The ruling eclipse family for TODAY, 29 Oct 2026, is:
Lunar 138
(having rulership between 28 Aug 2026 and 5 Feb 2027)
Family data table
First eclipse
15 Oct 1521
Last eclipse
30 Mar 2982
# eclipses
82
Current maturity
35%
Clan
10 south
Types of Events
(relative to other families / clans)
Keywords
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01°‡59
¶
01°Ý59
º
13°†41
»
15°…28
¼
27°‡37
½
21°ˆ35
¾
08°Š43
¿
23°Ý48
À
00°‹54
Á
09°ú33
É
14°Ü49
Ê
14°†49
People born under this eclipse family
Person
Birth Date
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
12 May 1828
Leo Tolstoy
9 Sep 1828
Leonard Bernstein
25 Aug 1918
Eric Morley, founder of the Miss World pageant
26 Sep 1918
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets
24 Sep 1936
Brian Blessed
9 Oct 1936
James Cameron, film director (e.g. Titanic, Terminator, Avatar), film producer, deep-sea explorer (descended, alone, deeper in the ocean than anyone had gone before), screenwriter, and editor
16 Aug 1954
E. Howard Hunt - CIA officer who engineered the Watergate burglaries; also implicated in the assassination of JFK (he resembled a man detained at the grassy knoll shortly after the assassination)
9 Oct 1918
Dr Joseph Michael Swango, American serial killer estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues
21 Oct 1954
Mordechai Vanunu, former Israeli nuclear technician who revealed secrets of its nuclear weapons programme
13 Oct 1954
Ted Serios, Chicago man known for his production of 'thoughtographs'
27 Nov 1918
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
25 Jun 1900
Nelson Mandela
18 Jul 1918
Václav Havel - Czechoslovakian & Czech president; dissident playright, jailed under the Soviets; key figure in the Czechoslovakian 'Velvet Revolution' of 1989 and the 1991 dissolution of the Warsaw Pact
5 Oct 1936
Silvio Berlusconi
29 Sep 1936
Heinrich Himmler
7 Oct 1900
Hugo Chavez
28 Jul 1954
Billy Graham, US evangelist
7 Nov 1918
Events occurring under this eclipse family
Event
Event Date
Largest mass-stranding of whales: 155 whales died after becoming stranded in Tasmania, one week after 53 of the marine mammals died nearby in a similar beaching
1 Dec 2008
Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, laying the catalyst for the Global financial crisis
15 Sep 2008
The Kursha-2 industrial community in the USSR is annihilated by a firestorm which kills 1,200
3 Aug 1936
The collapse of one of Mount Unzen's several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed about 15,000 people in Japan’s worst-ever volcanic-related disaster
21 May 1792
The abdication of King Edward VIII
11 Dec 1936
Reunification of east & West Germany
3 Oct 1990
Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed - in effect, the peace conference of the Cold War
21 Nov 1990
Tim Berners-Lee creates the first webpage on the first web server
25 Dec 1990
Japanese passenger ferry Toya Maru sank in a typhoon, killing c.1,153
26 Sep 1954
Discovery of Neptune
23 Sep 1846
A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S.
4 Aug 1972
GRB 080916C: the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded. The explosion had the power of over 9,000 supernovae, and the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at a minimum velocity of 99.9999 percent the speed of light, making this blast the most extreme recorded to date
16 Sep 2008
African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics
3 Aug 1936
Galveston hurricane - to date, the deadliest natural disaster to strike the USA
8 Sep 1900
The first line of the Paris Métro is opened
19 Jul 1900
Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between the United Kingdom and the mainland of Europe
1 Dec 1990
Start of the Spanish Civil War, in which 500,000 to 1 million died
17 Jul 1936