Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (born August 29, 1923, Cambridge, United Kingdom; died 2014), was a British actor. Attenborough is best remembered for Gandhi, Shadowlands and A Bridge Too Far. Attenborough's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Director and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Richard Attenborough’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Richard
Richard Attenborough’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Richard in the U.S.?
#234
US rank in 2025
~2,587,082
Americans share it since 1880
1946
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1923, Richard came 9th among boys and 833rd among girls, carried by 18,887 American boys and 78 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Richard’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on R (9) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Richard’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Richard apart
Michael Jackson (1958) and Liam Payne (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Richard, according to the stars
Core essence
Richard notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Richard is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Richard runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Richard needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Richard wants to be loved
Richard 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 Richard and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Richard creates
How Richard makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Richard builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Richard is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Richard is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Richard 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 Richard's birth date. Working below.
Where Richard sits
Six lines
Richard’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Richard Attenborough
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cambridge 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 Cambridge that night
Computed for 52.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Eltanin stood nearest the zenith over Cambridge at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Draco.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
From 52.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Cambridge on any night.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 89% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual Richard's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Pluto
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Richard Attenborough's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Richard Attenborough was born on August 29, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Richard Attenborough's birth date, August 29, 1923, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Richard’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Richard Attenborough's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Richard Attenborough combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Richard’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 15° Aries 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
stableJupitertrinePluto0.9° to 1.1° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.1° to 1.2° orb
Richard’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.9° to 3.1° orb
Richard’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.4° to 5.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars6.5° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 2.0° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.2° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Richard’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 1°48′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 12°01′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 9°48′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 2.2°
Richard’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Richard’s chart
Grand trine · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.8°
Richard’s family here
One relative of Richard Attenborough also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Richard
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Born in United Kingdom
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Also born on August 29
- Michael Jackson1958
- Liam Payne1993
- Lea Michele1986
- Brian Chesky1981
- Pierpaolo Piccioli1967
- John McCain1936
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Robert LaschAmerican journalist
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- Roman AninMoldovan investigative journalist
Other Virgo Pig charts
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- Michael FaradayBritish scientist
- Stephen KingAmerican novelist and writer
- Paulo CoelhoBrazilian lyricist and novelist
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Jaden HardyAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Jordan ClarksonAmerican-Filipino basketball player (born 1992)
- Emanuel SharpAmerican-Israeli basketball player
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- Hunter SchaferAmerican actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Richard’s cards
Computed from August 29, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Richard’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q51506 (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 gdcgraphics at https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdcgraphics/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Richard Attenborough 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 Richard Attenborough.
Quick answers about Richard Attenborough’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Richard Attenborough?
- Richard Attenborough was a Virgo: born August 29, 1923, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 29, 1923 birth.
- How tall was Richard Attenborough?
- Richard Attenborough was 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Richard Attenborough's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Richard Attenborough's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Richard Attenborough's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
