Celebrities Born on August 7
People born on August 7th share a birthday and a Sun-sign window, which means they share the part of the chart that says what the life is for. The rest of their charts diverge — different Moons, different Risings, different decades — but the Sun signature on this calendar day is the same. The figures below are the public version of that signature.
Birthday
August 7
What August 7 births tend to share
Here's what tends to happen on a August 7th birthday. The Sun sits in a specific degree window of one sign, and the inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars — orbit within striking distance. That means the people on this page share more than a Sun sign; they tend to share Mercury and Venus by sign too, which is why the temperament of a calendar-day cohort often feels more uniform than a full Sun-sign cohort.
The honest version is that birthdays don't make people identical. They give a person the same starting weather. Different years move different planets through that weather — a August 7th born in one decade meets a different Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto than one born in another. What stays the same across the years is the inner-planet signature. Read it as the family resemblance, not the destiny.
Read the placement in public
Entrepreneur
Bruce Dickinson
Entrepreneur — born 1958-08-07 in Worksop.
Leo Sun · Taurus Moon · Libra Rising
Actor
Charlize Theron
Actor — born 1975-08-07 in Benoni.
Leo Sun · Leo Moon · Scorpio Rising
Musician
David Duchovny
Musician — born 1960-08-07 in New York City.
Leo Sun · Aquarius Moon · Libra Rising
Athlete
DeMar DeRozan
Athlete — born 1989-08-07 in Compton.
Leo Sun · Libra Moon · Libra Rising
Entrepreneur
Jimmy Wales
Entrepreneur — born 1966-08-07 in Huntsville.
Leo Sun · Aries Moon · Libra Rising
Athlete
Sidney Crosby
Athlete — born 1987-08-07 in Cole Harbour.
Leo Sun · Capricorn Moon · Libra Rising
Entrepreneur
Sofia Rotaru
Entrepreneur — born 1947-08-07 in Marshyntsi.
Leo Sun · Aries Moon · Scorpio Rising
What these people share
What these people share is the inner-planet weather of one specific date. The Sun, and most of the time the Mercury and Venus, occupy the same signs across all of their charts. The careers and the public roles vary; the temperament does not. If you have read about a August 7 figure and felt a recognisable note, this is the part of the chart you were reading.
Questions answered
Frequently asked
They share a tight band of Sun degree, plus Mercury and Venus within striking distance of that degree. That's three inner planets running through nearby signs, which is more than enough to produce a recognisable family resemblance. The Moon, Rising, and outer planets still vary across people.
No. They share the Sun sign and most of the time Mercury and Venus by sign. Everything else — Moon, Rising, the outer planets — depends on the year and the hour. The biographies on this page are different lives running off the same inner-planet weather.
Astrology doesn't have a luck score. What August 7th has is a specific Sun-Mercury-Venus signature, which determines what a person notices first, how they say it, and what they reach for. Whether that signature gets called "lucky" depends on what the surrounding decade asked of it.
The cards on this page lead with the figures whose birth data we have the highest confidence in. Browse the full list below for the deeper bench.
If you were born on August 7th, the Sun-sign and most likely Mercury and Venus signs are already settled. The Moon and Rising require your birth time and place. Use Astrelle's birth chart calculator to complete the picture.
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