BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on December 15.

Everyone born on December 15 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is turquoise, the flower narcissus, and the day is shared with Nero and J. Paul Getty.

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 15? 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 15.

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

37
Nero
Roman emperor
1892
J. Paul Getty
American-English businessman and art collector
1949
Don Johnson
American actor
1972
Stuart Townsend
Irish actor
1923
Freeman Dyson
English-American physicist and mathematician
1979
Adam Brody
American actor
1832
Gustave Eiffel
French architect and engineer
1991
Alana Haim
American musician and actress

On this day

What December 15 has seen.

1025Constantine VIII became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.
1939The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1945The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto.
2019Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.

The calendar

When December 15 falls.

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