BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on January 26.

Everyone born on January 26 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Ester Expósito and José Mourinho.

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 26? 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 26.

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

2000
Ester Expósito
Spanish actress
1963
José Mourinho
Portuguese footballer and manager
1981
Gustavo Dudamel
Venezuelan composer and violinist
1958
Ellen DeGeneres
American comedian and actress
1925
Paul Newman
American activist and director
1955
Eddie Van Halen
Dutch-American guitarist and songwriter
1880
Douglas MacArthur
American general
1944
Angela Davis
American activist and author

On this day

What January 26 has seen.

It is Australia Day.

1841Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.
1926Oliver Hutchinson appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans.
1991Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre.

The calendar

When January 26 falls.

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