Example charts from verified public birth data

Quick answer: These examples use verified public birth dates (including living tech leaders) you can open and check — 18 public figures in total. Each row publishes the civil date, whether an hour is known, none, or uncertain, and a source link. Open the same parameters on Find your chart and audit structure — Day Master, season, roots, Ten Gods labels, receipt, strength as labels — yourself. This hub is not celebrity fortune-telling, not a ranking of life outcomes, and not a place we invent missing birth times.

Why public figures now? Many learners want a familiar name before they cast their own chart. We only list people whose civil birth date is stable in encyclopaedia or archival sources. We still refuse scraped forum hours. Where the hour is missing, we show a three-pillar chart and link charts without a birth time.

Fictional engine fixtures (Jia strong/weak, Li Chun edges, strength demos) remain in the appendix — they power Day Master, Li Chun and strength teaching pages. They are no longer the main story here.

How we chose these figures

Selection rules for this hub:

1. Civil Gregorian date confirmed in a citable public source (Nobel biographical pages, Britannica, royal.uk, White House Archives, national writer sites, government biography pages, Library of Congress name authorities, and similar).
2. Hour status stated honestly as one of three English labels: known, none, or uncertain.
3. No forum fill-ins. We do not copy birth times from BaZi discussion boards or astrology databases when the biographical source is silent.
4. Structure only. We name Day Master / season / roots / Ten Gods labels / receipt / strength as labels. We do not assert personality, marriage, health, career success, or a favourable element (用神).
5. Live engine wins. This page does not hard-code unverified four-pillar strings or strength percentages for celebrity rows. Pillars and scores come from the live engine when you open the chart.

Birth-data research for the eighteen names below is summarised from editorial verification passes (2026-10-07). Source URLs are on each row.

Calculator range (1800–2100). Open-chart links use this site's chart query (/chart?d=…&t=…&tz=…&lon=…&p=…), the same shape as methodology and the Day Master pages. t is present only when hour status is known. None, and the Bruce Lee default, omit t, so a year inside the range returns three pillars. Einstein's row includes a sourced clock time, so that link can return four pillars. Curie, Lu Xun, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong have no sourced hour here: the link omits t, and the calculator returns three pillars. This page does not add further 1800–1899 examples, and it does not add hours that have no source.

For births before 1900, enter the time as it was recorded locally. Our solar-term dates for this period are accurate to within a minute.

Hour policy (known / none / uncertain)

True solar time, DST and local civil time still matter when an hour is known — see true solar time and methodology.

Index of 18 verified figures

Historical / public figures (1–11)

Living tech & business (12–18)

All seven rows below are Hour status: none — public biographical sources give a civil date, not a hard clock time. Cast three pillars only. Calculator links omit the time parameter.

Reading order context: Learn BaZi.

Charts with a published hour

Use these three rows to practise receipt literacy: civil time → zone / DST → true solar minutes → pillars. Pillar strings and strength percentages are not printed in these tables.

Albert Einstein — known hour

Structure drill: Name the Day Master; label other stems with the Ten Gods table; ask whether season and hidden stems support that Day Master (weak / strong).

Barack Obama — known hour

Elizabeth II — known hour

Charts without a published hour

For every row below, leave time blank. You get year, month and day pillars; no hour pillar. We never fill in noon. Full policy: What three pillars can and cannot show.

Marie Curie — none

Steve Jobs — none

Jackie Chan — none

Lu Xun — none

Deng Xiaoping — none

Sun Yat-sen — none

Mao Zedong — none (+ educational footnote)

Footnote — Mao Zedong: public biographical date; educational chart only. This row is a structural demo from a published biographical date, not a political reading. We list Day Master / season / roots / labels if you cast the chart yourself; we do not interpret life outcomes, character, or historical results from the pillars.

Living tech & business — all hour status none

These seven living figures illustrate the same honesty rule as Jobs or Curie: date + place, time blank. We do not scrape forum BaZi hours or astrology-database clock times. Policy: /unknown-birth-time-bazi. Pillar strings and strength percentages are not printed in these tables. Every calculator link omits t.

Elon Musk — none

We do not use astrology-database hours (e.g. rumoured 7:30). Date only from Britannica-class sources.

Jensen Huang / 黄仁勋 — none (with caveat)

Footnote — Jensen Huang: birth city is disputed (Britannica Tainan vs some Taipei listings). Taiwan is the same civil time zone (UTC+8) either way, so for a no-hour three-pillar chart the city dispute has limited effect on year/month/day pillars. We still label the place honestly as Taiwan (city disputed) rather than inventing precision.

Sam Altman — none

Bill Gates — none

Mark Zuckerberg — none

Jeff Bezos — none

Demis Hassabis / 德米斯·哈萨比斯 — none

Uncertain hour — Bruce Lee

Structure drill: Cast the default three-pillar chart first. Only then, if teaching double-hour edges, show the 06:00 / 08:00 envelope as a range exercise, not a verified clock.

