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Notable people, cast sidereally. Every entry states how well its birth time is attested — and where no time is recorded, Jade draws no ascendant and says why rather than quietly assuming noon.
19 charts · 1 with an attested time · Lahiri ayanāṁśa · whole-sign houses · mean nodes
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Everyone in the library
15 Aug 1872
Sri Aurobindo
Poet, nationalist and philosopher who moved from revolutionary politics to a yoga of his own devising, spending the second half of his life in Pondicherry writing The Life Divine and Savitri. Educated entirely in England until the age of twenty-one.
Xno birth time
7 Nov 1867
Marie Curie
Physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium, coined the term radioactivity, and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. She refused to patent the isolation of radium.
Xno birth time
12 Feb 1809
Charles Darwin
Naturalist whose five years aboard the Beagle produced the observations behind On the Origin of Species, published in 1859 after two decades of deliberate delay.
Xno birth time
14 Mar 1879
Albert Einstein
Physicist whose 1905 papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and special relativity each would have made a career, and whose general relativity of 1915 replaced Newton’s account of gravity with the curvature of spacetime.
AAtimed
2 Oct 1869
Mohandas Gandhi
Lawyer who developed satyāgraha — mass non-violent resistance — first against discriminatory law in South Africa and then against British rule in India. Assassinated in Delhi in 1948, five months after independence.
Xno birth time
6 Jul 1907
Frida Kahlo
Painter of some fifty-five self-portraits, made largely during recoveries from the bus accident at eighteen that shaped the rest of her life and much of her work.
Xno birth time
10 Dec 1815
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician who, in notes appended to a translation about Babbage’s Analytical Engine, described how such a machine might act on symbols rather than numbers — and wrote what is generally counted the first algorithm intended for a machine.
Xno birth time
5 Sep 1946
Freddie Mercury
Singer and songwriter, the voice of Queen, with a four-octave range and a command of a stadium that has not really been matched. Wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love and Don’t Stop Me Now.
Xno birth time
4 Jan 1643
Isaac Newton
Set out the laws of motion and universal gravitation in the Principia of 1687, invented calculus in parallel with Leibniz, and spent rather more of his life on alchemy and biblical chronology than on either.
Xno birth time
8 Aug 1912
B. V. Raman
Astrologer and editor of The Astrological Magazine for over sixty years, and the author of the textbooks through which most English-speaking students still learn Jyotiṣa. The Raman ayanāṁśa, which Jade offers alongside Lahiri, is his.
Xno birth time
30 Dec 1879
Ramana Maharshi
Advaita teacher who, at sixteen, underwent a spontaneous confrontation with death that he described as dissolving the sense of being a separate person. He left for Arunachala and stayed the rest of his life, teaching mostly in silence and answering questions with the single instruction to ask who is asking.
Xno birth time
22 Dec 1887
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician who arrived at thousands of results in number theory and infinite series with almost no formal training, working largely alone in Kumbakonam before Hardy brought him to Cambridge in 1914. He attributed his formulae to the goddess Namagiri. Notebooks he left at his death were still yielding new mathematics seventy years later.
Xno birth time
9 Nov 1934
Carl Sagan
Astronomer who worked on the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions and then explained them to everybody else, through Cosmos and a shelf of books. Assembled the Voyager Golden Record.
Xno birth time
7 Apr 1920
Ravi Shankar
Sitarist and composer who brought Hindustani classical music to a global audience through collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison, and who wrote three concertos for sitar and orchestra.
Xno birth time
7 May 1861
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, composer and playwright, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. Wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, and reshaped Bengali letters almost single-handedly.
Xno birth time
10 Jul 1856
Nikola Tesla
Engineer whose alternating-current induction motor and polyphase system settled how electricity would be distributed, and who filed some three hundred patents while dying nearly penniless in a New York hotel.
Xno birth time
12 Jan 1863
Swami Vivekananda
Monk and disciple of Ramakrishna who introduced Vedānta and Yoga to a Western audience at the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, and founded the Ramakrishna Mission on his return. Born during Makar Saṅkrānti.
Xno birth time
25 Jan 1882
Virginia Woolf
Novelist and essayist who pushed narrative inward — Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves — and argued in A Room of One’s Own that the material conditions of writing decide who gets to write.
Xno birth time
5 Jan 1893
Paramahansa Yogananda
Monk who moved to the United States in 1920 and spent three decades teaching Kriyā Yoga there. His Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946, remains the book through which most Western readers first meet Indian spiritual practice.
Xno birth time