Birthday facts

Born on January 27.

Everyone born on January 27 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lewis Carroll.

Sun sign

Aquarius ♒︎

the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle

Birthstone

Garnet

January

Birth flower

Carnation

& snowdrop

Your book

Born on January 27? 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 27.

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

1756

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer and pianist

1832

Lewis Carroll

English novelist and poet

1948

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Russian-American actor and dancer

1965

Alan Cumming

Scottish-American actor

1955

John Roberts

Chief Justice of the United States

1957

Frank Miller

American director and illustrator

1933

Jerry Buss

American chemist

2000

Aurélien Tchouaméni

French footballer

On this day

What January 27 has seen.

1343Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

1785The University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered public university in the United States, was founded.

1996Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.

2011Astronomers documented , a white dwarf in Ursa Minor (chart pictured) with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).

The calendar

When January 27 falls.

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