Famous People Born with the Sun in Gemini

The tallest column, 5° to 6°, holds 20 people, among them two footballers born on May 27, 1994, João Cancelo and Aymeric Laporte, both at 5°53′. The shortest, 1° to 2°, holds 4, against an average of 11.2. Nothing here has been tested, and at counts this small a few birthdays would reorder them.

Both end columns should come up short by construction. Crossing days are mostly left out, and by local noon on the first full day, the moment used when no birth time is on file, the Sun has already moved some way into the sign; the last column gives up the same sliver at the far end. Here they hold 8 and 7, below the average yet not the thinnest: 15° to 16° and 23° to 24° each match the last column at 7, and 1° to 2° has fewer still, though crossing days cost none of those three anything. Arthur Conan Doyle, the British writer, born May 22, 1859, sits in the first column at 0°49′; Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis player, born May 22, 1987, lands in the thinnest at 1°15′; Jean-Paul Sartre, born June 21, 1905, has the highest degree, 29°24′.

Entertainment is the biggest field: 41% here, 42% roster-wide. Of the three largest fields, sports departs furthest. The roster's athlete share, applied to 335 names, comes to roughly 55; this page has 62, a surplus of seven. Mohamed Salah, the Egyptian soccer player, born June 15, 1992, and Djokovic are among those athletes.

Under a simple binomial model that surplus lies between one and two standard deviations, and with ten fields charted, one landing that far out is ordinary chance. The baseline carries a caveat of its own: each occupation entered the Wikidata query with its own minimum of Wikimedia site links, so the roster's athlete share describes this databank, not famous people at large.

Births from 1940 on account for 237 of the 335, and the 1970s outnumber every other decade. Further back the counts thin, though not steadily: the 1920s, with 20, top both neighbors, and the 1900s, with 15, Sartre among them, outnumber the 1890s and the 1910s, which hold 6 and 11. Every decade from the 1800s through the 2000s is present except the 1820s. A roster that keeps only the most-read names leans toward recent births, yet the 2000s hold just 9: nobody under eighteen is admitted, which closes the decade early, and those born in it have had the least time to gather readers.

The expected figure assumes birthdays spread evenly through the calendar. Counted hour by hour from 1800 to 2009, Gemini held the Sun 8.6% of the time, a shade over one twelfth (8.3%), since the Sun creeps slowest along the zodiac around aphelion, in the first days of July. Of 3,851 roster people with a settled Sun sign, 335 are Gemini Suns where 331 were predicted: 8.7% of the roster rather than 8.6%.

A gap of four people is noise: if each roster person were an independent draw, one standard deviation of this count would be nearly four times the gap. The roster is not such a draw anyway. Built from readership, it carries its tilt in decades, fields and countries into every sign's count, along with seasonal birth patterns in particular places and years.

Each card shows a short role, mostly from Wikidata, the birth date and the Sun's degree within Gemini, computed for the documented birth time if the databank holds one, and for local noon if not. The birth chart calculator works out your own Sun degree for comparison with these.