Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton (born April 20, 1908, Louisville, United States; died 2002), was an American jazz musician. Hampton's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, NEA Jazz Masters and Paul Acket Award.
Lionel Hampton’s zodiac sign was Aries or Taurus (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Lionel
How common is the name Lionel in the U.S.?
#659
US rank in 2025
~33,833
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
In 1908, 30 American boys were registered Lionel — 445th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lionel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
9
Soul Urge · meaning
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lionel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
—
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Your planetary stone, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Gold
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 1908, 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 Lionel apart
The schooling ran through USC Thornton School of Music and University of Southern California.
Lionel Hampton was 19 when the work began in 1927.
The record gives heart failure as the cause, and Woodlawn Cemetery as the resting place.
On Wikipedia the categories read Audio Fidelity Records artists, American Christian Zionists and Bluebird Records artists.
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- USC Thornton School of Music and University of Southern California
- Instruments
- piano, drum kit, vibraphone and voice
- Working from
- 1927
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 38
What the chart says
Lionel, according to the stars
The vibe
Underneath, Lionel is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Lionel needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Lionel wants to be loved
Lionel wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Lionel like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Lionel creates
How Lionel makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lionel creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lionel is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Lionel is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lionel scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Lionel's birth date. Working below.
✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Lionel Hampton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Louisville 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 Louisville that night
Computed for 38.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Louisville was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 78.8° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Louisville sits at 38.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −51.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Louisville on any night.
Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon down and 79% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Louisville, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Lionel Hampton: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Lionel's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mercury · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 or Taurus Sun
Lionel Hampton was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Lionel Hampton was born on April 20, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Lionel Hampton's birth date, April 20, 1908, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Lionel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lionel Hampton's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
Lionel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 27° Sagittarius 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
stableMercurysquareNeptune0.0° to 1.5° orb
Lionel’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.3° to 0.4° orb
Lionel’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.3° to 3.1° orb
Lionel’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.6° to 4.5° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.4° to 6.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto7.0° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.8° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Lionel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 22°40′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 6°47′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 22°27′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°45′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 12°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.2°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.3°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.9°
Lionel’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Lionel’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Uranus, Neptune, MercuryAn 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 quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 1.3°
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More charts like Lionel’s
Born in Monkey years
- Christoph WaltzAustrian and German actor
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Also born on April 20
- Jessica Lange1949
- Miranda Kerr1983
- Carmen Electra1972
- Paul Poiret1879
- Andy Serkis1964
- Tan France1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Jack KlugmanAmerican actor
- Jason RobardsAmerican actor
- Charles VanelFrench actor and director
Famous people with Life Path 6
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- Suryakumar YadavIndian cricketer
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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Lionel’s cards
Computed from April 20, 1908. Tap to flip.
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lionel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313525 (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 Helmut Montag, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lionel Hampton 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 Lionel Hampton.
Quick answers about Lionel Hampton’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Lionel Hampton?
- Lionel Hampton was born on a day when the Sun moved from Aries into Taurus. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
- What was Lionel Hampton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1908 birth.
- What was Lionel Hampton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Lionel Hampton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Lionel Hampton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Lionel Hampton's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Venus, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
