BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on April 1.

Everyone born on April 1 is a Aries — ruled by Mars, first, loudest, already gone. The stone is diamond, the flower daisy, and the day is shared with Samuel Alito and Rachel Maddow.

Aries, the Ram — an engraving
Sun sign
Aries ♈︎
the Ram · ruled by Mars · first, loudest, already gone
Diamond, the birthstone for April — an engraving
Birthstone
Diamond
April
Daisy, the birth flower for April — an engraving
Birth flower
Daisy
& sweet pea

Your book

Born on April 1? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Aries, March 21 to April 19.

The first sign, and the tradition treats it that way: the Ram is the one who goes first — through the door, into the argument, off the cliff. Ruled by Mars, a fire sign, and the books credit it with courage, impatience and a short memory for grudges, which is a generous way of saying it has already moved on. Its people are supposed to start things. Finishing them is what the other eleven are for.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on April 1.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1950
Samuel Alito
American lawyer and jurist
1973
Rachel Maddow
American author and journalist
1949
Gil Scott-Heron
American author and singer-songwriter
1873
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer and pianist
1898
William James Sidis
Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician and historian
1815
Otto von Bismarck
1st Chancellor of the German Empire
1929
Milan Kundera
Czech-French novelist and poet
1968
Alexander Stubb
43rd Prime Minister of Finland and 13th President of Finland

On this day

What April 1 has seen.

It is April Fools' Day.

1346Hundred Years' War: John, Duke of Normandy, laid siege to the town of Aiguillon.
1922Under the South Seas Mandate, Japan set up a government in Koror, precipitating large-scale Japanese settlement in Palau.
1976Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc. (first logo pictured).
2001An American Lockheed and a Chinese Shenyang collided in mid-air off Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.

The calendar

When April 1 falls.

A Wednesday in 2026, a Thursday in 2027, a Saturday in 2028, a Sunday in 2029, and a Monday in 2030.