Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932, Paris, France; died 2019), was a French film score composer. Legrand's honours include Academy Award for Best Original Song, BAFTA Award for Best Original Music and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Michel Legrand’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Michel
Michel Legrand’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Michel in the U.S.?
#4642
US rank in 2025
~14,094
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Michel ranked 1,695th in 1932, the year of this birth, with 19 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Michel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
11
Soul Urge · insight
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on M (4) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Michel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, 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 Michel apart
Michel Legrand took the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1969, at 37.
Training came by way of Conservatoire de Paris.
The working life starts in 1952, at 20.
Cause of death is recorded as sepsis; the grave is at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
The family line: born to Raymond Legrand, married Macha Méril and Catherine Michel and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Michel Legrand under French male jazz composers, Deaths from sepsis in France and Best Original Music Score AACTA Award winners.
Steve Jobs (1955) and Brian Schmidt (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Instruments
- piano and voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Song (1969), BAFTA Award for Best Original Music (1972) and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (1969)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score
- Working from
- 1952
- Cause of death
- sepsis
- Buried at
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and France
- Languages
- English and French
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Michel, according to the stars
Core essence
Michel feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Michel is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, Michel 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 Michel 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 Michel wants to be loved
Michel 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 Michel creates
How Michel 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. Michel 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: Michel 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Michel is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Michel goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Michel's birth date. Working below.
Where Michel sits
Six lines
Michel’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Michel Legrand
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paris 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 Paris that night
Computed for 48.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Paris at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 14.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Paris sits at 48.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −41.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Paris on any night.
The Moon, 89% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Paris, France
The death is recorded at Neuilly-sur-Seine, arrondissement of Nanterre in 2019.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Michel Legrand: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Michel's chart is
Chart pattern score
30 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Michel Legrand's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 24, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Michel Legrand was born on February 24, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Michel Legrand's birth date, February 24, 1932, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Michel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Michel Legrand's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Michel Legrand combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Michel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° Libra 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
stableVenustrineJupiter0.7° to 2.0° orb
Michel’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Michel’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
Michel’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.6° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.3° to 3.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars2.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.1° to 4.9° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars5.1° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.6° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.7° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Michel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 19°02′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 9°13′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 3°03′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 16°36′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°26′ (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 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 1.1°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Eros conjunction Sun 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.5°
- Hygiea trine Venus 2.5°
Michel’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Michel’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.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.4°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.4°
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Michel’s cards
Computed from February 24, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ExplorerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Michel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313281 (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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Michel Legrand 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 Michel Legrand.
Quick answers about Michel Legrand’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Michel Legrand?
- Michel Legrand was a Pisces: born February 24, 1932, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Michel Legrand's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 24, 1932 birth.
- How tall was Michel Legrand?
- Michel Legrand was 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Michel Legrand's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Michel Legrand's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Michel Legrand's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Michel Legrand's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
