Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. (born Samuel George Davis; December 8, 1925, New York City, United States; died 1990), was an American entertainer. Davis's honours include Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors.
Sammy Davis Jr.’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Sammy
Sammy Davis Jr.’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 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Sammy in the U.S.?
#1864
US rank in 2025
~45,140
Americans share it since 1896
1947
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1925, Sammy came 487th among boys and 2,754th among girls, carried by 157 American boys and 13 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sammy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Samuel George Davis, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on S (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sammy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The record
What sets Sammy apart
Sammy Davis Jr. took the Spingarn Medal in 1968, at 43.
Cause of death is recorded as head and neck cancer; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
On the family side, Sammy Davis Jr. was born to Elvera Sanchez and Sammy Davis, Sr. and married Loray White and May Britt.
Jim Morrison (1943) and Nicki Minaj (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- piano and vibraphone
- Awards
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1987), Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) and Spingarn Medal (1968)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award
- Working from
- 1928
- Cause of death
- head and neck cancer
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Wikipedia editions
- 50
What the chart says
Sammy, according to the stars
Core essence
Sammy is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Sammy is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Sammy is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Sammy needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Sammy wants to be loved
Sammy wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Sammy be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Sammy creates
How Sammy 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. Sammy 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: Sammy is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Sammy is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Sammy leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Sammy runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Sammy's birth date. Working below.
Where Sammy sits
Six lines
Sammy’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 want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Sammy Davis Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Almach, in Andromeda, 87.1° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 45% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Samuel George Davis
- Known as
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Born in
- New York City, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sammy Davis Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sammy's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 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.
Score your own chart →Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Wood Ox
Wood OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Sammy Davis Jr. was born on December 8, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s birth date, December 8, 1925, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Sammy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sammy Davis Jr.'s date-only chart is Saturn trine Uranus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Sammy Davis Jr. 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.
Sammy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Virgo 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
stableMercurysquareUranus0.8° to 2.0° orb
Sammy’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
Sammy’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.2° to 2.3° orb
Sammy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableJupitersextileUranus2.0° to 2.2° orb
stableMarstrinePluto2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Sammy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 25°12′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 1°03′ (moves 0.82° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 22°24′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 9°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Jupiter 0.4°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.3°
- Eros square Venus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.0°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.2°
Sammy’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Jupiter; 5 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Sammy’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 quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on December 8
- Jim Morrison1943
- Nicki Minaj1982
- Sinéad O'Connor1966
- Ian Somerhalder1978
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- Kim Basinger1953
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Other Radiant Storytellers
- İrfan KahveciTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Dayot UpamecanoFrench footballer (born 1998)
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From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Sammy’s cards
Computed from December 8, 1925. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sammy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q297816 (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 Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sammy Davis Jr. 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 Sammy Davis Jr..
Quick answers about Sammy Davis Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Sammy Davis Jr.?
- Sammy Davis Jr. was a Sagittarius: born December 8, 1925, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 8, 1925 birth.
- How tall was Sammy Davis Jr.?
- Sammy Davis Jr. was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Sammy Davis Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Sammy Davis Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
