Birthday facts

Born on December 7.

Everyone born on December 7 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is turquoise, the flower narcissus, and the day is shared with Aaron Carter and Willa Cather.

Sun sign

Sagittarius ♐︎

the Archer · ruled by Jupiter · packed, gone, unreachable

Birthstone

Turquoise

December

Birth flower

Narcissus

& holly

Your book

Born on December 7? 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 7.

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

1987

Aaron Carter

American singer-songwriter and rapper

1873

Willa Cather

American novelist and poet

1980

John Terry

English footballer

1909

Nikola Vaptsarov

Bulgarian poet and author

1966

C. Thomas Howell

American director and actor

1962

Jeffrey Donaldson

Northern Irish politician

1980

Dan Bilzerian

American poker player and internet celebrity

1598

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and painter

On this day

What December 7 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Ambrose (Christianity).

574Suffering from mental illness, Eastern Roman emperor had his general Tiberius proclaimed Caesar, adopting him as his own son.

1862American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.

1972Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after his conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.

1995The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

2014The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.

The calendar

When December 7 falls.

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