BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on January 24.

Everyone born on January 24 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with John Belushi and Luis Suárez.

Aquarius, the Water-Bearer — an engraving
Sun sign
Aquarius ♒︎
the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle
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 24? 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

Aquarius, January 20 to February 18.

The Water-Bearer, which is an air sign, and the books enjoy the confusion. Ruled by Saturn in the old texts and Uranus in the new, credited with originality, a wide circle and a certain coolness at the centre of it — the friend of everyone, intimate of few. Its people are supposed to be ahead of their time, which is only comfortable once the time catches up. The tradition calls it the sign of the future and cannot say whose.

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

Good company

Also born on January 24.

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

1949
John Belushi
American actor and screenwriter
1987
Luis Suárez
Uruguayan footballer
1941
Neil Diamond
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
76
Hadrian
Roman emperor
1862
Edith Wharton
American novelist and short story writer
1712
Frederick the Great
Prussian king
1961
Nastassja Kinski
German-American actress and producer
1984
Justin Baldoni
American director and actor

On this day

What January 24 has seen.

It is Alasitas in La Paz, Bolivia.

771Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Yopaat dedicated a 65-ton stele, the largest stone known to be quarried by the Maya civilization, at his city of Quiriguá.
1913Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman hydroplane.
1990Japan launched the Hiten spacecraft, the first lunar probe launched by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.

The calendar

When January 24 falls.

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