Famous People Born with the Moon in Libra

Counted at every hour from January 1800 to December 2009, Libra's slice of the Moon's time is 8.3%, fractionally above one twelfth. Across the 2,213 settled entries, it predicts 184.6 Libra Moons. Actual entries number 198, an observed share of 8.9%, which puts the page 13.4 people, or 7.2%, above forecast.

Were those entries independent draws, a binomial model puts chance's typical swing in the count at 13.0 people, so the surplus is 1.0 times that swing, about half the distance a conventional significance test asks for. With twelve Moon lists cut from one roster, a few should stray that far by luck alone. The readership ranking tilts the roster toward postwar births and screen careers, yet each calendar year brings about 13.4 separate Libra spells of the Moon, so a lean toward certain years or professions barely moves this share; it shows up in the raw field and decade counts below instead.

Cards follow demand: average monthly views of each person's English Wikipedia article over the past year. Anne Hathaway, an American actress born November 12, 1982, leads, and political figures take most of the next nine places, JD Vance, Keir Starmer and George W. Bush among them. Politics accounts for only 23 of the 198 entries, so that run reflects what readers were looking up, not the list's makeup.

Every card without a degree had to fall on one of those few qualifying dates, so exact birthdays repeat: George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Sylvester Stallone, an American actor and filmmaker, were both born on July 6, 1946, one of several dates the list holds twice.

Only three cards give a Moon degree, each from a recorded birth time: Nikola Tesla at 14°00′ of Libra, Bruce Springsteen at 23°25′ and Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu monk, at 9°22′. In none of the three does the hour decide the listing. Even moving at its fastest daily pace, each of those Moons stood too far past the Libra cusp to have crossed it after local midnight, and too far short of Scorpio to reach that sign before the next midnight, so every one of them would qualify by birth date as well.

Arts, home to writers, painters and architects, has 10 entries, fewer than politics: the plainest shortfall against the whole roster's mix, though in a count this small chance alone can move several places.

Entertainment fills 90 places, about 3.4 more than its share of the settled roster gives. Sports is 4.0 over at 37, most of them soccer players, managers or officials, while music's 23 runs 1.9 short. None of the three gaps reaches one binomial standard deviation.

The 1960s supply the largest group, 28, and the 1970s the next, 24, the same top two as the settled roster at large. The departure comes later: across all settled entries the 1940s outnumber the 1990s, but this list holds more 1990s births, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani children's education activist born July 12, 1997, among them.

Thin counts drift furthest. The 1850s hold 4, level with the 1900s although the roster has several times as many 1900s births; those 1850s births run from Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect, born June 25, 1852, to Edward Elgar, the English composer, born June 2, 1857.