BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on February 20.

Everyone born on February 20 is a Pisces — ruled by Neptune, somewhere else, mostly. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with Olivia Rodrigo and Rihanna.

Pisces, the Fish — an engraving
Sun sign
Pisces ♓︎
the Fish · ruled by Neptune · somewhere else, mostly
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 20? 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

Pisces, February 19 to March 20.

The Fishes, two of them, swimming opposite ways — the books make the sign of the last sign, carrying a little of all the others. Ruled by Jupiter of old and Neptune since, a water sign, credited with imagination, empathy and a porous border between itself and everyone else. Its people are said to feel the room before they enter it. The tradition gives Pisces the artists and the dreamers, and asks them please to remember where they parked.

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

Good company

Also born on February 20.

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

2003
Olivia Rodrigo
American actress and singer
1988
Rihanna
Barbadian singer and actress
1927
Roy Cohn
American lawyer and political activist
1967
Kurt Cobain
American musician
1983
Justin Verlander
American baseball player
1991
Sally Rooney
Irish novelist
1987
Miles Teller
American actor
1951
Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

On this day

What February 20 has seen.

It is Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes in Ukraine.

1816The Barber of Seville, an opera buffa composed by Gioachino Rossini, premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome to jeers from the audience.
1846Polish insurgents in the Free City of Kraków led an uprising attempting to incite a fight for national independence that was put down by the Austrian Empire nine days later.
1931Paraguayan anarchists briefly seized the city of Encarnación as part of a larger plan to initiate a social revolution in the country.
1943The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, among the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms.

The calendar

When February 20 falls.

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