BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on February 15.

Everyone born on February 15 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with Galileo Galilei and Callum Turner.

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 15? 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 15.

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

1564
Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist
1990
Callum Turner
English actor
1954
Matt Groening
American animator and producer
1874
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish explorer
1748
Jeremy Bentham
English philosopher
1964
Chris Farley
American comedian and actor
1995
Megan Thee Stallion
American rapper
1951
Jane Seymour
English-American actress and producer

On this day

What February 15 has seen.

It is National Flag of Canada Day.

1796French Revolutionary Wars: The invasion of Ceylon ended with Johan van Angelbeek, the Batavian governor of the island, surrendering Colombo to British forces.
1906A team of Italian archaeologists led by Ernesto Schiaparelli discovered the tomb of Kha and Merit, an ancient Egyptian foreman and his wife, in the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina.
1976The first constitution since the Cuban Revolution, providing for a system of government and law based on those of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, was adopted by a national referendum.

The calendar

When February 15 falls.

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