BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on December 6.

Everyone born on December 6 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is turquoise, the flower narcissus, and the day is shared with Kenneth Copeland and Geoffrey Hinton.

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 6? 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 6.

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

1936
Kenneth Copeland
American author and evangelist
1947
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive scientist
1994
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Greek-Nigerian basketball player
1950
Joe Hisaishi
Japanese composer and pianist
1967
Judd Apatow
American director and producer
1920
Dave Brubeck
American composer and pianist
1968
Karl Ove Knausgård
Norwegian author
1945
Shekhar Kapur
Indian director and producer

On this day

What December 6 has seen.

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

1060Béla I was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
1865Slavery in the United States was officially abolished with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1975Four members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army took two people hostage in a house on Balcombe Street in London, surrendering six days later.

The calendar

When December 6 falls.

A Sunday in 2026, a Monday in 2027, a Wednesday in 2028, a Thursday in 2029, and a Friday in 2030.