BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on February 22.

Everyone born on February 22 is a Pisces — ruled by Neptune, somewhere else, mostly. The stone is amethyst, the flower violet, and the day is shared with George Washington and Arthur Schopenhauer.

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 22? 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 22.

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

1732
George Washington
1st President of the United States
1788
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher and author
1950
Julie Walters
English author and actress
1972
Ben Sasse
American politician and college administrator
1949
Niki Lauda
Austrian racing driver
1975
Drew Barrymore
American director and actress
1918
Robert Wadlow
American, the tallest man ever recorded
1962
Steve Irwin
Australian zoologist and television host

On this day

What February 22 has seen.

1371Robert II became King of Scots as the first monarch of the House of Stewart.
1959Lee Petty won the first edition of the Daytona 500, a NASCAR auto race at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida.
2006Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
2019A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.

The calendar

When February 22 falls.

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