When I said it seemed like I knew more people born in August than the rest of the year, a friend of mine had a simple explanation: “They’re Leos, and Leos always want you to know when their birthday is!”
Here’s a sampling of Leos from the sf field, beginning with today’s birthday boy:
August 3, 1904 – Clifford D. Simak
August 6, 1934 – Piers Anthony
August 7, 1933 – Jerry Pournelle
August 16, 1884 – Hugo Gernsback
August 18, 1925 – Brian W. Aldiss
August 19, 1921 – Gene Roddenberry
August 20, 1890 – H.P. Lovecraft
August 20, 1951 – Greg Bear
August 20, 1961 – Greg Egan
August 24, 1915 – James Tiptree, Jr.
August 24, 1951 – Orson Scott Card
August 22, 1920 – Ray Bradbury
August 28, 1916 – Jack Vance
Well, Tiptree, Card, and Vance would actually be Virgo, since Leo ends on either August 22 or August 23.
Other sf Leos (in August) would include:
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/aug.html
8/2/48 Robert Holdstock
8/5/47 Elizabeth Vonarburg
8/6 Paolo Bacigalupi
8/7/60 Melissa Scott
8/9/20 Jack Speer
8/9/26 Frank M. Robinson
8/9/27 Daniel Keyes
8/10/03 Ward Moore
8/10/31 Alexis Gilliland
8/11/28 Alan E. Nourse
8/13/32 John Berkey
8/14/32 Lee Hoffman
8/14/40 Alexei Panshin
8/15/32 Robert Forward
8/15/34: Darrell K. Sweet
8/16/33 Diana Wynne Jones
8/16/34: andrew j. offutt
8/19/30 D. G. Compton
8/19/50: Mary Doria Russell
8/21/11 Anthony Boucher
8/21/47 Lucius Shepard
8/22/54 Will Shetterly
If one uses the Sidereal Zodiac the first ten days belong to the Cancer sign.
Yes, but I’m not posting a list of writers with a headline “A Case of Cancers.”
There is a simple explanation for this, the were conceived when the weather was beginning to get cold. Thus mom and dad were snuggling more.