Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Jack Benny's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success as a violinist on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1959 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Jack Benny Program) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1959 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — The Jack Benny Program as Various characters (pre genre split)
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Jack Benny's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Jack Benny. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Jack Benny in the public record
His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre. Benny, with self-deprecating humor, portrayed himself as a vain miser who obliviously played his violin badly and perpetually claimed to be 39 years of age. He was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a long pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated summation "Well! " Benny's most successful show The Jack Benny Program started in 1932 as a radio program and ended in 1965 as a television show, often regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. He also played many leading roles in films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, including Charley's Aunt, George Washington Slept Here and the film classic To Be or Not to Be.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jack Benny (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Jack Benny's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 6♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Responsible Mind
- 2♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Skeptical Partner
- 9♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Idealistic Mind
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Creative Heart
- A♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Pioneer
- Q♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Completed Mind
- 5♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Dynamic Innovator
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♦, J♣, 3♠, 6♠, 2♠, 9♠, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Emmy.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Britt Lower — 2025 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Severance)
- Carroll O'Connor — 1972 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1977 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1978 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1979 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (All in the Family); 1989 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (In the Heat of the Night)
FAQ
- What is Jack Benny's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 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 Jack Benny's dates come from?
- Birth date 1894-02-14 is the day-precision date on Jack Benny'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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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jack Benny; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q148732). Birth date 1894-02-14 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).