Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944, Manhattan, United States; died 2012), was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Marvin Hamlisch’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Monkey, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Marvin
Marvin Hamlisch’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Marvin in the U.S.?
#699
US rank in 2025
~255,807
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
In 1944, 3,569 American boys and 25 girls were registered Marvin — 75th among boys and 1,688th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Marvin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on M (4) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Marvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The record
What sets Marvin apart
Sergio Agüero (1988) and Awkwafina (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Marvin, according to the stars
Core essence
Marvin is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Marvin needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Marvin cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Marvin needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Marvin wants to be loved
Marvin 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 Marvin like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Marvin creates
How Marvin makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Marvin creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Marvin 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Marvin 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: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Marvin 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 Marvin's birth date. Working below.
Where Marvin sits
Six lines
Marvin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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 Marvin Hamlisch
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.8° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 85% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 6° down.
How unusual Marvin's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · No Water planets
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.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Marvin Hamlisch's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 2, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Marvin Hamlisch was born on June 2, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Marvin Hamlisch's birth date, June 2, 1944, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Marvin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marvin Hamlisch's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Venus, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Marvin Hamlisch combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Marvin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Libra 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
stableMarsconjunctionPluto0.1° to 0.7° orb
Marvin’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileMars0.8° to 1.5° orb
Marvin’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussextilePluto0.9° to 2.2° orb
Marvin’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareJupiter2.3° to 3.3° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus2.4° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 3.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Marvin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironVirgo 9°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 24°41′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°49′ (moves 0.51° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 29°48′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°46′ (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 square Sun 0.2°
- Chiron square Uranus 0.9°
- Eros square Saturn 1.1°
- Chiron square Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.1°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.7°
Marvin’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Marvin’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Venus, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.4°
More people like Marvin
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Born in United States
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More charts like Marvin’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Liam McCulloughAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Chidobe AwuzieAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Dan FeeneyAmerican football player (born 1994)
Born in Monkey years
- Charli D'AmelioAmerican social media personality
- Dhirubhai AmbaniIndian business tycoon
- Charlie HunnamBritish actor
Also born on June 2
- Sergio Agüero1988
- Awkwafina1988
- Shroud1994
- Wayne Brady1972
- Dana Carvey1955
- Andy Cohen1968
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Keri HulmeNew Zealand writer
- Aravind AdigaIndian journalist and author
- Michael AtiyahBritish mathematician
Other Gemini Monkey charts
- Gladys KnightAmerican singer (born 1944)
- Abdoulaye SeckSenegalese footballer (born 1992)
- Andreas SchjelderupNorwegian footballer (born 2004)
- Antoine MendyFrench-Senegalese footballer (born 2004)
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Hugues Fabrice ZangoBurkinabe athlete and doctor of electrical engineering
- Kit ConnorBritish actor
- Keyshia ColeAmerican R&B singer
- Paul GrahamEnglish-American programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Omar RekikDutch-Tunisian association football player
- Matheus NunesPortuguese footballer (born 1998)
- Emiliano MartínezUruguayan footballer (born 1999)
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Marvin’s cards
Computed from June 2, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Marvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q337206 (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 Shel Secunda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marvin Hamlisch 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 Marvin Hamlisch.
Quick answers about Marvin Hamlisch’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Marvin Hamlisch?
- Marvin Hamlisch was a Gemini: born June 2, 1944, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was Marvin Hamlisch's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 2, 1944 birth.
- What was Marvin Hamlisch's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Marvin Hamlisch's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Marvin Hamlisch's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Marvin Hamlisch's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
