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Robert De Niro's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

2009 Kennedy Center Honors

Born August 17, 1943

The Humanitarian Builder

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor.

In the record

Robert Anthony De Niro ( də NEER-roh; Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer. The birth-card coordinate for August 17 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Robert De Niro's 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

Robert De Niro is on the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Robert De Niro (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Robert De Niro (Q36949, Wikipedia “Robert De Niro”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Robert De Niro is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Robert De Niro: 2009 Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1943-08-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Robert De Niro, verified against Wikidata P569 1943-08-17 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Robert De Niro is not_published. The harvested card symbol for August 17 is 9♣. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Robert De Niro. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro is the Wikipedia article used for Robert De Niro. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Robert De Niro. It only names the calendar coordinate for August 17 and the Honors years already listed for Robert De Niro.

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Robert De Niro was born August 17, 1943 (1943-08-17). Month 8 and day 17 give solar value 22, which is the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1943 is unused, so Robert De Niro's 1943 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Clubs does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Robert De Niro. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Clubs, not a biography of Robert De Niro: You keep the large view without skipping the next practical step. Your thoughts are about humanity, progress, and possibility. You think in big pictures and universal principles. Your mind is oriented toward uplift. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Clubs: Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective; Ability to inspire others toward possibility; Universal principles and humanitarian ideals; Natural optimism about human potential. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Clubs: Your curriculum is learning that ideals only matter if they're implemented. You're learning to get your hands dirty, to do the unglamorous work.

Live 9 of Clubs meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025.

Robert De Niro in the public record

Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in the crime drama The Godfather Part II (1974), becoming the first male to win for an Italian-language performance. Six years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the biopic drama Raging Bull (1980). He was further Oscar-nominated for his performances in Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), while also earning a nomination for Best Picture for producing The Irishman (2019). De Niro is known for his dramatic roles in Mean Streets (1973), 1900 (1976), The King of Comedy (1982), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Brazil (1985), The Mission (1986), Angel Heart (1987), The Untouchables (1987), Goodfellas (1990), This Boy's Life (1993), Heat (1995), Casino (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Ronin (1998), and Joker (2019), as well as his comedic roles in Midnight Run (1988), Wag the Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), the Meet the Parents films (2000–present), and The Intern (2015).

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Robert De Niro's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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 9♣, 6♦, Q♥, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 8♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an honor.

Also on the record

  1. He directed and acted in both the crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993) and the spy film The Good Shepherd (2006).
  2. On television, he portrayed Bernie Madoff in the HBO film The Wizard of Lies (2017).
  3. De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own.
  4. Also with Rosenthal, he founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002.

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FAQ

What is Robert De Niro's birth card?
The 9 of Clubs. August 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Robert De Niro's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?
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 Robert De Niro's dates and Honors credits come from?
Birth date 1943-08-17 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Robert De Niro, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Kennedy Center (honors record, kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Honors roster, Robert De Niro) + Wikidata CC0 (Q36949). Birth date 1943-08-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).