Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor (born August 28, 1925, Chicago, United States; died 2003), was an American dancer, singer, and actor. O'Connor's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Donald O'Connor’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Donald
Donald O'Connor’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Donald in the U.S.?
#690
US rank in 2025
~1,420,387
Americans share it since 1880
1934
its peak year
Donald ranked 10th among boys and 720th among girls in 1925, the year of this birth, with 19,193 American boys and 105 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Donald’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Donald’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Donald apart
Training came by way of Hollywood Professional School and Professional Children's School.
The working life starts in 1937, at 12.
Cause of death is recorded as cardioplegia; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Wikipedia's editors put Donald O'Connor under Actors from Vermilion County, Illinois, People from Danville, Illinois and Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners.
Jack Black (1969) and Shania Twain (1965) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Hollywood Professional School, Professional Children's School and Danville High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1937
- Cause of death
- cardioplegia
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Donald, according to the stars
Core essence
Donald notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Donald is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Donald wants to be loved
Donald wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Donald gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Donald creates
How Donald makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Donald builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Donald is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Donald 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Donald channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Donald's birth date. Working below.
Where Donald sits
Six lines
Donald’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 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 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 Donald O'Connor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 41.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
The Moon, 71% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 16° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Calabasas, Los Angeles County in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Donald O'Connor: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Donald's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Donald O'Connor's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 28, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Donald O'Connor was born on August 28, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Donald O'Connor's birth date, August 28, 1925, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Donald’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Donald O'Connor's date-only chart is Mars sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Donald O'Connor combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Donald’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMarssextileSaturn0.4° to 0.9° orb
Donald’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.4° orb
Donald’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMarstrineJupiter2.5° to 3.2° orb
Donald’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter4.2° to 5.5° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.1° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Donald’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 28°03′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 23°60′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 29°09′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 10°42′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 28°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.2°
- Hygiea square Venus 2.7°
Donald’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Donald’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Pluto, VenusAn 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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.4°
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More charts like Donald’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Chris PineAmerican actor
- George R. R. MartinAmerican writer and television producer
- Luka ModrićCroatian footballer
Born in Ox years
- Merle HaggardAmerican country music songwriter, singer, and musician
- Johnny CarsonAmerican talk show host and comedian
- B. B. KingAmerican blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
Also born on August 28
- Jack Black1969
- Shania Twain1965
- Sheryl Sandberg1969
- Jennifer Coolidge1961
- Armie Hammer1986
- Florence Welch1986
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Simone FontecchioItalian basketball player (born 1995)
- Kam JonesAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Ayo DosunmuAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Virgo Ox charts
- Dean-Charles ChapmanEnglish actor
- Charles SingletonAmerican songwriter
- Chloe CherryAmerican actress, model, and former pornographic actress
- Tarana BurkeAmerican civil rights activist
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Akira YoshinoJapanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
- Ernesto Teodoro MonetaItalian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Rudyard KiplingEnglish writer and poet
- Knut HamsunNorwegian novelist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Hjalte FroholdtDanish player of American football
- Bijan RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Brian Robinson Jr.American football player (born 1999)
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Donald’s cards
Computed from August 28, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Donald’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q348345 (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 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Donald O'Connor 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 Donald O'Connor.
Quick answers about Donald O'Connor’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Donald O'Connor?
- Donald O'Connor was a Virgo: born August 28, 1925, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Donald O'Connor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 28, 1925 birth.
- What was Donald O'Connor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Donald O'Connor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Donald O'Connor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Donald O'Connor's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
