Danny Kaye’s birth chart
Born 18 January 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon
Danny Kaye’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Danny Kaye was born on Wednesday, 18 January 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. That made Danny a Capricorn, with the Moon in Virgo. Danny died on 3 March 1987, aged 76. StarMap has no verified birth time for Danny, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Earth carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against fire two, air two and water two. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is five, two and three. Three planets stand together in Capricorn: Sun, Mercury and Uranus. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Mercury and Jupiter, about 1.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Three planets were retrograde: Mercury, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 24 other people born on 18 January, among them Kevin Costner, Cary Grant and Pep Guardiola.
See the sky the day Danny was born: the stars over Brooklyn, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Danny Kaye’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 27° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Danny Kaye up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Virgo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Danny is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Brooklyn, New York, at each hour of the day.
Danny Kaye’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Danny yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 18 January 1911, computed for Brooklyn, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:40 | Libra rising |
| 00:40 to 03:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 03:15 to 05:35 | Sagittarius rising |
| 05:35 to 07:30 | Capricorn rising |
| 07:30 to 08:55 | Aquarius rising |
| 08:55 to 10:10 | Pisces rising |
| 10:10 to 11:20 | Aries rising |
| 11:20 to 12:45 | Taurus rising |
| 12:45 to 14:40 | Gemini rising |
| 14:40 to 17:05 | Cancer rising |
| 17:05 to 19:35 | Leo rising |
| 19:35 to 22:05 | Virgo rising |
| 22:05 to 24:00 | Libra rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 18 January 1911, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 27° Capricorn 30' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo |
| Mercury | 10° Capricorn 48'℞ |
| Venus | 10° Aquarius 13' |
| Mars | 20° Sagittarius 33' |
| Jupiter | 11° Scorpio 57' |
| Saturn | 29° Aries 56' |
| Uranus | 25° Capricorn 25' |
| Neptune | 19° Cancer 58'℞ |
| Pluto | 26° Gemini 21'℞ |
| North Node | 16° Taurus 13' |
| South Node | 16° Scorpio 13' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Danny Kaye’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Danny Kaye’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Danny Kaye is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Danny's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Danny's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Danny tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Danny will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Danny may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Danny may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Jupiter in Scorpio
11° Scorpio 57' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Danny, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
Saturn in Aries builds discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse. For Danny, that suggests a doubt that takes the form of second-guessing: too fast, or not fast enough? Confidence in their own initiative tends to come slowly, once the rush goes out of every decision.
Uranus in Capricorn
25° Capricorn 25' at midday
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of Danny's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Neptune in Cancer
19° Cancer 58' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Danny and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Gemini
26° Gemini 21' at midday ℞
power, generational
Danny shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in Danny Kaye’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mercury sextile Jupiter
about 1.2° at midday
Danny Kaye's thinking and optimism keep easy company, which gives their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity does much of the work with this aspect, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.
Venus square Jupiter
about 1.7° at midday
Under this square, Danny's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.
Sun conjunction Uranus
about 2.1° at midday
Independence is central to Danny's identity with the Sun conjunct Uranus, along with a resistance to being defined by anyone else's idea of them. It makes them original and hard to predict, and the catch is a restlessness with routines that could serve them well.
Sun square Saturn
about 2.4° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Danny pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Saturn sextile Pluto
about 3.6° at midday
No crisis is needed to bring out Danny's resilience, because discipline and depth are on working terms in this sextile. Long, steady effort tends to be rewarded in ways that build quietly over time, not all at once.
Saturn square Uranus
about 4.5° at midday
The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Danny's chart, producing either rigid routines that eventually snap or sudden breaks from commitments that were meant sincerely. Saturn square Uranus is best answered with structure loose enough to bend before it has to break.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus opposition Neptuneabout 5.4°
- Mars opposition Plutoabout 5.8°
- Sun opposition Neptuneabout 7.5°
Capricorn Sun and Virgo Moon, like Danny Kaye
Also born on 18 January
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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