Hugh O'Brian
Hugh O'Brian (born April 19, 1925, Rochester, United States; died 2016), was an American actor and United States Marine. O'Brian's honours include Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, Order of the Buffalo Hunt and Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Hugh O'Brian’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Hugh
Hugh O'Brian’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Hugh in the U.S.?
#732
US rank in 2025
~84,179
Americans share it since 1880
1916
its peak year
In 1925, 1,386 American boys and 13 girls were registered Hugh — 127th among boys and 2,683rd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Hugh’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on H (8) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 8 and 9: ambition against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hugh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
White · Crimson · Forest
The record
What sets Hugh apart
Maria Sharapova (1987) and Kate Hudson (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Hugh, according to the stars
Core essence
Hugh leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Hugh is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Hugh is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Hugh needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Hugh wants to be loved
Hugh 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 Hugh creates
How Hugh makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Hugh creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Hugh 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 4 is the builder. Hugh is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Hugh scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Hugh's birth date. Working below.
Where Hugh sits
Six lines
Hugh’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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Hugh O'Brian
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rochester 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 Rochester that night
Computed for 43.17°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Rochester at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Rochester sits at 43.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −46.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
How unusual Hugh's chart is
Chart pattern score
37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aries · 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 →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Hugh O'Brian's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 19, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Hugh O'Brian was born on April 19, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Hugh O'Brian's birth date, April 19, 1925, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Hugh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hugh O'Brian's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hugh O'Brian combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Hugh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 23° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonsquareMars0.0° to 6.5° orb
Hugh’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.5° orb
Hugh’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.4° orb
Hugh’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.8° to 2.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.3° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus1.7° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter5.2° to 6.0° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.1° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Hugh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 24°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 29°05′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 12°59′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°22′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 13°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.2°
- Chiron square Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 3.0°
Hugh’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Hugh’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quintile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.0°
More people like Hugh
Other actors
- Lee Van Cleef1925
- Eartha Kitt1927
- John Fiedler1925
- Frank Finlay1926
- Jack Lemmon1925
- Harry Dean Stanton1926
Born in United States
- Lillie D. ChaffinAmerican poet laureate from Kentucky
- Roy J. GlauberAmerican theoretical physicist
- John FiedlerAmerican actor
- Donald O'ConnorAmerican dancer, singer, and actor
- Stanley KarnowAmerican historian and journalist
- Russell BakerAmerican writer and satirist
More charts like Hugh’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Chloé ZhaoChinese filmmaker (born 1982)
- Dianne WiestAmerican actress
- Jan SterlingAmerican actress
Born in Ox years
- Steven StuckyAmerican composer
- Stanley KarnowAmerican historian and journalist
- Carl SandburgAmerican writer and editor
Also born on April 19
- Maria Sharapova1987
- Kate Hudson1979
- James Franco1978
- Mukesh Ambani1957
- Rivaldo1972
- Gustavo Petro1960
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Ronnie RiversAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Ethan EvansAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Will PutnamAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Aries Ox charts
- Yanis VaroufakisGreek economist and politician
- Rooney MaraAmerican actress
- Jonathan GroffAmerican actor and singer
- Luol DengSouth Sudanese-British basketball player
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Randal CremerEnglish politician
- Johannes V. JensenDanish author
- Dan ShechtmanIsraeli scientist
- Carol GuzyAmerican photographer (born 1956)
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Klaus HasselmannGerman climate researcher, meteorologist, and oceanologist (born 1931)
- Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist
- William GiauqueAmerican chemist
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Hugh’s cards
Computed from April 19, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hugh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q727086 (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 Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hugh O'Brian at Wikipedia, hughobrian.me, 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 Hugh O'Brian.
Quick answers about Hugh O'Brian’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hugh O'Brian?
- Hugh O'Brian was an Aries: born April 19, 1925, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Hugh O'Brian's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1925 birth.
- What was Hugh O'Brian's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hugh O'Brian's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hugh O'Brian's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hugh O'Brian's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
