BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on December 11.

Everyone born on December 11 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is turquoise, the flower narcissus, and the day is shared with Jermaine Jackson and Colleen Hoover.

Sagittarius, the Archer — an engraving
Sun sign
Sagittarius ♐︎
the Archer · ruled by Jupiter · packed, gone, unreachable
Turquoise, the birthstone for December — an engraving
Birthstone
Turquoise
December
Narcissus, the birth flower for December — an engraving
Birth flower
Narcissus
& holly

Your book

Born on December 11? 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

Sagittarius, November 22 to December 21.

The Archer, half horse and aiming somewhere over the horizon; ruled by Jupiter, the planet of more. A fire sign, and the books credit it with optimism, honesty to a fault and a need to be elsewhere — the traveller, the student, the one with the ticket already booked. Its people are supposed to say the true thing before checking whether anyone wanted it said. The tradition forgives them, mostly.

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

Good company

Also born on December 11.

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

1954
Jermaine Jackson
American singer-songwriter and bass player
1979
Colleen Hoover
American author
1918
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist and historian
1996
Hailee Steinfeld
American actress and singer
1882
Max Born
German physicist and mathematician
1961
Marco Pierre White
English chef and mentor
1935
Pranab Mukherjee
Indian journalist and politician
1944
Teri Garr
American actress and comedian

On this day

What December 11 has seen.

1899Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein, Boers defeated British forces trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
1925Pope Pius XI promulgated the encyclical Quas primas, establishing the Feast of Christ the King.
1972Apollo 17 (Lunar Roving Vehicle pictured), the last Apollo mission, landed on the Moon.
2005Demonstrations in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, against recent violence towards locals turned into a series of race riots.
2008American stockbroker Bernie Madoff was arrested and charged with securities fraud in a Ponzi scheme, the largest in history.

The calendar

When December 11 falls.

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