Cass Elliot's Birth Card: The 5 of Clubs

In the record

Ellen Naomi Cohen (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), known professionally by the stage name Cass Elliot, was an American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian, and television personality. The birth-card coordinate for September 19 is the 5 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1998 Performers — inducted member of The Mamas & the Papas

The 5 of Clubs coordinate

Cass Elliot's birthday maps to the 5 of Clubs (The Dynamic Innovator). 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 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Cass Elliot. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pressure-test an idea in public and let the better one win.

Live 5 of Clubs meaning page

Cass Elliot in the public record

A member of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas (1965–1968), she was also known as "Mama Cass", a name she stated she disliked. After the group broke up, Elliot released five solo albums. She received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance for "Monday, Monday" (1967). In 1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with The Mamas & the Papas. Ellen Naomi Cohen was born on September 19, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Philip Cohen (1916–1962) and Bess Cohen (née Levine; 1915–1994). Her family was Jewish with all four of her grandparents being Russian-Jewish immigrants. Her family was subject to significant financial stresses and uncertainties during her childhood years. Her father, involved in several business ventures, ultimately succeeded with the development of a lunch wagon in Baltimore that provided meals to construction workers.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts

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 Cass Elliot, and not a forecast of induction.

You care for people without disappearing. You're wired for harmony and devotion—attuned to others' needs and moved to meet them. You create peace and care in your relationships, and people feel tended to in your presence. Love, for you, is something you actively give.

She left high school shortly before graduation and moved to New York City to further her acting career (as recounted in the lyrics to "Creeque Alley").

Paired on shared wording: career, moved.

Also on the record

1. Her mother was a trained nurse.
2. Elliot had a brother, Joseph, and a younger sister, Leah, who also became a singer and recording artist.
3. Elliot's early life was spent with her family in Alexandria, Virginia, and when she was 15, the family moved back to Baltimore, where they had briefly lived at the time of Elliot's birth.
4. Elliot adopted the name "Cass" in high school, possibly borrowing it from actress Peggy Cass, according to Denny Doherty.

Other inductees with this card

• André 3000 — 2025 Performers with Outkast
• Andy Mackay — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Angus Young — 2003 Performers with AC/DC
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad — 2010 Performers with ABBA
• Bill Medley — 2003 Performers with The Righteous Brothers
• Carl Gardner — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
• Carly Simon — 2022 Performers
• Danny Lohner — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
• Dino Danelli — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
• Eminem — 2022 Performers
• Frank Infante — 2006 Performers with Blondie
• George Michael — 2023 Performers
• 12 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Cass Elliot's birth card?

The 5 of Clubs. September 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

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 Cass Elliot's dates come from?

Birth date 1941-09-19 is the day-precision date on Cass Elliot's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔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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