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Kofi Annan's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

2001 Peace

Born April 8, 1938

Died August 18, 2018

The Wealthy King

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

In the record

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. The birth-card coordinate for April 8 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

2001 — The Nobel Peace Prize

“for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

No one else in this set holds the 2001 Peace prize; Kofi Annan appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.

103 other Peace laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The King of Diamonds coordinate

Kofi Annan's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Kofi Annan. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

Live King of Diamonds meaning page

Kofi Annan in the public record

Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela. Annan joined the United Nations in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office. He went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters, including serving as the under-secretary-general for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996. He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001 and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007. As secretary-general, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy, worked to combat HIV/AIDS (especially in Africa) and launched the UN Global Compact. He was criticised for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for his resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme, but was largely exonerated of personal corruption.

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

Where the record meets the King of Diamonds

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Cards in Kofi Annan's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

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.

Natural authority and command over resources

K♦ — Birth Card, from the published King of Diamonds meaning

He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organisation founded by Nelson Mandela.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded, founder.

Also on the record

  1. After the end of his term as secretary-general, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development.
  2. In 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria to help find a resolution to the Syrian civil war.
  3. Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution.
  4. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis.

Other laureates with this card

FAQ

What is Kofi Annan's birth card?
The King of Diamonds. April 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
Where do Kofi Annan's dates come from?
Birth date 1938-04-08 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 749) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1254) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Kofi Annan). Birth date 1938-04-08 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).