Birthdate: December 11, 1882

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Wrocław, Poland

Died: January 5, 1970

From being home-schooled for being too sickly to attend school, Max Born went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to quantum mechanics. Being a Jew, with the rise of the Nazi power, he lost his professorship at the University of Göttingen, and moved to Cambridge.