BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on April 27.

Everyone born on April 27 is a Taurus — ruled by Venus, immovable, and comfortable about it. The stone is diamond, the flower daisy, and the day is shared with Ulysses S. Grant and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Taurus, the Bull — an engraving
Sun sign
Taurus ♉︎
the Bull · ruled by Venus · immovable, and comfortable about it
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 27? 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

Taurus, April 20 to May 20.

The Bull is ruled by Venus, and the books make it the sign of pleasure taken slowly — good food, good cloth, a chair that is exactly right. An earth sign, credited with patience, loyalty and a stubbornness so complete it stops looking like a fault and starts looking like a policy. Its people are said to be the ones you can lean on, provided you do not try to hurry them.

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

Good company

Also born on April 27.

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

1822
Ulysses S. Grant
18th President of the United States
1759
Mary Wollstonecraft
English philosopher and historian
1967
Willem-Alexander
King of the Netherlands
1963
Russell T Davies
Welsh screenwriter and producer
1927
Coretta Scott King
African-American activist and author
1966
Yoshihiro Togashi
Japanese illustrator
1941
Fethullah Gülen
Turkish preacher and theologian
1904
Cecil Day-Lewis
Anglo-Irish poet and author

On this day

What April 27 has seen.

395Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
1810Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle in A minor, better known as "Für Elise" , one of his most popular compositions.
1936The trilogy The Adventure Girls (second book pictured), by the children's author Clair Blank, was copyrighted by A. L. Burt.

The calendar

When April 27 falls.

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