Famous People Born with the Moon in Capricorn

Politics accounts for 26 of the 172 people here, 15%, against 12% across the 2,213-person pool, a rate that would give about 20 politicians. Sports runs a similar lead, 34 athletes where about 29 were due. Entertainment remains the biggest field with 70 people, yet its 41% trails the pool's 44% by about five names.

In binomial standard deviations each lead falls between one and two, and the two fields together just under two: a yardstick, not a significance test, and with nine fields here and a Moon page for every sign, gaps this wide should turn up somewhere by chance. Labels follow Wikidata occupations, so George S. Patton, a Swimmer, counts under sports, recorded as a swimmer.

The political cards include prime ministers of India, the United Kingdom, Israel, New Zealand and Finland, from Indira Gandhi, born November 19, 1917, to Sanna Marin, born November 16, 1985. Only one card prints a Moon degree, Sachin Tendulkar's at 18°05′ Capricorn; every other card, Gandhi's included, shows the sign alone.

Tendulkar's hour comes from the attending doctor's recollection in a 2013 newspaper feature. It does not decide his listing: even at the Moon's fastest pace, his birth date opened and closed with the Moon inside Capricorn, so the date alone would have placed him here.

Sampled hourly from 1800 to 2009, the Moon is in Capricorn 8.3% of the time, so 2,213 settled rows would put about 184 here if the sign had no bearing on fame. The count is 172, an observed share of 7.8%, or 93% of that figure.

A shortfall of about 12 is under one standard deviation for a binomial count this size, so it is no finding. The yardstick assumes random draws, and the roster is a page-view ranking, not a sample of births; across twelve Moon pages, luck alone will push some a standard deviation or more from expected.

The 1940s give this page 21 people and the 1960s 24, but the 1950s between them only 12, no more than the 1920s. From 1960 the columns level off at 24, 23 and 25 for the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, which together supply 42% of the list.

The Moon reaches Capricorn every month of every decade, so the calendar favors none, but the roster is lopsided by birth decade, and the pool thins out in the 1950s as well, holding 211 settled rows where the decade before holds 246 and the one after 305. At this page's overall rate, those 211 would put about 16 people here. The hollow comes in about four short of that, a little over one binomial standard deviation, the kind of miss that 18 columns will throw up by chance. Minors are kept off the roster, leaving two in the 2000s, and only 16 members were born before 1900.