BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on February 21.

Everyone born on February 21 is a Pisces — ruled by Neptune, somewhere else, mostly. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with Elliot Page and David Foster Wallace.

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 21? 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 21.

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

1987
Elliot Page
Canadian actor
1962
David Foster Wallace
American novelist and short story writer
1964
Mark Kelly
American astronaut and politician
1903
Anaïs Nin
French-American essayist and memoirist
1933
Nina Simone
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1962
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist and journalist
1955
Kelsey Grammer
American actor and singer
1946
Alan Rickman
English director and actor

On this day

What February 21 has seen.

1828The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
1866Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
1929Nanjing decade: In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

The calendar

When February 21 falls.

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