George Burns
George Burns (born January 20, 1896, New York City, United States; died 1996), was an American comedian, actor, writer and singer. Burns's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
George Burns’s zodiac sign was Capricorn or Aquarius (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with George
How common is the name George in the U.S.?
#126
US rank in 2025
~1,497,260
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
George ranked 4th among boys and 528th among girls in 1896, the year of this birth, with 4,286 American boys and 32 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What George’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on G (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
George’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
—
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Garnet, Your planetary stone, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🌸 Green Orchid
Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets George apart
George Burns took the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1976, at 80.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The family line: married Gracie Allen and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put George Burns under Jewish centenarians, Comedians from New York City and Jews from New York (state).
Buzz Aldrin (1930) and Bill Maher (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1976) and Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording (1991)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1902
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
George, according to the stars
How George wants to be loved
George wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with George and watch them fall for you again.
How George creates
How George makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. George 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: George is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. George is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. George has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from George's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to George Burns
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 Capella, in Auriga, 84.7° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
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, 31% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County in 1996.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for George Burns: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual George's chart is
Chart pattern score
25 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Earth planets · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Capricorn or Aquarius Sun
George Burns was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
George Burns was born on January 20, 1896, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
George Burns's birth date, January 20, 1896, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in George’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in George Burns' date-only chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Earth.
George’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 9° 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
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.8° orb
George’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.6° orb
George’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.9° to 1.1° orb
George’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.8° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.9° to 4.1° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.9° to 5.0° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.2° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
George’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 26°39′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 10°12′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 25°20′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 8°53′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.0°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Mars 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.1°
George’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in George’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.
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.4°
More people like George
Other actors
- Irene Dunne1898
- Hattie McDaniel1893
- Katina Paxinou1900
- Ellen Widmann1894
- George Macready1899
- Renée Jeanne Falconetti1892
Born in United States
- Robert E. SherwoodAmerican writer
- Robert HillyerAmerican poet
- Ruth GordonAmerican actress and writer
- Morrie RyskindAmerican activist and entertainer
- Murray Leinsternovelist, short story writer
- Agnes S. O'RearAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
More charts like George’s
Born in Goat years
- Paul HenreidAustrian-American actor and film director
- Martin SemmelroggeGerman actor
- Ben KingsleyEnglish actor (born 1943)
Also born on January 20
- Buzz Aldrin1930
- Bill Maher1956
- Evan Peters1987
- Rainn Wilson1966
- Blueface1997
- Kevin Parker1986
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Josh BrolinAmerican actor
- Sergio RomeroArgentine association football player
- Jensen AcklesAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Justin HartleyAmerican actor (born 1977)
- Derek HoughAmerican dancer
- Brooke HoganAmerican singer and television personality
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
George’s cards
Computed from January 20, 1896. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
George’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q344793 (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 George Burns 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 George Burns.
Quick answers about George Burns’s chart
- What zodiac sign was George Burns?
- George Burns was born on a day when the Sun moved from Capricorn into Aquarius. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was George Burns's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 20, 1896 birth.
- What was George Burns's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was George Burns's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was George Burns's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was George Burns's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
