Full Name: Herbert Clark Hoover; Profession: 31st President of the United States, mining engineer, humanitarian, author, public servant, and international relief organizer whose pre-presidential career included managing large-scale mining operations in Australia, China, and other parts of the world; advising governments and corporations; and organizing food relief for millions of people in war-torn Europe during and after World War I, which earned him the nickname “The Great Humanitarian,” before he was elected president in 1928 and his later decades of public service and writing in retirement. Nationality: American; Born: 10 August 1874; Birthplace: West Branch, Iowa, United States, a small Quaker farming community where his father Jesse Hoover worked as a blacksmith and his mother Hulda Minthorn Hoover was a seamstress and minister in the Society of Friends; Generation: Missionary Generation (Strauss–Howe “prophet/idealist” cohort born 1860–1882, characterized by moral crusades, missionary work, social reform, prohibition campaigns and Progressive Era activism, into which Hoover’s 1874 birth squarely falls); Chinese Zodiac: Wood Dog (the Chinese lunar year beginning in February 1874 is classified as a Dog year, specifically the Wood Dog, associated with reliability, sincerity, consideration and devotion, placing Hoover among notable Wood Dog figures born in 1874); Zodiac Sign: Leo (people born on August 10 fall under the tropical zodiac sign Leo, as confirmed by contemporary birthday listings noting that those born on this day are Leos); Age in 2026: 152 (he was born in 1874 and would be 152 years old in 2026 if alive, though he died in 1964 at age 90). Marital Status: Widowed; married Lou Henry (Lou Henry Hoover) on 10 February 1899 in her family home in Monterey, California, after meeting her as a fellow geology student at Stanford University, and remained married until she died in 1944, with the couple living an unusually international life together as they moved for his mining work to China, Europe and other locations before their years in the White House; Children: two sons—Herbert Charles Hoover Jr., born 4 August 1903 in London, England, who became an engineer, businessman, and later U.S. Under Secretary of State; and Allan Henry Hoover, born 17 July 1907 in London, who pursued a business career and stewardship of the Hoover legacy, with both sons marrying and having children of their own, though neither reached their father’s global fame. Description: Herbert Hoover rose from modest Quaker beginnings in Iowa, orphaned by the age of nine, to study geology in the first class at Stanford University, where his technical skills and organizational talent led him into a successful global career as a mining engineer and consultant, managing operations in places such as Australia and China and making him financially independent well before his entry into public life; his reputation for efficiency and compassion was cemented during World War I when, as head of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and later as director of the U.S. Food Administration, he organized massive food shipments that prevented starvation among civilians in Belgium and other parts of Europe, earning broad international admiration and establishing him as a leading figure in humanitarian logistics and governance; after the war he continued to oversee relief efforts for famine-stricken regions, advised presidents from both parties and served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, where he promoted standardization, economic data collection and cooperative relationships between government and business, helping to modernize American industry in the 1920s and expanding his profile as a capable technocratic administrator; elected president in 1928 at the height of prosperity, Hoover’s term from 1929 to 1933 was dominated by the catastrophic onset of the Great Depression, during which he favored limited federal intervention, voluntary cooperation and balanced budgets, positions that many contemporaries and later historians judged inadequate to the scale of the crisis, leading to severe political backlash and his landslide defeat by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, although subsequent scholarship notes that he did initiate some major public works and banking reforms that prefigured aspects of the New Deal; in the decades after leaving office he remained an active public intellectual and administrator, writing extensively on economics, history and his own experiences, chairing important commissions such as the Hoover Commission on government reorganization, and offering advice to later presidents, which, combined with his earlier relief work, slowly rehabilitated his image from that of a solely Depression-era villain to a more complex figure balancing technocratic achievement, humanitarian idealism and political controversy; Hoover’s life, when viewed through an astrological and generational lens, presents a classic Leo–Wood Dog–Missionary Generation combination: a proud, principled, duty-focused leader with a powerful humanitarian drive and moral certainty, whose strengths in organization and perseverance sometimes manifested as rigid adherence to principle, especially under crisis, yet whose long post-presidential career demonstrated resilience, service, and a continuing desire to align material policy with what he saw as ethical responsibility to society. Cause of Death: Massive gastrointestinal bleeding due to a Dieulafoy lesion of the gastric cardia, in the context of cirrhosis and recurrent digestive hemorrhage, leading to his death in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers in New York City on 20 October 1964 at age 90, with official accounts describing internal bleeding and cancer-related complications as contributing factors.