Composer
Michel Legrand
Won three Oscars, played jazz piano well enough to record with Miles Davis, and wrote around two hundred film scores.
Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).
- Born
- 1932-02-24, Paris, FranceA Wednesday
- Died
- 2019-01-26, Paris, FranceA Saturday, aged 86
- At birth
- Sun in Pisces, Moon in Libra
- Nationality
- France
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1932-02-24, Paris, France · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Paristhe zone used then
Europe/ParisThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 4°40′ | Direct |
| Moon | Libra | 7°46′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 2°39′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aries | 14°05′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aquarius | 29°31′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Leo | 15°28′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 0°02′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 16°56′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 6°40′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 20°14′ | Retrograde |
Death Chart
2019-01-26, Paris, France · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Paristhe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 6°11′ | Direct |
| Moon | Libra | 18°16′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 3°41′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 20°25′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 17°08′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 16°47′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 14°20′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 28°46′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Pisces | 14°44′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Capricorn | 21°26′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Michel Legrand 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.