BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on January 11.

Everyone born on January 11 is a Capricorn — ruled by Saturn, will outwork you, quietly. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Alexander Hamilton and Jamie Vardy.

Capricorn, the Sea-Goat — an engraving
Sun sign
Capricorn ♑︎
the Sea-Goat · ruled by Saturn · will outwork you, quietly
Garnet, the birthstone for January — an engraving
Birthstone
Garnet
January
Carnation, the birth flower for January — an engraving
Birth flower
Carnation
& snowdrop

Your book

Born on January 11? 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

Capricorn, December 22 to January 19.

The Sea-Goat, ruled by Saturn, the taskmaster, and the books make it the sign of the long game — the climb, the plan, the thing built to last. An earth sign, credited with discipline, dry humour and an old head on young shoulders that grows into itself around forty. Its people are said to arrive late to their own success and stay. The tradition respects Capricorn the way one respects a well-kept ledger.

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

Good company

Also born on January 11.

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

1755
Alexander Hamilton
Nevisian-American economist and politician
1987
Jamie Vardy
English footballer
1842
William James
American philosopher and psychologist
1915
Paddy Mayne
British colonel and lawyer
1952
Diana Gabaldon
American author
1930
Rod Taylor
Australian-American actor and screenwriter
1946
John Piper
American author and theologian
1992
Dani Carvajal
Spanish footballer

On this day

What January 11 has seen.

It is Prithvi Jayanti in Nepal.

1946The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed, with Enver Hoxha as the country's de facto head of state.
1961Students at the University of Georgia rioted in an attempt to prevent the attendance of two African-American students.
1986The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, opened as the largest prestressed-concrete, single-box bridge in the world.
2024Several thousand North Korean migrant workers in Helong engaged in civil unrest, including a factory occupation and the taking of managers as hostages, due to unpaid wages.

The calendar

When January 11 falls.

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