Computer scientist
Donald Knuth
Author of The Art of Computer Programming and the creator of TeX, which he wrote because he disliked how his own books were typeset. Born in Milwaukee.
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Knuth has been called the "father of the analysis of algorithms".
- Born
- 1938-01-10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USAA Monday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Taurus
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1938-01-10, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
America/ChicagoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 19°51′ | Direct |
| Moon | Taurus | 4°33′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 29°24′ | Direct |
| Venus | Capricorn | 14°00′ | Direct |
| Mars | Pisces | 15°08′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 4°53′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 29°44′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 9°44′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 21°03′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 29°11′ | Retrograde |
Donald Knuth is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Donald Knuth was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.