Igor Tamm
Igor Tamm (born July 8, 1895, Vladivostok, Russia; died 1971), was a Soviet physicist. Tamm is best remembered for Cherenkov radiation and Frank–Tamm formula. Tamm's honours include Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Nobel Prize in Physics and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Igor Tamm’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Goat, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Igor
Igor Tamm’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Igor in the U.S.?
#6950
US rank in 2025
~804
Americans share it since 1951
1998
its peak year
US records hold Igor from 1951 onward, though not for 1895 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1998 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Igor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on I (9) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Igor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
The record
What sets Igor apart
John D. Rockefeller (1839) and Son Heung-min (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Igor, according to the stars
Core essence
Igor feels the room before entering it. The core of Igor is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Igor, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Igor wants to be loved
Igor wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Igor and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Igor creates
How Igor makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Igor creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Igor 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 2 is the peacemaker. Igor is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Igor fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Igor's birth date. Working below.
Where Igor sits
Six lines
Igor’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Igor Tamm
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Vladivostok 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 Vladivostok that night
Computed for 43.12°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Vladivostok was Rastaban, in Draco, 73.3° up.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Vladivostok sits at 43.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Vladivostok on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 11° below the horizon.
How unusual Igor's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Igor Tamm's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 8, 1895, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Goat
Wood GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Igor Tamm was born on July 8, 1895, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Igor Tamm's birth date, July 8, 1895, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Igor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Igor Tamm's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Water signs.
- Igor Tamm combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Igor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb
Igor’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Igor’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.1° to 1.1° orb
Igor’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus0.6° to 1.3° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.3° to 1.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto4.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn5.3° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.2° to 5.6° depending on birth time
possibleMarssextilePlutoorb from 4.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 5.3° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Igor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 3°60′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 1°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 3°38′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 28°28′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Venus 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.4°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.1°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
- Eros square Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 2.7°
Igor’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Igor’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.7°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.3°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
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Igor’s cards
Computed from July 8, 1895. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
2 · Diplomat☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Igor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q155759 (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 Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Igor Tamm at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Igor Tamm.
Quick answers about Igor Tamm’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Igor Tamm?
- Igor Tamm was a Cancer: born July 8, 1895, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Igor Tamm's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 8, 1895 birth.
- What was Igor Tamm's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What was Igor Tamm's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Igor Tamm's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Igor Tamm's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
