Chemist & writer
Primo Levi
A chemist whose training kept him alive at Auschwitz, and who wrote the clearest account of it in If This Is a Man. He died in a fall down a stairwell forty years later.
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
- Born
- 1919-07-31, Turin, ItalyA Thursday
- Died
- 1987-04-11, Turin, ItalyA Saturday, aged 67
- At birth
- Sun in Leo, Moon in Virgo
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1919-07-31, Turin, Italy · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Romethe zone used then
Europe/RomeThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 7°08′ | Direct |
| Moon | Virgo | 28°54′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Leo | 28°56′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 19°09′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 15°08′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 29°34′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Leo | 28°29′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Pisces | 0°37′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Leo | 8°58′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 6°55′ | Direct |
Death Chart
1987-04-11, Turin, Italy · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Romethe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 20°59′ | Direct |
| Moon | Virgo | 18°05′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Pisces | 27°47′ | Direct |
| Venus | Pisces | 16°27′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 3°49′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aries | 9°32′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 21°03′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Sagittarius | 26°40′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Capricorn | 8°00′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Scorpio | 9°04′ | Retrograde |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Primo Levi 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.