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I am using the moderncv package and it includes a nice header with symbols for email (\Letter) and mobile phone (\Mobilefone). I can't however seem to find a good symbol for a birth date. I was thinking of something like this but the closest thing I found in the comprehensive symbol list was \Maggie from the simpsons package.

Can someone suggest a good symbol for a birth date?

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moderncv uses symbols from the marvosym package, but I don't think this package includes a good "birth" symbol. Conventionally, an asterisk "*" is used for date of birth. – doncherry Dec 18 '11 at 10:45
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Use your star sign:) and there are plenty of packages that provide them. – Yiannis Lazarides Dec 18 '11 at 10:48

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Often, an asterisk (*) is used to denote dates of birth. An example is the German Wikipedia entry for Donald E. Knuth.

The corresponding symbol for dates of death is the dagger (†), produced by, e.g., \textdagger.

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