Famous Capricorns
Capricorn is the sign of the long climb. Famous Capricorns tend to be remembered for careers that lasted: built with discipline, reinvented with care, and still standing decades later.
The Sun is in Capricorn for anyone born between about 22 December and 19 January (the exact day changes slightly from year to year). Capricorn is an earth sign ruled by Saturn, the planet of time, structure and hard work, and it shows in famous lives as ambition, self-control, dry humour and staying power. Capricorns often do their best work later in life.
The charts first: these are the Capricorns whose birth time is on record and rated AA or A, so the Moon, the Rising sign and the houses can be trusted. David Bowie and Elvis Presley share a birthday, 8 January, twelve years apart, and Marlene Dietrich and Timothée Chalamet share 27 December, with Virgo rising and the Sun at the same degree. Below them are more famous Capricorns by date of birth, which is all you need to know a Sun sign.
The charts
More famous Capricorns
We have not added full charts for these Capricorns yet, so they are listed by date of birth, which is all a Sun sign needs.
- Ava Gardner, actress (born 24 December 1922): Starred in The Killers (1946) and The Barefoot Contessa (1954).
- Annie Lennox, singer and songwriter (born 25 December 1954): Sang with Dave Stewart in Eurythmics before a solo career.
- Henri Matisse, artist (born 31 December 1869): In his last years, when he could no longer stand to paint, he made his famous paper cut-outs.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (born 3 January 1892): Wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and invented whole languages for them.
- Simone de Beauvoir, writer and philosopher (born 9 January 1908): Wrote The Second Sex (1949).
- Catherine, Princess of Wales (born 9 January 1982): Studied the history of art at the University of St Andrews.
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader (born 15 January 1929): Led the American civil rights movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
- Kate Moss, model (born 16 January 1974): Was spotted by a model agent at an airport in New York at 14.
- Muhammad Ali, boxer (born 17 January 1942): Won Olympic gold in 1960 and the world heavyweight title three times.
- Michelle Obama, lawyer and writer (born 17 January 1964): Her memoir Becoming (2018) became one of the best-selling memoirs ever published.
- Paul Cézanne, painter (born 19 January 1839): Painted the mountain Mont Sainte-Victoire again and again, and opened the way to Cubism.
- Janis Joplin, singer (born 19 January 1943): One of the great voices of 1960s rock, born on the same day of the year as Dolly Parton, three years earlier.
Are you a Capricorn too?
If you were born between about 22 December and 19 January, your Sun is in Capricorn. Atelier Holly's colour guide pairs Capricorn with Emerald Green. Make your own chart below to see your Moon and Rising sign, and compare it with any of the charts above.
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