Don Adams's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

In the record

Donald James Yarmy (April 13, 1923 – September 25, 2005), known professionally as Don Adams, was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Get Smart); 1968 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Get Smart); 1969 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Get Smart) win.

Primetime Emmy Lead record

• 1967 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — Get Smart as Maxwell Smart
• 1968 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — Get Smart as Maxwell Smart
• 1969 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — Get Smart as Maxwell Smart

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Don Adams's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Don Adams. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

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Don Adams in the public record

In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his performance in the series (1967–1969). Adams also provided voices for the animated series Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966) and Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) as well as several revivals and spinoffs of the latter in the 1990s. Adams was born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, 1923, in Manhattan, New York, a son of William Yarmy and his wife, Consuelo (née Deiter) Yarmy. His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent and worked as a restaurant manager; his mother was Irish American. Donald and his brother Dick Yarmy were each raised in the religion of one parent: Don in the Catholic faith of their mother and Dick in the Jewish faith of their father. The brothers had an elder sister, Gloria Ella Yarmy (later Gloria Burton), a writer who wrote an episode of Get Smart. Dropping out of New York City's DeWitt Clinton High School, he worked as a theater usher.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Don Adams (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Don Adams, and not a forecast of an Emmy.

Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

In his five decades on television, he was best known as bumbling Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86) in the television situation comedy Get Smart (1965–1970, 1995), which he also sometimes directed and wrote.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote.

Also on the record

1. He later remarked that he had "little use for school".
2. Late in 1941, he joined the United States Marine Corps.
3. Yarmy reported to the First Training Battalion in New River, North Carolina, and then was assigned to I Company of the Third Battalion, Eighth Marines in San Diego.
4. In May 1942, Yarmy's unit was transported to Samoa for further training and then participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal in August 1942 in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

Other Emmy winners with this card

• Hal Holbrook — 1971 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Bold Ones: The Senator)
• Jean Stapleton — 1971 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1972 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1978 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (All in the Family)
• Judd Hirsch — 1981 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Taxi); 1983 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Taxi)
• Michael J. Fox — 1986 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Family Ties); 1987 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Family Ties); 1988 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Family Ties); 2000 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Spin City)
• Phil Silvers — 1956 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Phil Silvers Show)

FAQ

What is Don Adams's birth card?

The 8 of Diamonds. April 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Emmy?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Don Adams's dates come from?

Birth date 1923-04-13 is the day-precision date on Don Adams's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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