What is a good symbol for day of birth?

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.

I found this command in the Genealogic Symbols:

\textborn

which gives a star (similar to an asterisk, indeed).

You can get genealogic symbols as side effect when loading the genealogytree package. Currently, the symbols are not available as a font elements but as graphics (which should make not too much differenc to a user). \gtrsymBorn is the symbol for day of birth.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{genealogytree}
\begin{document}
Donald Ervin Knuth, \gtrsymBorn~January 10, 1938.

\bigskip
Legend: \gtrSymbolsFullLegend

\end{document}