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Basil Rathbone's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds
The Financial Foundation Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Philip St. The birth-card coordinate for June 13 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1948 Best Actor in a Play (The Heiress) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1948 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — The Heiress as Dr. Austin Sloper
The 4 of Diamonds coordinate
Basil Rathbone's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 Tony Award and not a verdict on Basil Rathbone. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.
Basil Rathbone in the public record
John Basil Rathbone (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. Rathbone frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. Rathbone's later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. In 1948, he shared the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play with two others. He was also nominated for two Academy Awards and honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Basil Rathbone (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Basil Rathbone's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♦ — Birth Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♥ — Life Spread — 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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 4♦, 5♥, 5♠, 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 8♥, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Anna Maria Alberghetti — 1962 Best Actress in a Musical (Carnival!)
- Bette Midler — 2017 Best Actress in a Musical (Hello, Dolly!)
- Chita Rivera — 1984 Best Actress in a Musical (The Rink); 1993 Best Actress in a Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
- Christine Ebersole — 2001 Best Actress in a Musical (42nd Street); 2007 Best Actress in a Musical (Grey Gardens)
- Constance Cummings — 1979 Best Actress in a Play (Wings)
- Glenn Close — 1984 Best Actress in a Play (The Real Thing); 1992 Best Actress in a Play (Death and the Maiden); 1995 Best Actress in a Musical (Sunset Boulevard)
- Glynis Johns — 1973 Best Actress in a Musical (A Little Night Music)
- Heather Headley — 2000 Best Actress in a Musical (Aida)
- Mary Martin — 1950 Best Actress in a Musical (South Pacific); 1955 Best Actress in a Musical (Peter Pan); 1960 Best Actress in a Musical (The Sound of Music)
- Paul Kelly — 1948 Best Actor in a Play (Command Decision)
- Sarah Snook — 2025 Best Actress in a Play ('''The Picture of Dorian Gray''')
- Thomas Mitchell — 1953 Best Actor in a Musical (Hazel Flagg)
- 1 more leading winners share this card.
FAQ
- What is Basil Rathbone's birth card?
- The 4 of Diamonds. June 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- 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 Basil Rathbone's dates come from?
- Birth date 1892-06-13 is the day-precision date on Basil Rathbone's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q336865) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Basil Rathbone). Birth date 1892-06-13 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).