Famous People Born with the Sun in Scorpio

The roster files 49 of the 310 people here under politics, a category assigned from each person's Wikidata entry: 16% of the list against 12% across the roster. At the roster's rate a group this size would hold about 37 politicians; Scorpio has roughly 12 more. Among them are James A. Garfield, born November 19, 1831 and listed as President of the United States in 1881, and Indira Gandhi, born November 19, 1917 and listed as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984. With November 19 in common but different centuries, the two have noon Suns 0°10′ apart.

Entertainment, the biggest field, sits near its roster share (41% against 42%), and sports ties politics at 49. The comparison ends there: music, fourth on this list with 31, and the smaller fields carry no roster share in this data, so a shortfall or surplus among them would not show on this page. Spread ten fields across twelve Sun signs and some counts are bound to drift by chance, so the politics surplus describes this list, not Scorpio.

Without a recorded time, each degree is worked out for local midday on the birth date; at about a degree a day, each bar below covers roughly one calendar day. No bar is taller than the one spanning 4°00′ to 5°00′, with 17 people, and only the stretch from 12°00′ to 13°00′ matches it; the mean per degree is 10.3. Julia Roberts (American actress, born October 28, 1967) belongs to that crowded bar at 4°32′. Bill Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, born October 28, 1955) has her calendar birthday yet misses it, his Sun at 5°02′: one date can put the Sun a fraction of a degree apart in different years.

The end bars lose people by design: on the days the Sun enters and leaves Scorpio, the hour decides the sign, and those births drop out of the count unless one of this site's chart pages holds a sourced time that settles it. That leaves 6 people in the first bar and 6 in the last, while the bar at 28°00′, untouched by any exclusion, holds 4, which shows how far one degree's count can wander.

Births from the 1960s number 46, the largest decade, with 41 from the 1970s behind it and 36 from the 1980s in third place. Those three decades hold 123 of the 310 names between them. Minors are left out, which trims the 2000s to 10. The earliest birth belongs to George Eliot (English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist), born November 22, 1819; her noon Sun stood at 29°23′, under a degree short of Sagittarius.

An even spread of birthdays would give Scorpio 8.2% of the roster: the fraction of time the Sun spent in the sign between 1800 and 2009, close to 29.9 days a year. That falls under a twelfth because Earth speeds up on its way to the January perihelion, which hurries the Sun's apparent motion through Scorpio. The list comes in at 8.1%, or 310 people where about 315 were due. No test has been run on that gap. Birth rates that vary by month, the roster's lean toward some decades and countries, and chance can all push a count of this size up or down, so the shortfall is no evidence about Scorpio itself.

Readership sets the order of the grid, each English Wikipedia article's average monthly views over the last twelve months, and a card's place in it says nothing about its degree. To set your own Sun beside them, the birth chart calculator gives its degree.