What is Bert Lahr's birth card?

The King of Clubs. August 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 Bert Lahr's dates come from?

Birth date 1895-08-13 is the day-precision date on Bert Lahr'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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Bert Lahr's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

1964 Best Actor in a Musical (Foxy)

Born August 13, 1895

Died December 4, 1967

The Master Leader

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

Irving Lahrheim (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967), known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American actor and comedian. The birth-card coordinate for August 13 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1964 Best Actor in a Musical (Foxy) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

1964 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Foxy as Foxy

The King of Clubs coordinate

Bert Lahr's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Bert Lahr. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Bert Lahr in the public record

He was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was well known for his quick-witted humor and his work in burlesque and vaudeville and on Broadway. Lahr was born Irving Lahrheim on August 13, 1895, at First Avenue and 81st Street, in the Yorkville section of Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. He was the son of Jacob Lahrheim (1870–1947), an upholsterer, and Augusta Bessen (1871–1932), daughter of Mildred Bessen (1844–1911) and Edward H. Bessen (1841–1902). His parents were German-Jewish immigrants. He attended P.S. 77 and Morris High School, although he left school at age 15.

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Bert Lahr'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, K♣, 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 K♣, 8♠, 2♠, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Also on the record

Lahr later served in the U.S.
Navy during World War I as a seaman second class.
Lahr began performing in minor parts on vaudeville stages at age 14.
He quit school at age 15 to join a juvenile vaudeville act.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

Alan Cumming — 1998 Best Actor in a Musical (Cabaret)
Beryl Reid — 1967 Best Actress in a Play (The Killing of Sister George)
Douglas Hodge — 2010 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
Elaine May — 2019 Best Actress in a Play (The Waverly Gallery)
Lindsay Duncan — 2002 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
Patti LuPone — 1980 Best Actress in a Musical (Evita); 2008 Best Actress in a Musical (Gypsy)
Ralph Bellamy — 1958 Best Actor in a Play (Sunrise at Campobello)
Tony Shalhoub — 2018 Best Actor in a Musical (The Band's Visit)

FAQ

What is Bert Lahr's birth card?: The King of Clubs. August 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 Bert Lahr's dates come from?: Birth date 1895-08-13 is the day-precision date on Bert Lahr'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 (Q827411) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Bert Lahr). Birth date 1895-08-13 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).