BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on January 15.

Everyone born on January 15 is a Capricorn — ruled by Saturn, will outwork you, quietly. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Ben Shapiro and Edward Teller.

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 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

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 15.

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

1984
Ben Shapiro
American author and commentator
1908
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American physicist
1929
Martin Luther King Jr.
American activist and minister
1981
Pitbull
American rapper and producer
1972
Claudia Winkleman
English journalist and critic
1996
Dove Cameron
American actress and singer
1622
Molière
French playwright and actor
1948
Ronnie Van Zant
American singer-songwriter

On this day

What January 15 has seen.

It is John Chilembwe Day in Malawi.

1910Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
1951Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
1962The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
1970The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
2001The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.

The calendar

When January 15 falls.

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