Famous People Born with the Sun in Aquarius

Checked hourly in Universal Time from 1800 to 2009, the Sun spends 8.1% of the time in Aquarius, under the 8.3% of an equal twelfth, because Earth passes perihelion in early January and the Sun's apparent motion stays fast for weeks after. For 3,851 entries, that predicts about 312 Aquarius Suns; the page has 342, an excess of 9.6%.

No significance test is run, so the excess stays a count. A random draw would put the gap between one and two standard deviations from the forecast, close enough that chance cannot be ruled out, and the roster is no random draw: English Wikipedia readership picks it, favoring entertainers, athletes and twentieth-century births, while births run unevenly across the months in most countries.

Births from 1920 through 1929 number eleven, one fewer than the 1910s, although the full roster holds far more 1920s births than 1910s ones; Paul Newman, born January 26, 1925, is one of them. Near the present, 39 from the 1990s outnumber 38 from the 1980s, the reverse of the roster's own order, and the 1970s lead at 49. Columns this short shift by several names on chance.

Entertainers number 145, a 42% share that matches the roster's 42% to within a point. Sports runs ahead of its benchmark, 18% here and 16% overall. Two footballers, Ronaldo (born February 5, 1985) and Neymar (born February 5, 1992), share a calendar day, yet their Suns sit 0°20′ apart: the leap-year cycle and the hour behind each figure both shift the Sun on a fixed date.

Science supplies only two names, Charles Darwin one of them. Modern astrologers tie Aquarius to Uranus, independence and group causes; older tradition assigns the sign to Saturn and puts the Sun there in detriment, as the essential dignities calculator scores it. Page-view rankings cannot test either reading, and no career here is credited to a Sun sign.

The lowest Sun here is 0°34′ and the highest 29°24′. The crossing-day rule sets those margins: a date counts only when the whole local day lies inside the sign, so its noon Sun sits at least half a day's motion from either boundary, and each end bin keeps about half a middle bin's room. Aquarius hides that thinning, its end bins holding nine and eleven against a mean of 11.4, counts small enough for scatter to swamp. The thinnest bin is 3°00′ to 4°00′, holding five; the fullest, 28°00′ to 29°00′, holds 19.

One date can still split across bins. Michael Jordan, the former basketball player, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's co-founder, were born on February 17, 1963; noon in Tainan gives Huang 27°45′, while Jordan's unverified Brooklyn birth time, hours later in Universal Time, gives 28°22′. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, the oldest births listed, share February 12, 1809; noon in England came hours before noon in Kentucky, so the Sun reads 23°25′ for Darwin and 23°40′ for Lincoln.

Cards are sorted by demand, a log scale of English Wikipedia readership between October 2025 and September 2026, nudged up for ties to the US, the UK, India or the Philippines. Births run from February 12, 1809 to January 22, 2007; minors are excluded.