BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on December 26.

Everyone born on December 26 is a Capricorn — ruled by Saturn, will outwork you, quietly. The stone is turquoise, the flower narcissus, and the day is shared with Dermot Murnaghan and Jared Leto.

Capricorn, the Sea-Goat — an engraving
Sun sign
Capricorn ♑︎
the Sea-Goat · ruled by Saturn · will outwork you, quietly
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 26? 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

Capricorn, December 22 to January 19.

The Sea-Goat, ruled by Saturn, the taskmaster, and the books make it the sign of the long game — the climb, the plan, the thing built to last. An earth sign, credited with discipline, dry humour and an old head on young shoulders that grows into itself around forty. Its people are said to arrive late to their own success and stay. The tradition respects Capricorn the way one respects a well-kept ledger.

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

Good company

Also born on December 26.

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

1957
Dermot Murnaghan
English-Northern Irish journalist and game show host
1971
Jared Leto
American actor and musician
1791
Charles Babbage
English mathematician and engineer
1891
Henry Miller
American author and painter
1986
Kit Harington
English actor
1986
Hugo Lloris
French footballer
1963
Lars Ulrich
Danish-American drummer and songwriter
1956
David Sedaris
American author and comedian

On this day

What December 26 has seen.

It is Saint Stephen's Day (Western Christianity).

1709The opera Agrippina, described as George Frideric Handel's first masterpiece, premiered in Venice.
1800Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, ordered the formation of the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse, described as the first full-time military unit raised in Australia.
1825Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession.
1919American baseball player Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino".

The calendar

When December 26 falls.

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