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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (1933-2020), joins the permanent Shrine record.

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Life, work & what’s documented

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on 1933-03-15 and died on 2020-09-18 at age 87. A landmark jurist and advocate whose legal career transformed gender-equality law and public culture. Representative work and achievements include Supreme Court service, ACLU Women's Rights Project, gender-equality jurisprudence.

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A landmark jurist and advocate whose legal career transformed gender-equality law and public culture. Representative work and achievements include Supreme Court service, ACLU Women's Rights Project, gender-equality jurisprudence.

Essential works: Supreme Court service · ACLU Women's Rights Project · gender-equality jurisprudence

Statistics / evidence

Context is not destiny

Born 1933-03-15; died 2020-09-18; age at death 87. These dates provide historical context, not a mortality model.

Death context: Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on 2020-09-18 at age 87. This Shrine records the sourced date and age without adding unsupported medical or death-circumstance detail.

Historical illness and age are context, not proof of a current crisis or a factual mortality forecast.

Astrology / interpretation

The cosmic file

SunPisces 24.5°

MoonScorpio 9.4°

MercuryAries 7.3°

VenusPisces 15.0°

MarsVirgo 5.7°

JupiterVirgo 17.5°

SaturnAquarius 12.4°

UranusAries 21.7°

NeptuneVirgo 8.4°

PlutoCancer 21.3°

These placements are deterministic astronomical calculations. Interpretive meaning is separate from health, mortality, and factual claims.

Calculation confidence: date_based_reliable_birth_time_unknown. Moon: calculated date based. Rising sign: birth time needed. Date-based geocentric placements use a noon UTC reference. Moon uncertainty is retained. No Ascendant or houses are inferred. Astrology is interpretation, not fact, medicine, or mortality prediction.

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Sources & provenance

Encyclopaedia Britannica candidateEncyclopaedia Britannica / 2026-08-30 / identity / confidence: mediumSelected for the listed claims only. Discovery indexes are not publication evidence.
Biography of Associate Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgSupreme Court of the United States / 2026-08-30 / identity / confidence: highSelected for the listed claims only. Discovery indexes are not publication evidence.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg federal judicial biographyFederal Judicial Center / 2026-08-30 / identity / confidence: highSelected for the listed claims only. Discovery indexes are not publication evidence.

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Research last updated 2026-08-30.

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