orb
Don’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.2° orb
Don’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.4° to 2.7° orb
Don’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquareSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsextilePluto3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.4° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 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.
Don’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 29°05′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 18°32′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°16′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 20°28′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 26°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.4°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.7°
Don’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Don’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, 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 semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
Born the same day as Don
David Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926 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 Queens, 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 Don
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- Eartha Kitt1927
- Cloris Leachman1926
- Herbert Ross1927
- Hugh O'Brian1925
- Harry Dean Stanton1926
Born in United States
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- Paul BergAmerican biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Cloris LeachmanAmerican actress and comedian
- Frank M. RobinsonAmerican science fiction writer
- Richard MathesonAmerican fiction writer
- Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model
More charts like Don’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Guglielmo MarconiItalian inventor and radio pioneer
- Robert OppenheimerAmerican theoretical physicist
- George ClooneyAmerican-French actor and filmmaker
Born in Tiger years
- Landon DickersonAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Nahshon WrightAmerican football player
- Jordon RileyAmerican football player (born 1998)
Also born on May 8
- Enrique Iglesias1975
- David Attenborough1926
- Pat Cummins1993
- Trisha Paytas1988
- Stephen Amell1981
- Olivia Culpo1992
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Will HobsonAmerican journalist
- Robert SoutheyEnglish romantic poet
- William WhiteheadBritish Poet Laureate and playwright
Other Taurus Tiger charts
- Ezra ClevelandAmerican football player
- Cole Van LanenAmerican football player
- Morgan CoxAmerican football player (born 1986)
- A. J. DillonAmerican football player
Other Radiant Architects
- Newt GingrichAmerican politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- James A. Van AllenAmerican astrophysicist
- Merle Eugene CurtiAmerican historian
- Bernard L. SteinAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Arnold VoslooSouth African actor
- Audrey TautouFrench actress (born 1976)
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Don’s cards
Computed from May 8, 1926. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
22 · Master Builder♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Don’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q269890 (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 John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Don Rickles 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 Don Rickles.
Quick answers about Don Rickles’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Don Rickles?
- Don Rickles was a Taurus: born May 8, 1926, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Don Rickles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 8, 1926 birth.
- What was Don Rickles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What was Don Rickles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Don Rickles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Don Rickles's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Mars, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
