BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on February 10.

Everyone born on February 10 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with Emma Roberts and Laura Dern.

Aquarius, the Water-Bearer — an engraving
Sun sign
Aquarius ♒︎
the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle
Amethyst, the birthstone for February — an engraving
Birthstone
Amethyst
February
Violet, the birth flower for February — an engraving
Birth flower
Violet
& primrose

Your book

Born on February 10? 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

Aquarius, January 20 to February 18.

The Water-Bearer, which is an air sign, and the books enjoy the confusion. Ruled by Saturn in the old texts and Uranus in the new, credited with originality, a wide circle and a certain coolness at the centre of it — the friend of everyone, intimate of few. Its people are supposed to be ahead of their time, which is only comfortable once the time catches up. The tradition calls it the sign of the future and cannot say whose.

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

Good company

Also born on February 10.

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

1991
Emma Roberts
American actress
1967
Laura Dern
American director and actress
1930
Robert Wagner
American actor and producer
1974
Elizabeth Banks
American actress
1997
Chloë Grace Moretz
American actress
1980
Enzo Maresca
Italian footballer and manager
1890
Boris Pasternak
Russian poet and novelist
1937
Roberta Flack
American singer-songwriter and pianist

On this day

What February 10 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Scholastica (Christianity).

1906The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
1936Second Italo-Ethiopian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.
1940Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters.
1941In the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, a small force of paratroopers landed near Calitri, Italy, to destroy an aqueduct.
2008The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson (damage pictured).

The calendar

When February 10 falls.

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