Famous People Born with the Sun in Leo

66 people here were born from 1960 through 1969, 19% of the page, against 47 for the 1970s and 39 for the 1980s. Roster-wide, those three decades sit near level, the 1970s slightly ahead, so the tall column belongs to the Leo list. Barack Obama (44th President of the United States, born August 4, 1961) and J. K. Rowling (English author, born July 31, 1965) are among them.

Every year gives the Sun about the same run of Leo days, so a fair draw would follow the roster's own decade mix, give or take noise. Here the departures run both ways: the 1910s supply only three, fewer than the ten from the 1880s, though the full roster has more than twice as many 1910s births as 1880s ones. No probability is attached to either departure; across twelve Sun pages, some column will look lopsided by luck.

The fair expectation sits a little above one-twelfth. Hour-by-hour sampling of 1800 to 2009 finds the Sun inside Leo for 8.6% of that span, against 8.3% for an even split, because the Earth is still moving slowly in the weeks after its early-July aphelion. Applied to the settled roster, that share gives the heading's figure; the observed share is 8.9%.

That puts Leo 13 people over, a gap of 0.3 percentage points, reported as a count and not put to any significance test. Even a fair lottery of birth dates would miss the expected figure by some margin, and the roster is no lottery: entry depends on heavy English Wikipedia traffic, which tilts it toward entertainers and recent decades, so a sign whose weeks catch more of them gains for reasons unrelated to the Sun. The baseline also counts every day of the year as equally likely for a birth, although national birth statistics show seasonal swings. Both sets of shares total one across the zodiac, so one Sun page's surplus is another's shortfall.

Daniel Radcliffe (born July 23, 1989) has the lowest Sun here at 0°33′ Leo, and Kristen Wiig (born August 22, 1973) the highest at 29°24′. The list averages 11.4 people per degree, yet the first degree holds nine and the last only three.

The method thins both ends. On each crossing day, Cancer into Leo and Leo into Virgo, the clock decides the sign, and roster rows store dates without times, so those births are dropped unless a sourced time settles them. On the days that remain, wholly inside Leo, the noon Sun is never nearer an edge of the sign than twelve hours of its travel, which leaves each end bin roughly half the room of the rest. Interior degrees wander as well, with no boundary nearby to blame: the fifth holds only five, the lowest count between the two ends.

159 people here fall under entertainment, meaning film, television and related work: 46% of the page, against 42% for the roster. The next two fields trail their roster figures slightly, sports at 15% against 16% and politics at 11% against 12%.

Small fields swing with each name: twelve royals, Franz Joseph I and Charles I of Austria among them, and eight scientists. Some modern astrologers link a Leo Sun with a wish for applause. The entertainment surplus, about 15 names above the roster's rate, sits on a list already filtered by public attention, so it cannot test that reading in either direction.

Demand here is the past year's average monthly English Wikipedia readership on a log scale, plus a small boost for citizens or natives of the United States, India, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Hayden Panettiere (American actress and singer, born August 21, 1989) leads. The oldest birth is that of Alexandre Dumas (French writer and dramatist, born July 24, 1802), and the newest belongs to Praggnanandhaa (Indian chess player), on August 10, 2005.