Birthday facts

Born on February 14.

Everyone born on February 14 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with Kevin Keegan and Meg Tilly.

Sun sign

Aquarius ♒︎

the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle

Birthstone

Amethyst

February

Birth flower

Violet

& primrose

Your book

Born on February 14? 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 14.

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

1951

Kevin Keegan

English footballer and manager

1960

Meg Tilly

American author and actress

1997

Breel Embolo

Swiss footballer

1988

Ángel Di María

Argentinian footballer

1967

Bernie Moreno

American politician and businessman

1913

Jimmy Hoffa

American trade union leader

1944

Carl Bernstein

American author and journalist

1483

Babur

Mughal emperor

On this day

What February 14 has seen.

It is Valentine's Day.

1779American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Kettle Creek, a militia of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta, Georgia.

1895Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (production pictured), once described as the second-most quoted English-language play after Hamlet, premiered in London.

1916World War I: Britain, France and Russia made the Declaration of Sainte-Adresse, stating that they would refuse to sign any peace treaty with the Central Powers that failed to ensure the political and economic independence of Belgium.

1961Lawrencium, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

2011Arab Spring: On the Day of Rage, Bahraini youths began an uprising against the government in 55 marches across 25 locations.

The calendar

When February 14 falls.

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