How to read any row (structure checklist)

1. Open Find your chart with the published date; add time only when hour status is known (or when deliberately demoing an uncertain range under caveat). The Open in calculator links above already encode that choice.
2. Open the receipt: UTC instant (if timed), DST, longitude / equation-of-time minutes, solar terms, day-boundary convention (methodology).
3. Name the Day Master (day stem).
4. Name the season from the month branch (Five Elements).
5. Ask whether the Day Master has roots among hidden stems.
6. Label other stems with the Ten Gods table — labels, not character verdicts.
7. Read strength as a transparent score label (weak / strong); do not turn it into a life forecast.
8. If time is blank, stop at three pillars — do not invent noon.

Classroom context and reading order: Learn BaZi. Calendar edges that flip year/month: Li Chun. Late-night day ambiguity: Zi-hour day boundary.

Integrity rules for this hub

• Cite the birth-data source on every celebrity row.
• Publish hour status as known / none / uncertain — never silent.
• No scraped forum times.
• No astrology-database hours when Britannica-class sources are silent (especially living tech rows).
• No fortune-telling write-ups attached to a name (“this person succeeds because…”).
• No favourable-element (用神) output from the calculator or from this page.
• No hard-coded celebrity pillars or strength % in this markdown; trust the live engine.
• Classical quotations stay on topic pages and Classical sources, not as ornaments on a sample chart.

Paid PDF samples remain on /sample-report; they use their own documented fictional brief, separate from this hub.

Appendix — Engine teaching fixtures (fictional)

These fictional parameter sets are the fixtures already used on Day Master, Li Chun and strength pages. They are not the primary examples on this hub; they remain so students can recompute boundary lessons without needing a famous name. The cards use the existing EngineExample wiring. Pillars and strength on those cards are computed from the registered inputs; they are not the celebrity rows above.

A1 / A2 — Jia Wood, strong vs weak (Chicago)

Used on Jia Wood Day Master.

B1 / B2 — Li Chun 2027 edge (Beijing)

Same Day Master (Jia), sixteen minutes apart — year + month flip. See Li Chun vs Chinese New Year.

US mirror times on the Li Chun page (New York 20:30 vs 21:00 on 3 February 2027) teach the same instant in Eastern time.

C1 / C2 — Strength demos (London)

Published on weak Day Master and strong Day Master.

Lesson: Our 42% / 58% thresholds are conventions; borderline scores deserve caution. Compare both pages before treating a percentage as a personality story.

Parameter appendix (copy-paste for EngineExample)

NY Li Chun mirrors: 2027-02-03 20:30 / 21:00, America/New_York, lon −74.006, place New York.

If live engine output ever drifts from an old table cell, trust the live engine and update the draft — do not “fix” the chart to match old prose.

Two-chart practice (compatibility)

Take A1 parameters as person 1. Build a second fictional chart on the compatibility calculator with C1 or another fixture. Compatibility on this site is structural comparison, not a relationship verdict. Chapter layout: sample compatibility report.

FAQ

Why use celebrities now instead of only fictional people?

Verified civil dates let learners recognise a name while still auditing structure. Every celebrity row still publishes sources and hour status. Fictional fixtures stay in the appendix for engine teaching.

Why still no scraped forum times?

Forum and astrology-database hours are often unsourced or conflicting. Publishing them would create false precision. Prefer three honest pillars over one fictional hour — /unknown-birth-time-bazi. Living tech rows (Musk and peers) follow the same rule.

Do examples use true solar time?

When a place and time are supplied, production defaults apply (true solar time). Appendix A/B/C fixtures are documented with that pipeline on their teaching pages.

Can I put my own chart in this list?

Not publicly from the form. This page is editorial examples. Your chart stays on /chart for you; accounts can save charts without publishing them here.

Will more figures appear later?

Only if civil dates (and hour status) meet the same verification bar. Disputed ancient dates (for example Confucius / Mencius / Zhuge Liang birthday traditions) stay off this hub. Living candidates without Britannica-class (or equivalent) civil dates stay off until verified.

What about paid samples?

/sample-report uses a separate documented fictional brief. Do not mix that brief with the eighteen biographical rows above.

Sources

• Birth-data URLs: linked on each row (Nobel, Britannica, royal.uk, White House Archives, China Writer Network, brucelee.com, LOC, Computer History Museum, and cross-checks named above)
• Engine rules: How we calculate your chart
• Missing hour policy: What three pillars can and cannot show
• Jia pair narrative: Jia Wood Day Master
• Li Chun pair: Li Chun vs Chinese New Year
• Book policy: Classical sources
• Reading order: Learn BaZi

BaZi is a traditional Chinese cultural practice. Example charts are for education and audit; they are not biographical forecasts or predictions about living or historical people.

Next step: Cast a chart with the same receipt habits you used on a row above, or open Learn BaZi for the full reading order.

Last updated: 2026-10-07