Famous People Born with the Moon in Gemini

Births before 1920 make up 22% of this page, 38 people, against 25 from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s combined. Across the whole settled roster the balance runs the opposite way, 518 births in those three decades to 340 before 1920. The 1880s alone hold six, level with the 1930s; the British economist John Maynard Keynes, born June 5, 1883, and the US-British poet T. S. Eliot, born September 26, 1888, are two of them.

The earliest birth on the page is Millard Fillmore's, on January 7, 1800; he was President of the United States from 1850 to 1853. Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, born May 24, 1819, is one of two from the 1810s. Counts peak in the 1960s at 26, then slide decade by decade to six in the 2000s, ending with IShowSpeed, born January 21, 2005. None of this is tested, the 1920 dividing line was picked after the counts were in, and in decades this thin a few birthdays would redraw the columns.

The expected share (8.3%) measures how much of the time the Moon spends in Gemini over the long run. On the settled roster that is about 184 names. Gemini Moons number 169 here, 7.6% of that group, which leaves the sign 15 short.

Under a binomial model, with each settled roster person a separate draw, the gap lands beyond one standard deviation and inside two, a distance several of the twelve Moon signs should reach by chance; no significance test was run. Since the roster was built from readership, not drawn at random from all births, that standard deviation is a yardstick rather than a test. The expected figure is also a share of time, the listing a count of whole calendar days, and the two need not match exactly.

Entertainment fills 43.2 percent of these cards against 43.7 percent of the roster, and sports 16.6 percent against 16.7; turned into head counts, neither field is a whole name away from what the roster mix predicts. Of the three largest fields, politics alone runs ahead, with 23 political figures where the roster's share would give about 20.

Heads of state among them include Fillmore, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, born August 4, 1961, and Pratibha Patil, President of India from 2007 to 2012, born December 19, 1934. Those three extra names sit under one standard deviation, and with nine fields in play, chance will often put one that far ahead.

Cards follow a demand score built mostly from English Wikipedia page views, so Lionel Messi, the footballer born June 24, 1987, leads and Victoria comes second. Only one card prints a Moon degree, Obama's at 3°21′, from a recorded birth time; in one day the Moon covers too much of a sign for a date to fix a degree.

Obama's Moon had crossed out of Taurus only hours before his evening birth, on the same local date, so the date alone would leave him on neither page; his recorded time places him on this one.