BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on April 13.

Everyone born on April 13 is a Aries — ruled by Mars, first, loudest, already gone. The stone is diamond, the flower daisy, and the day is shared with Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Jefferson.

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 13? 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 13.

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

1949
Christopher Hitchens
English-American essayist and literary critic
1743
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States
1963
Garry Kasparov
Russian author and chess player
1906
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist and poet
1978
Carles Puyol
Spanish footballer
1950
Ron Perlman
American actor
1939
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet and playwright
1570
Guy Fawkes
English soldier and member of the Gunpowder Plot

On this day

What April 13 has seen.

It is Yom HaShoah in Israel.

1742The first performance of the oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel took place in Dublin.
1829The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
2009Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck debuted, and later concluded on the same day in 2016.

The calendar

When April 13 falls.

A Monday in 2026, a Tuesday in 2027, a Thursday in 2028, a Friday in 2029, and a Saturday in 2030.